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9780199607945 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Mary Boleyn, Alice Keppel, Nell Gwynn, Dorothy Jordan; these are just a few and readers will learn all about the lives and loves of great mistresses throughout history in this tell-allOther Women tells the stories of those women who belonged to a separate part of society...read more
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9780752465388 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Mary Boleyn, Alice Keppel, Nell Gwynn, Dorothy Jordan; these are just a few and readers will learn all about the lives and loves of great mistresses throughout history in this tell-allOther Women tells the stories of those women who belonged to a separate part of society.

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Product Description: An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy elites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources, knowledge, and agendas...read more
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9781782380054 | Berghahn Books, September 1, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change.

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Product Description: Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers with five young children between them. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them...read more
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9781936740581 | Pgw, August 13, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers with five young children between them.

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Product Description: How to Build an American is written by an experienced pediatrician with the help of experts in various fields and using information gained from many sources that are cited. Parents have come to trust their pediatricians and the advice given by them...read more
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9781937359362 | Pgw, August 13, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: How to Build an American is written by an experienced pediatrician with the help of experts in various fields and using information gained from many sources that are cited.

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By Deloris R. Murphy (editor)
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9781626185326 | Nova Science Pub Inc, August 8, 2013, cover price $52.00

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By Dorothy S. Becvar (editor)
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9781461437994 | Springer Verlag, August 24, 2012, cover price $349.00

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9781461480136 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 2013, cover price $89.95

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Product Description: The human relationship to water is fundamentally social in nature (in addition to being biological and ecological), and it is through this that we construct relations among class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Changes, therefore, to human/water relations are also transformative in these social relations and terms...read more
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9780857459664 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The human relationship to water is fundamentally social in nature (in addition to being biological and ecological), and it is through this that we construct relations among class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality.

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Product Description: Cultural conflicts about the family - including those surrounding women's social roles, abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception - have intensified over the last few decades among Catholics, as well as among Americans generally...read more
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9780199965779 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Cultural conflicts about the family - including those surrounding women's social roles, abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception - have intensified over the last few decades among Catholics, as well as among Americans generally.

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9780199965793 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Cultural conflicts about the family - including those surrounding women's social roles, abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception - have intensified over the last few decades among Catholics, as well as among Americans generally.

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By Richard Sauber (editor)
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9780398088811 | Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, August 1, 2013, cover price $79.95

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9783531183558 | 2 edition (Springer Verlag, July 29, 2013), cover price $59.95

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Product Description: Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family...read more
By Loretta Baldassar (editor) and Laura Merla (editor)
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9780415626736 | Routledge, July 25, 2013, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family.

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Product Description: One of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education, Geographies of Alternative Education offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater to children and young people...read more
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9781447300496 | Policy Pr, July 15, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: One of the first book-length explorations of alternative learning spaces outside mainstream education, Geographies of Alternative Education offers a comparative analysis of alternative education in the UK, focusing on learning spaces that cater to children and young people.

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Product Description: Babies are not simply born - they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound "baby pictures" to friends and co-workers, and decorating the nursery in anticipation of the new arrival...read more
By Han
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9780857459879 | Berghahn Books, July 1, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Babies are not simply born - they are made through cultural and social practices.

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Product Description: The landscape of Canadian fatherhood has changed dramatically overthe past several decades. Today, "father" can mean abiological parent in the context of a heterosexual marriage, but it canalso mean an adoptive parent in a same-sex union, a sperm donor, astep-parent, a single parent, a co-parent in cooperation with anex-partner, and myriad other possibilities...read more
By Kerry Daly (editor)
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9780774824002 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, December 1, 2012, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Father Involvement in Canada brings together almost two dozen leading scholars of fatherhood issues to examine the roles of Canadian fathers.

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9780774824019 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The landscape of Canadian fatherhood has changed dramatically overthe past several decades.

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9781461477679 | Springer Verlag, July 1, 2013, cover price $129.00

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Product Description: Adoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths. Adoptive families are made, not born; in the words of novelist Jeanette Winterson, “adopted children are self-invented because we have to be...read more
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9780472118885 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 28, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Adoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths.

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Product Description: Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide. It examines the politics of sorrow, offering a comparative analysis of White and African American families as they navigate the experience of homicide, shedding light on the ways in which the class location or ethnicity of mourners affects their experience...read more
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9781409446347 | Ill edition (Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2013), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide.

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Product Description: Focusing on advertising's relationship to the mass market housewife, Hard Sell shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a range of everyday consumer goods and, in the process, generalised a cross-class image of the 'modern housewife' across the new medium of television...read more
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9780719085376 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 25, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Focusing on advertising's relationship to the mass market housewife, Hard Sell shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a range of everyday consumer goods and, in the process, generalised a cross-class image of the 'modern housewife' across the new medium of television.

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Product Description: This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of her race, and shows how our society has yet to come to terms with interracial marriage...read more
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9780300166828 | Yale Univ Pr, June 18, 2013, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today.

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Product Description: This book offers fresh, innovative approaches to the field of intergenerational family relations, with a particular focus on Europe. Integrating different perspectives, it brings together international scholars from sociology, psychology, and economics to explore the key conceptual issues, multigenerational and cross-cultural perspectives, and applied issues at the heart of intergenerational studies...read more
By Isabelle Albert (editor) and Dieter Ferring (editor)
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9781447300984 | Policy Pr, June 15, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book offers fresh, innovative approaches to the field of intergenerational family relations, with a particular focus on Europe.

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Product Description: Transitions to Parenthood in Europe analyzes and compares the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries. Focusing on how working people negotiate the transition into parenthood—and the work-life balances it requires—the contributors provide an in-depth understanding of working parents’ real lives within a diverse set of national, workplace, and family contexts...read more
By Suzan Lewis (editor)
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9781847428646 | Policy Pr, July 15, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Transitions to Parenthood in Europe analyzes and compares the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries.

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9781847428639 | Policy Pr, June 15, 2013, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Transitions to Parenthood in Europe analyzes and compares the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries.

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Product Description: As the variety and number of nontraditional families grows, so does the need for new models of family and parenthood. Diversity in Family Life discusses the relationship between shifting gender identities and the processes of family formation, examining nontraditional family structures including asexual couples, child-free couples, living-apart-together couples, single parents, and homosexual and transsexual parents...read more
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9781447300939 | Policy Pr, June 15, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: As the variety and number of nontraditional families grows, so does the need for new models of family and parenthood.

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Product Description: ​​Family Policies Across the Globe provides comprehensive coverage of explicit and implicit family policies from an international perspective. The coverage includes issues such as family-friendly work practices, work-life balance, childcare, poverty, domestic violence, social exclusion/inclusion, immigration, and disability...read more
By Mihaela Robila (editor)
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9781461467700 | Springer Verlag, June 30, 2013, cover price $279.00 | About this edition: ​​Family Policies Across the Globe provides comprehensive coverage of explicit and implicit family policies from an international perspective.

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Product Description: In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhoodElisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality...read more
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9781250032096 | Picador USA, June 4, 2013, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhoodElisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality.

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