Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society

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This bestselling marriage and family text combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: "Making choices in a diverse society." The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological and ecological or family systems theoretical perspectives, while including extensive coverage of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The authors use warmth, humor, and an engaging presentation to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and marriage and family alternatives.Written by authorities in the subject, Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society by Mary Ann Lamanna and Agnes Riedmann provides an excellent foundation for your studies. Mary Ann Lamanna and Agnes Riedmann's style is excellently suited towards the topic, and will teach students the material clearly without overcomplicating the subject. What's more, the text is available in the Hardcover format shown above (ISBN 9780495390923), as well as a number of other formats. As of January 2008, this revision raises the bar for Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society's high standard of excellence, making sure that it stays one of the foremost textbooks on the subject.