Maxine Eichner, "The Supportive State: Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals"
English | ISBN: 0195343212 | 2010 | 208 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life. Yet the role that the state should play with respect to family ties among citizens remains deeply contested. This controversy over the state's role undergirds a broad range of public policy debates: Does the state have a responsibility to help resolve conflicts between work and family? Should same-sex marriage be permitted? Should parents who receive welfare benefits be required to work? Yet while these individual policy issues are endlessly debated, the underlying theoretical question of the stance that the state should take with families remains largely unexplored.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: For Patients, Their Families and Interested Physicians, Second Edition By
2006 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 1405147105 | PDF | 5 MB
When there is a diagnosis of HCM in a family, this complete, easy-to-read guide is your essential resource for finding the answers to your many questions. In clear and straightforward language, it explains what hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is, what the symptoms are, and how it can be treated, as well as reviewing the genetic implications and offering candid lifestyle advice.Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Barry Maron, an internationally recognized authority on HCM, the book addresses major questions and concerns of both patients and families. Fully revised to reflect the latest developments, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: For patients, their families and interested physicians, Second Edition, is a valuable source of straightforward advice and dependable information for everyone who is affected by HCM.Content: Chapter 1 What is Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)? (pages 1-2): Chapter 2 Historical Perspective and Names (pages 3-4): Chapter 3 How Common is HCM? (pages 5-7): Chapter 4 What is the Cause of HCM? (pages 7-10): Chapter 5 Heart Structure in HCM (pages 10-18): Chapter 6 When Does HCM Develop?: HCM in Infants and Children (pages 18-19): Chapter 7 Gender and Race (page 20): Chapter 8 What are the Symptoms of HCM? (pages 20-21): Chapter 9 How is HCM Diagnosed and What Tests are Used? (pages 22-26): Chapter 10 Other Investigations That May be Useful (pages 26-28): Chapter 11 General Outlook For Patients with HCM (pages 28-30): Chapter 12 Complications of HCM (pages 30-36): Chapter 13 Special Considerations: Athletes and Sports Activities (pages 37-40): Chapter 14 Treatments for HCM (pages 40-54): Chapter 15 Is a Cure Available? (pages 55-56): Chapter 16 Family Screening (pages 56-60): Chapter 17 What About Having Children?: Pregnancy and Delivery (pages 60-61): Chapter 18 Routine Medical Care (pages 61-62): Chapter 19 General Lifestyle Advice (pages 62-77): Chapter 20 Support and Advocacy Groups (pages 77-80): Chapter 21 What Research is Being Conducted? (page 81): Chapter 22 The 34 Most Frequently Asked Questions by Patients About HCM, as Addressed to the HCMA (pages 82-91):

Carlos E. Sluzki, "The Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families and their Ghosts"
English | 2015 | pages: 129 | ISBN: 113884778X, 1138847798 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Where live our most cherished (or painful) memories? Where do our beloved (or dreaded) exist when departed? In the gray zone between our self and our world, they can exist as internal reminiscences for some and striking images for others; individually or collectively perceived and interacted; vividly or as tenuous presences.

Bob Bertolino, "The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working With Parents, Children, and Adolescents"
English | 2015 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 041572693X | PDF | 1,5 mb
The Therapist's Notebook for Families, Second Edition, provides 72 solution-oriented activities for an array of challenging problems faced by mental health professionals when working with clients. The Therapist's Notebook offers clear, practical, easy-to-use exercises to help therapists work effectively and creatively with parents, adolescents, children, and families. Its solution-focused perspective provides a foundation based on collaboration, the utilization of client strengths, and the creation of possibilities to facilitate present and future change. The book is arranged in five parts, with 15 fully revised and 23 brand-new exercises.

Alwyn H. Gentry, Rodolfo Vasquez, "A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of North west South America"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0226289443 | 220 pages | PDF | 38.6 MB
To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only field guide to the nearly 250 families of woody plants in the most species-rich region of South America.

Joanna Mizielińska, "Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland "
English | ISBN: 0367860384 | 2022 | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship and families researched in the Anglo-American contexts.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families By Stephen R. Covey, Sandra M. Covey
1997 | 401 Pages | ISBN: 0307440850 | DJVU | 8 MB
In his first major work since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven R. Covey presents a practical and philosophical guide to solving the problems--large and small, mundane and extraordinary--that confront all families and strong communities. By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families is an invaluable guidebook to the welfare of families everywhere.

Julie M. Parsons, "Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health"
English | 2015 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 1137476400 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon auto/biographical food narratives and emphasises the power of everyday foodways in maintaining and reinforcing social divisions along the lines of gender and class.

Grazyna Baranowska, "Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons: How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons"
English | ISBN: 1839701374 | 2021 | 218 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines how international judicial and non-judicial bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons. The needs in question are returning the remains of disappeared persons; the right to truth; the acceptance of responsibility by states; and the right to compensation. These have been identified as the four most commonly shared basic and fundamental needs of families in which an adult was disappeared many years previously and is now assumed to be dead, which is representative of the situation of the vast majority of families of disappeared persons in Europe.The families of disappeared persons have an increasing number of international mechanisms through which they can attempt to address their needs. The proliferation of such mechanisms gives victims of enforced disappearance in Europe access to many different international procedures. At the same time, however, a functional analysis of the specific organs involved has shown that they respond to the needs of families to varying degrees. This results from the differences in their competences as well as those in their jurisprudence.There is no international instrument or mechanism capable of fully satisfying the four basic needs of the families of disappeared persons. However, in Europe, these families do have the possibility to make use of various judicial and quasi-judicial means and mechanisms which - if the states involved would properly execute the judgments or cooperate with the proper bodies - could lead to the return of the remains of disappeared persons, to obtaining knowledge about their fates, and to receiving financial compensation.The analysis covers the judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo, as well as the activities of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, the Special Process on Missing Persons in the Territory of former Yugoslavia, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the International Commission on Missing Persons. In so doing, the book demonstrates whether, how, and based on what principles these four needs of the families of disappeared persons can constitute a claim based on international human rights law.

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home By Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung
2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0143120336 | EPUB | 1 MB
An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication.More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling book, The Second Shift In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households. Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses. Updated for a workforce now half female, this edition cites a range of new studies and statistics and includes a new afterword in which Hochschild assesses how much-and how little-has changed for women today.