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Marriage and Caste in America: Seperate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age
by Kay S. Hymowitz  Synopsis A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate--and provisional...
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More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
by Kathryn M. Daynes Publisher Comments More Wives Than One offers an in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes provides an intimate...
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On Equal Terms
by French Publisher Comments This highly controversial and contemporary new book presents the social model of disability and the views of the growing disability movement in a thought-provoking and stimulating way. Thirteen of the eighteen chapters are written by disabled academics...
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Re-thinking Children's Care (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments ..." the book successfully presents clear and convincing arguments about the need to re-direct childhood studies and children's care towards an appreciation of children and care, by providing a careful and very thorough examination of care theory, policy,...
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Unfinished Work : Building Democracy and Equality in an Era of Working Families (05 Edition)
by Jody Heymann Publisher Comments While many aspects of work have changed dramatically over the last few decades, society has struggled to adapt, to the detriment of working families. Work schedules and demands continue to reflect a time when at least one parent stayed home, women remain...
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Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods
by Michael P. Nichols Publisher Comments "Family Therapy: Concepts & Methods "is the definitive classic text on the field of Family Therapy. It was the first textbook written in family therapy, and it has always been the most authoritive and comprehensive. The eigth edition continues this...
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Violence Against Women in Asian Societies
by Lenore (edt) Manderson Publisher Comments Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence...
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Daycare Revised Edition
by Alis Clarke Stewart About the Author Alison Clarke-Stewartis Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior and Associate Dean of Research at the <>University of California, Irvine....
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Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap
by Peter Byrne Publisher Comments This book examines a range of important conceptual, ethical, social, and religious issues arising from mental handicap. It contains a vigorous defense of the contention that mentally handicapped human beings are persons. It attacks both the contemporary...
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Child Care Policy at the Crossroads: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
by Sonya Michel Publisher Comments Contributors include: Deborah Brennan, Rianne Mahon, Susan Phillips, Jane Jenson, Anette Borchorst, George Ross, Mariette Sineau, Vincent Della Sala, Ito Peng, Jet Bussemaker, Celia Valiente...
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For Better and for Worse : Welfare Reform and the Well-being of Children and Families (02 Edition)
by Greg J. Duncan Publisher Comments The 1996 welfare reform bill marked the beginning of a new era in public assistance. Although the new law has reduced welfare rolls, falling caseloads do not necessarily mean a better standard of living for families. In fact, the nation still faces...
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Interviewing and Interrogation (92 Edition)
by Don Rabon Book News Annotation A text for law enforcement investigators, combining class discussion with field applications, and including transcripts from actual interviews and interrogations, as well as communication examples from other sources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc...
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Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies
by Wolfgang (edt) Streeck Publisher Comments Debates surrounding institutional change have become increasingly central to Political Science, Management Studies, and Sociology, opposing the role of globalization in bringing about a convergence of national economies and institutions on one model to...
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The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States
by Mary Reintsma Book News Annotation According to Reintsma (economics, Trinity U.), two theories could explain the legislative processes that produced the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996: the traditional, organic public interest model...
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Critical Victimology: International Perspectives
by R. I. Mawby Publisher Comments Drawing on a wealth of local, national and international sources, unpublished documents and original research, this book provides a theoretical and practical critique of victimology.</p> <p></p> <p>The authors outline and discuss...
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Informal Settlements: A Perpetual Challenge?
by Marie (edt) Huchzermeyer Publisher Comments This text focuses on the complex challenges--from poor living conditions to troubled health care options--faced by those living in informal settlements in countries such as South Africa and Brazil, as well as by local and national authorities around the...
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Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media (04 Edition)
by Mary-lou Galician Publisher Comments This accessible yet research-based text offers both foundational theories and practical applications of analysis and criticism of mass media portrayals of sex, love, and romance in a wide variety of mass media, from entertainment to advertising to news...
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Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson
by Eric A. Shelman Publisher Comments In 1874, an amazing event took place--the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) initiated the rescue of a severely abused child named Mary Ellen Wilson. Her rescue initiated the beginning of true child protection in this...
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Crime and Its Victims: What We Can Do (Impact Books)
by Daniel W Van Ness Publisher Comments Daniel W. Van Ness analyzes the problems that make our criminal justice system ineffective, expensive and unjust. And he offers a concrete proposal for reform to benefit both offenders and victims. Foreword by Chuck Colson....
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The American Family: Across the Class Divide
by Yasushi Watanabe Publisher Comments In this empirical case study, Yasushi Watanabe contrasts two social groups of the Northeastern United States. He describes the first group as upper/upper-middle class, Anglo Saxon, Protestant, mostly Unitarian or Episcopalian - the successful yuppie...
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