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Only-Child Experience & Adulthood
by Bernice Sorensen  Publisher Comments This book presents stories of adult only-childrens' experience and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face particularly in interpersonal relationships and self-image. The focus is on revealing and making sense of adult only...
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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis
by Thomas Porky (edt) Mcdonald Publisher Comments What lasting impact has foster care had on the adult lives of former foster children? Noting how trends in expectations and outcomes in foster care have changed over the past 30 years, this comprehensive and critical review of the impact foster care has...
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God, Money, and Politics: English Attitudes to Blindness and Touch, from the Enlightenment to Integration (PB)
by Simon Hayhoe Synopsis Our book examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in the epistemological theory of blindness, (the theory of the construction of knowledge on blindness and touch by social and cultural change). This book also illustrates this...
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Who's Hungry? and How Do We Know?: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation
by Laurie Field Derose Publisher Comments This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (...
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Voice of the Child: A Handbook for Professionals
by Graham Upton Synopsis This collection provides a guide to the legal requirements surrounding children's rights. The book discusses the practicalities and problems of listening to the child in educational, social and health settings....
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Contributions in Legal Studies #16: Welfare System Reform: Coordinating Federal, State, and Local Public Assistance Programs
by Edward T Jennings Publisher Comments There are ways at national, state, and local levels to make the nation's $200-billion system of public assistance more effective, accountable, and economical. In this book, a top-level national commission of experts analyzes the problems of coordination....
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Development and Crisis of Welfare State (01 Edition)
by Evelyne Huber Publisher Comments Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post—World War II era. They demonstrate that...
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Cities, Change, and Conflict : Political Economy of Urban Life (3RD 06 Edition)
by Nancy Kleniewski Publisher Comments CITIES, CHANGE, AND CONFLICT - A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF URBAN LIFE discusses the importance of cities for the economic, cultural, and political life of modern societies. The author consistently uses the political economy perspective to introduce students...
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Community and Everyday Life
by Graham Day Synopsis Drawing on a wealth of empirical examples and illustrations, this book reviews debates surrounding the idea of community. It examines changing patterns of community life and evaluates their importance for society and for individuals. As well as urban...
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Yours, Mine, and Ours: How Families Change When Remarried Parents Have a Child Together
by Anne C Bernstein Publisher Comments Based on the author's experience as a family therapist and stepmother, and on interviews with more than fifty families, this book explores the ramifications for all concerned--remarried parents, his children, her children, and their baby--of having a...
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Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America
by Ron Powers Publisher Comments Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain, and therefore birthplace of our image of boyhood itself. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two killings, both committed by minors, and the trials that followed...
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Adoption in India: Policies and Experiences
by Vinita Bhargava Publisher Comments This book researches child adoption in India and challenges prevalent theories of adoption. It is the only book of its kind to lend a voice to adopted children and shares the narratives of many families in their experiences of adoption. It also recounts...
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Children of the French Empire ' Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960 ' (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by Owen White Publisher Comments This book vividly recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced the lives of this mixed-race...
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Child Welfare : Policies and Best Practices (2ND 07 Edition)
by Jannah Mather Publisher Comments Understand human behavior with HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT! Three key tools are provided for theory-by-theory comprehension-models, metaphors and maps-that help you to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their...
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Study of Social Problems : Seven Perspectives (6TH 03 Edition)
by Earl Rubington Publisher Comments This critically acclaimed volume delineates seven sociological perspectives used to examine social problems--social pathology, social disorganization, value conflict, deviant behavior, labeling, the critical perspective, and social constructionism...
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American Childhood: Risks and Realities
by Dona Schneider Publisher Comments Schneider's lucid analysis of how American children are newly at risk represents a rare integration of the medical evidence with societal trends. An extremely significant book.--Sylvia A. Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting...
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Sex, Lies & P.I.'s
by Ali Wirsche Publisher Comments The ultimate guide to find out if your lover, husband, or wife is having an affair. Follow Ali and Marnie, two seasoned private investigators, as they spy on brazen cheaters and find out what sweet revenge awaits. Laced with startling stories, Sex, Lies &...
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Active Labour Market Policies and Welfare Reform: Europe and the Us in Comparative Perspective
by Anne Daguerre Publisher Comments This volume examines the source of ideas in active labor market policies in the US, France, Denmark, UK and at European Union level. What are the most likely trajectories of active labour market policies in different national settings? Will welfare...
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Fragmented Families: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation
by Ellen Sucov Publisher Comments The purpose of the book Fragmented Families is to clarify the phenomenon of estrangement between family members. The book focuses on the meanings and process of alienation, its outcomes and possible paths toward resolution. The reader is encouraged to...
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Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-century Cuba
by Verena Martinez-alier Publisher Comments A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba<BR>...
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