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Recognising the distinctive context of the Philippines, with its unique long history, and peculiar population distribution across thousands of islands, this edited collection analyses its decidedly familial culture. Why do Filipino families maintain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994889232Author Ruth SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint A.F.S.BooksPublisher A.F.S.BooksWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860096Author Patricia Brady SchmitFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U...

This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information...

Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. It argues that...

The Second Edition of Understanding Family Policy continues to provide the conceptual framework, offered in the First Edition, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. Features...

The African American single-parent family has tended to be a scapegoat for a variety of social problems, ranging from poverty to drug abuse. As a result, there exists much misinformation about this family form. In this collection, the African American...

This edited volume addresses one of the central issues of family studies - parenting. Terry Arendell uses the social constructionist and the feminist lens to examine current controversies and issues of interest to family professionals and students. This...

In this ethnographic study, Terry Arendell gives voice to a group of divorced fathers on topics including: their rights as fathers; their relationship with former spouses; the injustices perpetrated by the ex-spouse and the legal system; the inherent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795708107Author Thuli NhlapoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 500g

The `juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere.Book...

A timely look at the problem of unsupervised children and the risks and dangers that can occur is offered in the second edition of this book. Thoroughly updated with new research, the authors put the latchkey phenomenon in perspective and attempt to...

Revealing that the honeymoon is more a product of a socially constructed view of romantic love than of the relationship of the individuals concerned, this book takes a multidisciplinary perspective, presenting a discussion of the cultural significance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183221573Author Tori KroppFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Manjul Publishing House Pvt LtdPublisher Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd

The proposed self-help book is different from all previous IBS books, for it approaches IBS from a new and exciting viewpoint -- that of coping with IBS using concepts and skills based on the individual's own psychological profile. The rationale is that...

Several studies have looked at populations of volunteers, women from the electoral roll and women attending general practices, and have reported the ultrasound appearance of polycystic ovaries in as many as one in three to one in five. If groups of women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895166101Author Rod DubeyFormat PaperbackImprint Charivari PressPublisher Charivari PressWeight(grams) 124g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885003621Author Eileen DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 176g

A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today's families are being created. From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families...

Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how 'environment' is understood...

Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart? Can a family's beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerability to stress? And most importantly, can family stress be prevented? The Third Edition of Family Stress...

This book provides students with a systematic sociological study of contemporary life for families of African descent living in the United States. Because it deals with issues facing African American families, it covers ground that is often considered,...

As we experience and manipulate time-be it as boredom or impatience-it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to...

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772882888Author Ole ThomsenFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688144043Author Spencer JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 114gDimensions(mm)...

The media today is filled with powerful men in trouble for their sexual behaviors, and invariably, they are diagnosed as sexual addicts. Since Adam first hid his nakedness from God and pointed the finger at Eve, men have struggled to take responsibility...

From Alice Yoo and Eugene Kim, curators of leading art and photo blog My Modern Metropolis, comes a collection of highly creative and incredibly inspirational visual stories from twenty-five contemporary photographers. These stories capture magnificent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429665391Author Jen JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780078616839Author McGraw HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919648101Author Louise UrquhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rewired PublishingPublisher Rewired PublishingDimensions(mm) 258mm * 203mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804678848Author Helen CausleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 79g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804675977Author Kirsten MillinsonPage Count 20Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788122309997Author Saraswat NishthaFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Pustak MahalPublisher Pustak Mahal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483103128Author Almudena GrandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint TusQuetsPublisher TusQuets

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788479535988Author Daphne Rose KingmaFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones UranoPublisher Ediciones UranoWeight(grams) 186g

"Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant reasons to rejoice in renewing family ties. A treasury of time-tested virtues." -Bookpage "[A] wonderful...

While mindfulness meditation has been used in clinical settings as an adjunctive treatment for substance use disorders for some time, there has been limited empirical evidence to support this practice. Mindfulness-Related Treatments and Addiction...

This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with...

Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social,...