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Before Their Time

Adult Children's Experiences of Parental Suicide

Edited by Mary Stimming and Maureen Stimming

Honest first-person accounts by daughters and sons of the impact of parental suicide on them and their families

240 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 1 table

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Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair

Nigrescence and Eudaimonia

William E. Cross Jr.

On Blackness, identity formation, and the deconstruction of the deficit perspective on Black life

200 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 4 tables, 2 figures

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Closure

The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us

Nancy Berns

Do we really need closure after bad things happen?

228 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table

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Crime and Family

Selected Essays of Joan McCord

Joan McCord

Seminal essays by a pioneering criminologist, collected for the first time

320 pages | 6 x 9 | 88 tables, 15 figures

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Elements of Discipline

Nine Principles for Teachers and Parents

Stephen Greenspan

How teachers and parents can cultivate competent, happy children using a few simple principles as their guide.

212 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 tables, 33 figures

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Fitting the Facts of Crime

An Invitation to Biopsychosocial Criminology

Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, and J.C. Barnes

Presenting a biopsychosocial perspective to explain the most common findings in criminology—and to guide future research and public policy

222 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 1 table, 7 figures

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Food and Evolution

Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

edited by Marvin Harris and Eric B. Ross

An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat

640 pages

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Gangs on Trial

Challenging Stereotypes and Demonization in the Courts

John M. Hagedorn

Exposes how stereotypes replace evidence in gang related trials

246 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 figures, 7 halftones, 1 map

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Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child

Paul C. Rosenblatt

Advice to couples and counselors about how to deal with the death of a child

200 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts

Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

Sam Wineburg

How do historians know what they know?

272 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 tables 3 figures 3 halftones

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Human Attachment

Virginia L. Colin

The first and only comprehensive introduction to one theory in personality development

416 pages | 6.5 x 9.25 | 8 halftones

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Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self

Norbert Wiley

How the dialogical self discovers the appropriate pathways for guiding us through our lives

212 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 tables, 3 figures

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Insane Therapy

Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult

Marybeth F. Ayella

Group therapy goes awry in one community and shows how vulnerable we all can be to cult mentality

213 pages | 6 x 9

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Inspired Citizens

How Our Political Role Models Shape American Politics

Jennie Sweet-Cushman

Do Americans have political role models and, if so, what impact do they have on political behavior and attitudes?

176 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 tables, 21 figures

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Just Care

Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire

Akemi Nishida

How care is both socially oppressive and a way that marginalized communities can fight for social justice

264 pages | 6 x 9

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