The Political Character of Adolescence
The Political Character of Adolescence: The influence of families and schools details two political science researchers' conclusions on how the political socialization process occurs in young people and how such factors as family, education and environment influence the political ideas of adolescents. Written by M. Kent Jennings and Richard G. Niemi, the 357-page hardbound book was published in 1974 by Princeton University Press. It features both an Index and bibliography. Ex lib with the usual library markings. Dust Jacket with protective cover. No defects apparent, inside or out. (002852)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691093628  

Guide to Starting a Day Care Center
Day care for children between the ages of three and five is now an accepted fact. Day care for infants and toddlers under age three, however, is still controversial, although several European countries have had success with infant day care for decades.

E. Belle Evans, one of the authors of the well-known guide ‘Day Care’ (for three-to-five-year-olds), teamed with her husband, George E. Saia, to make a solid case for infant day care, and to provide a comprehensive, practical guide to starting and operating an infant center. Ms. Evans writes from experience both as director of a large day-care center with infant classrooms and as the mother of an infant son in day care.

The authors contend that recent studies and the European experience show ‘no significant developmental differences between infants in day care and those reared exclusively in the home.’ In fact, infants in a quality day-care program have several advantages: they are challenged intellectually by stimulating games, stories, and language opportunities; they learn to socialize with many adults and their own peers; and they may very well benefit from not having such an intense one-to-one child-mother relationship.

The bulk of the book is an informative, detailed guide to starting and operating a quality infant day-care center. The authors cover every aspect, including a summary of the rules and regulations for licensing infant centers; suggestions on writing funding proposals and making budgets, selecting and developing a site, and designing a curriculum for a program that encourages optimal physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development in young children.

Published in 1972 by the Beacon Press, Boston, DAYCARE FOR INFANTS, The Case for Infant Day Care and a Practical Guide is a 216-page hardbound book. It is in Very Good condition, although ex lib with the usual library markings. There are no apparent defects on the book or on the mylar-covered dust jacket. (6003)


Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807031704, 978-0807031704  

Havelock Ellis On Love, Sex and Virtue
The art of making love and the art of being virtuous remain essentially the same in all ages and among all people. That's the view of Havelock Ellis, author of LITTLE ESSAYS OF LOVE AND VIRTUE. This was published in 1930 by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City NY.

And Ellis is no stranger to these topics, having written major works on the Psychology of Sex, Man and Woman, and Social Hygiene. This 187-page hardbound book covers what Ellis calls the little modifications that become necessary in relationships.

Chapter titles include Children and Parents, the Meaning of Purity, Objects of Marriage, Husbands and Wives, Love-Rights of Women, the Play-Function of Sex and the Individual and the Race.

Condition is Good+, although the book is ex lib with the usual library markings. Covers show no serious damage with just slight scuffing. The front hinge is broken, but all pages inside are still tightly bound. The inside pages show no apparent defects.

It's an interesting view of love, sex and virtue in the early third of the 20th Century! (3128)
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
ISBN: None  

Portrait of American Youth, 1936
Journalist Maxine Davis traveled more than 10,000 miles across the U.S. to interview young people before she wrote The Lost Generation - Portrait of American Youth Today. Published in 1936 by Macmillan, New York, the 385-page hardbound book describes the characteristics, opportunities, handicaps and needs of youth during the Great Depression.

The book is divided into seven parts: Trustees of Posterity; Mope-Hope-Grope; To Earn Their Bread (in the Factory, Store and Office, the Fields, the Professions); Service Stations (CCC camps, Future Farmers of America, Public Recreational Facilities, Juvenile Courts); For Emergency Only; Planned Abundance; and The Lost Generation. It's a fascinating view!

The book is Ex Lib with the usual library markings, but still in Good+ condition. There is some yellowng on endpapers; very minor scuffing on covers. (4084)
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: none  

Coming of Age in America

Coming of Age in America (Growth & Acquiescence)

Friedenberg, Edgar Z.

1965, New York: Random House

300 pgs. Ex Lib. DJ w/protective cover.

Classic study of American adolescents, studied in the context of high school. The author demonstrates how secondary schools in America oblige the student to internalize the authority of the school -- while those who resist tend to drop out or are rejected by the system.

Very Good, DJ ends glued to inside covers. (3913)
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: none  

Youth Drug Use - Adult's Guide
Peter Marin and Allan Y. Cohen are authors of UNDERSTANDING DRUG USE - AN ADULT'S GUIDE TO DRUGS AND THE YOUNG. The 163-page hardbound book was published in 1971 by Harper & Brothers, New York.

It was written to help parents and other concerned adults understand drug use and focus on realistic approaches to dealing with it. According to the authors, the damage that can result when a parent does not understand the meaning of his child's drug taking can often be worse than that resulting from the drug use itself. The authors take for granted that at one time or another most children will try drugs and, they argue that attempts to suppress the use entirely are doomed to failure.

Rather, say Marin and Cohen, it is important to focus on the minimization of drug misuse. They concentrate here on specific ways parents, teachers, community workers and others can work with adolescents to direct them toward a sensible approach to drugs.

The suggestions include: what to do if your child is arrested; what to do if your child has a 'bad trip;' helpful and unhelpful attitudes, establishing sensible guidelines for drug use, how to replace guilt with understanding, and how to inform yourself on drug use.

The measures suggested are both long-range and short-range, both preventive and therapeutic.

The book is ex lib, but still in Very Good condition, with the usual library markings. Covers show some minor edge wear, but are protected with the library's Mylar covering. There is some residue where the dust jacket and Mylar cover were attached to the book. Inside pages show no defects we can see.

It's still a very timely subject … and here are some hard-to-find answers! (1585)
Circa: 1971
Publisher: Harper & Brothers  

New Teacher in Harlem School, 1960s
Written by Herbert Kohl and illustrated by Robert George Jackson III, 36 Children was published in this 1967 Fifth Printing by the New American Library. The 227-page hardbound book is a personal account of the author's successful experience in an East Harlem school.

It was September 1962 when Kohl stood in a sixth-grade classroom facing 36 remote and resistant Negro children.

Because the curriculum provided was out of key with the realities of life, he tried to communicate with the children by having them write. He explored the possibilities of teaching language, literature and writing as a way for the children to learn to speak about what they feared and felt was not permissible to acknowledge publicly.

Because the children were eager to learn and felt free to do so in the classroom, they had a successful year -- both in terms of achievement as measured by the school system and by other more creative and important human criteria.

The book is in Good+ condition, although it is ex lib with the usual library markings. The covers show some minor scuffs and edge/corner/spine end wear. The front hinge is broken, yet all pages remain tightly bound and are clean, complete and readable. It's an interesting look at education - particularly a nontraditional educational system. (2897)
Publisher: New American Library
ISBN: None  

The Human Sum, How Many Should We Be?
Sponsored by the Family Planning Association and with a Preface by Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, The Human Sum - How Many Should We Be? was edited by C. H. Rolph.

Fourteen contributors discuss World need for population control - Family Planning, Population Pressure and War, Dilemma of Medical Science, Family as a Legal Notion, Choice, Changing Families of East London, Last Refuge of Family Feeling, Changing Attitudes within Family, Dark Side of the Street and Theological Considerations on Marriage and Family.

The 232-page hardbound book was published in 1957 by Macmillan, New York. It is illustrated by Alfred Wurmser and a cartoon by 'Vicky.'

Condition of the Ex Lib book is Good+ with dust jacket flaps glued and tape marks left inside covers; a small tear on front of jacket. Inside pages show no apparent defects. (4046)
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: none