Family & Relationships
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() About Canada: Childcare |
In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and … | Martha Friendly; Susan Prentice | 176 | 2009 | View |
![]() NEW! Child Victims in Canada’s Justice System |
Child Victims in Canada’s Justice System is a thoroughly researched resource that will be useful for anyone working with or establishing public policy with respect to children who have … | Jack Reynolds; Jo-Anne Hughes; Loree Armstrong Beniuk | 228 | 2022 | View |
![]() Coming Back to LifeThe Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects |
Authors Joanna Macy and Molly Brown address the anguish experienced by those who would confront the harsh realities of our time. In this fully updated edition of Coming Back to Life, they show … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 379 | 2014 | View |
![]() Cracking the Boy CodeHow to Understand and Talk with Boys |
All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their … | Adam Cox | 163 | 2018 | View |
![]() Degrees of FailureUniversity Education in Decline |
In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … | Randle W. Nelsen | 152 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Hiding in Plain SightImmigrant Women and Domestic Violence |
Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs are not adequately met there. Understanding … | Wendy Chan | 136 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! Insurgent LoveAbolition and Domestic Homicide |
Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through … | Ardath Whynacht | 161 | 2021 | View |
![]() Mediator’s HandbookRevised & Expanded fourth edition |
The popular Mediator’s Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the … | Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer | 210 | 2012 | View |
![]() Motherhood, The Mother of All SexismA Plea for Parental Equality |
Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin … | Marilyse Hamelin | 180 | 2018 | View |
![]() Pieces of a PuzzlePerspectives on Child Sexual Abuse |
This collection presents various “pieces” towards a comprehensive understanding of child sexual abuse and is intended for practitioners, researchers and students interested in … | Diane Hiebert-Murphy; Linda Burnside | 126 | 2001 | View |
![]() Pilgrim SoulsCaring for a Loved One with Dementia |
This memoir focuses on an experience all of us dread. Pat Lotz was an accomplished author and editor, active in her community, and a loving wife and mother. She succumbed to dementia which was … | Jim Lotz | 224 | 2013 | View |
![]() The Mean Girl MotiveNegotiating Power and Femininity |
Prior to the 1980s, girls were completely excluded from research on childhood aggression, presumably because their ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ made them averse to … | Nicole E.R. Landry | 96 | 2008 | View |
![]() The Mediator’s ToolkitFormulating and Asking Questions for Successful Outcomes |
Learn how to formulate and ask penetrating, paradigm-shifting questions for successful outcomes in any conflict. Knowing how to formulate and ask incisive questions to get to the core of a … | Gerry O'Sullivan | 258 | 2018 | View |
![]() To Wawa with Love |
When Tom Douglas’s father returned home after the Second World War, he was forced to move his family from Sault Ste. Marie north to Wawa, where he was the timekeeper at the Helen Mine. … | Tom Douglas | 160 | 2012 | View |
From ![]() NEW! AcknowledgementsFrom: Hiding in Plain Sight |
- | Wendy Chan | 1 | 2020 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Domestic Homicide and AbolitionFrom: Insurgent Love |
In the introductory chapter, the author defines key terms that are essential to the text, details the failures of the current carceral approach to family violence, and details how her personal … | Ardath Whynacht | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |