Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.
Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions.
Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas.
In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater.
As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut'a, temporary marriage.
One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.
Invaluable in providing vivid illustrations of the strengths and needs of young parents who have been 'looked after' and, therefore of their children at the start of their lives.
Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents.
A gripping psychological suspense readA family near breaking point hire a nanny with secrets of her own in this gripping novel from an exciting talent.
Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, 'Connected' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of how social networks operate.
This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions.
The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen'Dazzling' New York Times'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark VanessaThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France's most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man.
A New Yorker, Time Out, NPR, Electric Lit and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year, and Lambda Literary Award Finalist A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson The New York TimesIt s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration.
Originally published in 1992, in this second edition of Genius and Eminence there are 28 chapters, of which 17 were new while the remaining chapters had been revised and updated.
Kathy Labriola hace uso de su impresionante repertorio de habilidades, sabiduria y experiencia para ensenarnos que no hay un patron oro unico de ruptura adecuada y, con total generosidad, nos propone opciones que pueden encajar en nuestras relaciones diversas.
Esta investigacion examina la forma de organizacion que adoptaron las familias notables o de elite en la ciudad de Manizales, asi como la conformacion de redes familiares que articularon riqueza, prestigio y poder, elementos fundamentales en la estructuracion de la vida economica, social y politica.
Este breve ensayo, convertido ya en un clásico, resulta clave para comprender cómo la sobremodernidad transforma nuestra manera de estar con el entorno y los otros.
Padres Obsoletos es una obra que expone la profunda reflexión del género masculino ante la presión de replicar los modelos de crianza tradicional con los que ellos mismos fueron educados.
Gangopadhyay defines new categories of motherhood, illustrating how mothers have crafted their own forms of motherhood care and developed the concept of neoliberal motherhood to reflect evolving ideals of motherhood in urban India.
Gangopadhyay defines new categories of motherhood, illustrating how mothers have crafted their own forms of motherhood care and developed the concept of neoliberal motherhood to reflect evolving ideals of motherhood in urban India.
Originally published in 1992, in this second edition of Genius and Eminence there are 28 chapters, of which 17 were new while the remaining chapters had been revised and updated.
Pasión por hacer es un libro fuera de lo común y "apto para todo público", como dice su autora, que cuenta su experiencia como integrante de una familia de Carlos Casares dedicada a los agronegocios, y los diferentes roles que asumió en los últimos 30 años, tanto familiares como empresariales: gerente, directora de una PYME, dueña de una empresa.
La cultura occidental ha representado con insistencia los modos en que el amor irrumpe milagrosamente en nuestras vidas, desde la febril espera de un correo o de una llamada telefónica hasta la emoción que nos atraviesa de solo pensar en esa otra persona.
