Author: James Garbarino
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780787943752
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the lifelong psychological impact of war and violence on children This book should stab the conscience of the world. No one can read its gripping account of the terrifying impact on children of modern war and remain unchanged. --George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
No Place to Be a Child
Author: James Garbarino
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780787943752
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the lifelong psychological impact of war and violence on children This book should stab the conscience of the world. No one can read its gripping account of the terrifying impact on children of modern war and remain unchanged. --George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780787943752
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the lifelong psychological impact of war and violence on children This book should stab the conscience of the world. No one can read its gripping account of the terrifying impact on children of modern war and remain unchanged. --George McGovern, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
Children Growing Up with War
Author: Jenny Matthews
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781445150451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Social Justice Literature Award for Nonfiction Chapter Book and 2015 MEOC Middle East Book Award for Youth Non-Fiction. Journey to some of the world's conflict zones through the camera lens of photojournalist Jenny Matthews, as she captures the impact war has on children and their families. This book takes a very personal approach as Jenny recalls some of her most memorable assignments, and the people and children she encountered along the way. The book features photographs with a human and environmental message from some of the world's war-torn hotspots - with a focus on children. The photographs are structured around key themes relating to children's lives and their rights. The supporting text voices Jenny's reactions to what she has seen and gives information about how children have been affected by war in specific conflicts. It also relates the background to wars and conflicts, case studies, key child-related facts, a map and website links.
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781445150451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Social Justice Literature Award for Nonfiction Chapter Book and 2015 MEOC Middle East Book Award for Youth Non-Fiction. Journey to some of the world's conflict zones through the camera lens of photojournalist Jenny Matthews, as she captures the impact war has on children and their families. This book takes a very personal approach as Jenny recalls some of her most memorable assignments, and the people and children she encountered along the way. The book features photographs with a human and environmental message from some of the world's war-torn hotspots - with a focus on children. The photographs are structured around key themes relating to children's lives and their rights. The supporting text voices Jenny's reactions to what she has seen and gives information about how children have been affected by war in specific conflicts. It also relates the background to wars and conflicts, case studies, key child-related facts, a map and website links.
The Vietnam War in American Childhood
Author: Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.
Growing Up America
Author: Susan Eckelmann Berghel
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.
Faith
Author: Itoro Bassey
Publisher: Malarkey Books
ISBN: 9781087991474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Faith is a poignant conversation between the dead and the living, the past and the present, and a young woman grappling to find her place in it all.
Publisher: Malarkey Books
ISBN: 9781087991474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Faith is a poignant conversation between the dead and the living, the past and the present, and a young woman grappling to find her place in it all.
Volunteers
Author: Jerad W. Alexander
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643752189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
“Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643752189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
“Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.
Growing Up in the Second World War
Author: Nance Lui Fyson
Publisher: B T Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713435740
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: B T Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713435740
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
War Boy
Author: Michael Foreman
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140342994
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Michael Foreman woke up when an incendiary bomb dropped through the roof of his Lowestoft home. Luckily, it missed his bed by inches, bounced off the floor and exploded up the chimney. So begins Michael's fascinating, brilliantly illustrated tale of growing up on the Suffolk frontline during World War II. He tells how he and his friends and family coped with bombing raids and deadly doodlebugs, how gas masks were great for making rude noises, and how nothing could beat rabbit pie! ' ... vivid, humorous and touching' Guardian.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140342994
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Michael Foreman woke up when an incendiary bomb dropped through the roof of his Lowestoft home. Luckily, it missed his bed by inches, bounced off the floor and exploded up the chimney. So begins Michael's fascinating, brilliantly illustrated tale of growing up on the Suffolk frontline during World War II. He tells how he and his friends and family coped with bombing raids and deadly doodlebugs, how gas masks were great for making rude noises, and how nothing could beat rabbit pie! ' ... vivid, humorous and touching' Guardian.
Growing Up in the Civil War 1861 to 1865
Author: Duane Damon
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822506560
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1860 to 1865.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822506560
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1860 to 1865.
Our Fathers' War
Author: Tom Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786280698
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Addresses the dramatic effects of World War II on the relationship between the men who fought war and their sons and grandsons, drawing on his own and other father-son tales of veterans to reveal how their experiences on the battlefield shaped their lives as fathers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786280698
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Addresses the dramatic effects of World War II on the relationship between the men who fought war and their sons and grandsons, drawing on his own and other father-son tales of veterans to reveal how their experiences on the battlefield shaped their lives as fathers.