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  • Real Talk

    Promoting Social Justice in Education and Psychology Through Difficult Dialogues

    by Guerda Nicolas, Marisol Meyer, Ceewin Louder, Ryan Schooley, Léi Sun ...
    Series series The University of Miami School of Education and Human Development Series
    As divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that “the other side is too far gone.” An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing divisions and making transformative change for a more just society. Decades of social science research on meaningful human exchanges can help make ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Contemporary Parenting

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Guerda Nicolas, Anabel Bejarano, Debbiesiu L. Lee ...
    Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Case studies that illustrate the impact these four factors have on parents in various regions help us better understand ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Perfect Madness

    Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

    by Judith Warner ...
    A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parentingWhat is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.When ... Read more

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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

  • Skeletons in the Closet

    A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts

    Edited by Aysan Sev’er, Jan E. Trost ...
    Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and all are closely related to the families they write ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Family Values

    The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships

    by Harry Brighouse, Adam Swift ...
    The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, ... Read more

    $25.19 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

  • Home in the City

    Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions

    by Alan B. Anderson ...
    During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive research, including interviews with more than three thousand residents, it allows for the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Social Influence on Close Relationships

    Beyond the Dyad

    Edited by Christopher R. Agnew ...
    Series series Advances in Personal Relationships
    How do we choose a partner to initiate a relationship with, and what makes us stay in a given relationship over time? These questions are most often pursued by scholars with an emphasis on the internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations of individual decision-makers. Conversely, this volume highlights the importance of considering external influences on individual decision-making in close ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Age of Supported Independence

    Voices of In-home Care

    by Beatrice Hale, Patrick Barrett, Robin Gauld ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain at home with care. It examines the transition points for the important life changes faced by family members who take on a greater care-giving role.The book draws on demographic analyses and qualitative fieldwork to explore the shift from independence to increasing dependence, and suggests that this transition constitutes movement ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Room to Grow

    A Study of Parent-Child Relationships

    by Carroll Davis ...
    Series series Heritage
    The lives of seven children provides the focus for this penetrating look into the experiences that shape personality. As they emerge from the records collected over a twenty-year period by the University of Toronto's Institute of Child Study, they reveal the problems and frustrations met with in the process of growing up and point to the strong influences which family relationships have on mental ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Getting Past 'the Pimp'

    Management in the Sex Industry

    by Chris Bruckert, Colette Parent ...
    The issue of third parties in the sex industry – individuals who are neither the client nor the service provider – has become especially urgent in our current socio-political context. Surprisingly, in spite of an emergence of critical scholarship on the sex industry, as well as recommendations by key governmental committees, little attention has been extended to examining the role of individuals ... Read more

    $23.99 USD