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This book presents both the theoretical and practical ideas for integrating gender and culture into parenting. Unlike other books on the subject, this one examines interventions and activities, and suggests discussion topics that provide children with the skills to become critical consumers and thinkers.

Takes the concept of ergonomics beyond physical and environmental concerns to include a holistic interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. Examines how psychosocial factors like family, conflict, emotional stress, addiction, and financial pressures can impact an employee's health and well-being.

America suffers overcrowded prisons, high recidivism rates, and weakened family and community relationships with ex-prisoners. This book offers new answers and unconventional suggestions for the rehabilitation of offenders.

"A Center for Urban Policy Research book."

A lively and accessible exploration of the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that underlie religious political engagement in the United States

This volume examines the evolution of credit in the western world and its relationship to power. Spanning several centuries of human endeavour, it focuses on western Europe and the United States and also considers how the western system became the global credit system.

"A cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide"--From publisher's website.

Now in its sixth edition, this classic text continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative geographical study of the region

This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China".

Analysing journalistic usage and misusage, this concluding volume of "The Language of Journalism," gauges the cultural and political health of the society, and the declining standards of journalism. The scope is cross-cultural with special emphasis on the conflicting but mutually influential styles of American and British journalistic practice.

Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s. The Apollo mission's success in July 1969 made almost anything seem possible, but the Cold War made space flight the province of governmental agencies in the United States. This book details the US and international laws dealing with space use, settlement, and exploration.

Rev. ed. of: Human behavior in the social environment: a social systems approach / Ralph E. Anderson and Irl Carter with Gary R. Lowe. 5th ed. 1999.

Explores Individual Development Accounts to determine their effectiveness. This book offers lessons to those interested in saving and asset accumulation among the poor. It not only breaks new ground in the scientific study of savings behavior, but also offers recommendations to improve policies designed to encourage the poor to save.

This is an in-depth ethnographic study of Sam Goodman, long-time thief, fence and quasi-legitimate businessman. It combines Sams colourful narrative accounts with substantive commentary by the author to provide a more nuanced portrayal of criminal careers, illegal enterprise, and the broad landscape comprising the entity called crime.

This book demonstrates how various genealogical or phylogenetic methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history. The book develops understanding of the methods and conditions under which ancestral relations can be derived in a range of data classes.

In anthropological literature on hunter-gatherer societies, little attention has been paid to children. Children often represent 40 percent of hunter-gatherer populations, thus nearly half the population is omitted from most hunter-gatherer ethnographies and research. This volume is designed to bridge the gap.

This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of the argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of the book.

This volume explains what qualitative research can do, when it is sensible to use or commission it, and (most crucially and controversially) how to tell good work from bad. The text is amply illustrated with examples of qualitative health care research studies.

One of the goals of sociology is to understand the connections between social and personal problems. This book explores these connections by taking a scientific look at community patterns of well-being and distress.

This volume retains the original text of "Sexual Conduct" published in 1973 with a small amount of revision and updating. The text is accompanied by a new preface, two essays reflecting on the conditions of writing the book, edited interviews on its contribution to the field, and a new epilogue.

This text is a wide-ranging examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate, and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates.