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  • Kinship by Design

    A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

    by Ellen Herman ...
    What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children’s Bureau ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • A History of Courtship

    800 Years of Seduction

    by Tania O'Donnell ...
    Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain.The book takes a historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Far and Away

    Reporting from the Brink of Change

    by Andrew Solomon ...
    From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures come alive in this extraordinary collection.Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Hearts of Men

    A Novel

    by Nickolas Butler ...
    Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan.Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

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  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 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

  • Generational Intelligence

    A Critical Approach to Age Relations

    by Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein ...
    The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Father Time: The Social Clock and the Timing of Fatherhood

    by W. Goldberg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the timing of parenthood? In a clear and accessible style, this book examines the advantages and disadvantages of early, on-time, and delayed first fatherhood. The book includes a foreword by Ross D. Parke. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

    International Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Philip Mendes, Pamela Snow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Elementary Structures of Kinship

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book for many students to read in French, and its arguments have consequently become ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Divorce, Separation, and Remarriage

    The Transformation of Family

    Edited by Giovanna Gianesini, Sampson Lee Blair ...
    Series Book 10 - Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research
    While the family remains a core social institution in every society, it is, nonetheless, an institution which continues to evolve. In many societies, divorce, separation, and remarriage have become a normative part of marriage and family life. These changes have, understandably, led to a great diversification of the behaviors, attitudes, and norms concerning marriage and family. In order to better ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Parenting across the Life Span

    Biosocial Dimensions

    by Jeanne Altmann ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
    Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path ... Read more

    $66.99 USD