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Fourth child poems / by Hall, Megan

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The Disabled Child : Memoirs of a Normal Future / by Apgar, Amanda

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Child poverty and inequality securing a better future for America's children / by Lindsey, Duncan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The color of child poverty -- Growing inequality : from the "era of the middle class" to the "era of the wealthy class" -- Doing for children what we have done for seniors : government efforts to end poverty -- The failure of welfare reform to reduce child poverty -- Eliminating welfare and reducing child poverty -- Embracing capitalism : investing in our children -- Closing : the world we leave our children.…”
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The mother-child papers / by Ostriker, Alicia

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Childness and the writing of the German past : tropes of childhood in contemporary German literature / by Maguire, Nora

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An education in politics the origins and evolution of No Child Left Behind / by Rhodes, Jesse H. (Jesse Hessler), 1980-

Subjects: “…United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.…”
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The end of children? changing trends in childbearing and childhood /

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Doubt a parable / by Shanley, John Patrick

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Ordinary violence and social change in Africa /

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Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia / by Hardgrove, Abby V. (Abby Virginia), 1983-

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Dissent, protest and dispute in Africa / by Falola, Toyin, Mbah, Emmanuel M

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Life chances in Turkey expanding opportunities for the next generation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: life chances -- Equity aspirations -- The state of equality of opportunities in Turkey -- Child development and child risks -- Expanding opportunities for the next generation: early childhood development policies and programs -- Reflections.…”
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Childhood in the contemporary English novel / by Dinter, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements 1 The Rise of the Contemporary Childhood Novel: Introduction 2 Dismantling Constructivisms of Childhood 3 Constructions of Childhood in Late Modern England, 1980s-2010s 4 Approaching Childhood as a Construct: Ian McEwan's The Child in Time (1987) 5 Radical Constructivism in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) 6 The Constructed Child as a Counter Model: P. …”
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Satisfaction not guaranteed dilemmas of progress in modern society / by Stearns, Peter N.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: being cheerful and modern -- The gap: happiness scales and the edge of sadness -- Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces -- Modernity's deficiencies -- False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult -- The dilemmas of work in modernity -- Death as a modern quandary -- Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity -- Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.…”
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Screens and veils Maghrebi women's cinema / by Martin, Florence, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004) -- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) -- Coda.…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. Homes's The End of Alice.…”
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Antarctica in British children's literature / by Moriarty, Sinéad

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