Marriage & Family

Based 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...

Apologies 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

The 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,...

Rethinking 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

In 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...

This 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 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

In 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...

This 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: 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...

At 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...

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Apologies 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

Most 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...

Family 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 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...

In recent years, the media has attributed the increasing numbers of people producing family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. A spate of new...

The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us...

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children-mostly girls-have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's...

Love, sex, and relationship wisdom from the polyamory movement are offered in this practical guide to spiritual enlightenment. Contrary to popular belief, monogamy and celibacy are not the only two options for exploring a spiritual path. In Opening Love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645301014Author Dr James Mabor MaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 148g

This is the first book on Ireland to provide a sustained and interdisciplinary analysis of gender, sexuality, nationalism, the public and private spheres, and the relationship between these categories of analysis and action. Kathryn Conrad exposes the...

Looking at modern families through the context of diversity, inequality and social change, FamilyInequality.com blogger and demographer Philip N. Cohen brings a fresh approach to the sociological study of family life. The text features a wealth of...

This eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families, showing how shifts in legal structures, ideas about medicine and health, gender roles, and other variables lead to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034733218Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Philip Soutar died at Ypres in 1917. Before becoming a soldier, Soutar's life revolved around his farm at Whakat?ne, where he lived with his M?ori wife Kathleen Pine in an 'as-you-please marriage, uncelebrated by a clergyman'. Matters of the Heart...

In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the...

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615927480Author Daniel ShuFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Miraclaire Academic PublicationsPublisher Miraclaire Academic PublicationsWeight(grams)...

After twenty, thirty, or even forty years of marriage, countless vacations together, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances-what could go wrong? Gray Divorce offers a provocative look at the growing rate of marital splits after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906401Author Barbara Dafoe WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743205535Author Laurence D. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393090642Author Alice S. RossiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...