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The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone
RRP: £14.99£10.95This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.About the AuthorLawrence Stone (1919-1999) was a... -
The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families by Amity Pierce Buxton 9780471021520
£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471021520Author Amity Pierce BuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639178
£18.09For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the... -
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Tayshas Reading 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307589675Author Nujood AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA... -
The Pink Guide to Adoption and Fostering for Lesbian and Gay Men by Nicola Hill
RRP: £14.95£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039922Author Nicola HillFormat PaperbackImprint CoramBAAFPublisher CoramBAAF -
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice by Vivien Prior
RRP: £32.99£31.88This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the influence of sensitive and insensitive caregiving and... -
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain
RRP: £22.00£14.55Apologies 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 *... -
Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney 9781478025368
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and constraint as these families seek to craft likeness... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £29.99£26.50Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized -... -
The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception by Debora L. Spar
RRP: £22.00£18.27Despite legislation that claims to prohibit it, there is a thriving market for babies spreading across the globe. Fueled by rapid advances in reproductive medicine and the desperate desires of millions of would-be parents, the acquisition of... -
The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives by Peter Lovenheim
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132424Author Peter LovenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
The Roman Family Suzanne Dixon 9780801842009
RRP: £26.50£23.29Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents-today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from... -
The Courage to Raise Good Men: You Don't Have to Sever the Bond with Your Son to Help Him Become a Man by Olga Silverstein 9780140175677
£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140175677Author Olga SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Spiritual Divorce by Debbie Ford 9780061227127
RRP: £15.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061227127Author Debbie FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 174gDimensions(mm)... -
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System by Stephen Case
£40.09This book explores the development and implementation of Child First as an innovative guiding principle for improving youth justice systems. Applying contemporary research understandings of what leads to positive child outcomes and safer communities,... -
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 by Amy Livingstone 9780801448416
RRP: £54.00£47.19In 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... -
Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage: Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Joanne Payton
RRP: £28.99£24.96'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a... -
The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World by Mark A. Williams 9781538179000
RRP: £30.00£26.68Argues that by understanding human connection, we can work together towards a less divided, more sustainable, future.About the AuthorMark A. Williams is a professor of cognitive neuroscience with over 20 years experience conducting behavioral and brain... -
Boundary Power: How I Treat You, How I Let You Treat Me, How I Treat Myself by Mike O'Neil 9780963345424
RRP: £38.50£15.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963345424Author Mike O'NeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Power Life ResourcesPublisher Power Life ResourcesWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 277mm... -
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn
RRP: £23.99£21.24Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs? Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150 women who pursued fertility preservation technology. Moving... -
Help For The Hard Times by Earl Hipp 9781568380858
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568380858Author Earl HippFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information & Educational... -
On Marriage by Devorah Baum 9780241998021
RRP: £10.99£7.77BOOK 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... -
Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families by Helen Bonnick 9781912755257
£35.39Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) is a much misunderstood problem that affects the lives of millions of families around the world, possibly as many as one in ten. Despite this, and the lasting physical and psychological damage CPVA can cause, it... -
Pathways to Possibility: Transform your outlook on life with the bestselling author of The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
RRP: £10.99£7.77Transform your relationship with yourself, those around you, and the world in 2020_________In this powerful and inspiring book, family therapist and executive coach Rosamund Stone Zander shows us that life is a story we tell ourselves, and so we have the... -
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe Akwugo Emejulu 9780745339474
RRP: £18.99£12.75This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to... -
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging by Lucy van de Wiel
RRP: £27.99£24.14Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes... -
A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
RRP: £14.99£9.80Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of... -
Mate by Tucker Max 9780316349437
RRP: £21.99£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316349437Author Tucker MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies by Marta Felber 9780877939320
£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877939320Author Marta FelberFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ave Maria PressPublisher Ave Maria PressWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life by Casey Gwinn 9781683509653
RRP: £12.99£8.63Learn to overcome trauma, adversity, and struggle by unleashing the science of hope in your daily life with this inspiring and informative guide.Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Science tells us that it is the most predictive indicator of... -
Workparent: Thrive in Your Career While Raising Happy Children by Daisy Dowling
RRP: £14.99£9.93An all-in-one guide for every working parent There are plenty of parenting books out there, but as a working parent there's never been a trusted guide that coaches you how to do well at work and be the loving and engaged mother or father you want to be... -
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot
RRP: £22.50£19.35An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many... -
100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation Frank Furedi 9783110705126
RRP: £27.00£20.53The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the 'crisis... -
Because I Know Who He Is by Sarah Smith
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745049Author Sarah SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters by Melanie Joy 9781590565803
RRP: £13.99£9.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565803Author Melanie JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Protecting Children: A Social Model Brid Featherstone 9781447332756
RRP: £23.99£18.66The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection. Against this tense background, this innovative book argues... -
The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman 9780787908706
RRP: £39.00£34.23In this compelling book, the authors present an innovative therapeutic model for understanding and treating adults from emotionally abusive or neglectful families? families the authors call narcissistic. Narcissistic families have a parental system that... -
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage by Kathryn Edin 9780520271463
RRP: £25.00£19.59Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her... -
Polyamory Journal: A Relationship Book: Prompts and Practices for Navigating Non-Monogamy by Kate Kincaid
RRP: £17.99£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638073772Author Kate KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm...