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Product Description: This best-selling title is essential reading for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike. This second edition contains over 100 inspirational ideas on teaching languages in the classroom Each one has been successfully tried and tested Ideas range from solving murder mysteries to participating in fun activities to help students speak and understand languages...read more

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9780826497635 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 25, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This best-selling title is essential reading for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike.
9780130507259, titled "Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations" | Appleton & Lange, cover price $44.00 | also contains Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations

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A collection of essays on midlife by an NPR commentator includes anecdotes about her experiences of parenting a brood of children and stepchildren and explores such topics as marathon running, feminism, faith, love and loss, and ADD. Original.

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9781580051446 | Seal Pr, October 2, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on midlife by an NPR commentator includes anecdotes about her experiences of parenting a brood of children and stepchildren and explores such topics as marathon running, feminism, faith, love and loss, and ADD.

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Product Description: Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Generations examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups—from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa—and give a sense of what everyday life is like in immigrant families...read more
By Nancy Foner (editor)

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9780814727706 | New York Univ Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population.

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9780814727713 | New York Univ Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses of sociology and psychology.

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9780538322102 | South-Western Pub, March 1, 1986, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses of sociology and psychology.

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Product Description: In recent years, different family types have begun demanding recognition to an unprecedented extent. Despite notable changes to our cultural and academic landscapes, however, adoptive families remain overlooked. According to census data, about two and a half percent of children in the United States are adopted...read more
By Katarina Wegar (editor)

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9780813538419 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 22, 2006, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: In recent years, different family types have begun demanding recognition to an unprecedented extent.

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9780813538426 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 22, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In recent years, different family types have begun demanding recognition to an unprecedented extent.

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9780674024977 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2007, cover price $51.50

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9780674034907 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: Even a casual observer of American politics might notice the importance of family in political rhetoric like the Republicans' "family values" and the Democrats' "working families," but we know surprisingly little about the role of family in American politics...read more

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9780804756082 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 13, 2007, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Even a casual observer of American politics might notice the importance of family in political rhetoric like the Republicans' "family values" and the Democrats' "working families," but we know surprisingly little about the role of family in American politics.

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9780804756099 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 13, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Even a casual observer of American politics might notice the importance of family in political rhetoric like the Republicans' "family values" and the Democrats' "working families," but we know surprisingly little about the role of family in American politics.

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Proposes a sweeping social reform policy designed to restore parental authority in the face of inadequate public services and social disorder

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9780156047005 | Harcourt on Demand, April 1, 1978, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Proposes a sweeping social reform policy designed to restore parental authority in the face of inadequate public services and social disorder

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Offers a Christian perspective on marriage, sex, family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, spiritual instruction, and family life

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9780891074656 | Crossway Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Offers a Christian perspective on marriage, sex, family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, spiritual instruction, and family life

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Product Description: Alternatives to Traditional Family Living is an open-minded and honest assessment of “new” family forms that deviate from the traditional nuclear family. Sociologists explore the recent changes in economic climate, social conditions, and values that necessitate and/or support these alternative family forms...read more
By Harriet Gross (editor) and Marvin B. Sussman (editor)

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9780917724596 | Routledge, September 1, 1982, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Alternatives to Traditional Family Living is an open-minded and honest assessment of “new” family forms that deviate from the traditional nuclear family.

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Product Description: Midge Decter is an author and editor whose essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard. A regular contributor to Commentary, she is also the author of several books, the most recent being An Old Wife's Tale...read more
By Phillip N. Truluck (editor)

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9780891951087 | Heritage Foundation, June 30, 2002, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Midge Decter is an author and editor whose essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard.

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Product Description: Elizabeth (Betsey) Newenhuyse shares her life as a mother, wife, friend, and Christian woman in this frequently hiliarious, sometimes poignant, always encouraging and uplifting collection of short, easy-to-read reflections and stories.

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9780310386315 | Zondervan, March 1, 1994, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Elizabeth (Betsey) Newenhuyse shares her life as a mother, wife, friend, and Christian woman in this frequently hiliarious, sometimes poignant, always encouraging and uplifting collection of short, easy-to-read reflections and stories.

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Essays explore the interaction of race, class, and gender in current scholarship on families, documenting the power structure of family systems throughout American history
By Stephanie Coontz (editor)

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9780415958202 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 15, 2008), cover price $160.00
9780415915731 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the interaction of race, class, and gender in current scholarship on families, documenting the power structure of family systems throughout American history

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9780415958219 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 15, 2008), cover price $54.95
9780415915748 | Routledge, December 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Essays explore the interaction of race, class, and gender in current scholarship on families, documenting the power structure of family systems throughout American history

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Product Description: Changes in family and household composition are part of every individual's life course. Childhood families expand and contract; the individual leaves to set up an independent household; he or she may marry, raise children, lose a spouse...read more

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9780871541482 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 1987, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Changes in family and household composition are part of every individual's life course.

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9780871541499 | Reprint edition (Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Changes in family and household composition are part of every individual's life course.

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Product Description: As the world heads into the twenty-first century, individuals and their families are being confronted with a more diverse array of possible life experiences than has ever existed before. Changes in longevity, marriage, fertility, employment, and many other areas have created new opportunities for individual and family choice and variability in life course experiences...read more

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9781560244684 | Routledge, October 1, 1993, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: As the world heads into the twenty-first century, individuals and their families are being confronted with a more diverse array of possible life experiences than has ever existed before.

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Presents a collection of articles that describe the diversity of the American family. (view table of contents)
By Karen Duda (editor)

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9780824210205 | Hw Wilson Co, April 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of articles that describe the diversity of the American family.

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9780816635603 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $60.00

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9780816635610 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.50

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The book explores what characterises a ‘good life’ and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.

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9780745315577 | Pluto Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $95.00

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9780745315522 | Pluto Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The book explores what characterises a ‘good life’ and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.

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A former Vice-President collaborates with a noted psychologist to examine five strong families who have survived such problems as infidelity, poor health, and gang violence, and presents an agenda for bolstering the American family. Reprint. $50,000 first printing.

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9780060173784 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Draws on survey responses and interviews to discuss the rewards and risks of marriage, parenthood, and growing up in modern America

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9780060928100 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A former Vice-President collaborates with a noted psychologist to examine five strong families who have survived such problems as infidelity, poor health, and gang violence, and presents an agenda for bolstering the American family.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694516438 | Harperaudio, April 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Draws on survey responses and interviews to discuss the rewards and risks of marriage, parenthood, and growing up in modern America.

By Cornelia Blair (editor), Information Plus (corporate author), Mei Ling Rein (editor) and Mark A. Siegel (editor)

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9781573020909 | Information Plus, May 1, 1999, cover price $32.00

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The pleasures of family are enjoyed in poetry, fiction, at dinner, in history, while making crafts, and in song

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9780824940492 | Ideals Childrens Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The pleasures of family are enjoyed in poetry, fiction, at dinner, in history, while making crafts, and in song

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