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  • KEEPING LOVE ALIVE
    Mona Coates
    Even among the healthiest and happiest of couples, there are times when both partners suffer from common emotional dilemmas and a diminished ability to communicate.Even highly functional couples occasionally find themselves caught in the crossfire of serious misunderstandings. Sometimes they simply lack the structure and methods (i.e., the Tools) to resolve their differences.In...
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    19,51 €

  • Examined Lives
    Roberta Reb Allen
    Gretchen Richard was a vivacious, competent woman who moved to Chicago on her twentieth birthday and began her rise in the hospitality industry. In her off hours, she devoured the nightlife with a string of young swain who wanted to marry her. But in 1950 after she had already become a wife and mother, everything changed for Gretchen when Dr. Walter Freeman pronounced her a par...
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    15,50 €

  • Examined Lives
    Roberta Reb Allen
    Gretchen Richard was a vivacious, competent woman who moved to Chicago on her twentieth birthday and began her rise in the hospitality industry. In her off hours, she devoured the nightlife with a string of young swain who wanted to marry her. But in 1950 after she had already become a wife and mother, everything changed for Gretchen when Dr. Walter Freeman pronounced her a par...
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    29,97 €

  • Education, Migration and Family Relations Between China and the UK
    Mengwei Tu
    This book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families by examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents, who remain in China. ...
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    151,22 €

  • Marrying
    Don Burnard
    This book opens up a fresh dialogue about marrying and raising a family. To make clear the newness of his approach the author has used the verb “marrying” in the title for this book rather than the abstract noun “marriage”.Don Burnard shifts the emphasis from defending marriage to exploring how a dynamic and committed partnering can become a psychologically rich life style. Bec...
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    13,34 €

  • Sacred Inception
    This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birt...
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    135,74 €

  • How Families Matter
    Pamela Braboy Jackson / Rashawn Ray
    The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter:Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. Given the rhetoric about the family, this book is a well overdue account of family l...
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    122,29 €

  • Reconceiving Muslim Men
    This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men's everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West. Amid increasing political turmoil and economic precarity, Muslim men around the world are enacting nurturing roles as husbands, sons, fathers, and community members, thereby challenging broader systems of patriarchy and...
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    176,89 €

  • In Search of Just Families
    Chhanda Gupta
    This book explores two contemporary combative views regarding the search for just families. These views arise from the conundrum of the family being seen as a supportive, nurturing 'haven' versus a grievously unjust, harmful institution that violates the rights and freedoms of any individual family member. Triggered by anti-family movements, which have been inspired by the idea...
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    122,51 €

  • A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside
    Nathan Aaron Kerrigan
    Issues concerning globalisation, protection of identity and resistance to change at the national level (e.g., Brexit) have been the cause of much public and scholarly debate. With this in mind, this book demonstrates how these national, and indeed global narratives, have impacted on and are influenced by ‘going-ons’ in local contexts. By situating these national narratives with...
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    77,80 €

  • Hope Against Hope
    Jonetta R Shank
    Jonetta Shank offers a rare glimpse into reality with a candor and practicality unseen in many traditional “women’s” books in print today. Hope Against Hope is a narrative that compels, encourages, and educates the reader. The storyline intrigues with timeless wisdom as Jonetta delves into every aspect of a woman’s relationship with a man, along with issues considered as  “tabo...
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    24,35 €

  • Babies Made Us Modern
    Janet Golden
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    24,40 €

  • Fathers, Childcare and Work
    The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates and this collection brings together qualitative and quantitative analyses to explore their approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities. ...
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    199,17 €

  • In the Best Interests of the Child
    Mili Mass
    Marshalling her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on non-consensual, confidential adoption in Israel, Mass describes legal proceedings following the Israeli state petition that declares children eligible for adoption because of alleged parental incapability, and explores the politics of state intervention in the parent/child relationship. The selected case ...
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    190,78 €

  • Spaces and Politics of Motherhood
    Kate Boyer
    Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, an analysis of parenting websites and policy analysis, this book presents a series of interlinking arguments about the role of space, place and matter in early motherhood a...
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    164,06 €

  • Spaces and Politics of Motherhood
    Kate Boyer
    Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, an analysis of parenting websites and policy analysis, this book presents a series of interlinking arguments about the role of space, place and matter in early motherhood a...
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    54,68 €

  • Losers, Users, and Abusers and the Women Who Love Them
    Michelle Hollomon
    You can’t put your finger on it, but you know something isn’t right.You think to yourself, “This isn’t the way a relationship should be.” Instead of cherished, you feel insignificant. Instead of valuable, you feel small. You think, “He says that he loves me…” but inside you feel anything but love. The criticism, the mind games, the cold silence, and the crazy-making roller coas...
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    10,76 €

  • Redlined
    Linda Gartz
    Redlined exposes the outcome of racist mortgage laws that ravage a Chicago community in the 1960s, told through the story of one white family navigating the uncharted shoals of their neighborhood’s racial change. Based on long-hidden letters and diaries, this vivid memoir cracks open and lays bare complicated truths of marriage, sexual freedom, and race relations in a devastate...
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    14,29 €

  • Urban Dreams
    Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth's work calls into question established notions of 'th...
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    163,71 €

  • Proverbial Wisdom
    Donn H. Poole
    On occasion, comes the writing of a book that haunts the basis of wisdom and forces us to deal with what really matters, even to the essentials of life. Yet, too often that wisdom isn't heeded, nor taken seriously. I happen to believe that this is a book, whose time has come. As well as a book, whose time has come. It is a comprehensive, yet practical guide in understanding yo...
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    17,25 €

  • Contemporary Issues in Victimology
    Carly M Hilinski-Rosick
    Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and ...
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    135,83 €

  • Laughing at Political Correctness
    David Cook
    There’s one weapon political correctness fears – laughter. And Dr. David Cook will show you how Americans can regain their freedom by scoffing at the lies of the radical left. As Dr. Cook shows, PC operates by making it impossible to think logically. Whites criticizing blacks is racism, but blacks criticizing whites is justice Men undervaluing women is sexism, but women unde...
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    12,74 €

  • White Parents, Black Children
    Brenda G Juarez / Brenda G. Juárez / Brenda GJuárez / Cardell K Jacobson / Cardell K. Jacobson / Cardell KJacobson / Darron T Smith / Darron T. Smith / Darron TSmith
    White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions-particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in the United States, some people believe the United States may be entering a post-racial state where race no longer matters, ci...
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    28,38 €

  • Intentional Dating
    John Buri
    Have you found yourself pouring time and energy into relationships that aren’t good for you? Do you desire a life-giving romantic relationship, but find yourself choosing people who are not a good bet for healthy love? Do you wonder why you choose such people? Are you curious about what to look for in a person with whom you can discover love for a lifetime? In Intentional Datin...
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    12,71 €

  • How to Love Your Wife
    John Buri
    Some people have suggested that a successful marriage requires tremendous insight to understand and super-human effort to achieve. Others contend that happy marriages are the purview of a lucky few. In this ground-breaking book, How To Love Your Wife, Dr. John Buri makes it clear he doesn’t agree: thriving marriages can actually be achieved through sensible effort by reasonable...
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    12,78 €

  • Together Forever ~ God’s Design for Marriage
    Wright Angie / Wright Ed
    This is a very exciting time in life as you begin preparing for your big wedding day. Marriage by GOD is designed to assist you in preparing for a BIG MARRIAGE. This unique program is formatted to be administered couple-to-couple with a mature Christian couple coming beside you and using the companion mentor's guide to share time-tested principles, fun exercises and success...
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    12,77 €

  • Together Forever ~ God’s Design for Marriage
    Angie Wright / Ed Wright
    A couple preparing for marriage is filled with excitement as they make ready for their big wedding day. This program is designed to help a couple prepare for a BIG MARRIAGE. As the engaged couple works through the 6-sessions in the corresponding Together Forever ~ God's Design For Marriage Premarital Counseling Workbooks, this Mentor's Guide will provide a mature Christ...
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    12,51 €

  • Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men
    Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
    Framed by a comprehensive review of international research, literature, and film, this book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights of 79 Australian women in relationships with bisexual men. It takes us into the daily lives, sexual intimacies, and families of MOREs (mixed-orientation relationships) that span the gamut from extremely oppressive experiences with ...
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    80,41 €

  • The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife
    Alicia M Walker / Alicia M. Walker / Alicia MWalker
    Using a sample collected from Ashley Madison, this book is the result of a yearlong inquiry into women’s extramarital experiences. Ultimately, these women reject the binary proposition of marriage that assumes that either we work on our marriages and remain monogamous within them, or we break up the relationship and take up other relationships. These women conceive of an altern...
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    122,36 €

  • Grief and Romantic Relationship Dissolution
    Shawn Blue
    In Grief and Romantic Relationship Dissolution, Shawn Blue explores the grief and loss associated with divorce and romantic breakups. Using a model of love and attachment theory, Blue sets a foundation for how connection leads to loss when an attachment relationship is ended and analyzes the various consequences of grief as the result of dissolution on the individual. She devot...
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    129,20 €