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This beautifully photographed book explores the many aspects of this unique herb and celebrates it in crafts, gifts, and decorations.
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luscious lavender for the eye and much more.......2000-08-04
I just saw this book while visiting a B&B on a lavender farm and came right home to try to find a copy to buy - i just had to have it! The photographs of commercial lavender fields in bloom are unbelievably gorgeous and make you want to take the next plane to Provence or Norfolk. The history is fascinating and also beautifully illustrated with pictures and quotations. The crafts are lovely and the recipes tempting. This book is a treat for the gardener, cook, craftsperson, traveller, historian and many others as well.
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The
Second Edition of
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world’s families—in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students’ recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators’ needs for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context.
“The editors, both qualified scholars with a comparative perspective, have been successful in finding well-known authors for the various chapters. Both theoretical and methodological issues are dealt with in a nuanced and qualified manner…. The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty, and libraries.â€
—Jan Trost, Professor Emeritus,
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
"The strength of this book is its comparative approach under several theoretic frameworks… This book appears to be the most comprehensive study of global families.†—Heying Jenny Zhan,
Georgia State University
New to the Second Edition:
- Includes new chapters focussing on the Middle East and Pacific regions to introduce students to the variations in family life across such diverse areas
- Provides updated information about families around the world by expanding the contents to incorporate recent trends in family life
- Discusses increasingly salient topics that are rarely found in comparative family texts, such as social inequality as manifested in gender stratification, oppression of certain ethnic and cultural groups, and poverty
- Includes student exercises intended to increase student awareness and appreciation of diversity
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Sociology and Family Studies in courses such as Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Comparative Family Organization, Global and Diverse Families, World Families, and Families in Comparative Perspective.
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Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends provides an overview of the development of family therapy throughout the globe and addresses the issues and concerns families are faced with in different cultural contexts. This book explores the diverse cultural approach to family therapy and suggests various clinical interventions that are helpful to clinicians dealing with families from different countries, including case studies, vignettes and research outcomes of family therapy overseas. Leading experts in the field explore the different aspects of family therapy in other 14 countries including the historical beginnings, current developments, training issues, theoretical variations, future trends, and research potential in family therapy.
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The Family in Global Perspective is an exciting new cross-cultural text that should be adopted for classroom use in universities nationwide. Elaine Leeder has created a readable interesting textbook for undergraduates that reveals the historical, socio-cultural, and gender realities of family life. Real life examples from 42 countries support student understandings of sociological theory, and build a comprehensive awareness of family as a way of being for people throughout the world."
                                                                           --Peter Phillips,
Sonoma State University
"I think it would be a great book for a class in Family Studies. In the Family Studies field, we have come to realize that the â€~family’ as we see it is not how peoples of the world necessarily see it. I think exposing all Family Studies students to this text would greatly enhance their educational development. . . . written in very comprehensible language for undergraduates."
                                                       —Yvonne M. Caldera,
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
"I find the book overall is well done: it is very readable for undergraduates; the author is good at interweaving interesting research and travel notes with theories and discussions about families in a global perspective in various places. The style is refreshing, particularly enticing for undergraduate readers."
                                                              —Heying Jenny Zahn,
Georgia State University
"The book is rather unique in the sense that there are few works that place the U.S. family within a larger global framework. The comparisons that are made across societies serve to enhance understanding of family patterns in the United States. I also should mention that the book is well written, and in an interesting way, too. It successfully combines important academic material with a thought-provoking style of presentation."
                                                  — Sharon K. Houseknecht,Â
Ohio State University
What is a family? In the context of biology, the answer may be fairly simple. However, in the social context, the family is a far more complex form, with a meaning that is multilayered.
The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey examines the continually changing face of family life in the United States and from culture to culture. Written in an engaging style, the book provides a global viewpoint about family issues, enabling readers to think critically about family life in cultures beyond their own.
In The Family in Global Perspective, author Elaine J. Leeder uses various historical, theoretical, and comparative perspectives to develop a cross-cultural understanding of family life. The book examines a variety of family lives in western countries and contrasts them with those of families in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. After comparing the history of the family in various parts of the globe, the author then looks at the impact of globalization on family structures; gendered behavior; intergenerational relationships; relationship dissolution; race, ethnicity and class issues; violence; and social policy.
Features of this text:
- Expresses a feminist view of family life and includes case examples from the author’s own experiences visiting and studying families in 42 countries.
- Organized topically, rather than by country or culture, to facilitate instruction on a particular component of family life.
- Pedagogical features such as an accessible format, chapter introductions, vignettes and photos, highlighted key terms, and chapter summaries enhance students’ understanding.
The Family in Global Perspective is an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on marriage and the family in a variety of disciplines including Family Studies, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, and Women’s Studies.
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Creative Child Advocacy: Global Perspectives
Ved, Ed. Kumari
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
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ASIN: 0761932402 |
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`Combining global examples of cases with practical solutions, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in child advocacy, from judges to probation officers' -
childRIGHT
`The greatest achievement of this book may be its inspiration to those also willing to "swim against the tide" as child advocates... The authors are open about the practicalities of their work and the tensions they have experienced... their personal accounts contain gripping narratives of real attempts to improve situations for children' -
Adoption & Fostering
This collection of original articles by an international team of contributors addresses a wide range of issues affecting children and youth such as: child labour; international child custody abduction; juvenile delinquency; child abuse and neglect; and date violence among teenagers. The innovative approaches proposed by the contributors to deal with these concerns include: creating a child advocacy centre within a private firm; litigation strategies; and developing a handbook that explains courts processes to abused children.
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Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways adolescent girls interact with the Internet. Employing a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives primarily within cultural studies, the authors examine a variety of topics-from instant messaging and web-diaries to online fan communities and Internet advertising that targets young girls. Taken together, these essays provide a rich portrait of the complex relationship among girls, the Internet, and the negotiation of identity.
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A must read for anyone interested in girl culture.......2007-04-07
This is one of the best books I've come across that really assesses how girls are using the Internet - everything from commercial sites, to personal webpages, blogs, and fandom. The overall tone is balanced and hopeful and avoids the media-hype moral-panic that other works tend to attach to young girls online. Gives new insight while also providing a springboard for future research.
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Human Families (Social Change in Global Perspective)
Stevan Harrell
Manufacturer: Westview Press
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ASIN: 0813336228 |
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This detailed study maps the variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families interact with their societies. Tracing the developmental cycle of families in a wide range of times and places, Stevan Harrell shows how family members in different societies must cooperate to perform various activities and thus organize themselves in particular ways. Within six major divisions, the book describes families in nomadic bands, traditional African societies, Polynesian and Micronesian societies, native societies of the Pacific Northwest coast, preindustrial class societies, and modern industrial societies. Within each group, the author's copious examples demonstrate the variation from one family system to another. His case studies are clearly illustrated with a unique set of diagrams that allow comparison of complex groups and of family processes extending over a generation. Scholars and advanced students alike will find this ambitious book an invaluable resource.
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Global Perspectives on Foster Family Care
Manufacturer: Russell House
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ASIN: 1903855888 |
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