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Human Intimacy: Marriage, the Family and Its Meaning

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This book was for my granddaughter for a class at our local junior colloege. She needed it asap and the seller went out of her way to get it to us before her class. The book was in excellent shape.

The Book was in a very good condition but it didnt come with InfoTrac. I was not happy.

This book is great! Not like other books that are boring, this keeps you into it from the beginning!

Please do not make the same mistake I made. If you are trying to buy a "new" book from this seller, think twice because you might get a used one instead. I paid for a "new" book advertised by this seller but the book I received (after 17 days) was in used condition. I contacted the seller to try to get a refund of the difference between the price of a new book vs. a used one but the seller just ignored my request. I will never purchase from this seller again!

This book got here when I needed it but it was the wrong edition. Who would of known? Good thing it was cheap

This text was used in a 100 level Soc. class at a local Western NY college. The Professor was great at trying to present the material, but the "agenda" of the material presented by Cox is clear. The book has to its fault presented conclusions of Cox, as fact statements, without presentation of proofs. The evolution of the "institution" of marriage is poorly served by Cox and his insistance on calling almost anything two or more people do together, a qualified "family", gives us pause. Definitions are too wide and unworkable. It could be used in a health class at Junior High to teach "relationship training", but we should get this stuff from mom and dad. Stay home, talk to your parents a lot and skip Cox. Its TOO long for what it does have to say. Another text to develope a college class around. The presentation of material on communications should properly have been seperated into another text for a communication class. If your using this to learn Soc. at home, it may be OK. But there is too much that does not need to be here for a Soc. of the Family course. A teacher may love it till he has to establish the curve because nobody could consume it in 15 weeks. Take it slow if you must, a chapter at a time, and take with many large grains of salt.