Book Description
Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
Author : Todd Parr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316093475
Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
Author : Naomi Krupitsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525541993
The Instant New York Times bestseller A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love. But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.
Author : Tina McElroy Ansa
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156101509
Lena, once a charmed little girl with psychic powers, becomes more haunted as she grows older. She has her family's love, but knows she has to make her own uncertain way.
Author : Frida Berrigan
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1939293669
Expanding on the stories in her popular column for the website Waging Nonviolence, Berrigan has crafted a welcome antidote to the various parenting fads currently on offer from French moms and tiger moms and mean moms. She offers a unique perspective on parenting that derives from hard work, deep reflection, and lots of trial and error.
Author : Mario Puzo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446439143
_____________________________________ From the legendary author of THE GODFATHER comes a novel of the original Italian crime family Fifteenth-century Italy. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding a new golden age for Europe. But where there is gold – and power – there are those who are willing to do anything to get their hands on them. Enter the Borgias. Headed by Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, this tight-knit family is fighting to keep its iron grip on Italy – but theirs is a lethal game, and the cost of failure is surely death. Scheming and plotting for their own ends are his children: Giovanni, the much-favoured golden boy; his younger brother Cesare, jealous and vicious; and Lucrezia, cunning, calculating and passionate. The Borgias face immense opposition from all quarters of Italy, but their deadliest foes may be far closer to home. _____________________________________ A tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo's remarkable career _____________________________________ 'We are a family,' Alexander told his children. 'And the loyalty of the family must come before everything and everyone else. We must learn from each other, protect each other, and be bound first and foremost to each other. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished – but if we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemned...'
Author : Jack O. Balswick
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0801032490
This proven resource covers every issue that affects family life. The third edition includes updates to all chapters and the inclusion of current research.
Author : Claude Diebolt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319994808
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the place where key decisions on fertility, labour force participation, education, consumption are made. This is especially relevant for the position of women. The book gathers key insights from a variety of fields – economics, history, demography, anthropology, biology – to shed light on the relation between family organisation and the long-term process of economic development.
Author : Jonathan Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317587952
In The Family Fund, first published in 1980, Bradshaw discusses the introduction of The Family Fund- a grant given to families in response of the discovery of the damages caused by the Thalidomide drug. He examines all aspects of the Fund including its origins, aims, publicity and its future. This text is ideal for students of sociology.
Author : Kamran Asdar Ali
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029270514X
Publisher Fact Sheet This study of family planning programs in Egypt is a model for the study of social programs in developing countries.
Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1994-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1349236543
While historians have written with ease about the state and the church, the family has so far defied historical analysis. As the primary cell of human social organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families and households in time, space and economy over the period 1500-1914 and draws together the important existing work.