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  • Water

    by David L. Feldman ...
    Series series Resources
    Water is our planet’s most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world’s population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles likely to intensify as threats to freshwater abundance and quality, such as climate change, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • Breaking Out II: The Complete Guide to Building a Positive LGBTI Identity

    by Kevin Alderson ...
    Following on the heels of the first edition, Breaking Out II expands its coverage by including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals. While some societies have become more tolerant and accepting of sexual and gender diversity, LGBTI people continue to suffer psychological damage caused by growing up in largely heterosexist, homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time Bind

    When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

    by Arlie Russell Hochschild ...
    The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author.When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute.Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author of The Second Shift, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Babies without Borders

    Adoption and Migration across the Americas

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer ...
    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Edited by Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Family Pride

    What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods

    by Michael Shelton ...
    Series Book 8 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    An invaluable portrait and roadmap on how to thrive as an LGBT familyThe overwhelming success of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” YouTube project aimed at queer youth highlighted that despite the progress made in gay rights, LGBT people are still at high risk of being victimized. While the national focus remains on the mistreatment of gay people in schools, the reality is that LGBT families also face ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Attachment Reconsidered

    Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory

    Edited by N. Quinn, J. Mageo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Surprise of My Life

    An Autobiography

    by Claire Drainie Taylor ...
    Series series Life Writing
    “It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie TaylorOr would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a refined Englishman, and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Chinese-British Intermarriage

    Disentangling Gender and Ethnicity

    by Yang Hu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and family. Chinese-British Intermarriage reveals how gender and ethnic identities intersect in distinctive ways in shaping the lived experiences of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Child and the Institution

    A Study of Deprivation and Recovery

    by Betty Flint ...
    Series series Heritage
    It has long been believed that children who must spend much of their lives in institutions inevitably develop personality deficiencies that make them liabilities to society. This book represents the first portion of a longitudinal study of the children of the Neil McNeil Home from infancy into adulthood. The study was begun in 1957 with a twofold purpose: first, to provide a therapeutic ... Read more

    $20.99 USD