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Paradoxes of Liberalism and Parental Authority by Dennis Arjo 9781498506953
RRP: $165.90$154.67This book is a detailed examination of parental authority: what justifies and what are the proper limits of a parent's authority over her children? Dennis Arjo focuses on and criticizes attempts to answer these and related questions in the context of... -
How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work by Pamela Braboy Jackson 9781498522564
RRP: $178.50$165.50The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates... -
From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation by Mitch Pearlstein 9781607093626
RRP: $63.00$57.73Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us... -
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner 9781594481703
RRP: $50.40$36.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481703Author Judith WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead BooksPublisher Riverhead BooksWeight(grams) 376g -
Understanding Marriage: Making It Work, or Knowing When to Leave by Richard Taylor 9781591021520
RRP: $41.98$31.79Based on numerous interviews with people from both good and failed marriages, his own experience, and years of thinking about the subject, philosopher/marriage counsellor Richard Taylor has developed a set of compelling proposals for reforming marriage... -
Divorced Virgin Mother of Two by Marie Duncan-Wagers 9781441521040
RRP: $29.40$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441521040Author Marie Duncan-WagersFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 118g -
Relationship Rescue From The Bible: What The Bible Says About Relationships by Roshan Cipriani 9781522820468
RRP: $33.37$27.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522820468Author Roshan CiprianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
On Marriage by Devorah Baum 9780241998021
RRP: $23.08$16.32BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie SmithA shining... -
Race and Family: A Structural Approach by Roberta L. Coles 9781442254374
RRP: $266.70$246.06The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive feature-introducing students to key concepts through a structural lens-while featuring new material throughout. Race and Family focuses on structural factors impacting all families,... -
Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia by Kristen Ghodsee 9781442208599
RRP: $52.50$47.10Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined... -
White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption by Darron T. Smith 9781442207639
RRP: $41.98$38.07White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions-particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in... -
Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures by Cecile Accilien 9780739116586
RRP: $88.20$83.77Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for... -
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree: Confronting Social Inequalities by Cara Bergstrom-Lynch 9781498521987
RRP: $86.10$79.34This book recognizes that intense public battles are being waged in the U.S. over the rights of LGB people to form legally and culturally recognized families. Their families are under a kind of sociopolitical scrutiny at this historical moment that... -
The Limits of Marriage: Why Getting Everyone Married Won't Solve All Our Problems by Gary R. Lee 9781498512923
RRP: $184.80$170.94This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to... -
The Study of Sociology by Herbert Spencer 9781498076463
RRP: $88.10$77.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498076463Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 562g -
The Study of Sociology by Herbert Spencer 9781497831285
RRP: $111.20$98.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497831285Author Herbert SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 735g -
Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa by Elena Moore 9780367706531
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power.Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the... -
Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women by Dr Christine B Whelan 9781451643411
RRP: $35.68$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451643411Author Dr Christine B WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295g -
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren by Sandra Thomas 9781434929273
RRP: $27.30$17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434929273Author Sandra ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 127g -
Through Our Eyes: A Foster Family Shares Their Secret World by William A. Hunter 9780761850670
RRP: $94.50$86.52In Through Our Eyes, William Hunter and some of the children he fostered share their experiences within these unique social welfare phenomena. The author took in children who suffered horrific abuse from their birth parents as well as during their... -
Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity among Long-Haul Christian Truck Drivers: What Would Jesus Haul? by Rebecca L. Upton 9780739196625
RRP: $151.20$138.39This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion... -
Pathways of Human Development: Explorations of Change by Jay A. Mancini 9780739136867
RRP: $249.90$229.64Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human... -
Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences by Michaela Kreyenfeld 9781013267963
RRP: $102.80$91.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267963Author Michaela KreyenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe by Marie Digoix 9781013277023
RRP: $83.90$74.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013277023Author Marie DigoixFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Legally Wed: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Mark Strasser 9780801434068
RRP: $155.40$107.08In a new preface, Mark Strasser discusses recent developments in the legal battle over same-sex marriages in Hawaii. He anticipates the likely state and nationwide impact of the Hawaii Supreme Court's decision. Mark Strasser examines the issue of... -
Families in Perpetual Crisis by Richard Kagan 9780393700664
RRP: $95.55$77.26This is a moving and inspiring book, chock-full of the best insights of systems thinking applied with a sustained and passionate commitment to working with families in child welfare agencies.Book InformationISBN 9780393700664Author Richard KaganFormat... -
Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities by Lieve Spaas 9780333642375
RRP: $218.40$215.08Paternity and fatherhood: is there more than an etymological difference between these two apparently synonymous terms? What do we understand by 'paternity' and 'fatherhood'? These crucial questions lie at the heart of this collection of essays selected... -
Holy Sparks: Social Theory, Education, and Religion by Philip Wexler 9780312160265
RRP: $94.48$70.94At the end of the twentieth century the United States, is left with a school system widely believed to be in decline. In Holy Sparks , Philip Wexler likens American schools to the broken vessels of the Old Testament, but sees in this decline sparks of... -
China's Left-Behind Wives: Families of Migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s by Huifen Shen 9789971695613
RRP: $54.50$44.18In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young... -
Black Families: A Systems Approach by Anthony G. James Jr 9781516524402
RRP: $184.80$150.53In Black Families: A Systems Approach, Anthony James convenes the voices of social scholars to examine the multifaceted nature of black family life. Grounded in family systems theory, the book provides readers with a unique lens through which to better... -
Forbidden Red: Widowhood in Urban Nepal by Kathey-Lee Galvin 9780874222838
RRP: $27.20$23.06For centuries, Hindus in Nepal required a widow to surrender to burning on their husband's funeral pyre. Now illegal and rare, social remnants of the practice persist. By the time the funeral fire is extinguished, the woman as wife no longer exists. Her... -
Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States by Samira K. Mehta 9781469636351
RRP: $205.80$167.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Family: The Lying, The War, and The Wife: A Treatise by Michael E Freeman Saulsberre by Michael E Freeman Saulsberre 9781039183667
RRP: $67.18$47.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039183667Author Michael E Freeman SaulsberreFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 163g -
Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing by Paul R. Amato 9780674032170
$60.46Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as... -
Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture by Henry A. Giroux 9780312239329
RRP: $94.48$69.62Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market;... -
Divorce in South Korea: Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown by Yean-Ju Lee 9780824889708
RRP: $62.90$50.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824889708Author Yean-Ju LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Connected Lives: Families, Households, Health and Care in South Africa by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi 9780796925855
RRP: $62.90$50.67Connected lives: Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa, illustrates the changing constitution and the variability of households, fluid understandings of family, and the impact of these in the context of life changes and... -
Women, Children and the Family in Palmyra by Signe Krag 9788773044193
RRP: $62.90$50.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773044193Author Signe KragFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Nord AcademicPublisher Nord Academic -
Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews by Suad Joseph 9780815635581
RRP: $126.00$104.24Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nationas a family. To motivate loyalty, political... -
The Family Issues Reader by Constance L. Shehan 9781506306896
RRP: $216.30$191.12The 47 articles in this collection follow the scope and sequence of family sociology and family relations courses, and provide a wide range of perspectives on families and intimate relationships. Focusing on families in the United States, the readings...