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Falling in Love
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 32.95Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with... more...
Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues
Routledge 1997; US$ 57.95In this timely and important contribution to the field of popular cultural studies, Steve Redhead looks at the way youth culture is being reshaped by media culture in its various aspects at the end of the millennium. more...
The Father
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 40.95Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from... more...
Social Identities Across The Life Course
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 99.95This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring the rich range of debates and issues it encompasses. Linking traditional sociological and anthropological concerns with more recent postmodern debates centred... more...
Dying to be a Man
Routledge 2005; US$ 49.95Based on field research and interviews in the USA and Brazil, Dying to be a Man explores how manhood or male identity is shaped in poor urban settings, how it is that some young men resist the prevailing norms, what the implications are for more...
Flowers Are for Love
Touchstone 2002; US$ 12.00ROMANCE BLOOMS THROUGH THE GIFT OF FLOWERS Whether you are looking for love, building a lasting relationship, or trying to reignite a romantic bond, flowers are powerful messengers of affection. In this wonderful follow-up to Flowers Are Forever, Kathy Lamancusa has collected beautiful true stories that illustrate the very important role flowers... more...
Unraveled
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 13.95As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden?s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden?s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... more...
A Defense of Abortion
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy or in law and medicine and to general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue. more...
Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 12.95Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places? Are you so fed up with blind dates that you?re considering the merits of celibacy? Is even the geekiest Mr. Wrong beginning to look like Mr. Right? Frustrated singles, don?t spend another Saturday night in front of the TV with a pint of Häagen-Dazs! Bestselling humorist Linda Sunshine?s... more...
Sweden
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 39.00In the face of rapid population ageing, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age pensions and early-retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise employment rates for older people signficantly or to reduce the future risk of labour shortages. more...









