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01.29: All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
2014-12-18 22:04:26| Powells Books Events Calendar
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children, but almost none have thought to ask: What are the effects of children on their parents? In All Joy and No Fun (Ecco), award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear. Recruiting from a wide variety of sources — in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology — Senior dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing in later chapters to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations — and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards. Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture's most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives.
The Water Paradox: Plant Safety and Sanitation in a Wet Environment
2014-08-12 22:37:00| Food Processing
Water is the primary ingredient in virtually all beverages, but process water can create as many problems as it solves. Using less water is the solution except when it's not.
Tags: water
environment
safety
plant
Ice storm paradox: Colder because Earth is warmer
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With the American South locked in a deep freeze, you can be sure that plenty of the folks suffering through the snow and ice storms are interpreting the big chill as more proof that global warming is a hoax. "Warming?' they scoff. "How can the planet be warming when it's so darn cold?' People in other parts of the world seem to have no great difficulty understanding the science but, in the good old USA where quite a few people consider science just another political opinion, it is going to take...
Portugal's seasonal jobs paradox
2013-06-28 02:25:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Why are the jobless shunning work in tourist bars?
Tags: jobs
seasonal
paradox
portugals
US Logistics Infrastructure Paradox
2013-06-13 23:41:06| Logistics - Topix.net
Of all the issues we have and do follow here at Supply Chain Digest, perhaps the most difficult one for me to really get my arms around is the state of US logistics infrastructure.
Tags: infrastructure
logistics
paradox