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By Commission on Thrift 68 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-15-5
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Signed by sixty-six scholars and cosponsored by eight leading think tanks, For a New Thrift describes the growing polarization in today’s financial landscape between two very different kinds of institutions.
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By Claire Gaudiani 294 pages | ISBN 9781931764193 9781931764186 9781931764216
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In Generosity Unbound, Claire Gaudiani mounts a spirited defense of philanthropic freedom addressed to conservatives, liberals and centrists. She acknowledges the good intentions of those who favor greater regulation of private philanthropy, but powerfully demonstrates the dangers of this approach.
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By Commission on Children at Risk 84 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-04-9
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This pioneering report draws upon a large body of recent research showing that children are biologically primed (“hardwired”) for enduring connections to others and for moral and spiritual meaning.
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By Elizabeth Marquardt, Karen Clark and Norval D. Glenn 136 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-32-2
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My Daddy’s Name Is Donor reveals stunning findings about the lives of adult offspring of sperm donation, one of the most common reproductive technologies and one that has been practiced widely in the United States and around the world for decades.
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By Institute for American Values and National Center for African American Marriages and Parenting 36 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-16-2
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In The Marriage Index, a bipartisan group of scholars and leaders has carefully developed a set of Leading Marriage Indicators—fundamental, well-chosen measurements that accurately reveal the direction and overall health of marriage as a social institution.
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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 116 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-17-9
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State of Our Unions 2009 seeks to answer the following questions: How is the Great Recession affecting the institution of marriage, as measured by changes in marriage and divorce rates in the United States? How do family finances—especially credit card debt and family assets—shape the quality and stability of contemporary married life in America?
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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 115 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-22-3
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State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears finds that shifts in marriage mores, increases in unemployment, and declines in religious attendance have played a particularly important role in driving the retreat from marriage in middle America.
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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 120 pages | ISBN 9781931764254
The State of Our Unions 2011: When Baby Makes Three takes a look at men and women—with and without children—to determine how parenthood is linked to the emotional welfare of adults of childbearing age.
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By Benjamin Scafidi 44 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-14-8
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This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels.
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By Charles Butt, Edward Grazda, Raina Sacks Blankenhorn and Wilfred P. Thesiger ISBN 978-1-931764-29-2
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Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam.
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