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Kinship : it's all relative / by Arnold, Jackie Smith.(CARDINAL)203349;
Subjects: Kinship.; Genealogy.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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Fairy tale [large print] / by Ellis, Alice Thomas.(CARDINAL)717747;
A comedy on a woman in Wales who gives birth to a baby without having been pregnant. Two older women solve the mystery, discovering that Eloise was chosen by fairies to procreate a fairy.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Country life; Fairies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kinship : it's all relative / by Arnold, Jackie Smith,author.(CARDINAL)203349;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-112) and index.Kinship. Why does kinship matter? ; How the family got started ; Enter the patriarchy -- Marriage. Marriage ; Divorce ; Live-ins -- Kinship groups. Belonging to a family ; Types of family ; Ascents and descents ; Three families at once -- Our three families. Family of orientation ; Family of procreation ; Family of affinity -- Family. Family defined ; Family law ; Children ; Adoption ; Adoption annulments ; Responsibilities to other relatives ; Grandparents' rights ; Grandparents resource test ; Miscellaneous ; Vital statistics -- Names. Surnames of married women ; Surnames of children ; First names ; Name changes -- Wills -- Kinship and your health. Your genetic inheritance ; Al, in vitro, and surrogacy ; Medical charts. Medical charts. Children. Siblings. Self and spouse. Parents. Grandparents. Great-grandparents -- Tracing your family tree. Family history ; Immediate sources ; More distant sources ; Why research? -- Kinship and the future. Families in the future ; Kinship, who needs it? -- Kinship update : same-sex marriage.Assigning relationships within a family tree can quickly become complicated. What is a second cousin twice removed, or a third or fourth cousin once removed? Answers to these questions, and to ones concerning many other possible combinations, are found in this enlarged second edition of a 2002 work. In an informal, somewhat folksy tone, Arnold addresses multiple interpretations of kinship and how changing customs and laws affect our understanding of it. Degrees of kinship are explored within contexts such as marriage, adoption, surrogacy, inheritance (both genetic and worldly goods), naming conventions, and more. Explanatory charts and tables, lists of laws by state, record-agency addresses, and other resource lists are mixed with anecdotes and reflections on past, present, and future interpretations of family--and why understanding familial connections is important.
Subjects: Reference works.; Informatioal works.; Kinship.; Genealogy.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The book of Flora / by Elison, Meg,author.(CARDINAL)630732;
In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world. They seek refuge aboard a ship where gender is fluid, where the dynamic is uneasy, and where rumors flow of a bold new reproductive strategy. When the promise of a miraculous hope for humanity's future tears Flora's makeshift family asunder, she must choose: protect the safe haven she's built or risk everything to defy oppression, whatever its provenance.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Women; Gender nonconformity; Gender-nonconforming people; Space ships; Women.; Womyn.; Gender non-conforming people.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan / by Missner, Marshall,1942-(CARDINAL)507325;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Leviathan -- Introduction -- Part I: Of man -- Of sense -- Of imagination -- Of the consequence or train of imagination -- Of speech -- Of reason and science -- The passions -- Of the ends, or resolutions of discourse -- Intellectual virtues -- Of the several subjects of knowledge -- Of power, worth, dignity, honor and worthiness -- Of the difference of manners -- Of religion -- Of the natural condition of mankind as -- Concerning their felicity and misery -- Of the first and second natural laws and of contracts -- Of other laws of nature -- Of persons, authors and personated things -- Part II: Of commonwealth -- Of the causes, generation and definition of a commonwealth -- Of the rights of sovereigns by institution -- Of the several kinds of commonwealth by institution and the secession to the sovereign power -- Of paternal and despotic dominion -- Of the liberty of subjects -- Of systems subject, political and private -- Of the public ministers of sovereign power -- Of the nutrition and procreation of a commonwealth -- Of counsel -- Of civil laws -- Of crimes, excuses and extenuations -- Of punishments or rewards -- Of those things that weaken, or tend to the dissolution of a commonwealth -- Of the office of the sovereign representative -- Of the kingdom of God by nature.
Subjects: Political science; State, The;
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Documents of the Christian Church / by Bettenson, Henry,1908-1979.(CARDINAL)709619; Maunder, Chris.(CARDINAL)537440;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-514) and index.The church and the world -- Creeds -- The earliest testimony to the Gospels -- The person and work of Christ -- The problem of the relation of the divinity and the humanity in Christ -- Pelagianism, human nature, sin, and grace -- The church, the ministry, and the sacraments -- The authority of the Holy See -- Doctrine and development : the Vincentian canon -- Christian inscriptions -- From Chalcedon to the breach between East and West -- The empire and the papacy -- Monasticism and the friars -- The church and heresy -- The conciliar movement -- Scholasticism -- The church in England until the Reformation -- The Reformation on the continent -- The Reformation in England -- The Roman Catholic Church from the Counter-Reformation to the Second Vatican Council -- The British churches in the seventeenth century -- The British churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council -- The twentieth-century world churches : justice, peace, and the environment -- The twentieth-century world churches and inter-faith dialogue -- The twentieth-century churches and Christian unity -- The twentieth-century churches : sexuality and procreation -- The churches and twenty-first-century issues.This selection of writings vividly captures the most important moments in the history of Christianity, providing insights into 200 years of Christian theological and political debate. While retaining the original material selected by Henry Bettenson, Chris Maunder has added a substantial section of more recent writings. These illustrate the Second Vatican Council; the theologies of liberation; Church and State from 'Thatcher's Britain' to Communist Eastern Europe; Black, feminist, and ecological theology; ecumenism; and inter-faith dialogue. The emphasis on moral debate in the contemporary churches is reflected in selections discussing questions about homosexuality, divorce, AIDS, and in-vitro fertilization, amongst other issues. Much of the new material, in section XVIII, represents debate on issues with origins in the twentieth century but which, in the new century, has reached heightened levels of urgency and concern, mainly on the global growth of Christianity, global poaverty, the global economic debt, social justice, migration, disability, domestic violence and child abuse, addiction, climate change, tensions between the 'West' and the Middle East, mission in a multi-faith socaiety, mission in a secular society, genetic engineering, the Internet, progress on Christian unity, the unity of the Anglican communion.
Subjects: Church history;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Children of men [videorecording] / by Cuarón, Alfonso,director,screenwriter.; Ejiofor, Chiwetel.1977-actor.; James, P. DMotion picture adaptation of (work):Children of men.; Moore, Julianne,actor.; Owen, Clive,actor.;
Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine, Charlie Hunnam.Set in 2027, scientists are at a loss to explain why humans can no longer procreate, but the discovery of a lone pregnant woman leads to a desperate journey to protect her and save the future of mankind.MPAA rating: R.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; James, P. D; Dystopias; Human reproduction;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Children of men [videorecording] / by Cuarón, Alfonso,film director,screenwriter.; Shor, Hilary,film producer.; Caine, Michael,actor.(CARDINAL)343352; Moore, Julianne,actor.(CARDINAL)530996; Owen, Clive,actor.(CARDINAL)349521; Ejiofor, Chiwetel,actor.; Hunnam, Charlie,1980-actor.(CARDINAL)343363; Lubezki, Emmanuel,cinematographer.; James, P. D.Children of men.; Hit and Run Productions,production company.; Strike Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Universal Pictures (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)318695; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)344011;
Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki.Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam.Set in 2027, scientists are at a loss to explain why humans can no longer procreate, but the discovery of a lone pregnant woman leads to a desperate journey to protect her and save the future of mankind.MPAA rating: R.DVD; wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Film adaptations.; Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; James, P. D.; Dystopias; Human reproduction;
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Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 36
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Goddess complex : a novel / by Sathian, Sanjena,author.;
"Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister's while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward-and finalize her divorce, ASAP. There's just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she's bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if she'd chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger, and more tempting than she imagined. A darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting, Goddess Complex is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned self-care influencers, optimization cults, internet mommy gurus, egg freezing, and much more." -- Publisher annotation.
Subjects: Novels.; Fertility; Identity (Psychology); Life change events; Domestic fiction.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 21
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The second chance store / by Bravo, Lauren,author.(CARDINAL)880030;
"Dolly Alderton Gwen is coasting through life. She's in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council's wheelie-bin timetable. And she's lonely. But then, isn't everyone? When she's made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy dinner. There she has the best sticky toffee pudding of her life and realises she has no one to tell. She vows to begin living her life fully, reconnect with her friends and family, and finally book that dentist's appointment. Gwen decides to start where all things get a second chance: her local charity shop. There, with the help of the weird and wonderful people and donated items bursting with untold stories, Gwen will find a way to move forward with bravery, tenacity, and more regular dental care. Dazzlingly witty, Preloved is a tale about friendship, loss and being true to yourself no matter the expectations. Lovingly celebrating the enduring power and joy of charity shops."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Women; Friendship; Self-realization in women; Interpersonal relations; Thrift shops; Women.; Womyn.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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