Introduction
Jonathan Herring
in Family Law: A Very Short Introduction
The Introduction looks at the situation in which family law finds itself today. The foundation of family life — marriage, parenthood, and childhood — has been undergoing rapid ...
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1. Marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation
Jonathan Herring
in Family Law: A Very Short Introduction
‘Marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation’ examines the changes that have recently taken place in the composition and nature of the family unit and asks: what is a family? Over recent ...
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4. Fernando Seeks a Wife: Sex and Blood
John Monaghan and Peter Just
in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Fernando Seeks a Wife’ examines the ways in which human beings form social ties through ties of blood and marriage. Using examples from the Mixtec and Dou Donggo, the importance of ...
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4. Politics and society
A. C. Grayling
in Russell: A Very Short Introduction
‘Politics and society’ considers Russell's thinking about morality, politics, ethics, and society as outlined in Human Society in Ethics and Politics and the shocking Marriage and Morals, a ...
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7. From monk to family man
Scott H. Hendrix
in Martin Luther: A Very Short Introduction
The Reformation was borne out of the crucial disputes of the era. For reformers, the right of clergy to marry would avert the hypocrisy of sexual practices of clergy living under the vow of ...
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5. The shaping of modern Sikhism
Eleanor Nesbitt
in Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Contemporary Sikhism was formed by the views of a group of influential intellectuals and political activists. The intellectuals were the 18th-century Tat (pure) Khalsa, and they presented ...
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6. Nineteenth-century Utah
Richard Lyman Bushman
in Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction
After Smith's death the movement split, the largest group being led by Brigham Young. Throughout the 19th century, Utah was the destination of more than 80,000 Mormons who migrated from the ...
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7. Civil injuries and the law of torts
G. Edward White
in American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction
‘Civil injuries and the law of torts’ explains that tort law's identity as a discrete field was initially associated with the rise and expansion of negligence as a standard of civil ...
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Federalism: A Very Short Introduction
Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox
Federalism: A Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the principles and operations of federalism, the political system defined by power sharing between a ...
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10. The mysteries
A. Edward Siecienski
in Orthodox Christianity: A Very Short Introduction
The Orthodox church has blessings and ceremonies for every occasion, but among the various rites of the church, seven have taken on a special significance. ‘The mysteries’ describes these ...
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Ageing: A Very Short Introduction
Nancy A. Pachana
Ageing: A Very Short Introduction discusses the lifelong dynamic changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning involved in ageing. Increased lifespans have ...
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10. Behaviour
E. P. Sanders
in Paul: A Very Short Introduction
‘Behaviour’ considers Paul's moral perfectionism. By examining how Paul dealt with behaviour, more illustrations of how he both upheld the law and maintained that Christians were not under ...
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8. Sexual and romantic development, early parenthood, and emerging adulthood
Peter K. Smith
in Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction
‘Sexual and romantic development, early parenthood, and emerging adulthood’ explains that as adolescents start to become reproductively mature at puberty, interest in sexual behaviour and ...
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Steve Bruce
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, Sociology: A Very Short Introduction explores ...
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7. The Future of Quakerism
Pink Dandelion
in The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
‘The future of Quakerism’ summarizes the differences between the three Quaker traditions and explores the future prospects of each as well as Quakerism as a whole. Evangelical, ...
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Family Law: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Herring
Family Law: A Very Short Introduction provides insight not only into what family law is, but why it is the way it is. How have laws had to respond to social changes in family ...
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6. The demographic transition—centrepiece of demography
Sarah Harper
in Demography: A Very Short Introduction
The demographic transition is regarded as a centrepiece of demography. It is the series of changes that occur as countries evolve from a stable state of high mortality and high fertility to ...
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1. Ageing, a brief history
Nancy A. Pachana
in Ageing: A Very Short Introduction
How has the construct of ageing, and attitudes towards it, changed over time? How have human beings from various historical epochs, cultures, and perspectives viewed ageing? What impact ...
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8. Creation and the Trinity
Henry Chadwick
in Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
As Augustine finished the Confessions, he started thinking about two topics which were to occupy him over many years: the exegesis of the first three chapters of Genesis and the doctrine of ...
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4. Sexuality
Damien Keown
in Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
The common perception of the Buddhist attitude towards sexuality is that Buddhism has a more liberated attitude than Christianity. ‘Sexuality’ examines this perception and sheds light on ...
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