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“joan perkin”

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  • Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Mrs Joan Perkin, Joan Perkin ...
    The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology

    Learning to Look Beyond the Symptoms

    by Randall E. Osborne, Joan Esterline Lafuze, David V. Perkins ...
    Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology, Second Edition uses case studies to explore the etiology, biology, and dynamics of psychiatric disorders in the DSM-5. Readers will learn about the new classifications and treatments for disorders while simultaneously reading the personal history of each consumer both before and during the development of each case. Every case ends with a section on the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Sun, Sex, and Gold

    Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

    by Jessica Tomiko Anders, Christel Antonius-Smits, Shirley Campbell, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Nadine Fernandez, Ranya Ghuma, Jacqueline Martis, Laura Mayorga, Cynthia Mellon, Patricia Mohammed, Beverley Mullings, Althea Perkins, Joan Phillips, A Kathleen Ragsdale, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Pilar Velasquez, Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

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  • Changing Minds

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    by Chelsea Lowe, Bruce M. Cohen ...
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  • Women's Lives

    Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939

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  • A Lifelong Journey: Staying Well With Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorder: Staying Well With Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorder

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  • When Someone You Love Is Bipolar

    Help and Support for You and Your Partner

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  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

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    Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of ... Read more

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