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All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses--And How We Can Fix It Together

Josh Levs · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The author shows how fatherhood today is far different than for previous generations and what that means for our individual lives, families, workplaces, and society.
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Stories from the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families

Dr. Elisabeth Sheff · Thorntree Press, LLC
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Welcome to the polycule: the network created by the interconnections of polyamorous relationships. Just like the molecules that make up all living things, polycules come in diverse forms: large, small, tightly bound, loosely connected, static, ever-changing. How do polycules form, what...
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Parenting 2.0: Think in the Future, Act in the Now

Tricia Ferrara · Greenleaf Book Group Press

2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold WinnerAn indispensable guide that shows parents how to provide their children with a framework to reach their full potential and discover that growth can be an invigorating two-way street. In this rapidly changing world in which divorce,...
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When Kids Call the Shots: How to Seize Control from Your Darling Bully -- and Enjoy Being a Parent Again

Sean Grover · AMACOM/American Management Association
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Rebellious, entitled, disrespectful, many kids pummel their parents with demands, and boss them around with impunity. Experts might label them "difficult" and advise how to "fix" them. But parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile...
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The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and Those Who Love Them

Ayinde Howell · Vegan Heritage Press, LLC

emspA cookbook and advice guide for vegans dating non-vegans Delicious recipes by a respected chef and advice on relationships dating and sex when one wants tofu while the other wants a cheese burger Irreverent humor solid advice and good eatsemspThis combination cookbook and lifestyle...
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Family: The Good "F" Word: The Life-Changing Action Plan for Building Your Best Family

Troy Dunn , · Bird Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Troy Dunn shares his tested and proven tools for repairing a broken family. He believes that whether you are just feeling a little stagnant in your home life or are already at your wits end, there are clear steps to restore joy, connectedness and unity within your family or partnerships....
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Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism

Lauren K Hall · Baylor University Press
Pages: 188
Format: Print book

In Family and the Politics of Moderation, Lauren K. Hall argues that the family is a fulcrum upon which societal values balance. Hall describes a set of intermediate institutions that hold the power to alter polarized political and cultural views -- churches, religious institutions, local...
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Raising Boy Readers

Michael Sullivan · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Using stories and anecdotes to humanize the research presented, Raising Boy Readers conveys an understanding of the differences that are common among many boys and how these differences affect reading. It provides practical approaches to promote reading to boys, addressing physical differences,...
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Family Whispering: The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting with the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger

Melinda Blau · Atria Books
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

The long awaited Baby Whisperer's guide to building a strong and loving family.Parenting is something you do. Family is something you are. - Tracy Hogg Before her untimely death in 2004, Tracy - aka the Baby Whisperer - and her longtime collaborator, journalist Melinda Blau, conceived...
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