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Children and television consumption in the digital era : use, impact and regulation / by Gunter, Barrie

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Glass ceilings and 100-hour couples what the opt-out phenomenon can teach us about work and family / by Moe, Karine S.

Table of Contents: “…Numbers too big to ignore -- Why opting out is an everywoman issue -- The 100-hour couple -- Glass ceilings and maternal walls -- Second shift redux -- Child care dilemmas -- Mama time -- The hectic household -- The professionalization of at-home motherhood -- Financial costs -- Negotiating without a paycheck -- Reigniting the career -- Creative strategies for making work "work" -- Coming of age in America.…”
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Suburban affiliations social relations in the greater Dublin area / by Corcoran, Mary P.

Table of Contents: “…-- Making friends and losing spaces : a child's view of the suburban world -- Joining in: the dynamic of voluntary associations -- Fragments of activism -- Community and the structure of social capital -- Conclusion : suburban variation and suburban affiliation.…”
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Advances in psychology and law international contributions /

Table of Contents: “…Juries and tribunals -- pt. 5. Child development and delinquency -- pt. 6. Psychological factors related to crime -- pt. 7. …”
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"We are three sisters" self and family in the writing of the Brontës / by Lamonica, Drew, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette.…”
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Marriage and cohabitation by Thornton, Arland

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical perspectives on marriage -- Comparing marriage, cohabitation, and being single -- Entering marital and cohabiting unions -- Influence of parental youth factors before birth of study child -- Influence of parental factors during childhood and adolescence of the children -- The courtship process and union formation -- Religious affiliation and commitment -- The influence of attitudes, values, and beliefs -- Educational influences -- Work, earnings potential, and career aspiration -- Conclusions.…”
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From ILO standards to EU law the case of equality between men and women at work / by Landau, Eve C.

Table of Contents: “…The United Nations -- The ILO -- The Council of Europe -- The European Union -- The ILO and the EU - the interface -- Equal pay -- Equal treatment -- Protective measures for women -- The protection of pregnancy and maternity and parental leave -- Workers with family responsibilities and child care -- Part-time work and indirect discrimination -- The burden of proof and indirect discrimination -- The dignity of the worker: sexual harassment -- Positive or affirmative action -- Challenges, achievements and trends.…”
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Play therapy : basics and beyond / by Kottman, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to play therapy -- History of play therapy -- Theoretical approaches to play therapy -- Logistical aspects of play therapy -- Tracking -- Restating content -- Reflecting feelings -- Setting limits -- Returning responsibility to the child -- Dealing with questions -- Integration of basic skills : the art of play therapy -- Recognizing and communicating through metaphors -- Advanced play therapy skills -- Working with parents and teachers -- Professional issues in play therapy.…”
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Family life in Native America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.…”
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After the Girls Club how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz : a path to the ghetto -- Growing up : coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah : the "Surviving Remnant" -- America : a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club : settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy : different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age : the aging women.…”
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Parenting mentally ill children faith, caring, support, and surviving the system / by LeCroy, Craig W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the crisis of children's mental health -- Accepting the verdict : my child has a mental illness -- The burden of love : an everyday reality for parents -- Searching for help : expertise is hard to find -- Finding help : what matters to parents -- Managing and coping with everyday life : struggles and tribulations -- Faithful acts of caring : lessons on a meaningful life -- Society's obligation : doing more for our children.…”
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Ready, set, count / by Barron, Marlene

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Growing up global economic restructuring and children's everyday lives / by Katz, Cindi, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Fluid dynamics -- A child's day in Howa -- The political economy and ecology of Howa village -- Social reproduction -- Children's work and play -- Knowing subjects/abstracting knowledge -- Disrupted landscapes of production and reproduction -- Displacements -- New York parallax; or, you can't drive a Chevy through a post-fordist landscape -- Howa at the end of the millennium -- Topographies of global capitalism -- The strange familiar -- Negotiating the recent future.…”
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Religious legal traditions, international human rights law and Muslim states by Hashemi, Kamran

Table of Contents: “…Muslim legal traditions of apostasy and relevant human rights law -- Current application of traditional rules of conversion and proselytizing -- Current application of traditional rules of blasphemy (sabb) -- Current application of traditional rules of heresy -- Muslim legal traditions of dhimmah and relevant human rights law -- Current application of public aspects of dhimmah -- Current application of personal aspects of dhimmah -- Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Muslim states.…”
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Popular trauma culture selling the pain of others in the mass media / by Rothe, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Selling misery -- Fake suffering -- Forging child abuse -- Simulating Holocaust survival -- Epilogue : fantasies of witnessing.…”
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Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / by Lehman, Eric D.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.…”
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Early Start Preschool Politics in the United States / by Karch, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the preschool puzzle -- Early childhood policy and the American welfare state -- Historical precedents and forces for change -- A watershed episode: the comprehensive child development act -- Venue shopping, federalism, and the role of the states -- Congressional activity and the dissolving early childhood coalition -- Policy stability and political change in the 1980s -- The congressional heritage of a critical juncture -- The contemporary preschool movement in the states -- Conclusion: the future of preschool politics.…”
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Early Start : Preschool Politics in the United States / by Karch, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the preschool puzzle -- Early childhood policy and the American welfare state -- Historical precedents and forces for change -- A watershed episode : the comprehensive child development act -- Venue shopping, federalism, and the role of the states -- Congressional activity and the dissolving early childhood coalition -- Policy stability and political change in the 1980s -- The congressional heritage of a critical juncture -- The contemporary preschool movement in the states -- Conclusion : the future of preschool politics.…”
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Functional categories in learner language

Table of Contents: “…A picture selection study with native speakers and adult learners of German / Sarah Schimke -- Light verbs and the acquisition of finiteness and negation in Dutch as a second language / Josje Verhagen -- Finiteness in children with SLI: a functional approach / Anke Jolink -- Functional and modal elements in child and adult Russian / Natalia Gagarina -- How much (morpho-)syntax is needed to express finiteness? …”
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Early childhood obesity prevention policies

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