Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: c c carlson

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  • THE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT IN FAMILY POLITICS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science. It portrays how these two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a new domestic order in Sweden. The book focuses on the Myrdals' unique fusion of socialism and feminism with nationalism and pro-nationalism in their joint 1934 book...

    $1,240.00

  • ENERGY FUTURES, HUMAN VALUES, AND LIFESTYLES
    RICHARD C CARLSON
    The contours of our energy future are most clearly presented as hard and painful choices. We can, for instance, maintain-perhaps even greatly improve-our current living standards, but at tremendous cost to our environment and to our physical and human resources. Alternatively, we can opt for a more humane society and in many ways a richer life with ...

    $1,200.00

  • FRACTURED GENERATIONS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely heard in America. Individual states maintained laws governing marriage, divorce, education, inheritance, and child protection, which regulated the formation, childrearing practices, and dissolution of families. However, these scattered policy issues were not seen as closely related. Until the 1960s, the nuclear family was a...

    $1,560.00

  • CONJUGAL AMERICA
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America. Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divorce and broad acquiescence to cultures of divorce and intentional childlessness, have stripped traditional marriage of important legal supports. Half of all marriages end in divorce and just as many are childless. Conjugal America...

    $1,320.00

  • THE NATURAL FAMILY WHERE IT BELONGS
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the "sexual" merges with the "economic" through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first century America and Europe. Allan C. Carlson argues that recreating a family...

    $1,340.00

  • THE NEW AGRARIAN MIND
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority. The social benefits of rural life - a sense of independence, commitment to democ...

    $1,320.00

  • GODLY SEED
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders eventually followed the mainstream into a quiet embrace of contraception, complemented by a brief acceptance of abortion. It p...

    $1,460.00

  • FAMILY CYCLES
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    In this paradigm-shifting volume, Allan C. Carlson identifies and examines four distinct cycles of strength or weakness of American family systems. This distinctly American family model includes early and nearly universal marriage, high fertility, close attention to parental responsibilities, complementary gender roles, meaningful intergenerational bonds, and relative stability...

    $1,340.00

  • THE NATURAL FAMILY
    ALLAN C. CARLSON
    Sixty years ago, the UN declared the family to be the "natural and fundamental" unit of society. Today, many people are unsure as to what the word "family" even means. In response to this confusion, The Natural Family: Bulwark of Liberty defines the family based on universal human experience. Insisting, without apology, on the reality of the "natural family," the manifesto issu...

    $1,320.00

  • BOUNDARIES OF JOURNALISM
    MATT CARLSON / SETH C. LEWIS
    The concept of boundaries has become a central theme in the study of journalism. In recent years, the decline of legacy news organizations and the rise of new interactive media tools have thrust such questions as "what is journalism" and "who is a journalist" into the limelight. Struggles over journalism are often struggles over boundaries. These symbolic contests for control o...

    $1,320.00

  • INVASION OF OTHER GODS
    DAVID JEREMIAH / C. C. CARLSON
    A critical look at New Age spirituality by a Christian pastor inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame. New Age philosophy is really ancient paganism repackaged for modern consumption. In Invasion of Other Gods, Illumination Book Award winner David Jeremiah shows how this form of spirituality has flooded our culture with teachings and terminology that clea...

    $229.00

  • THE ABYSS OR LIFE IS SIMPLE
    COURTNEY BENDER / JEREMY BILES / LIANE CARLSON / JOSHUA DUBLER / HANNAH C. GARVEY / M. COOPER HARRISS / WI
    An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard’s writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with th...

    $436.78

  • IMAGE
    MARK C. TAYLOR / MARY-JANE RUBENSTEIN / THOMAS A. CARLSON
    The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store,...

    $506.69