£81.99
£81.99
This book explores how urban design can integrate children into city life. It highlights innovative, inclusive approaches to play environments and re-naturing cities that support children's development, fostering a sense of belonging for all ages and abilities.
This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives particularly from design and planning fields to explore how children can be better integrated into urban life through inclusive, healthy, and child-focused environments. Grounded in the principles of universal children’s rights and Design for All, the book highlights innovative approaches in urban design, play environments, and re-naturing cities. It explores green spaces, nature schools, and outdoor learning environments that support children’s psycho-pedagogical development, emphasizing the value of open spaces, creative play areas, and inclusive planning for all age groups and abilities. The chapters collectively examine how urban design can foster belonging, emotional awareness, and cognitive development while involving diverse stakeholders including academics, local governments, designers, educators, and NGOs. This book is a valuable resource for professionals and scholars interested in child-friendly cities and inclusive urban futures.
Authored by recognized experts in pediatric sleep medicine, this guide provides parents with up-to-date, evidence-based behavioral strategies to fix sleep problems. Entertaining stories and quizzes help you identify challenges, while user-friendly charts support implementation.
A riveting obituary to childhood, this book offers a sobering look at what it means to grow up today, tracing childhood’s progress to a bitter end. Thanks to technology and a hostile society, its innocence is lost. But there is hope, and this book offers solutions to restore it.
Dr. Ellens cracks open familiar biblical stories, spilling out fresh, life-changing insights about the radical nature of God’s grace. Ideas that have become cliché flower with refreshing new meanings. Preaching has seldom been this engaging and spiritually empowering.
This book frames Action Research as an inherently political practice. Through storytelling from international contributors in health, education, and business, it illuminates lived experiences, exploring the interplay of power, ethics, and future directions in the field.
This book examines the dashed promise of the Eritrea-Ethiopia rapprochement. It explores how challenges to Ethiopia’s reforms culminated in the Tigray war and addresses critical questions about the future of peace, security, and development in the Horn of Africa.
This book explores the lives of eight early feminist pioneers of England and America. These reformers, activists, and abolitionists noticed injustices and took brave actions at great personal cost to provide remedies and protect vulnerable populations.
The theories of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have had profound impacts on early childhood education. This volume of papers by leading experts examines his legacy in the East and West, offering ideas to benefit children and societies across the globe.
This book offers a multifaceted approach to young adult literature. Essays explore race, myth, and science through works ranging from classic science fiction and Walter Dean Myers’ sports stories to the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quartet.
This book examines adaptations of the Amleth legend, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Bhardwaj’s Haider. Using adaptation theory, it sheds new light on their interpretations, transformations, and cultural significance.
This book argues that successful alternative farming in Ireland is built not on market logic, but on mutual recognition. It confronts the state-supported push to ‘scale up’, demonstrating how community-based ‘scaling out’ is the fundamental driver of success.
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