Childhood Lost

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795324979
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood's End written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Sharna Olfman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood Lost written by Sharna Olfman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and computer screens replace family time, and those warped by national junk food/fast food habits bringing an explosion of obesity and diabetes among boys and girls, this book takes a harsh look at the results of American social norms. The damage being done by governmental policies is examined, including inadequate parental leave, a minimum wage that is not a living wage, unregulated day care, and a public education system that delivers inferior education to poor children. A call to action, this is a work from some of the best-known child experts nationwide. Every person who has or cares about a child will find this of interest. Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and computer screens replace family time, and those warped by national junk food/fast food habits bringing an explosion of obesity and diabetes among boys and girls, this book takes a harsh look at the results of American social norms. It highlights the damage being done by governmental policies, including inadequate parental leave, a minimum wage that is not a living wage, unregulated day care, and a public education system that delivers inferior education to poor children. A call to action, this is a work from some of the best known child experts nationwide. Every person who has or cares about a child—or the future of U.S. socity— will find this of interest. Most experts writing about childhood address issues from their own particular perspective. This work draws together a team of top scholars from across fields. They connect the dots in engaging and clear essays. Altogether, they demonstrate that the problems facing children today come from an underlying crisis of adult values, and they suggest that individuals must join forces to turn back this crisis.

Author : Leon Keer
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789401470810
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leon Keer - Distortion written by Leon Keer and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The wonderful 3D world of Leon Keer * This Dutch street artist conquers the world * Keer explains his working method and allows you a glimpse into his creative mind * With a unique 3D cover Leon Keer is the master of optical illusion. The 'Dutch JR' plays with perspectives and creates a whole new world. One in which Snow White is stuck under a door. Or a world in which you unexpectedly enter a seventies living room. This is his first monograph. He allows the reader an exclusive look into his world and imagination. How does he work? And how does a wild idea develop into a gigantic 3D artwork?

Author : Marnie Grundman
Publisher : Meraki House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780995192003
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing written by Marnie Grundman and published by Meraki House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Never Even Had a Chance Missing: A True Story of a Childhood Lost is a story of a young girl's survival, a woman's surthrival. It is a story of suffering, of rising up against all odds and discovering an appreciation of life. "I decided that I was going through this hell as a kind of pre-payment for a good life. From a very young age I always knew that better days lay ahead. Now I had an explanation as to why: I was paying up front. I decided that I was destined for greatness and I just had to power through." Follow Marnie through her journey from stolen childhood to empowered woman as she details firsthand the power of the human spirit to heal and love.

Author : Sarah Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420862904
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood Lost written by Sarah Engel and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly consists of poems written by the author as therapy for depression and other neuroses.

Author : Kapil Dev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000264483
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Childhood written by Kapil Dev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India. It presents insights on their life on the streets to provide a comprehensive understanding of why they are driven to extreme means of livelihoods. This volume, · Inquiries into the histories of street children, and discusses their socio-economic and socio-demographic characteristics to provide a sense of their living conditions; · Sheds light on the social injustice experienced by these children, their health and hygiene, and also looks at the insecurities faced by the children in their interactions with the society; · Uses detailed field research data to highlight issues that affect the lives of street children such as education, gender discrimination, and their social networks; · Suggests a way forward that would not only benefit street children but will also be of use to the community in understanding their lives, problems, and help explore this issue in further detail. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of human geography, development studies, child development, urban poverty, and social justice. It will also be of interest to policymakers, social workers, and field workers who work with street children.

Author : Yehuda Nir
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Childhood written by Yehuda Nir and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Yehuda Nir's harrowing flight from occupied Poland in 1941, during which he was forced to don an Aryan disguise to elude capture.

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525436464
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Children Archive written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

Author : Vincent Lyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737412304
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood Lost written by Vincent Lyn and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child slavery doesn't exist anymore. (Yes, it does.) Children don't have to starve anymore. (Millions die every year from lack of food.) Child marriage is a thing of the past. (Marriages occur daily, with girls as young as six years old.) While we think of our modern society as "advanced" beyond the problems of past centuries, millions of children still endure horrors that have never left. In this book, a humanitarian and a scholar share their insight on children in crisis. Working from both the field and the office, they present the greatest threats to our future and immeasurable threats to the well-being of our children. Which leads to this one conclusion: "Their childhood has been stolen ... their childhood has been lost."

Author : Abraham Deng Ater
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493123017
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Lost Childhood written by Abraham Deng Ater and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Lost Childhood is a memoir describing immeasurable suffering the author went through in his early childhood. In the late 1980s, the Islamic government began to systematically torture and kill Southern Sudanese families, burn their villages, and enslave young boys and girls. As a result, an approximately, as numbers are largely unknown and only an estimate, 27,000 plus boys from Southern tribes were forced to flee from their homes. Traveling naked and barefoot, they sought refuge in neighboring Fugnido, Ethiopia, where a few years later they were forced to flee yet another civil war. Returning to Sudan, the Islamic government forced them to travel for another five months, ultimately arriving in Kakuma, Kenya, after four years of unthinkable hardship and walking over thousands of miles naked, barefoot, and ailing from starvation, dehydration, and diseases. Many boys perished along the way and their numbers shrank into few thousands. Abraham Deng Ater, separated from his family in 1987, is one of approximately 3,800 boys now known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. He left Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after several years of massive suffering and was granted refuge in the U.S. in 2001. Many Lost Boys including Abraham have since become U.S. citizens and have continued to pursue their education. Thousands more have also been granted refuge elsewhere and are scattered around the globe.