Shared Fate has become a classic. Continuing to challenge a pervasive mystique about adoption, the important second edition belongs in every library and with every adoptive family. Based on research with more than 2,000 families, this pioneering work on modern adoption emphasizes open communication as the key to successful resolution of the adoptive family's unique role and tasks. Its findings have stood the test of time. Although new forms of adoption have emerged and become numerically dominant, the book's findings remain pertinent.

Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Kirk, H. David

Adoption

Ben-Simon Pubns

Adoptive Kinship is a systematic analysis of the continuing controversy concerning the civil rights of adopted persons. Provides in-depth exploration of a variety of issues in adoption law and social policy, such as step-parent adoption, incest rules and child welfare activities. While identifying real troubles in adoption, it proposes humane, innovative answers.

Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform

These lyrical drawings and poems explore the theme of newborns in crisis. For the first time, the skill of artist and poet has been put to use in the technological environment of the neonatal intensive care ward. Heather Spears has opened a door hitherto closed to all but some health professionals and parents. In Drawings From the Newborn she discovers a poignant beauty within an otherwise harsh reality. Unlike a text on nursing, medical care or the difficulties of parenting premature babies, this work speaks to all through the language of art.

Drawings from the Newborn: Poems and Drawings of Infants in Crisis

Literature & Fiction

Spears, Heather

Poetry

Published in honor of David Kirk's 70th birthday, this collection of many of his path-breaking essays serves as a record of a long journey of courageous exploration. Few social scientists have so persistently investigated a single facet of human life. Even fewer have presented complex ideas and important findings in so clear, engaging and readily understandable a language. Topics include: adoption of minority children, a preference for girls, adoption and child development, adopted children and stress, and the legal application of the "best interest of the child." Kirk's original research instruments for the Shared Fate studies are included for the use of students and researchers.

Exploring Adoptive Family Life: The Collected Adoption Papers of H. David Kirk

When Bunny Luft is told that her son is in danger, she searches for the child she gave up 28 years earlier, unaware that this son, Marvin Kalish, a stand-up comic, is the Messiah

The Truth About Marvin Kalish: A Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cohen, Martin Samuel

Mystery

In this passionate yet controlled memoir, a woman returns after more than half a century to the city of her birth. Hidden as a very young child in Belgium during World War II, she is one of the Jewish refugees the German city has invited for a reunion. In Paris, her new hometown, and in Mnchengladbach as a visitor, she searches for the lost past. The book ends on a hopeful note.

Now You Are Sara: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

ALEXANDER, Caroline

Historical

Among the dangers facing the Jewish people today is the concerted effort of so-called historical revisionists to deny the reality of the Holocaust. Among the most dangerous of the "revisionists" is David Irving who, with the trappings of the respectable historian--research and sources--has become the darling of neo-Nazi activists. Eberhard Jckel, Professor of History at the University of Stuttgart, has answered Irving's falsehoods. This book has been build around a translation of Dr. Jackel's work.

David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected

History

Jäckel, Eberhard

World

Fourteen-year-old Slava Lenski recounts her family's adjustment to life in Montreal after fleeing Warsaw, Poland, in 1947

The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War & Peace

Teen & Young Adult

Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian

Historical Fiction

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