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  • The Other Mary

    by Robert Schoen ...
    Unlike her two older brothers, Mary chose to put off college so she could experience life outside the classroom. She worked at a Medicaid clinic in her central Illinois hometown and, at the suggestion of her boyfriend, joined the medical detachment of an infantry battalion, Illinois National Guard. She began to consider a medical career, until ... in July 2003, the President federalized her Guard ... Read more

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  • Freud at the Quinceañera

    by Robert Schoen ...
    What do you see after looking deeply into the eyes of 40,000 people?In his first collection of 18 memoir stories, Robert Schoen uncovers the hidden rhythms of everyday life. After 37 years as an optometrist, Schoen trades his exam chair for a storyteller's bench, weaving together a lifetime of insights from music, nature, travel, and the unexpected "cultural collisions" that define us.With a ... Read more

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  • I Shall Return as a Dog

    by Robert Schoen ...
    A worldview built on humor, music, and human encounters.During his 37-year optometric career, Robert Schoen crossed paths with 40,000 patients. But it was his Jewish sense of humor, his years as a composer and performer, and a coast-to-coast walk that make these 18 stories so resonant.In this second collection of memoirs, Schoen brings a "diagnostic" eye to the page, illuminating the threads of ... Read more

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  • Advances in Social Demography

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an overview of the latest developments in contemporary population issues by examining the current unprecedented changes in fertility, family behavior, mortality, and migration. It explores new theoretical perspectives that seek to incorporate narratives of the future, demographic uncertainty, and determinants of unplanned pregnancy. The context of fertility is changing, and the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Demography of Transforming Families

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change. The traditional nuclear family has been replaced by a multiplicity of other forms, as widespread cohabitation, high levels of divorce and union dissolution, rising childlessness, and far below replacement fertility have emerged to an extent never before seen. Theoretical perspectives on this “Second ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Analytical Family Demography

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns. The areas examined include the impact of the evolving Second Demographic Transition, where complex patterns of gender dynamics and social change are ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Analyzing Contemporary Fertility

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction. The volume explores new theoretical avenues that seek to incorporate uncertainty, examine ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Dynamic Demographic Analysis

    Edited by Robert Schoen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes. New approaches are applied to such issues as measuring changes in cohort survivorship in low mortality populations, patterns of mortality ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in ... Read more

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  • Coming to Terms with Chance

    Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage

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