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An award-winning poet s beautifully written (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of a......more
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Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it. At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her rom......more
Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, enter......more
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This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students’ decisions ......more
In Life s Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to p......more
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An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial......more
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to......more
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We won t reach equality in the workplace without equality in the home. Drop the Ball shows how our relationships and our......more
A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women s leadership movement who shows women how t......more
Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxie......more
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He is America s most prolific serial killer. And yet Kermit Gosnell was no obvious criminal. The abortion doctor was a p......more
"Zestier and more colloquial than most translations . . . Letts’ main achievement here is to make Chekhov more emotional......more
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This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines an authoritative, yet applied approach with a ......more
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Poor Your Soul--moving, wise, and passionately written--is a beautiful reflection on sexuality, free will, and the fierc......more
This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as aust......more
How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it......more
Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic R......more
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, n......more
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, n......more
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the......more
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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of......more
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China--political, cultural, and economic--has radically reshaped Chines......more
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In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-......more
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Offering a diverse variety of perspectives, Exploring Family Theories, Fourth Edition, is a combined text/reader that in......more
Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys ......more
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Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-co......more
Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant pa......more
Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men -- politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians......more
Child Welfare Removals by the State addresses a most important (but little-researched) legal proceeding: when the State ......more
The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the nat......more
The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the nat......more
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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, discusses the family in two senses: the private family, in which we live m......more
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A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournament......more
Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical ......more
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Family Theories: Foundations and Applications presents a comprehensive and accessible approach to the most current persp......more
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