N. Thomas Knihy

Focusing on children's involvement in care decisions, this study integrates insights from sociology, anthropology, psychology, and legal philosophy. It presents original research highlighting children's perspectives on decision-making processes. The findings offer significant theoretical implications and practical lessons for social welfare policy, making it a valuable resource for scholars in childhood studies, qualitative research, and social welfare provision.

Definitive work covering 70 species from 17 groups. Each species is described with sections on characters (external, cranial and dental), recognised subspecies, morphology, taxonomy, ecology, echolocation, distribution and conservation status. The volume contains a key to groups and species, a gazeteer, many line illustrations and colour plates illustrating many of the species.