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Learning How To Use SPSS Guide : With Exercises for Babbie's the Basics of Social Research - Workbook (4TH 08 Edition)
by Theodore C. Babbie  Publisher Comments This handy guide is coordinated with both The Basics of Social Research , 4th Edition text and the SPSS CD-ROM to help students learn basic navigation in SPSS, including how to enter their own data; create, save, and retrieve files; produce and interpret...
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Communication Skills for Working with Elders
by Barbara Bend Dreher Publisher Comments Dr. Dreher's book is a concise and highly readable guide to developing and enhancing one's communication skills for the betterment of the elderly person's quality of life... It] clearly has a place on the bookshelf of every layman and professional alike...
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Kinship
by Robert Parkin Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family....
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Intimate Worlds
by Maggie Scarf Publisher Comments In INTIMATE WORLDS, bestselling author Maggie Scarf takes on the most important and most universal subject of her distinguished career: the family. In this luminous, beautifully written book, Scarf brilliantly examines the complex ways in which families...
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Working in a 24/7 Economy
by Harriet B Presser Publisher Comments Harriet Presser shows that nonstandard works schedules are both highly prevalent among American families and generate a level of complexity in family functioning....
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The Politics of Hunger in India: A Study of Democracy, Governance and Kalahandi's Poverty
by Bob Currie Publisher Comments Do people starve in democratic polities? It is often claimed that as government must respond to public needs during times of crisis, democracy has reduced famine in India since Independence. This book seeks to identify the processes which generate and...
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Monitoring & Evaluating Social Programs in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Policymakers, Managers & Researchers
by Joseph J. Valadez Publisher Comments Project sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years. The increased awareness stems from a growing concern with social development issues such as poverty reduction, project sustainability, the equal participation of women, and the...
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Resiliency in Families #1: Stress, Coping, and Health in Families: Sense of Coherence and Resiliency
by Julie E. Fromer Publisher Comments Stress, coping and health in families....
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Constructions of Deviance 5TH Edition
by Patricia A Adler Publisher Comments This text is the industry standard for publishing the most recent and relevant articles in the field of deviance, by demonstrating to students how the concepts and theories of deviance can be applied to the world around them. The authors include both...
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Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents
by Mary Lyndon Shanley Publisher Comments Heart-wrenching, high-profile court cases such as the Baby M case have called attention to the troubling consequences of new reproductive technology; the law has yet to catch up with the ways that people create families today. Although these times may...
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Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State: A Twenty-First Century Dilemma (European Societies)
by Carl-ulrik Schierup Publisher Comments This is a key new analysis of two major European issues: the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on the nation state, and the declining capacity of the welfare state to maintain social equity. Detailed case-studies demonstrate the growing...
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The Spirit of Family
by Al Gore Publisher Comments An inspiring array of world-class photographs revealing the changing face of the American familyThe American family has undergone dramatic changes in the last two generations, as interfaith and interracial marriage, new gender and age configurations, and...
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The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts
by Sanjukta (edt) Dasgupta Publisher Comments This book critiques literary and cultural representations of the Indian family to explore the manner in which the family and its structure are in transition. The papers explore (and expose) how the Indian family, whether in India or in diaspora, needs to...
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What Works in Child Welfare
by Miriam P. (edt) Kluger Publisher Comments This book is the culmination of a body of research covering what works in the field of child welfare. Quite often we know that some programs benefit the children and families served, but rarely do we know how or why they work. What Works is written in a...
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Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
by Anya Jabour Publisher Comments Jabour's book has the advantage of giving us a microhistorical look at a single, well-documented marrriage, allowing her to trace the evolving tensions between ideals and realities over the course of their entire marriage and parenting experience....
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Just Marriage (New Democracy Forum/Boston Review)
by Mary Lyndon Shanley Publisher Comments From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "sacred institution" of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Who should be allowed to marry and is marriage a public or private...
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Equity, Efficiency, and Growth: The Future of the Welfare State (Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy)
by Mario Baldassarri Publisher Comments In the post-war period, spending on social security, health and education has grown continuously in the leading industrialized countries. The considerable size of this spending as a percentage of GDP together with the ageing population raise doubts on...
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When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing
by Leon Dash Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering...
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Branded the Buying & Selling of Teenager
by Alissa Quart Synopsis This title takes the reader into the world of teen marketing, showing how teens are taught to market to each other and adults build careers out of insinuating their way into "friendships" with teens in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to and...
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Home Wasn't Built in a Day: Constructing the Stories of Our Families
by Students Of Galileo Publisher Comments Written by juniors and seniors at the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, this collection of touching and insightful stories explores the myths and realities of what makes a family a family. "Home Wasn't Built in a Day" includes a foreword by...
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