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Suitable for students and those who want to take their technical skills for instructors who want a text for second methods course, this title teaches social scientists how to get out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that describes strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without.

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Two basic themes run throughout this book--the first is the control of fertility and the second overpopulation. It is intended for a general audience to whom the gravity of the situation may not previously have been apparent.

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Experts address key issues-from attitudes and behaviors to harassment and homophobia-related to sexuality among college students.

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Are teenagers more sexually active than they were ten years ago Teenagers from around Australia responded, talking openly and honestly about issues such as: intimacy and relationships; masturbation and sexual fantasies; and coercion and sexual violence. This book presents over a hundred of their responses in their original, unedited form.

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Based on interviews with 100 people across the country, this is primarily a portrait of the baby boomers, whose stories reveal sex in all its variety, and examine the emotions that make it so powerful. Entertaining and enlightening, this book puts sexuality back into a meaningful human context. Insightful and candid, this is a revealing look at our intimate private lives.

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This book presents research that identifies the most salient issues related to communication about sex in relationships and explores these issues in a format that will improve the understanding and practice of sexual communication.

What is missing in sex education

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They may or may not identify themselves as bisexual, but during significant periods of their life span they act bisexually. Studies of human sexuality world-wide indicate the incidence of bisexuality ranges from high to low prevalence in all literate and many nonliterate societies.

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A prominent conservative scholar traces the post-1960s divisions between the Right and the Left, taking aim at liberals' victimization of African Americans and their failure to offer a viable way forward for American society.

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Written as a gift for other parents to help them cope with the pain and loneliness of decision making, this book will also be a valuable resource for medical professionals, adoption and social workers, counselors and spiritual advisors, and friends and family of the parents.

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A diverse collection of critique, prose, and poetry responds to-and rails against-the violent injustice that women worldwide sustain in their daily lives

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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.

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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.

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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.

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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.

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A valuable contribution which breaks new territory of research and analysis into women's roles as sisters and wives.

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More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differen

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Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.

How popular is soccer worldwide

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This work analyzes the phases of general theoretical sociology using a process philosophical approach in an effort to integrate and unify the field. The author studies general theoretical sociology as a time-extended tradition with three phases: classical, postclassical and recent.