Writing chemical reactions correctly is a key indicator of chemical literacy. This book teaches the fundamentals: predicting products and balancing equations. It contains 93 problems with answers and is useful for high school and university students, teachers, and professionals.
Cherchez la femme
Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.
Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.
Child Obesity
This book investigates the complex facets of childhood obesity, analyzing evidence on epigenetics, ultra-processed foods, and food marketing. It concludes with recommendations for health professionals, parents, and policy makers to create change for our society’s future health.
Childhood—The Inside Story
This is an analysis of childhood from the children’s point of view. Through case studies, it demonstrates how the influences of home and school are interpreted, revealing how pupils form their attitudes to life, themselves, society, and their future conduct.
This book examines international efforts to protect children from war through the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol. It exposes major shortcomings in the UN’s monitoring process and explores how compliance can be secured more effectively.
Children and Childhoods 1
Investment in early childhood results in high returns. This book presents current research that reflects the transdisciplinary nature of childhood, examining multiple perspectives, places and practices through explorations of playgrounds, hospitals, and museums.
Children and Childhoods 2
Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.
Children and Childhoods 3
Some people choose to cross borders for adventure or opportunity; others are forced to flee conflict or abuse. Immigrant and Refugee Families provides insights into the complex issues they face and explores ways to empower them when settling into a new country.
Despite being involved in opera since it began, the contribution of children was overlooked for centuries. This book uncovers the changing attitudes of composers and society towards them, tracing the fundamental evolution of their role from the 17th to the 21st century.
Children in South African Families
This book gives an overview of African children’s lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. It covers conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children’s experiences.
Children of Incarcerated Parents
In this poignant book, children of the incarcerated share their real-life stories, putting a face to the numbers. With eye-opening accounts from caregivers and professionals, discover programs and best practices that are making a difference in the lives of these children.
Children of the Sun
An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.
Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book departs from stereotypes to analyze children’s rights and well-being in sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the conflict between official policies and reality, bridging the gap between government rhetoric and effective practice to help children thrive.
Children, Childhood, and the Future
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
Fourteen authors present their work on children in past societies, from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. These studies explore the lives and deaths of children, challenging our notions of the past. The past will never be the same after its children have entered the scene…
Children, Their Schools and What They Learn on Beginning Primary School
This pioneering study of education in Cameroon highlights how Anglophone and Francophone colonial legacies shape language socialization in schools, exposing a critical gap between official bilingualism policy and classroom reality and its impact on identity.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.
Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.
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