Product Description: Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays a key role: Girls acquire academic literacy skills, even in low-quality schools, which enable them, as mothers, to understand public health messages in the mass media and to navigate bureaucratic health services effectively, reducing risks to their children's health...read more

Recounts Leo Baeck's efforts to prepare millions of German Jews to meet the horrifying demands of the Nazi era, revealing how he worked in the underground and provided religious education for Jewish children

Product Description: Book by Doman, Glenn, Armentrout, Michael