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  • The Family Squeeze

    Surviving the Sandwich Generation

    by Suzanne Kingsmill, Benjamin Schlesinger ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Sandwich Generation refers to the growing numbers of middle-aged people who must care for both children and elderly parents while trying to manage the stress of full-time jobs. Advances in technology and medicine are helping us to live longer – but not without extended care from our families. At the same time, the economic climate is making it difficult for young adults to leave home and start ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Don'ts for Husbands

    by Blanche Ebbutt ...
    More than 1,000,000 copies sold!Don'ts for Husbands is a facsimile of the original 1913 edition, containing hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage. While some are quirkily of their time, and rich with fascinating insights into the history of relations between the sexes, many contain wisdom that rings true more than 100 years after they were written.Inside you can find ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • One Big Happy Family

    18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love

    by Rebecca Walker ...
    More important and timely than ever--a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family.Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, Asha Bandele, Neal Pollack, and others, on subjects such as open marriages, polyamory, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • If a Tree Falls

    A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard

    by Jennifer Rosner ...
    A revealing memoir of a family and a "wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew" (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discovered a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern ... Read more

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  • Red Families v. Blue Families

    Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture

    by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone ...
    Red Families v. Blue Families identifies a new family model geared for the post-industrial economy. Rooted in the urban middle class, the coasts and the "blue states" in the last three presidential elections, the Blue Family Paradigm emphasizes the importance of women's as well as men's workforce participation, egalitarian gender roles, and the delay of family formation until both parents are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

    Variations Across Industrialized Countries

    Edited by Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • An Insider's View of Sexual Science since Kinsey

    by Ira L. Reiss ...
    In a personal, nontechnical, and informal style, eminent researcher Ira L. Reiss discusses the many situations he has encountered during the past fifty years while researching sexuality and developing useful and innovative explanations of its different aspects. Most of the problems that were present during those years are still confronting those who work on human sexuality. Reiss discusses his ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • According to Our Hearts

    Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family

    by Angela Onwuachi-Willig ...
    This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of her race, and shows how our society has yet to come to terms with interracial marriage. Angela Onwuachi-Willig examines the issue by drawing from a ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • We Do!

    American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality

    Edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, Madeleine M. Kunin ...
    "The encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history" ( The Philadelphia Tribune).Through speeches, interviews, and commentary, this book chronicles the road toward marriage equality in the United States, edited by former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin and author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner."Baumgardner ... Read more

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  • Conscription, Family, and the Modern State

    A Comparative Study of France and the United States

    by Dorit Geva ...
    The development of modern military conscription systems is usually seen as a response to countries' security needs, and as reflection of national political ideologies like civic republicanism or democratic egalitarianism. This study of conscription politics in France and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century challenges such common sense interpretations. Instead, it shows how ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Marriage - An Essay

    by William Lyon Phelps ...
    This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1940 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Marriage' is an essay about the virtues of marriage and advice on how to conduct a successful married life. William Lyon Phelps was born on 2nd January 1865, in New Haven, Conneticut, United States. Phelps earned a B.A. in 1887, writing his thesis on the ... Read more

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  • After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development

    Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1

    Edited by Nancy L. Deutsch ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. This volume reviews the importance of after-school programs for PYD and discusses key components of effective after ... Read more

    $58.49 USD