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	The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change 3.65 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, 2nd Edition 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change by Philip N. Cohen(2014-08-12) by Philip N. Cohen (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

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Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)

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Philip Cohen rated a book it was amazing Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It: The first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change by Arthur Snell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Philip Cohen rated a book it was amazing End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Philip Cohen rated a book really liked it Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty by Anna Louie Sussman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Disappointingly, Sussman never grapples with the fact that the main reason people are having fewer children today is because they want to. The stories about people struggling to have children are good, but stories of people who don't want children, o ...more
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Philip Cohen rated a book it was amazing The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Philip Cohen rated a book did not like it You Will Not Replace Us! by Renaud Camus	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I tore through For Better and Worse yesterday (release day) and today. Of course, I had been waiting for it. Over the last several years I have periodically had the privilege of corresponding with Stephanie about it, providing whatever assistance I c ...more
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Philip Cohen rated a book it was amazing Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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