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  • Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research

    by Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Vern L. Bengston, Alan C. Acock, Katherine R. Allen, David M. Klein ...
    Now available in paperback for classroom use!"This comprehensive text provides a rich source of perspectives on theorising about the family for scholars, researchers, and students. Another of the book′s strengths is the emphasis on multimethod approaches in family research. The book covers an impressive range of topics and issues - marital happiness, adjustment of children in divorce marriages, ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

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  • 22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome

    by Rudy Simone ...
    Although having Asperger Syndrome (AS) can make romantic relations difficult, having a fulfilling relationship with an Asperger man is certainly not impossible. A woman in love with a man with AS may interpret his difficulties with communication and socialization as a lack of interest in the relationship. He may vacillate between being gentle and caring to seeming cold and distant. She may find ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Parenting Without Borders

    Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us

    by Christine Gross-Loh Ph.D ...
    An eye-opening guide to the world’s best parenting strategiesResearch reveals that American kids lag behind in academic achievement, happiness, and wellness. Christine Gross-Loh exposes culturally determined norms we have about “good parenting,” and asks, Are there parenting strategies other countries are getting right that we are not? This book takes us across the globe and examines how parents ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A 1950s Mother

    Bringing up Baby in the 1950s

    by Sheila Hardy ...
    Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the childrearing methods of the 1950s are a fascinating insight into the lives of women in that decade.In A 1950s Mother, author, mother and grandmother Sheila Hardy collects ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Fathering

    Promoting Positive Father Involvement

    Edited by Gilles Forget, Annie Devault, Diane Dubeau ...
    In the past few decades, researchers and practitioners have moved away from the idea of fatherhood as a single, monolithic concept. Examining the challenges of vulnerable fathers such as those in poverty or in prison, they have developed valuable new strategies for cultivating the positive involvement of fathers in the lives of their children.Drawing on the innovative work of Prospère, a Quebec ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Foster Children

    Where They Go and How They Get On

    by Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs, Kate Wilson, Claire Baker ...
    What happens to looked-after children in the longer term? This book analyses the outcomes of a large-scale study of foster children in the UK. It includes individual case studies and draws extensively on the views of foster children themselves. The authors examine:Why children remain fostered or move to different settings (adoption, residential care, their own families or independent living)How ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Common Purpose

    Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

    by Lisbeth Schorr ...
    In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Engineering Polymer Systems for Improved Drug Delivery

    by Rebecca A. Bader, David A. Putnam ...
    Polymers have played a critical role in the rational design and application of drug delivery systems that increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of new and conventional therapeutics. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamentals of drug delivery, Engineering Polymer Systems for Improved Drug Delivery explores traditional drug delivery techniques as well as emerging advanced drug ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Family Trouble

    Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and the Disruption of Everyday Life

    by Ara Francis ...
    Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical, psychological ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Supporting Young Men as Fathers

    Gendered Understandings of Group-Based Community Provisions

    by Esmée Hanna ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines community group settings for young men who are fathers, with particular emphasis on the role of gender within the groups and the possibilities of such groups for the ‘un-doing’ of gender. Young men who are fathers are often marginalized and negatively portrayed within society. Groups allow them space and opportunity for peer support with other young men, to gain confidence and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Immigrant Children

    Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation

    by Michele Adams, Lisa Baumwell, John W. Berry, Michael Boiger, Avary Carhill, Xinyin Chen, Scott Coltrane, Jeff Cookston, Lisa W. Coyne, Sandra I. Dias, David Este, Christopher Friesen, Eun-Jin Han, Leon Kuczynski, Kate Luther, Amy Marks, Geoff Navara, Félix Neto, Hieu Van Ngo, Ross D. Parke, Flannery Patton, Desiree Qin, Sarah Rasmi, Colette Sabatier, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Hennis Chi-Hang Tse, Carola Suárez-Orozco ...
    Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a "new" North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial, and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD