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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Lost Fathers The Politics of Fatherlessness in America Edited by Cynthia R. Daniels Palgrave Macmillan This book brings together the voices of a highly diverse group of scholars to reflect on the culturally and politically charged concept of "fatherlessness" in...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children Henry A. Giroux Palgrave Macmillan A noted educator continues his exploration of childhood and culture.

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Drugs in Adolescent Worlds Burnouts to Straights Barry Glassner and Julia Loughlin Palgrave Macmillan Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures or drug pushers. This book provides a new perspective which...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Brave New Schools Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers Palgrave Macmillan The first book in the cultural literacy debate that also considers the new classroom technology available to students, Brave New Schools is a vision of...

Hardcover : $79.95 Buy	Holy Sparks Social Theory, Education and Religion Philip Wexler Palgrave Macmillan At the end of the twentieth century the United States, is left with a school system widely believed to be in decline. In Holy Sparks, Philip Wexler likens...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Crisis in the Academy Rethinking Higher Education in America Christopher J. Lucas Palgrave Macmillan Not since sixties student turmoil and unrest wreaked havoc on the nations's campuses has American higher education been the subject of so much controversy....

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland From the Golden Age to Romanticism Early Modern History Rudolf Dekker Palgrave Macmillan Between the 17th and 19th centuries, autobiographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Exploring Twins Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship Elizabeth A. Stewart Palgrave Macmillan Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenom. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical,...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sociology of Family Life David Cheal Palgrave Macmillan This lucid and accessible introductory text from a highly regarded author provides students who are encountering the sociology of the family for the first time...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Young, Free and Single? Twenty-somethings and Household Change Sue Heath and Elizabeth Cleaver Palgrave Macmillan In the context of the ongoing de-standardization of young people's lives, this book explores changing patterns of household formation amongst contemporary...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Families and the State Changing Relationships Edited by Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Lynn Jamieson Palgrave Macmillan How possible is it for the state to steer family values and relationships? How do we assess claims of harm and benefit from state action and inaction? What...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Motherhood and Disability Children and Choices Ora Prilleltensky Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	New Social Ties Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society Deborah Chambers Palgrave Macmillan This book explores new social ties and forms of intimate bonding. Social and personal relationships are being profoundly transformed by changing lifestyles...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Stepfamilies Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Graham Allan, Graham Crow and Sheila Hawker Palgrave Macmillan This is a much-needed sociological review of stepfamily life, examining the particular issues and challenges which people in stepfamilies face. Combining...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Identity and Repartnering After Separation Richard Lampard; Kay Peggs Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the lives of formerly married and previously cohabiting people, a group pivotal to contemporary marital and family change. It focuses on...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Families in Converging Europe A Comparison of Forms, Structures and Ideals Eriikka Oinonen Palgrave Macmillan Families in Converging Europe examines common familial trends and differences between Northern and Southern and Eastern and Western Europe from 1960s to early...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Contextualizing Family Planning Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government Mihnea Panu Palgrave Macmillan This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for contemporary...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity Purging Matrophobia D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein Palgrave Macmillan This work explores matrophobia – the fear not of one’s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one’s mother – in past and present white feminist analyses of...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families Parenting in a Multi-Faith Britain Harriet Becher Palgrave Macmillan Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Families Raising Disabled Children Enabling Care and Social Justice Janice McLaughlin, Dan Goodley, Emma Clavering, and Pamela Fisher Palgrave Macmillan

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Changing Families, Changing Food Edited by Peter Jackson Palgrave Macmillan Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Long Time Passing Mothers Speak about War and Terror Susan Galleymore Pluto Press Susan Galleymore is the mother of a US soldier who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the story of how and why she traveled to Iraq to visit him on a...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	The Future of Community Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated Dave Clements, Donald Alastair, Martin Earnshaw, and Austin Williams Pluto Press A collection of short, punchy essays arguing that communities are alive and thriving, but not under government control.

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Framing Abuse Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Jenny Kitzinger Pluto Press Shows how the media influences the ways we perceive and deal with child sexual abuse.

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