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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Management Today | |
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| What Is Management? | |
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| The Management Process | |
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| Successful Plans: Putting Management into Action | |
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| Why Manage? | |
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| Who Manages? | |
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| Influences on Management Styles | |
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| Interdisciplinary Foundation | |
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| Life Management for Individuals and Families | |
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| Managing the Second Half of Life | |
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| Singles, Households, and Families | |
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| Changes in Family Composition | |
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| What Lies Ahead? | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Management History and Theories | |
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| The Early Years of Management | |
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| Four Eras of Management | |
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| Theory Overview | |
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| Functions of Theory | |
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| Theories Ahead | |
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| Systems Theory | |
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| Open and Closed Families | |
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| Subsystems and System Elements | |
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| The Personal System | |
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| The Family System | |
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| Applications of Systems Theory to Households | |
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| Human Ecology and Ecosystems | |
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| Economic Theory | |
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| Optimization and Satisficing | |
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| Risk Aversion | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Management Concepts and Principles | |
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| Values, Attitudes, and Goals | |
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| Values and Attitudes | |
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| Types of Values | |
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| Values, Lifestyles, and Consumption | |
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| Societal and Cultural Values | |
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| Families, Values, Standards, and Households | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Goals | |
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| Goals versus Habits | |
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| Goal Attributes | |
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| Types of Goals | |
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| Setting Goals | |
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| College Students' Values and Goals | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Resources | |
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| Resources Defined | |
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| Types of Resources | |
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| Resources and Economics | |
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| Resource Attributes and Models | |
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| Cultural Perceptions of Resources | |
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| Resources, Families, and Households | |
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| Consumption and Resources | |
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| Resource Strategy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Decision Making and Problem Solving | |
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| Decision Making as Part of Management | |
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| Steps in Decision Making | |
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| Models, Rules, and Utility | |
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| Reference Groups | |
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| Personal Decision Making | |
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| Family Decision Making | |
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| Consumer Decision Making in Families | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Definition, Analysis, and Plan of Action | |
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| Uncertainty and Risk | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating | |
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| What Is Planning? | |
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| The Planning Process and Task | |
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| Need Fulfillment | |
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| Time, Stress, and Planning | |
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| Standard Setting | |
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| Scheduling and Sequencing | |
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| Attributes of Plans | |
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| Types of Plans | |
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| What Is Implementing? | |
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| Actuating | |
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| Checking and Controlling | |
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| What Is Evaluating? | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Communication | |
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| Communication as Part of the Management Process | |
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| Sending and Receiving | |
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| Listening | |
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| Messages | |
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| Channels | |
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| Noise | |
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| Feedback/Response | |
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| Setting | |
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| Communication Conflicts | |
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| In Families | |
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| Across Cultures | |
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| Communication in Small Groups | |
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| Group Discussions and Cohesion | |
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| Information and Communication Technology | |
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| Information Overload and Habitual Decision Making | |
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| Computers and the Human Capacity to Process Information | |
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| The Role of the Home and the Individual | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Management Applications | |
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| Managing Human Resources | |
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| Population Shifts: Measuring Human Resources | |
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| Population Terms and Trends | |
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| Population Age and Composition | |
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| Households and Families | |
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| The Nature of Change | |
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| Mobility | |
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| Managing Change | |
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| Meeting Individual, Family, and Societal Needs | |
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| Dual-Earner and Dual-Career Couples | |
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| Children and Child Care | |
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| Elderly, Elder Care, and Aging | |
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| The Homeless | |
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| Individuals with Disabilities | |
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| Single-Parent and Blended Families | |
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| Poverty and Low-Income Families | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Time | |
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| Time as a Resource | |
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| Discretionary versus Nondiscretionary Time | |
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| Personal Computers and Time | |
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| The ABC Method of Time Control | |
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| Time Perceptions | |
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| Perceptions of Time across Cultures | |
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| Biological Time Patterns | |
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| Quantitative and Qualitative Time Measures | |
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| Demands, Sequencing, and Standards | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Work and Family | |
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| Overview of Work and Family | |
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| The Problem of Work and Family Conflicts | |
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| Resolving Work and Family Conflicts | |
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| Family-Supportive Workplace Policies | |
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| The Meaning of Work and Leisure | |
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| The Work Ethic | |
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| Workaholism | |
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| The Three P's: Procrastination, Parkinson's Law, and Pareto's Principle | |
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| Workforce Trends Including Home-Based Businesses | |
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| Volunteer Work | |
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| Leisure | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Stress and Fatigue | |
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| Stress: Definition, Theory, and Research | |
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| Crisis and Adaptation to Stress | |
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| Decision Making and Stress | |
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| The Body's Response to Stress | |
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| Diet, Exercise, and Stress | |
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| Stress Management | |
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| Techniques for Reducing Stress | |
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| Burnout | |
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| Stress and Non-Events | |
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| Parents, Children, and Stress | |
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| College Students and Stress | |
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| Fatigue: Definition and Sources | |
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| The Body and Fatigue | |
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| Systems Theory: Sleep, Energy, and Fatigue | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Environmental Resources | |
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| The Ecosystem and Environmentalism | |
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| Problem Recognition | |
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| Individual and Family Decision Making | |
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| Environmental Problems and Solutions | |
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| Water | |
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| Energy | |
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| Noise | |
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| Waste and Recycling | |
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| Air Quality | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Finances | |
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| What Is Financial Management? | |
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| Individuals and Families as Producers and Consumers | |
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| Income, Net Worth, Budgets, Savings, and Credit | |
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| Banking, Investments, and Insurance | |
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| Expenses Related to Children | |
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| Retirement Planning | |
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| Financial and Economic Concerns | |
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| Recession, Depression, Inflation, and Unemployment | |
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| College Students and Money Management | |
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| The Gender Gap and the Glass Ceiling | |
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| Poverty and Wealth | |
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| Where Does Money Go? | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Future Challenges | |
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| Technology | |
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| Computers, Home Automation, and Other Home Innovations | |
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| Information and Innovation Overload | |
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| Family and Global Change | |
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| Quality of Life and Well-Being | |
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| Multiculturalism | |
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| Environment | |
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| Technology, Society, and the Environment | |
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| Electronic Resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |