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Penguin Putnam Inc Is Marriage for White People
Book SynopsisA distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone''s live
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Emotional Life of Your Brain How Its Unique
Book SynopsisWhat is your emotional fingerprint? Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson discovered that each of us has an Emotional Style, composed of Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. Where we fall on these six continuums determines our own “emotional fingerprint.” Sharing Dr. Davidson’s fascinating case histories and experiments, The Emotional Life of Your Brain offers a new model for treating conditions like autism and depression as it empowers us all to better understand ourselves—and live more meaningful lives.Trade Review"Whether he is measuring neural activity in the laboratory or climbing the Himalayas to meet the Dalai Lama, Davidson is an inveterate explorer who has spent a lifetime probing the deep mystery of human feeling. Don't miss this smart and lively book by the world's foremost expert on emotion and the brain."—Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D., author of Stumbling on Happiness"The Emotional Life of Your Brain is an eye-opener, replete with breakthrough research that will change the way you see yourself and everyone you know. Richard Davidson and Sharon Begley make a star team: cutting-edge findings formulated in a delightful, can't-put-it-down read. I loved this book."—Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence"What a gift from the world's leading neuroscientist who works on what makes life worth living. This is a must-read for everyone who is interested in positive psychology."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., author of Learned Optimism
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Telling Incest
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The University of Michigan Press Intimate Associations
Book SynopsisThe rise in divorce, cohabitation, single parenthood, and same-sex partnerships, along with an increase in surrogacy, adoption, and assisted reproductive technologies, has led to many diverse configurations of families, or intimate associations. J. Herbie DiFonzo and Ruth C. Stern chart these trends over the past several decades and investigate their social, legal, and economic implications.
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The University of Michigan Press The Imprint of Another Life
Book SynopsisAdoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths. Adoptive families are made, not born. The Imprint of Another Life shows some of the ways in which literary creation and a concept of adoption as a form of creativity make available new ways of thinking about adoption and what it means to be human.
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Penguin Publishing Group Edge
Book SynopsisLaura Huang, an award-winning Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor.How do you find a competitive edge when the obstacles feel insurmountable? How do you get people to take you seriously when they're predisposed not to, and perhaps have already written you off?In Edge, Huang draws from her groundbreaking research on entrepreneurial intuition, persuasion, and implicit decision-making, to impart her profound findings and share stories of previously-overlooked Olympians, assistants-turned-executives, and flailing companies that made momentous turnarounds. She argues that success is rarely just about the quality of our ideas, credentials, and skills, or our effort. Instead, achieving success hinges on how well we shape others' perceptions—of our strengths, certainly, but also our flaws. It's about creating our own edge by confronting the factors that seem like shortcomings and turning them into assets that make others take notice.Edge shows that success is about knowing who you are and using that knowledge unapologetically and strategically. This book will teach you how to find your unique edge and keep it sharp.
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Houghton Mifflin I Know How You Feel The Joy and Heartbreak of
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Penguin Young Readers The Lonely Century How to Restore Human
Book SynopsisA bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by “one of the world’s leading thinkers” (The Observer) of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again “A compelling vision for how we can bridge our many divides at this time of great change and disruption.”—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global “An important new book.”—The Economist NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED (UK) AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Loneliness has become the defining condition of the twenty-first century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has it been more pervasive or more widespread, but never has there been more that we can do about it. Even before a global p
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Random House USA Inc Stranger Care
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Penguin Putnam Inc Anxiously Attached
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Random House USA Inc Same Sex Unions In PreModern Europe
Book SynopsisBoth highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
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University of British Columbia Press Fraught Intimacies
Book SynopsisDrawing on media, popular culture, and recent court cases, this book examines how various forms of non-monogamy (polygamy, adultery, and polyamory) are represented in the public sphere, how some forms of non-monogamy are tolerated and others vilified, and the effects such privileging is having on intimate relationships and other aspects of contemporary Western society.Trade ReviewUndoing Monogamy and Fraught Intimacies both attempt ambitious theoretical interventions into the study of intimacy, and are indispensable resources to those already engaged in the study of non/monogamies. Through the diversity of their archives and the breadth of their thoroughly intersectional critiques, Rambukkana and Willey demonstrate that the contemporary study of non/monogamy does not, and cannot, proceed in isolation. In their discussions of non/monogamy as it appears in colonialism, border control, life sciences, comic strips and the law, these two very different books demonstrate the diverse pleasures of intellectual promiscuity. -- Jessica Kean, University of Sydney * Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 31 No. 90, March 2017 *Rambukkana’s study covers wide ground and is unusual for its relational and inter-textual analysis. His discussion not only highlights differences, but much common discursive ground across which different styles of intimacy are constructed. Rambukkana explores communalities, even if they may be uncomfortable and brush against the grain of cherished taken-for-granted wisdoms. Truly impressive is Rambukkana’s consistency in working along intersectional lines of inquiry, thereby enriching polyamory scholarship with an approach that is attentive to race, class and gender perspectives. -- C. Klesse * Sexualities *Table of ContentsPreface: Chasing Non/MonogamyIntroduction: Non/Monogamy and Intimacy in the Public Sphere1 The Space of (Intimate) Privilege2 The Adultery Industry: Autonomous Space, Heteronormativity, and Neoliberal Cheating3 Mapping Polygamy: Discourse, Reterritorialization, and Plural Marriage4 The Fraught Promise of Polyamory: New Intimate Ethics or Heterotopian Enclave?Conclusion: Non-Monogamies and the Space of DiscourseAppendix: Canada’s Criminal Code (C.26) Statutes on Bigamy and PolygamyNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press New Choices New Families How Lesbians Decide
Book SynopsisNew Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family.Trade Review"A multiracial feminist analysis of how lesbians make choices about motherhood. This book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in twenty-first century families." - Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University "Through her masterful analysis of how and why lesbian women choose to become mothers or remain childfree, Nancy Mezey makes an essential contribution to understanding the profound and irreversible forces now transforming family life. Must reading for anyone who wishes to understand the changing contours of motherhood for all women." - Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood"Table of ContentsPreface1. At the Crossroads2. The Historical Rise of Lesbian Families3. Recruiting Lesbian Participants and Collecting Data4. Developing Mothering Desires5. Understanding Motherhood6. Negotiating Lesbian Support Networks7. Weighing Intimate Partner Relationships8. Considering the Benefits and Barriers of Work9. New Choices, New FamiliesAppendixesA. Recruitment QuestionnaireB. Interview Guide for Lesbian MothersC. Interview Guide for Childfree LesbiansReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press New Choices New Families How Lesbians Decide
Book SynopsisNew Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family.Trade Review"A multiracial feminist analysis of how lesbians make choices about motherhood. This book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in twenty-first century families." - Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University "Through her masterful analysis of how and why lesbian women choose to become mothers or remain childfree, Nancy Mezey makes an essential contribution to understanding the profound and irreversible forces now transforming family life. Must reading for anyone who wishes to understand the changing contours of motherhood for all women." - Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood"Table of ContentsPreface1. At the Crossroads2. The Historical Rise of Lesbian Families3. Recruiting Lesbian Participants and Collecting Data4. Developing Mothering Desires5. Understanding Motherhood6. Negotiating Lesbian Support Networks7. Weighing Intimate Partner Relationships8. Considering the Benefits and Barriers of Work9. New Choices, New FamiliesAppendixesA. Recruitment QuestionnaireB. Interview Guide for Lesbian MothersC. Interview Guide for Childfree LesbiansReferencesIndex
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Beacon Press Outlaw Marriages
Book SynopsisCelebrate LGBTQIA+ history with the engaging and untold stories of 15 prominent same-sex couples who defied cultural norms and made significant contributions to the arts, theater, social change, and more. For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any husband and wife. In Outlaw Marriages, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn’t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture. Among the high-profile couples whose lives and loves are illuminated in the following pages are Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith, literary icon Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, author James Baldwin and Lucien Happersberger, and artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
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Beacon Press Loving Interracial Intimacy in America and the
Book SynopsisThe landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history—and continues to alter the landscape of American politics When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case—the first to use the words “white supremacy” to describe such racism. Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin reveals the enduring legacy of America’s original sin, tracing how we transformed from a country without an entrenched construction of race to a nation where one drop of nonwhite blood merited exclusion from full citizenship. In vivid detail, she illustrates how the idea of whiteness was created by the planter class of yesterday a
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Beacon Press Project Fatherhood A Story of Courage and Healing
Book SynopsisA group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?” In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration. These men, black and brown, from late adolescence to middle age, are trying to heal themselves and their community, and above all to build their identities as fathers. Each week, they come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?” Project Fatherhood follows the lives of the men as they struggle with the pain of their own losses, the chronic pressures of poverty and unemployment, and the unquenchable desire to do better and provide more
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The University Press of Kentucky Marriage on the Border
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The Catholic University of America Press The Profession of Widowhood Widows Pastoral Care
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Rutgers University Press Awesome Families The Promise of Healing
Book SynopsisExplains how and why this religious group, founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals, attracted so many individuals. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this study offers insight into the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.Trade ReviewA masterful work. This book is a must-read. It artfully weaves engaging ethnography with social theory to take the reader on a learning adventure. Through this study of family life, gender relations, and culture in a fast-rising and then falling 'therapeutic religious movement,' we learn about life in the modern world. Given that the conditions that led to this movement's appeal and growth remain, similar groups will continue to appear. As they do, we will want to turn to Awesome Families to understand their meaning. -- Michael O. Emerson * author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in Amer *Awesome Families is an excellent study of a Christain based religious movement that offered the promise of healing and family to over one thousand members throughout the world. Jenkins's work is well researched, well written and presents new and exciting insights into religious conversion and disillusionment. Her book is at the cutting edge of the new scholarship on commitment to religious movements, providing a much needed understanding of the complex ways in which alternative religions function in contemporary society. -- Janet Jacobs * author of Hidden Heritage the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews *"This work is a valuable resource for the sociologist of religion as well as a fine exemplar of, and introduction to, the cultural turn in sociology for the scholar of religion in general" -- Brad Nabors * Sociology of Religion *A masterful work. This book is a must-read. It artfully weaves engaging ethnography with social theory to take the reader on a learning adventure. Through this study of family life, gender relations, and culture in a fast-rising and then falling 'therapeutic religious movement,' we learn about life in the modern world. Given that the conditions that led to this movement's appeal and growth remain, similar groups will continue to appear. As they do, we will want to turn to Awesome Families to understand their meaning. -- Michael O. Emerson * author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in Amer *Awesome Families is an excellent study of a Christain based religious movement that offered the promise of healing and family to over one thousand members throughout the world. Jenkins's work is well researched, well written and presents new and exciting insights into religious conversion and disillusionment. Her book is at the cutting edge of the new scholarship on commitment to religious movements, providing a much needed understanding of the complex ways in which alternative religions function in contemporary society. -- Janet Jacobs * author of Hidden Heritage the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews *"This work is a valuable resource for the sociologist of religion as well as a fine exemplar of, and introduction to, the cultural turn in sociology for the scholar of religion in general" -- Brad Nabors * Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "It's Like Free Counseling All the Time" 1. Sacred Counsel: "Ambassadors for God" 2. An Unsinkable Raft in a Foreboding Divorce Culture 3. Collective Performances of Healing 4. In with the Old and the New 5. Awesome Kids 6. Brothers and Sisters for the Kingdom of God 7. A Kingdom That Promised Too Much Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Covenant Marriage
Book SynopsisEvaluates the viability of public policy in the intimate affairs of marriage, and also explores how growing public discourse is causing men and women to rethink the meaning of marriage.Trade ReviewEvery social movement needs its bible. Steven Nock and his colleagues have written such a book. Almost no stone is left unturned in providing the comprehensive treatment that covenant marriage needed. -- Nicholas H. Wolfinger * University of Utah *This book not only provides an informative account of covenant marriage but also offers a thoughtful analysis of the current and future status of marriage in American society. I strongly recommend it to researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in marriage and how it is changing. -- Paul Amato * Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania StateUniversi *This is a brilliant achievement and a gold mine of information onmarriage in the United States. Nock, Sanchez, and Wright have given usa masterpiece of thought, not only on the covenant marriage law inLouisiana, but on the broader social, legal, demographic, and religiouschanges that contextualized this social experiment. If you want tounderstand the mix of factors that will form the future of marriage, youcan do no better than starting here.[NOTE: WE HAVE THE AUTHORS PERMISSION TO USE JUST ONE OR TWO SENTENCES] -- Scott M. Stanley * Research Professor, University of Denver *The authors' research findings...provide a fascinating, unique window onto the issue of marriage in the U.S. today. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A thoughtful, in-depth, and provocative discussion of issues surrounding covenant marriages. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Covenant marriage and the marriage movement 2 Covenant marriage in Louisiana : legal and historical background 3 The implementation of covenant marriage in Louisiana 4 Who wants a covenant marriage? 5 The role of religion in covenant and standard marriages / with Jill A. Deines 6 The ongoing marriage 7 Divorce, religiosity, and counseling 8 Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D References Index About the Authors
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Ohio State University Press Modern Mothers in the Heartland Gender Health and
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HarperCollins Focus Talking to Crazy How to Deal with the Irrational
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Those Who Work Those Who Dont
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface: Preserving Anonymity Acknowledgments Introduction: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America 1. The Place I Found: An Introduction to Golden Valley 2. Workers and Welfare: Poverty, Coping Strategies, and Substance Abuse 3. Family Life: Tradition and Safety 4. Remaking Masculinity: Losing Male Breadwinners Conclusion: Understanding Poverty in Rural America Appendix: General Interview Protocol for Male Respondents Notes Bibliography Index
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Tyndale House Publishers Intimate Allies
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Random House Australia The Wife Drought
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Russell Sage Foundation Labors Love Lost The Rise and Fall of the
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Russell Sage Foundation Mixed Heritage in the Family
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Bancroft Press You Might as Well Laugh Surviving the Joys of
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Belly Song Press Raising Parents Raising Kids HandsOn Wisdom for
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Anthropology Goes Public in the VA
Book SynopsisAlmost a decade ago, in 2004, noted anthropologist Louise Lamphere observed a sea change in anthropology, with the interests of applied, practicing, and public interest anthropologists converging around the themes of increased collaborations and partnerships, outreach to the public, and efforts to influence policy. The sea change was concretized in anthropology''s flagship journal, American Anthropologist, with the 2010 inauguration of the Public Anthropology Reviews section. Public anthropology, arguably the convergence that Lamphere foretold, represents an expansion of the value and relevance of anthropology, as well as a shift in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Furthermore, as Nancy Scheper-Hughes articulated in 2009, public anthropology involves not only responding to public issues but making public issues. Anthropologists working in the federal sector, such as the Veterans Administration (VA), realize the challenges and rewards of practicing public anthropology o
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Towards an Anthropology of Data
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a set of theoretically inventive pieces that engage with data across its many locations, from government databases to ecological field stations, from kitchen tables to concrete bunkers. Contributors demonstrate how thinking with data can be conceptually generative for anthropology, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of topics including bodies, persons, and the social itselfShows how 'big' data which may have once seemed limited to business or high tech, ethnographers are now finding data and its attendant values and practices in their field sites around the worldExamines how data has motivated a sweep of dystopian visions, signaling the invasion of privacy, political manipulation, or shadowy data doublesDiscusses how anthropologists have been cautious in taking data itself as an object of theoretical interest, even as the effects of data become manifest in our ethnographiesBy putting data in its place, the chapters collected here develop conceptual tTrade Review“Anthropologists seeking generative approaches to data will find in this collection a broad and inspiring array of examples.” - Anthropology Book Forum OPEN ACCESS BOOK REVIEWS ~ ISSN: 2380-7725, March 2022Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 7(Rachel Douglas-Jones, Antonia Walford & Nick Seaver) Introduction: Towards an anthropology of data 91 (Vijayanka Nair) Becoming data: biometric IDs and the individual in ‘Digital India’ 262 (Nick Seaver) Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality 433 (Tahani Nadim) The datafication of nature: data formations and new scales in natural history 624 (A.R.E. Taylor) Future-proof: bunkered data centres and the selling of ultra-secure cloud storage 765 (Cori Hayden) From connection to contagion 956 (Hannah Knox) Hacking anthropology 1087 (Antonia Walford) Data – ova – gene – data 1278 (Sarah Blacker) Strategic translation: pollution, data, and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 1429 (Rachel Douglas-Jones) Bodies of data: doubles, composites, and aggregates 159(Bill Maurer) Data forward: an afterword 171Index 176
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St Martin's Press Love Warrior
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah''s Book Club SelectionRivetinga worthy investmentthis book has real wisdom.New York Times Book ReviewProvocative.I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too.Oprah WinfreyThe highly anticipated memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured outthree happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller listher husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life.Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one anotherand it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they've been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, commit to living truetrue to themselves and to each other.Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
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Picador USA The Influential Mind
Book SynopsisA cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect othersfrom the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instinctsfrom relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert controlare ineffective, because they are incompatible with how people's minds operate. Sharot shows us how to avoid these pitfalls, and how an attempt to change beliefs and actions is successful when it is well-matched with the core elements that govern the human brain. Sharot reveals the critical role of emotion in influence, the weakness of data and the power of curiosity. Relying on the latest resea
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St Martin's Press The Vanishing American Adult
Book SynopsisSenator Ben Sasse''s instant New York Times bestseller on how to raise resilient, responsible children.THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country''s youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America''s future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America''s youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliantare being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live w
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Holt McDougal Misfits
Book SynopsisFrom the brilliant mind of Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum, comes a passionate and inspired declaration against fitting in.When invited to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Michaela Coel touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class and gender, but the person most significantly impacted was Coel herself. Building on her celebrated speech, Misfits immerses readers in her vision through powerful allegory and deeply personal anecdotesfrom her coming of age in London public housing to her discovery of theater and her love for storytelling. And she tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity, and radical honesty. With inspiring insight and wit, Coel lays bare her journey so far and invites us to reflect on our own. By embracing our differences, she says, we can transform our lives. An
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St. Martin's Publishing Group True to You
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McGraw-Hill Companies LOOSELEAF FOR MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES INTIMACY
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OM Book Service Loose Leaf for Marriage and Family
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Marriage and Family Experience
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. The Meaning of Marriage and the Family. 2. Studying Marriages and Families. 3. Variations in American Family Life. 4. Gender and Family. 5. Intimacy, Friendship, and Love. 6. Understanding Sex and Sexualities. 7. Communication, Power, and Conflict. 8. Marriages in Societal and Individual Perspective. 9. Unmarried Lives: Singlehood and Cohabitation. 10. Becoming and Being Parents. 11. Marriage, Work, and Economics. 12. Intimate Violence and Sexual Abuse. 13. Coming Apart: Separation and Divorce. 14. New Beginnings: Single-Parent Families, Remarriages, and Blended Families.
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Hay House Inc Lets Talk About Loneliness
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe’ve spent the last few years growing further and further away from each other due to lockdowns, quarantines and the crippling fear of a pandemic. Simone Heng’s essential read offers the tools you need to reconnect once again and build authentic and meaningful relationships. - Vex King, bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good LifeThe world has been silent on a problem that has been brewing since well before the pandemic. Let’s Talk About Loneliness is a much-needed invitation to be more open – to be more connected. - Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University Scientific Chair, Foundation for Social ConnectionA timely read for the era of separation we are living in—especially if you want to truly nurture the relationships in your life. - Vogue SingaporeThe book is emotional and practical at the same time and the author deserves credit for her vulnerability and honesty. Loneliness and a lack of human connection is a real issue and we need more books like this that get their message across through the type of emotional connection that we are lacking. - Andy Lopata, author, professional speaker and professional relationships strategistI couldn't put this book down! Heng strikes a beautiful balance between vulnerable, raw personal storytelling with interesting research and practical strategies people can adopt immediately to create better relationships. [This] is the book the world needs right now. It's the perfect antidote for anyone feeling lonely, wanting to reach those who are lonely, or just be a more connected member of the human race. Highly recommend adding this one to cart! - Amazon ReviewerThe book does a good job of making itself relevant by demonstrating the depth of the global problem of loneliness, and the author's international perspective brings some variety to an often America-centric genre. Heng has a talent for vivid imagery… which makes the volume an easy and engaging read. - Kirkus ReviewsSimone Heng has nailed down the real issues facing humanity as the world continuously struggle with the recovery from Covid. Her stories touch the core of people's hearts as she shares her personal experiences and research as a Human Connection expert. An awesome read that will leave you wanting more! - Amazon ReviewerThis book is one that touches the heart. It lays out the truths many of us are able to relate to when it comes to human connection. The pandemic may have brought out the loneliness of many of us - with many being isolated in lockdown. But this is a problem that has always been inherent. Simone tackles loneliness and isolation in profound ways, laying out her explanations for these issues. She shares her most personal experiences and shows her vulnerability through this book, all to help guide us through this journey of learning to connect with others. This book is for the person who wants to be be better and wants to connect properly with the people around them. Great read! - Amazon ReviewerA feminist pioneer. - South China Morning Post
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Hay House How to Heal After Narcissistic Abuse
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Hay House Say the Thing
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Hal Leonard Corporation 65 Songs
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Ethics of the Family
Book SynopsisOur families are our first and most important ethical training grounds. But what is the family? And what are our ethical commitments to our family members and to the broader moral community?Trade Review“The Ethics of the Family is not just about ethics. And it is not just about family. It presents a cross-disciplinary and up-to-date scholarly approach to numerous social and philosophical controversies that involve different traditions, contrasting frameworks of justice, and current medical and technological developments. This could easily be used for several philosophy courses, including Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy and Human Nature. In addition, it would fit well into any ethics course in a Family Studies Department. Students will be surprised to find elements of their own lives in many of these chapters.”—Dr. Alex Hooke, Stevenson University"In 'Ethics of the Family', Scales, Poitthast, and Oravecz offer theology professors a volume of philosophical essays that has real potential to extend family ethics in important new ways.', Julie H. Rubio in INTAMS review 18, 2012, pp 113-114, p.133.“This comprehensive foray into the ethical issues inherent in family life marks an exciting frontier for ethical inquiry. The papers take us from artificial reproductive technologies to Confucian filial piety, from the ethics of same-sex marriage to claims of intergenerational justice between children and parents. This is fertile ground for students of ethics to explore and this volume is an excellent guidebook for the journey.”—Dr. Wolfgang W. Fuchs, Towson University
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SAGE Publications, Inc Marriages and Families in the 21st Century A
Book SynopsisMarriages and Families in the 21st Century puts contemporary relationships and family structures in context for today’s students. Using a bioecological framework, the book reveals how families are shaped by multiple influences, from biological to cultural, that interact with one another. Chapters cover topics from parenting to gender issues within an interdisciplinary context, weaving in stories, visuals, and examples of diverse families to dispel longstanding myths. The book creates a personalized learning experience with frequent self-assessments and strengths exercises, while ensuring that students come to understand the research and build scientific analysis and critical thinking skills along the way. Robust digital tools and resources including SAGE edge and an interactive eBook with SAGE Premium Video help readers develop a multi-layered understanding of "what makes families tick" while challenging them to re-evaluate their own assumpt
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeology: Why It Matters
Book SynopsisHistory lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the earliest writings into the deep past, revealing the varied pathways that led to the present, and the challenges – often similar to those we face today – that confronted our ancestors. Ann Stahl argues that archaeology is unique in its focus on the everyday lives of all peoples in all places and times. From ancient temples to humble homes, archaeologists piece together worlds that would otherwise be lost: knowledge that shows us how routine actions have shaped societies, how and why societies have changed in light of environment, politics, and culture – and perhaps what the future holds for our societies too. Using compelling examples from a storied international career, Stahl provides the perfect summary of why archaeology is both a vitally important and enjoyable subject to study.Trade Review“An exceptional book. Stahl shows how the long-term perspective of archaeology and its study of material culture and global humanity provide unique insights into today’s most pressing issues.”Kent Lightfoot, University of California, Berkeley“Drawing on Stahl’s research and life experiences, this highly engaging book provides a compelling account of archaeology’s basic principles, contributions to knowledge, and contemporary relevance.”Paul Lane, University of Cambridge
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Life Is Not Useful
Book SynopsisIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead. To awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming attuned to “the cosmic sense of life.” He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called “human” lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.Trade ReviewSelected by Mongabay as one of 10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2023 “As Krenak contemplates the COVID-19 pandemic in the pithy Life Is Not Useful, he advocates powerfully for a shift away from the way life was before. As he sees it, humans’ detachment from nature and our obsession with extracting profits from the Earth have led to the crises we are facing today. Instead, he puts forth a vision that embraces the interconnected reliance on all life that shares this planet.”Mongabay “Ailton Krenak is a unique voice in contemporary thought and the only one who manages to turn the current crisis into a huge opportunity to rethink the life of humanity. He demonstrates that our political identity is not based on the separate ownership of land, but on the fact that we all share one and the same flesh, which is the same flesh from which planet Earth lives. Earth is not the space where languages and cultures differ and wage war against each other, but the institution that allows us to share dreams with all that lives.”Emanuele Coccia, author of Metamorphoses“A stinging critique of Western thought.”Earthbound Report“Krenak makes a potent anarchist statement, often with simple, sardonic humour … and his solutions are no less radical.”Latin American Review of Books“[A] thought-provoking critique of the individual and the prevailing global political-economic-social system. With his humorous sensitivity, Krenak invites us to reflect on the essence of life, which goes beyond the limited definition assigned to it.”International Journal of Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsAbout the author About this book Acknowledgements Introduction – Natalia Brizuela You Can’t Eat Money Dreams to Postpone the End of the World The Thing-Making Machine Tomorrow is Not for Sale Life is Not Useful
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