Product Description: In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a year...read more

Businesswoman Lisa Bennett falls in love with Michael Jamison, the manager of a country inn, but finds that their different life styles conflict

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Always observing the established techniques of New Testament analysis, especially redaction criticism, Professor Esler makes extensive use of sociology and anthropology to examine the author of Luke-Acts' theology as a response to social and political pressures on the Christian community for whom he was writing. Various themes such as table-fellowship, the law, the temple, poverty and riches, and politics are examined to determine how they have been influenced by the social and political background of Luke's audience. This book offers a New Testament paradigm and warrant for those interested in generating a theology attuned to the social and political realities affecting contemporary Christian congregations. (view table of contents)

A technical study of U.S. military vessels that provides information on the evolution of naval construction, design, and policy prior to the twentieth century

Lists current values for antique American coins and includes brief descriptions of valuable and unusual examples

Product Description: Simon Drew has compiled a series of poems, drawings and puns in this book that combine a sense of the ridiculous with a definite seriousness regarding our respect, or lack of it, for the countryside. He has always found that he has an irresistible urge to make fun of most things: this applies particularly to language which he sometimes twists in the same way that a crossword compiler does...read more

Written and officially recommended by the American College Testing Program, a complete guide to preparing for the ACT offers real tests, section-by-section analysis of explanatory answers, scoring instructions, and answer keys

A spoof of the Men's Movement includes the five phases of the path to manhood, descriptions of 'I'm Not a Wimp, Goldang It!' weekends, and essays on love, marriage, phone sex, feminism, and aerobics as an Olympic sport

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Product Description: Visual thinking is an integrative approach to architecture that could prevent environmental disasters and save face for some harried professionals. The authors present 3-D drawing (visual thinking) as a communication and decision-making tool to be used during the design and planning process to aid architects, landscape architects, and urban designers in envisioning the completed project...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)