Kathleen Fox: 7 books

Thanks for volunteering to be a stepparent! Do your very best, and you might just win—second place. This book encourages parents and stepparents to focus on the positives and make the "second-best" of a stepfamily as good as it can be. It offers practical solutions to common stepfamily problems. Its humorous, personal style makes it a readable and supportive guide.

The Big Bad Wolf a public servant with a clipboard and an attitude. Jack the Giant Killer a tattooed drug dealer out of control. Snow White's frustrated stepmother, doing her best to be fair. Mama Bear coping with a little golden-haired home invader and the child welfare system. Cinderella...

This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...

While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for...