Henry Carter Hull

Many women, and a minority of men, are deciding that ‘adequate’ marriages are inadequate. They are driving an explosion of ‘grey’ divorce and remarriage in the over-50s. With children departing into their own journeys and ever-longer lives stretching out ahead, more mature adults are leaping, unconventionally and aspirationally, at a last chance at love.Most of the existing literature discourages them. The dominant mantra of books, counsellors...

Three women. Three generations. Sacrifices for love. Who is she, really? Nicole is about to find out as she searches for her real mother, the woman who gave her away at birth. With her marriage in tatters, she sets out from England, traveling to Spain, Jersey and Guernsey before the extraordinary story of her real family is finally revealed. Nicole becomes an unwitting catalyst for change in the family. Two women are forced to reveal long-buried...

Margaret Murray Robertson (22 April 1823 – 14 February 1897) was a Scottish-Canadian teacher and writer. Margaret was born in Stuartfield, Scotland, 22 April 1823, the daughter of Reverend James Robertson and Elizabeth Murray. She had a sister Mary and brothers John, Joseph, and Andrew. In 1832, her mother died, whereupon the devout family emigrated to Derby, Vermont. Four years later, they moved to Sherbrooke in Quebec. Both Mary and Margaret attended...

Elizabeth Jones Towne (May 11, 1865 – June 1, 1960) was an influential writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help movements. Both Elizabeth Towne and her second husband were for many years associated with the International New Thought Alliance (INTA), and served on its board in various capacities. She served as the president of INTA in 1924. In 1926 she ran for and successfully obtained a seat on the board of aldermen, the predecessor...

Most driving literature for parents focuses on how to teach a teen to drive, without explaining why teen driving is so dangerous in the first place or giving parents a plan to preempt hazards. Providing fully updated and expanded advice, this second edition of Not So Fast empowers and guides parents, guardians, and other adults who supervise teen drivers. Coauthors Tim Hollister, a father who lost his teenage son in a crash, and Pam Shadel Fischer,...

Parenthood represents a fundamental construct that identifies the quality of early adult-infant interactions. In both short and long periods, relationships, as primary interactional experiences, have an essential role in influencing an individual's adjustment and psychopathology development during in lifetime.

In this scenario, the most important areas of interest and innovation are (a) parents' representation of themselves, both in relation

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For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of no significance. It is a “good” law, no matter what it does or justifies. The question of one's consent or opposition to any particular law is extraneous to the legality and is regarded merely as a political matter. The assumption is that a certain procedure and logic in law creation has taken place,...

Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist and travel writer, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. Martineau has also been called the first female sociologist and the first female journalist in England. She was the first sociologist to study such issues as marriage, children, religious life, and race relations. She called on sociologists to do more...

"The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you go-really-to save someone you love?"--

A pitch-perfect exploration of modern married life, Jessica Saunders’s deliciously readable novel embraces the truth that some old flames can’t be snuffed out, no matter how many years go by. Rachel Miller is a lawyer and mother of two who’s just as comfortable in a courtroom as she is on the sidelines of a soccer field. Sure, her marriage is on autopilot, her parents are overly involved, and the other suburban moms are just a little bit catty....