Best Selling Books by Betty Carter

Its the 1940s and the WW11 is raging. There are six girls and three boys living with Mam in a log cabin with no electricity or running water. Pap comes home only when feels the notion lifes not easy. The struggles become even more real when thirteen year old Retha Pogue sees her eighteen year old brother, Wilburn, drafter and going off to war. Surprising twists await in this gripping story of what life was really like for so many families.

This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.

Discusses issues of accuracy, style, organization, and format as they relate to the evaluation of nonfiction books for young adults. Includes interviews with authors of nonfiction focusing on their publications and experiences.

In Love, Honor and Negotiate: Making your Marriage Work, family therapist Betty Carter offers a cutting-edge, common-sense approach to helping marriages survive, grow, and flourish: renegotiating the marriage contract.

Anyone Familiar With Current Literature On Child Sexual Abuse Knows That non-offending mothers are routinely blamed for allowing their children to be victimized. This book analyzes and challenges this orthodoxy. It explores why mothers are held responsive when they are not themselves offenders, and presents clear documentation of the institutionalized sexism they encounter in intervening agencies. Central to the study are the cases of twenty-four mothers whose children disclosed incidents of sexual abuse. Betty Carter follows the experiences of these women in detail, documenting the treatment they received from police, child-protection workers, counsellors, schools, courts, physicians, co-workers, and family members. She traces mother-blame to the specific wording of legislation, to the implementation of agency, policies, and to front-line practices. Using a feminist analysis, Carter argues that the practices and policies of various institutions reproduce and maintain familistic ideology and sexist practices. She has drawn on her years of experience as a child-protection worker and child-abuse specialist to formulate this challenging study.

El presente libro investiga el ambito de la familia desde una perspectiva feminista. Partiendo de los trabajos del Women s Project in Family Therapy, fundado en 1977 por las mismas autoras, se centra en el entorno familiar planteando aspectos, situaciones comunes y consecuencias de la socializacion basada en el genero en las relaciones dentro de la familia. En este sentido, el materia proporcionado por el texto esta proyectado para ser aplicable clinicamente y, para, facilitar este proceso, cada una de las autoras aporta un caso ilustrativo a cada capitulo. No es extrano, asi, que cada lector acabe encontrando una u otra orientacion teorica que le resulte familiar y afin a su propio modo de pensar y trabajar. Y por ello la obra no solo acaba constituyendo un excelente texto para cualquier tipo de cursos sobre las relaciones entre terapia familiar y estudios feministas, sino tambien una guia inestimable para los especialistas en salud mental y una lectura inspiradora para cualquier persona que desee explorar la red invisible de las pautas vinculadas al genero en las familias.

A Down-to-Earth Approach James Henslin shares the excitement of sociology in Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 11/e. With his acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach and personal writing style, the author highlights the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students' lives. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, Henslin stimulates students' sociological imagination so they can better perceive how the pieces of society fit together. In addition to this trademark down-to-earth approach, other distinctive features include: comparative perspectives, the globalization of capitalism, and visual presentations of sociology. MySocLab is an integral part of the Henslin learning program. Engaging activities and assessments provide a teaching a learning system that helps students see the world through a sociological lens. With MySocLab, students can develop critical thinking skills through writing, explore real-world data through the new Social Explorer, and watch the latest entries in the Core Concept Video Series. Revel from Pearson is a new learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Revel redesigns familiar and respected course content and enriches it for today's students with new dynamic, rich-media interactives and assessments. The result is improved student engagement and improved learning. Revel for Henslin will be available for Fall 2014 classes. This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. It: Personalizes Learning with MySocLab: MySocLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance. Explores a A Down-to-Earth Approach: This title highlights the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students' lives. Improves Critical Thinking: Features throughout help build critical thinking skills. Understands Social Change: An important theme of the text, social change over time, examines what society was previously like, how it has changed, and what the implications are for the present and future. ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase.

A rich dowager is persuaded to provide a temporary home for an unusual talking dog and her young charge, Annabel Tippens.