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HistoryFrancisco,Kids,Kinship,Queer,Religion,Street,Tenderloin

By:Joseph Plaster
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:147801895X

In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin distri ...

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MiscCelebrity,Couples,Cultural,Kinship,Love,Politics,Power

By:Shelley Cobb
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1628921226

With the prominence of one-name couples (Brangelina, Kimye) and famous families (the Smiths, the Beckhams), it is becoming increasingly clear that celebrity ...

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Self-developmentChristian,Guide,Kinship,Marriage,Modern,Queer

By:David Khalaf
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0664264611

Same-sex marriage may be legal in America, but its still far from the accepted norm, especially in Christian circles. So where can LBGTQ Christians who desi ...

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MiscConsent,Contemporary,Jewish,Kinship,Political,Tradition

By:Martin Daly
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1138526754

A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishmen ...

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MiscAssociations,City,Ethnicity,Jewish,Kinship,Voluntary,York

By:William E. Mitchell
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1138526797

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an ...

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MedicineContemporary,Donors,Ethnography,Kinship,Legality,Matching,Organs,Transplants

By:Marie-Andree Jacob
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:081224432X

While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line bet ...

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MiscCommunity,Heartland,Kinship,Poverty

By:David L. Harvey
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1138530557

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight wi ...

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Audio BooksAudiobook,Cosmos,Imagination,Kinship,Possibility,Quest,Science

By:Jaime Green
Update:2023
ISBN/ASIN:B0B8Q3K6SM

A spellbinding exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the possibility of life on other planets shapes our understanding of humanity. One of ...

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HistoryCritical,Genealogies,Indigeneity,Kinship,Korean,Race,relationality,Warring

By:Joo Ok Kim
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1439920575

Warring Genealogies examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean ...

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MiscCulture,Kinship,Material,Poland

By:Siobhan Magee
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0367727935

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can wearing ...