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Emotions & the Family
by Richard A Fabes  Publisher Comments The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another--Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general family and marital...
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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste
by Herbert J. Gans Publisher Comments Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?<P>In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of...
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Families Where Grace is in Place
by Jeff Vanvonderen Publisher Comments Budding a graceful marriage and raising creative, competent, contented children without legalism or manipulation....
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Time Bind : When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (00 Edition)
by Arlie Russell Hochschild Publisher Comments The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/...
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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by Jason Deparle Publisher Comments In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different...
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Statistics for Social Workers
by Robert Weinbach Publisher Comments Overview <P>This widely acclaimed statistics text requires no prior knowledge of statistics, emphasizing a conceptual understanding of the topic and its contribution to evidence-based practice. It helps students by discussing the types of...
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Domestic Violence: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues (Hardcover))
by Margi Laird Mccue Book News Annotation McCue (women's studies, Portland State U., Oregon) has been working with women, children, and families in various capacities since 1972. She offers a text providing current knowledge about domestic violence: what it is, its causes, the extent of the...
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Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
by Adam Pertman Publisher Comments Adoption is both sweeping the nation and changing it, accelerating our transformation into a more multicultural and multiethnic country and helping to redefine our understanding of "family." Adoption Nation is essential reading for adoptive families, for...
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Good Sex Illustrated (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
by Tony Duvert Publisher Comments Why is pleasure andquot;doubledandquot; when it's andquot;sharedandquot;? ... Do you really have to cut pleasure in two so that it'll exist? I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when...
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Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children
by Ann Hulbert Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-434) and index....
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Children with Parents in Prison
by Cynthia Seymour Publisher Comments Adults are being incarcerated in the United States at an ever-escalating rate, and child welfare professionals are encountering growing numbers of children who have parents in prison. Current estimates indicate that as many as 1.5 million children have...
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Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law
by Werner Sollors Publisher Comments These four plays, written by women dramatists during the Restoration, are now available in a single edition. This volume includes Mary Pix's The Innocent Mistress, Susanna Centlivre's The Busy-Body, Elizabeth Griffith's The Times, and Hannah Cowley's The...
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Making Work Pay: America After Welfare
by Robert Kuttner Publisher Comments In the years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in...
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Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living
by Margie Chalofsky Publisher Comments Captures the voices of eight homeless children, ages 6 to 13. ". . . a wonderful little book, gentle and moving, and I hope it will be read by children".--Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities in America's Schools. ". . . draws a touching picture...
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Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth
by Jean E. Rhodes Publisher Comments A child at loose ends needs help, and someone steps in--a Big Brother, a Big Sister, a mentor from the growing ranks of volunteers offering their time and guidance to more than two million American adolescents. Does it help? How effective are mentoring...
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Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings (Advances in Family Research)
by Family Research Cons Publisher Comments This volume focuses on the study of both continuity and changes in family relationships. Each chapter addresses a substantive issue in research on changes in family relationships, and also directs the reader's attention to the methods employed and how...
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Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
by Nancy F Cott Publisher Comments We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. <P> From the...
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Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption
by Barbara Katz Rothman Publisher Comments Barbara Katz Rothman, a noted sociologist who has explored motherhood in four previous books and has more recently explored the social implications of the human genome project, now turns her eye toward race and family. Weaving together the sociological...
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Women, Family & Child Care in India: A World in Transition
by Susan C Seymour Publisher Comments Documents the lives of 24 families in India over almost thirty years....
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Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies
by Keith G. (edt) Banting Publisher Comments Does the increasing politicization of ethnic and racial diversity of Western societies threaten to undermine the welfare state? This volume is the first systematic attempt to explore this linkage between "the politics of recognition" and "the politics of...
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