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Good Body Asceticism in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300183092, Yale University Press, November 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing book examines our concern with the "good body" fro...
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£18,00
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Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
ISBN: PB: 9780300183009, Yale University Press, November 2011
266 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...
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£20,00
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Analysis of the Under-Five Child
ISBN: PB: 9780300183016, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children who do receive attention, it is frequently inadequate. To assume, however, that prelatency children are...
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£22,50
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Not Under My Roof Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
ISBN: PB: 9780226736198, ISBN: HB: 9780226736181, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far l...
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£25,00
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£79,00
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Death with Dignity Ethical and Practical Considerations for Caregivers of the Terminally Ill
ISBN: PB: 9781589662148, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, July 2011
200 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm
End-of-life issues and questions are complex and frequently cause confusion and anxiety. In "Death with Dignity", theologian, medical ethicist, and pastoral caregiver Peter A. Clark examines numerous issues that are pertinent to patients, family memb...
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£15,00
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Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...
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£56,00
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Tragedy of Child Care in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300172119, ISBN: HB: 9780300122336, Yale University Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care programme is the question at the centre of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand his...
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£24,00
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£30,00
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Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love
ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones
In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...
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£26,50
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Boyhoods Rethinking Masculinities
ISBN: PB: 9780300171211, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not stric...
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£14,99
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Speak with Power and Confidence Tested Ideas for Becoming a More Powerful Communicator
ISBN: PB: 9781402781117, GMC Group, Sterling, February 2011
304 pp., 21x13.6 cm, illus.
A comprehensive guide to improved communication skills, "Speak with Power and Confidence" offers tips on everything from preparing for a speaking engagement, to sitting down for a job review with your boss, to speaking before a courtroom, with the me...
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£6,99
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