Marriage & Family

Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children...

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623171377Author Orna DonathFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

From the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of HumanismA humanist wedding ceremony allows couples the freedom to express their love in a completely personal way - and choose what marriage means to them.In a beautiful collection of...

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from...

'He said he loved me.'Fourteen-year-old Hannah comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley after her mum pleads with Social Services to take her into care, unable to cope with her daughter anymore. Previously a good student, a loving daughter and...

'When I fall in love it will be forever...' or so goes the song. The reality can be different and the truth is that the nature of relationships will change over time. Few things can be more distressing than finding that you and your partner are no...

Draw on Your Relationships is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear...

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have...

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual...

From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause-A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens.Let's face it: The female body is an enigma. For...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800753747Author Melissa S. KearneyFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on...

Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family groups. Working with families can be a challenging experience. This book looks at the personal skills needed to...

'The psychologist's guide to getting on with people' - The Times 'Brilliantly empowering and truly life-changing ... a must-read for improving relationships.' - Gwyneth Paltrow 'Utterly fantastic. Read immediately.' - Claudia Winkleman Do you...

With her trademark wit, Harriet Lerner offers a joyful and sanity-saving guide to setting things right. Renowned psychologist and bestselling author of The Dance of Anger sheds new light on the two most important words in the English language, "I'm...

Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't she leave? Instead, we should ask: Why...

Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships-it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483629Author Meredith SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

We are in danger of being swept away on a tide of pessimism about love and relationships. Endless cynical stories of affairs by politicians, athletes and celebrities fill the media. The dominant message is that creating a rewarding and enduring romantic...

One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters,...

Spanning the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers' politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare, work and gender. The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to...

People who have experienced emotional neglect in the first months and years of life suffer negative consequences into adulthood. As adult psychotherapy clients, they require long-term work and delicate emotional attunement as well as a profound...

An insight into new ways of becoming a parent by a world-leading expert. Families come in all shapes and sizes: from the nuclear two-parent two-child unit to gay families, trans families, single parents, and babies conceived using donor eggs, sperm, or...

In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research...

Although housing in Bethnal Green was often appalling, a complex network of relatives - families of three generations held together by the powerful mother-daughter bond at the centre - was always available to provide mutual aid and a sense of community. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681921716Author Mary HaseltineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

On Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in the face of absence-presence of the rule of law and staged...

As polyamory continues to make its way into the mainstream, more and more people are exploring consensual non-monogamy in the hope of experiencing more love, connection, sex, freedom, and support. While for many, the move expands personal horizons, for...

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely...

A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhen Carolyn Hays's child made...

PJ Kirby and Kevin Twomey are two mammy's boys from Cork who are always up for a skit. The I'm Grand Mamual is Kevin and PJ's hilarious and heart-warming ode to their mammies, Phil and Nuala. Taking a different well-worn saying - such as 'We...

Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for hard work and self-sufficiency. A dozen years after Dan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709227Author Thomas LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588544Author Dani McClainFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm *...

Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in...

Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim explore the radical changes in public attitudes and public policy concerning parents and parenting. Drawing on research and their extensive experience of working at senior levels of government, they argue convincingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692151594Author Liz PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Dr. Liz PowellPublisher Dr. Liz PowellWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. Who better to be a role model for career success than your mother? Paradoxically, this book shows that having a mother as a...