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Boston: Little, Brown and Company BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 06921945. CONTENTS: Introduction - Other People's Children; Prologue - Pesto and Plumbing (Summer); One - Sit and Spin; Two - Guilt; Three - Halloween Dreams; Four - A Very Old Soul; Five - Instead of Church; Six - Water Play (November); Seven - Out of the Closet; Eight - Sex and Violence; Nine - Solstice; Ten - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child; Eleven - Worlds Apart; Twelve - Cutting Back; Thirteen - Rally Round the Flag; Fourteen - Saved by the Kids; Acknowledgments; Sources. SYNOPSIS: In this ground-breaking book, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes us deep inside a world that few adults ever penetrate, but where millions of young children spend the bulk of their waking hours. A Child's Place: A Year in the Life of a Day Care Center… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: Secondary schools and their effects on children. CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: previous studies 2 Background to the study 3 The schools and the area they serve 4 Research strategy and tactics 5 School outcomes: children's attendance, behaviour and attainments 6 Physical and administrative features of schools: associations with outcome 7 School processes: associations with outcome 8 Ecological influences 9 Composite analyses of all main variables 10 Conclusions: speculations and implications. Appendices; A Pupil behaviour scale; B School goals; C Ten naughty children: examples; D Format of pupil questionnaire; E Details of process items; F Observations; G Additional tables; H Analysis of multiway contingency tables by log linear models; I Attainment at the end of the first year in the sixth form; J Intake and… Read More