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  • Governing the Hearth

    Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Michael Grossberg ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women’s and children’s rights, and fixed more clearly the state’s ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Evolution of Jewish Monotheism

    ‘God is One,’ From Antiquity to Modernity

    by David Michael Grossberg ...
    In this book, David Michael Grossberg offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on the three-thousand-year evolution of Jewish monotheism by narrating the history of 'God is one' as a religious slogan from the ancient to the modern world. Although 'God is one' has been called Judaism's primary testimony of faith, its meaning has been obscure and contentious from its earliest emergence. From the ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Reinventing Childhood After World War II

    Edited by Paula S. Fass, Michael Grossberg ...
    In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States and continue to organize our perceptions and sensibilities to this day. But that childhood is ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Reinventing Childhood After World War II

    Edited by Paula S. Fass, Michael Grossberg ...
    In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States and continue to organize our perceptions and sensibilities to this day. But that childhood is ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Neural Network Models of Conditioning and Action

    Edited by Michael L. Commons, Stephen Grossberg, John Staddon ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science
    Originally published in 1991, this title was the result of a symposium held at Harvard University. It presents some of the exciting interdisciplinary developments of the time that clarify how animals and people learn to behave adaptively in a rapidly changing environment. The contributors focus on aspects of how recognition learning, reinforcement learning, and motor learning interact to generate ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • In Tender Consideration

    Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois

    by Daniel W. Stowell, Dennis E. Suttles, Stacy P. McDermott, John A. Lupton, Christopher A. Schnell, Susan Krause ...
    From debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois. Nearly one-fifth of Abraham Lincoln's cases involved women as litigants, and during the twenty-five years of his legal career thousands of women appeared in Illinois courts, as litigants, criminal defendants, witnesses, and spectators ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    What's Going On?

    The Struggle for Contemporary American Identity

    by Lawrence Grossberg ...
    Narrated by Michael David Axtell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    Exploring the backstory of contemporary political polarization, What's Going On? recognizes that simple stories of blame and uncontested stories of polarization prove themselves to be bad stories that produce bad politics.This book argues that stories have increasingly become matters of affect rather than meaning—instead of asking what stories mean, we are likely to ask how they make people feel. ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical, and religious points of view. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • What the Face Reveals

    Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

    Edited by Paul Ekman, Erika L. Rosenberg ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology. Today's widely available, sophisticated measuring systems have allowed us to conduct a wealth of new research on facial behavior that has ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 1: The Sh'ma and Its Blessings

    by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman ...
    The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul.My People's Prayer Book provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of today's most ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook