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“nina sichel”

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  • Unrooted Childhoods

    Memoirs of Growing Up Global

    by Nina Sichel ...
    The experience of growing up without the opportunity to ever "put down roots"A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Burned

    by Persephone Nicholas ...
    One tragic event connects four lives in this haunting story of loss, love and renewal. Burned is the winner of the National Seniors Literary Prize 2013.Noah Daniels is an innocent young boy who treasures the telescope his father bought him and who daydreams of one day travelling through space ...His mother Kate nurses bittersweet memories of her marriage to Richard and deeply regrets moving the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Hearts of Men

    A Novel

    by Nickolas Butler ...
    Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan.Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Coping with your Grown Children

    by Edwin L. Klingelhofer ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Coping With Your Grown Children is the only book to analyze-and lay out specific coping strategies for dealing with-the problems today's parents face with their adult offspring such as: • failure of the child to really "grow up" or achieve full potential • unemptied nests • moving back home after broken marriages • turning your home into a "daycare center" for your grandchildren • substance abuse, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Chores and Responsibilities: A Child's Guide- Children's Family Life Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    When your kids are giving you a hard time when it comes to responsibilities and assignments at home, then this book is perfect for you. This book aims to make children understand the concept of responsibility at a young age. Featuring basic chores at home, this guide is ideal for your growing up toddlers. Get a copy today. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • American Child Bride

    A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

    by Nicholas L. Syrett ...
    Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls — the most common underage spouses — Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Generations

    by Kenneth A. Hordge Sr. ...
    Generations is a book about the authors search for his ancestors. The book traces the authors genealogy back through slavery. As the author states; we cannot possibly know ourselves, let alone know where we are going until we are willing to first take the time to learn from where, and from whom we have come. Like many, the author grew up attending public schools and hating history. However, as he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Re-negotiating Gender

    Household Division of Labor when She Earns More than He Does

    by Lake Lui ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Chinese societies where both “money” and “gender” confer power, can a woman’s economic success relative to her husband’s bring about a more equal division of household labor? Lui’s qualitative study of “status-reversed” Hong Kong families, wherein wives earn more than their husbands, examines how couples re-negotiate household labor in ways that perpetuate male dominance within the family even ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Shichigosan

    Change and Continuity of a Family Ritual in Contemporary Urban Japan

    by Melinda Papp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a case study of shichigosan, an extremely popular childhood family ritual in contemporary Japan. It is an interesting example of a custom with very ancient roots (going back to the tenth century), that has undergone several transformations during the course of its history, adapting to changing socio-economic and cultural circumstances. Within the study, the ritual unfolds as a ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Family

    by Liz Steel, Warren Kidd, Anne Brown ...
    Series series Skills-based Sociology
    Family structures have become increasingly diverse over recent decades. Examining contemporary theory alongside key terms and concepts, this new edition explores issues of intimacy, parenting, cohabitation and media representations. This book provides an in-depth look at the role of the family in society for all students of sociology. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD