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The Creative Family Manifesto
Encouraging Imagination and Nurturing Family Connections
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Timeless advice on the importance of imaginative and creative play updated for a new generation of parents.
Embrace family life with creativity at its heart. The Creative Family Manifesto is a guide to using the simple tools around you—your imagination, basic art supplies, household objects,...
by Anne Caldwell, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Not intended as legal advice, this book offers support for anyone navigating a treacherous child custody case in family court. After years as an executive director of a nonprofit that assisted families who were victims of family court racketeering, the author has written this guide to warn families...
by Suzie Hayman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Why do some families work better than others? What are the ingredients for a fulfilling family life? In this wide-ranging and practical book, respected counsellor and agony aunt Suzie Hayman explains how you can make your family work, whatever stage of life you are in. This book is about you and your...
by O'Meara, Michael
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Family Book is a cornucopia of entertaining activities that everyone can enjoy, packed with illustrations and diagrams. Presented as a grabbag of ideas and suggestions, it touches on all the different occasions when families can spend time together: weekday evenings, summer holidays, birthdays...
Easy and Enjoyable Parenting
A No Nonsense Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book is for adults who want to experience Easy and Enjoyable Parenting of children, adolescents, and young adults.
There are a lot of ideas and recommendations. These come from over 30 years of parenting by the author and his wife. He has studied family life and taught classes on it....
Take Back Your Family
How to Raise Respectful and Loving Kids in a Dysfunctional World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Stars of MTV's Run's House--dubbed "the new Cosby family"--celebrate family values in this inspiring guide to modern parenting
Despite being a hip-hop icon, an ordained minister, and a reality TV star, Rev Run's greatest accomplishment has been raising his six children--Angela, Vanessa, JoJo,...
Estranged
Leaving Family and Finding Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Jessica Berger Gross’s “gripping memoir about growing up in—and growing out of—a deeply dysfunctional, abusive family” (Glamour.com) redefines our understanding of estrangement and celebrates the ability to triumph over adversity.
To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross’s childhood—growing...
Championship Grandfathering
How to Build a Winning Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
What’s so important about being a grandfather? Everything!
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you’re not on the playing field anymore and that your championship days are over. As an elder of the family, you play a vital role in your grandchild’s future. You will leave a legacy...
Song of the Plains
A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother,...
The Family Capabilities Approach
Revisiting Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach in Light of the Family and the Principle of Subsidiarity
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
What is “the good life”? How can it best be achieved? The attention of the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Amartya Sen, to the human person and to the importance of realizing the good life has caused him to be described by one theologian as “the conscience of economics”. Known...
by Ian R McWhinney, Thomas Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Highly acclaimed in its first two editions, Ian R. McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice, McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine...
Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families
Policy and Practice Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Examine the changing structure of the family as America’s population ages!
As the United States’ economy evolves and manufacturing jobs disappear, the prospect of each generation experiencing a standard of living that exceeds that of their parents’ generation also disappears. Challenges...
Courting Change
Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child’s estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court,...
Identifying and Treating Youth Who Sexually Offend
Current Approaches, Techniques, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What factors contribute to the making of a youthful sexual offender?
This book is designed to assist professionals working with youth who sexually offend. A distinguished panel of experts discusses the latest research and provides theory, techniques, and practical guidelines for the assessment...