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  • Concepts and Definitions of Family for the 21st Century

    Explore the breakdown of the universal family form into new living arrangements and the political and social implications of how they influence the definition of family today! Concepts and Definitions of Family for the 21st Century views families from a US perspective and from many different cultures and societies. You will examine the family as it has evolved from the 1950s traditional family to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • American Families and the Future

    Analyses of Possible Destinies

    As the world heads into the twenty-first century, individuals and their families are being confronted with a more diverse array of possible life experiences than has ever existed before. Changes in longevity, marriage, fertility, employment, and many other areas have created new opportunities for individual and family choice and variability in life course experiences. American Families and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

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  • A Primer in Positive Psychology

    Series series Oxford Positive Psychology Series
    Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive psychology does not deny the valleys. Its signature premise is more nuanced, but nonetheless ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Real Education

    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Morality and the Regulation of Social Behavior

    Groups as Moral Anchors

    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    Morality indicates what is the ‘right’ and what is the ‘wrong’ way to behave. It is one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent political-economic crises and the behavioral patterns they exposed. In the past, work on morality tended to highlight individual concerns and moral principles, but more recently researchers have started to address ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Unfaithful Angels

    How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission

    In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country.A large proportion of all certified social workers today have left the social services to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Friendship

    Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship

    Series Book 5 - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
    Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Research In Multicultural Education

    From The Margins To The Mainstream

    by Carl A. Grant ...
    A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students. ... Read more

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  • Social Decision Making

    Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments

    Series series Organization and Management Series
    This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making and ethics which was so important to Dave.The book offers a unique and valuable contribution to the fields of social psychology and organizational behavior. Ethical decision ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Handbook of Solution-Focused Conflict Management

    Benjamin Franklin once said: "Every problem is an opportunity in disguise." In the new and highly successful approach of solution-focused conflict management described here, the focus is on discovering these opportunities to find the "win-win" scenario. The key lies in asking eliciting questions about goals, exceptions, and competencies and in motivating clients to change. Clients' perspectives ... Read more

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