Product Description: Compelling stories of fatherhood from the popular NPR radio show From the popular radio series This I Believe comes this touching and thought-provoking compilation of original essays on one of the most fundamental of human relationships-fatherhood...read more

Product Description: How do structural changes - in the welfare state, gender relations, and work - affect concepts and realities of fatherhood? Fatherhood in Late Modernity analyzes the cultural images and representations of fatherhood, including the varieties of fatherhood in relation to social backgrounds, the organizational influences, as well as the impact of political and legal interventions on configurations of fatherhood...read more

Product Description: As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work...read more

Product Description: It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging...read more

Product Description: Practical, hands-on information for fathers-to-be When it comes to pregnancy, dads' roles have changed so much in the past few decades that expectant fathers don't always know where to turn to for guidance and advice on this milestone event...read more

Product Description: So, you are going to be a dad? The first leap can be an overwhelming, confusing, and complex time in your life. Nine months might not seem like enough time to figure it all out. Lucky for you, I’m Going to Be a Dad: Now What? has done the research for you, compiling all the information needed for first- time fathers...read more

Product Description: Here is one of the most remarkable, ambitious, and utterly original memoirs of this generation, a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of death and failure and heartbreak, of Los Angeles and Portland and Nicaragua and Mexico, and the shifting sands of place and meaning that can make up a culture, or a community, or a home...read more

Product Description: OK, your partner's pregnant. Congratulations, that's great news. You're The Man, back of the net! You'll make a great dad, and life will be great. Different, but still great. Won't it? This book guides you through what's normal and what's not...read more

Product Description: "Quarterback Dad" is the perfect guide for new dads; or old dads who need a refresher course. It is the first book to provide practical pregnancy and newborn advice using a language that men can understand - football talk. With illustrations of important Playbook pages (emphasises most important features in chapter), Touch-downs (statements that bear repeating), and Fumbles (humorous things that expectant or new fathers should never do), "Quarterback Dad" will be a lifesaver for every football-loving father...read more

Contains information a modern dad needs in order to discharge his duties, and more. It includes: top 10 excuses for forgetting your child's birthday; an easy-to-use prep sheet for the dreaded 'facts of life' talk; rules for dancing in front of your kids; tips on steering your children into the right career.

Product Description: Book by Scott, Jonathan T.

Product Description: Typically, when a woman thinks about getting pregnant, she considers whether to give up or cut back on her career or use daycare or a nanny. Now families have another alternative - mothers and fathers can share family responsibilities...read more

Product Description: The text’s major premise is that the role of fathers is essential to promote healthy child development and appropriate role modeling. The book exhorts the role of fatherhood in the lives of children. Daddy’s Hugs offers striking commentary on the plight of fatherless children...read more

Product Description: Protecting His Own : Morgan's Mercenaries, Ultimate Rescue (Silhouette Intimate Moments No. 1185)

Product Description: 97740-5 The Business Objects guide you've been waiting for! Data modeling: A practical introduction. Interface design, reporting, data mining, administration & more. Great for IT pros using Business Objects with SAP, Baan or PeopleSoft! With Business Objects software, thousands of companies are transforming their databases into powerful end-user resources for competitive advantage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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