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Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
by Patricia A. Gozemba  Publisher Comments 'The inspiring story of America's only successful battle for gay marriage—the court cases, the protests, and finally, the weddings! On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted equal marriage benefits to same-sex...
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New Victorians : Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (04 Edition)
by Stephen Pimpare Publisher Comments During the economic boom of the 1990s, arguments about the moral failings of the poor were used to pass welfare reforms heralded as the solution to a system that had failed everyone. Yet, as historian Stephen Pimpare demonstrates in this revealing social...
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Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series
by Robert Coles Publisher Comments The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series that established Robert Coles as America's foremost child psychiatrist is available for the first time in a single, abridged volume. of color illustrations....
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Why Can't You Read My Mind?: Overcoming the 9 Toxic Thought Patterns That Get in the Way of a Loving Relationship
by Jeffrey Bernstein Publisher Comments - Why Can't You Read My Mind? is the first book to address intimacy issues where they really begin--in our thoughts- Perfect for couples that want to maintain their loving relationship as well as for those working to restore their love and stay together-...
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The Tragedy of American Compassion
by Marvin Olasky Publisher Comments A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers...
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The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society (Thomson Advantage Books)
by Bryan Strong Publisher Comments THE MARRIAGE & FAMILY EXPERIENCE is a realistic look at relationships today. These experienced authors will help you see and understand the underlying issues at work in marriages, families, and all kinds of relationships. Real-life cross-cultural...
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Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee
by Pamela Druckerman Publisher Comments Compared to the citizens of just about every other nation, Americans are the least adept at having affairs, have the most trouble enjoying them, and suffer the most in their aftermath and Pamela Druckerman has the facts to prove it. The journalist's...
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The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Our Children
by James P Steyer Publisher Comments As an entrepreneur who creates programs for the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, a Stanford professor of education and concerned father takes a long, hard look at the media images America's children are exposed to every day....
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Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
by Hite Shere Publisher Comments In this major study, groundbreaking researcher Shere Hite challenges established views on the family, arguing that it is not collapsing--as advocates of traditional "family values" would have us believe--but instead shifting from a rigid, patriarchial...
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The Way We Really Are: Ending the War Over America's Changing Families
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while...
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Disability, Liberation & Development
by Peter Coleridge Publisher Comments The situation of disabled people provides a microcosm of the whole development debate and process. Disabled people are oppressed and marginalised in every country of the world, both North and South. Their lives are constrained by social attitudes which...
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The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
by Elliott Currie Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a sharp and compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers....
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Lost Ground : Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond (02 Edition)
by Randy Albelda Publisher Comments In the mid-1980s, the popularity of Charles Murray's anti-welfare treatise "Losing Ground" signaled the rising influence of the right-wing critique of welfare. In "Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond," a respected array of social scientists...
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Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School
by Michael Bamberger Publisher Comments Pennsbury High is a middle-class American high school, ordinary in every way except one: for over thirty years, its prom has been the biggest ticket in town. On prom night, thousands of locals take a leave from suburbia and line the school sidewalks to...
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The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty
by Lawrence M. Mead Publisher Comments The New Paternalism opens up a serious discussion of supervisory methods in antipoverty policy. The book assembles noted policy experts to examine whether programs that set standards for their clients and supervise them closely are better able to help...
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Babyshock!: Your Relationship Survival Guide (UK Edition)
by Relate Publisher Comments A "Relate" guide, dealing with the pressures that having children can have on your relationship....
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Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, & the First Amendment
by Newton Minow Publisher Comments Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of the FCisuggest bold new ways to think about television and its influence on American life and, most urgently, on...
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Routledge/Ecpr Studies in European Political Science #14: Survival of the European Welfare State
by Stein Kuhnle Publisher Comments "Crisis." "Breakdown." "Dismantlement." Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic...
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Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research
by Alan C. Acock Publisher Comments Sponsored by the National Council on Family Relations, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is the definitive reference work on theory and methods for family scholars and students around the world. This volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and...
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Social Welfare in Japan; Principles and Applications.
by Kojun Furukawa Book News Annotation Furukawa (human life design, Tokyo University) studies the historical development and fundamental characteristics of social welfare in Japan and beyond, in this work for advanced students and professionals in social welfare science and related...
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