Recommends the best books for every age level, from preschool to young adult, featuring more than 300 annotated selections from diverse genres and guidelines for parents and librarians on selecting titles.

Choosing Books for Children: A Commonsense Guide

Stevenson, Deborah

Hearne, Betsy

Children's Books

University of Illinois Press

Presents a tool for choosing books for children of all ages. This title offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, olktales, and factual books.

Teen & Young Adult

Cities and Urban Cultures (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

*What is distinctive about urban life? *What key trends have shaped the contemporary city? *How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies? This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach and use of case material, the book demonstrates that the 'real' city of physicality and struggle and the 'imagined' city of representations are entwined in the construction of urban cultures. Starting with a comparison of the rural and the urban, the book considers ways of imagining the city and of conceptualising urban cultures. It goes on to investigate the implications of several pivotal urban and cultural trends, such as the use of the arts and local cultures in city re-imaging, and the ways in which modernism, postmodernism and globalisation have shaped the built environment and the orientation of academic enquiry. Also examined is the way in which representations of the urban landscape in film, literature, art, and popular texts, have informed dominant ideas about the way certain city spaces - including city centres, urban waterfronts, and so-called 'global cities' - should look, function and 'feel'. Designed as a text for undergraduate courses in cultural studies, sociology and wider social science, this book traces the development of urban environments from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates the nature of urban life.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

Cities of Culture: A Global Perspective (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging cliché. The proliferation of local blueprints for cultural planning/creative cities has been remarkable, while supra-state bodies such as the European Union and UNESCO are also fostering the use of culture in strategies to revive cities and urban economies and to brand places as ‘different’.   Cities of Culture highlights significant trends in cultural planning since its inception, revealing and analysing key discourses and influential (globally-circulating) manifestos and processes, as well as their interpretation and implementation in specific places. With reference to examples drawn from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, Cities of Culture provides insights into the application of urban cultural strategies in different local, national and international contexts, highlighting regularities, tensions and intersections as well as core underpinning assumptions.   This book explores the now-pervasive expectation that cultural planning is capable of achieving a wide range of social, economic, urban and creative outcomes. It will be of interest for students and scholars of urban sociology, urban studies, cultural policy studies and human geography.

Routledge

Connecting the Stars

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Ethicool Books

The City

This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ways in which cities are built, understood, lived and imagined. Taking a thematic approach and drawing on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical points of reference, it examines such subjects as urban inequality, public space, creative cities, globalization, the night-time economy, suburbia, and memory and emotion. In The City Deborah Stevenson argues that, as theories and concepts shape what is known about cities and urban life, it is necessary to build conceptual frameworks that engage with the intersections and tensions between urban processes and trends, as well as with the complexities of everyday urban life. This book’s combination of original insight and critical synthesis will make it an invaluable contribution for an international, interdisciplinary readership of students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies and wider social science and the humanities.

Sociology

Polity

In The City, Deborah Stevenson argues that, as theories and concepts shape what is known about cities and urban life, it is necessary to build conceptual frameworks that engage with the intersections and tensions between urban processes and trends, as well as with the complexities of everyday urban life.

Soaring Soren: When French Bulldogs Fly

Winner of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Children's / Juvenile Nonfiction. Silver Medal Winner of the 2017 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award for Children / Animals. Nominated for the 2016 Dog Writers Association Award for Best Series of Illustrations or Paintings.
“His legs are too short! … His head is too big! … He is simply not built to jump!”
Soren the French Bulldog is an unlikely champion in the athletic sport of dog agility, or so many people think. But Soren has something that his critics can’t readily see: belief in himself. With that, and the support of his friend Deb, Soren sets out to prove that champions come in all shapes and sizes.
Soaring Soren is an inspiring true story about pursuing a dream. Soren is irresistible and determined. His quest for an agility championship is exciting. But most endearing is the love and trust between Deb and her dog. It is sure to melt the hearts of children and adults alike.
In Soren's honor, a portion of the proceeds from this book will go to a charity that rescues French Bulldogs in need.

Animals

Aperture Press

Silver Winner of the 2018 Feathered Quill Book Award for Animals--Children's and Young Adult. Bronze Winner of the 2018 Feathered Quill Book Award for Children's Picture Books. Winner of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Children's / Juvenile Nonfiction. Finalist for the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Children's Picture Book (6 Years &amp; Up). Silver Medal Winner of the 2017 Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Children / Animals. Nominated for the 2016 Dog Writers Association Award for Best Series of Illustrations or Paintings. "His legs are too short! ... His head is too big!" Soren the French Bulldog is an unlikely champion in the athletic sport of dog agility, or so many people think. But Soren has something that his critics can't readily see: belief in himself. With that, and the support of his friend Deb, Soren sets out to prove that champions come in all shapes and sizes. Soaring Soren is the inspiring true story of a little dog with a big dream, and an even bigger heart. In Soren's honor, a portion of the proceeds from this book will go to a charity that rescues French Bulldogs in need.

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Choosing Books for Children: A Commonsense Guide

Choosing Books for Children: A Commonsense Guide

Cities and Urban Cultures (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

Cities and Urban Cultures (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

Cities of Culture: A Global Perspective (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Connecting the Stars

The City

The City

Soaring Soren: When French Bulldogs Fly

Soaring Soren: When French Bulldogs Fly