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Smart Marriage Using Your (Business) Head as Well as Your Heart to Find Wedded Bliss
Allen M. Parkman
Book Code: C9455
ISBN: 0-275-99455-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99455-6
200 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2007
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)
Discount Price: $31.96 APA 20% Conference Discount. Use code C08APA. Save 20%. Ends 9/17/2008.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
  • Endorsement From David Popenoe
    Founder and Co-Director, the National Marriage Project
    Rutgers University:     Today's high divorce rate is due largely to the fact that marriage itself is so different from what it was in the past; new strategies are needed if the institution is to survive. Pragmatic thinking within a business framework, the strategy promoted by this wise and informative book, may be just what many people need to make their marriages a success.
  • Endorsement From David Blankenhorn,
    President, The Institute for American Values
    Author, The Future of Marriage:     Practical wisdom mixed with economic insights--an excellent guide for level-headed dreamers who want love to last.
  • Endorsement From Glenn T. Stanton,
    Author of Why Marriage Matters:     Professor Parkman speaks authoritatively from two things he knows very well: business management and happy marriage. He learned the first in his day job as a long-time professor of business management and the second in his 30+ years of happy marriage to his wife, Amy. Allen takes the wisdom learned from both of these rich lives and offers his reader keen and practical insight on how to make your marriage a success, doing so through pages that flow with the ease of a good novelist, not your typical business school professor. This book overflows with must-have wisdom and insight for any married or engaged couple.
Description: It might seem too practical, at first, to apply a business strategy to such an intimate and emotional quest as love and marriage. But a front page article in the Wall Street Journal in 2006 summed it up this way: "In their rush down the aisle, couples often think love will overcome any disagreements about savings and spending. It doesn't. So even among the most compatible couples, the pre-wedding vow of personal-finance silence leads to frustration, fights, and power struggles." And divorce, adds economist Allen Parkman. So look--and talk--before you leap. In this eye-opening book, Parkman shows how we can use our heads--in addition to our hearts--to find wedded bliss and avoid a failed marriage. Smart Marriage provides a framework Parkman claims will increase the chance of long-term success in marriage and help couples to weather the storms that come with all marriages. This framework will enable couples to jointly make good decisions, avoid financial stress and the other traps that bring so many into divorce court, and do right by the most important outcome of most marriages: the children.
LC Card Number: 2007028065
LCC Class: HQ734
Dewey Class: 646
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