Product Description: This volume presents and evaluates key social theories and a global range of empirical studies on internet dating, considering whether internet dating is driven by commercial or consumerist logic or by more technical or reflexive approaches to finding sexual or love partners...read more

Product Description: Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships...read more

Product Description: This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms...read more

Product Description: There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this new movement for women¿s liberation. A key feature of that movement was its challenge to liberal democracy, tackling not just political issues but the very nature of the political system itself...read more

Product Description: Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world...read more

Product Description: What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn...read more

Product Description: The Australian Cattle Dog was developed as a breed by stockmen who wanted a tough, working dog who could drive cattle in the harsh environment of the Australian outback. A number of different dogs were used to produce the ideal type, and these included the native Dingo, the Collie, imported from Britain, and the Australian Kelpie...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The dog occupies a unique place in our world, having adapted itself to become our companion par excellence. But do we ask too much of our pet dogs, expecting them to subdue their instincts in order to live in our world? Using their unrivaled knowledge of canine behavior, John and Mary Holmes examine this question by looking at the world from the dog's point of view...read more

An exploration of canine behavior offers advice on selecting the right dog, training methods, and channeling a pet's instinctive behavior (view table of contents)

A book of 150 black-and-white photographs capturing the bond between celebrities and their beloved pets includes the subjects' intimate meditations on the significance of animals in their lives, an introduction by Jane Goodall, and a foreword by Linda McCartney.

Discusses equipment, house-training, health care, behavior, and training

A handbook on the care of dogs and puppies includes discussions of obedience training, health care, and exercise