Childhood, Hardcover

Reducere. Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in k...

Reducere. "An absolutely breathless read. Nowhere Girl is a courageous, heart-breaking, and beautifully written story of a girl doing everything in her power...

DescriptionWhen trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They ha...

Reducere. Robert (Bobby) Charles grew up among "eagles and evergreens" in rural Maine. His enchanting, sometimes arresting, tales convey inspiration from pla...

Contributor(s): Author: James BaldwinEditor: Nicholas BoggsEditor: Jennifer DeVere BrodyFour-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block...

In a small town near the beach, a mysterious man lived in a cabin. No one had seen the man leave the cabin for the past 30 years. A humble young ma...

Reducere. This charming concertina book follows the journey of a little submarine on an expedition under the sea. Folding out to nearly 8 feet, children can ...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of aparth...

DescriptionFrom an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and sm...

Reducere. "A riveting, hopeful survival story." --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA mesmerizing memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new p...

DescriptionEver wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria T...

Reducere. Like all new and expectant parents, you want the best for your son or daughter. You want them to grow up in a healthy, loving environment that will...

Reducere. Thank Your Wicked Parents has at its core a shocking but undeniable truth: Some parents are wicked and repeatedly lash their helpless children with...

DescriptionSome say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran oi...

Reducere. This book covers a wide range of malnutrition manifestations across the globe. Malnutrition in any form has a very important, long-term impact on c...

Reducere. In a book that will touch hearts and minds, acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom presents firsthand accounts of six witnesses to war, each of...

Collection of pictures from the acclaimed Mary Evans Picture Library, evoking childhood in the 1950s, from knitted bathing costumes to tin baths an...

Reducere. An all-new guide from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series applies trusted and effective communication strategies to the toughest challenges of ...

Contributor(s): Author: David StablerIllustrator: Anoosha SyedFrom the author who brought young readers KID ATHLETES, KID PRESIDENTS, KID ARTISTS, ...

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, a neo-humanist education reform burgeoned in Spain. Building upon the new science of child study, known as paid...

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Bille Jean King, and other budding spo...

DescriptionMoving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Malala Yousafzai, and 1...

Since the 1990s, the emerging field of childhood studies has been catalyst for empirical research, for policy analysis, and for the development of ...

- The wonderful 3D world of Leon Keer - This Dutch street artist conquers the world - Keer explains his working method and allows you a glimpse int...

Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Bill Gates, Madam C. J. Walker, Hedy Lamarr, Walt Disney, and 12 other international innov...

Reducere. As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother’s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train...

DescriptionThere are, always, so many things to wonder about. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) grew up to become a famous poet, but before that, she wa...

DescriptionTo provide you with a meaningful framework for learning and understanding, this text is written with the whole child in mind and present...

DescriptionKeena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Phil...

Reducere. The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard--who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her ...

Reducere. After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned a...

Caring for the mental health of children and their families is complex and challenging--and meaningful. For Christian clinicians who work with chil...

Reducere. DescriptionThis text owes its existence to a 1923 psycoanalytic session conducted by Dr O. Pfister with the then 49-year-old Schweitzer. Immersed i...

Reducere. Now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning perfor...

DescriptionReception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. ...

Reducere. In a world driven by power, money, and the pursuit of personal success, Helen and her father Elia have given us a glimpse of an intact society stre...

Reducere. A simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers's life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young w...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it. In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a ho...

Reducere. This is a courageous act of self-reflection, a firsthand meditation on one man's surviving humanity as experience transforms to tales recited and t...

Reducere. When a child is diagnosed with cancer, life flips upside-down. Suddenly, our days (and our thoughts) are dominated by doctors, nurses, child life s...

In Healthy Kids, Happy Moms, integrative pediatrician Sheila Kilbane, MD, shares the methodology she's developed over almost twenty years of practi...

Reducere. Whether she's taking a face plant in a second-grade war, lying her way into pet ownership, setting the fondue kit on fire or taking the Fifth after...

Reducere. Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city...

Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism. The authority of adults over children has always been difficult to square with liberalis...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection returns with an unforgettable account of her late mother's childhood in Nazi-occupie...

Reducere. Running on Empty is the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your childhood which you can't see, but may be affect...

Reducere. How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together wit...

An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it...

How did we come to imagine what ideal childhood requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and...

Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties. Unfortunately, most ...