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  1. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  2. Children and Peacemaking
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  3. Choices
    A Family Global Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  4. The City Kids' Book
    Resource Type: Book
  5. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  6. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  7. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  9. Connexions Library: Education, Children
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  10. Death at an Early Age
    Resource Type: Book
  11. Escape from Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
  12. Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
  13. Freedom and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
  14. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2008
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
  15. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  16. Growing Up Absurd
    Resource Type: Book
  17. Growing Up Free
    Raising Your Child in the 80s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  18. How Children Fail
    Resource Type: Book
  19. Instead of Education
    Resource Type: Book
  20. International Year of the Child Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  21. Letter from New York
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Child poverty and death.
  22. Manual on Nonviolence and Children
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  23. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  24. Ourselves and Our Children
    Resource Type: Book
  25. Power in Play
    Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
  26. Psychotherapist out of touch
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
  27. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
  28. Roots of Empathy
    Changing the World Child by Child
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  29. Schools Against Children
    Resource Type: Book
  30. 36 Children
    Resource Type: Book
  31. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985

Experts on Children in the Sources Directory

  1. Active Healthy Kids Canada
  2. Anne Arsenault
  3. Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO)
  4. Association of Parent Support Groups in Ontario Inc.
  5. Campaign Life Coalition
  6. Canadian Child Care Federation
  7. Child Welfare League of Canada
  8. Kidproof Canada (child safety) Inc.
  9. Kids Help Phone
  10. Missing Children Society of Canada
  11. Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
  12. OXFAM Canada
  13. Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc., Author Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice
  14. SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
  15. Safe Communities Canada
  16. The Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters Canada and Bermuda
  17. Today's Parent - Rogers Publishing
  18. Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
  19. University of Winnipeg
  20. Variety - The Children's Charity (Ontario)
  21. The War Amps

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