Books & Publications
Tomorrow's People
By: Susan A. Greenfield
'Like notes for a new Brave New World ... with verve and passionate conviction, Greenfield attempts to forecast how new technology will alter the way we think and feel'
Sunday Times, Books of the Year
The 2006 State of the World's Children report
By: UNICEF
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the broader aims of the Millennium Declaration would transform the lives of millions of children who would be spared illness and premature death, escape extreme poverty and...
Moses, Citizen & Me
By: Delia Jarrett-Macauley
A work of imagination about the conflict in Sierra Leone; a novel which draws on both the European canon and African oral traditions to illuminate the sufferings of child soldiers and their families.
Toxic Childhood
By: Sue Palmer
As a result of concern among the teachers she's met around the UK and Europe, Sue has spent the last three years researching into the influence of contemporary culture on children's development – particularly their capacity to...
Remotely Controlled
By: Dr Aric Sigman
The figures are frightening: Britons currently spend an average of four hours a day watching television – that’s more than a 24-hour day per week. Television has become our national obsession: it is our main source of common...
Fools Gold A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
By: Colleen Cordes and Edward Miller
COMPUTERS ARE RESHAPING CHILDREN’S LIVES, at home and at school, in profound and unexpected ways. Common sense suggests that we consider the potential harm, as well as the promised benefits, of this change. Computers pose serious...
Tech Tonic
Four years on from Fools Gold, the reasons for reassessing the impact of the new high-tech life style on children are even more urgent. Childhood obesity has become a major health issue; anything that contributes to a sedentary...