This book brings together in one volume a range of research articles and essays on what has become the most dynamic change in family structure in U.S. history and how it impacts society. It is a resource that makes work being done on the single-parent family phenomena accessible to general readers. It helps readers go beyond the stereotypes and look closely at the complexity of families with one parent and consider their place in society. It encompasses...

"The impact of globalization on world health has been extremely positive. However, the increased connectivity enabled by globalization also makes the health and well being of citizens around the world more important than ever. Global pandemics, natural disasters and air pollution, access to medical care, a healthy food chain, immunization education and availability, and economic disparity are all factors in creating a healthy population. Why is global...

"The last words of each line in a Golden Shovel poem are, in order, words from a line or lines taken from a Brooks poem. The poems are, in a way, secretly encoded to enable both a horizontal reading of the new poem and vertical reading down the right-hand margin of Brooks's original. An array of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, T. S. Eliot Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and National Poet Laureates, have written poems for this...