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  • Sibling Relationships

    their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan

    Edited by M. E. Lamb, B. Sutton-Smith, Brian Sutton-Smith, Michael E. Lamb ...
    First published in 1982. Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family’s role in shaping the child’s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family— one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life

    by Jo Robinson, Dr. Patricia Love ...
    From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful effects that emotionally and psychologically invasive parents have on their children, and provides a program for overcoming the chronic problems that can result. ... Read more

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  • Robert Nozick

    Property, Justice and the Minimal State

    by Jonathan Wolff ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal `nightwatchman' state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls.Jonathan Wolff's new book is the first ... Read more

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  • The New Psychology of Language

    Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume I

    Edited by Michael Tomasello ...
    This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this variety of linguistics can offer their study of language and communication. In addition, it provides cognitive-functional linguists new models for ... Read more

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  • Culture and Human Development

    by Jaan Valsiner ...
    This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal development to adulthood.A key feature is the broad coverage of theoretical and methodological ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School

    by David N. Miller, Stephen E. Brock ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among young people—most notably in the form of forearm- or wrist-cutting—occurs across cultural groups, social strata, and developmental stages, puzzling and repelling adults. Youth engaging in NSSI behaviors are at a higher risk for suicidality as well as other mental health and academic problems. And because NSSI is often first noticed in the school setting (as is ... Read more

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  • Ready or Not

    Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Th

    by Kay S. Hymowitz ...
    "Children today grow up so fast!" How often we hear those words, uttered both in frustrated good humor and in dumbfounded astonishment. Every day the American people hear about kids doing things, both good and bad, that were once thought to be well beyond their scope: flying airplanes, running companies, committing mass murder. Creatures of the information age, today's children sometimes seem to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Adolescent Brain Development

    Implications for Behavior

    by Michelle K. Jetha, Sidney Segalowitz ...
    This comprehensive yet brief overview of the adolescent human brain discusses how the brain develops during this critical period of life and how that development impacts decision-making and risk-taking behavior in the adolescent. - This originated as a white paper requested by the Canadian government for a specific group looking to understand adolescent brain development in the context of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Development of Long-Term Retention

    Edited by Charles J. Brainerd, Valerie F. Reyna, Mark L. Howe ...
    For a number of decades now the study of children's memory development, with few exceptions, has been synonymous with the development of pro cesses that lead to the initial encoding and immediate retention of informa tion. Although there is little doubt that the study of such acquisition pro cesses is central to understanding memory development, the long-term retention of previously encoded ... Read more

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  • Young People’s Human Rights and the Politics of Voting Age

    by Sonja C. Grover ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age explores the broader societal implications of voting age eligibility requirements and the legislative bar against youth voting in North America and in Commonwealth countries (where ‘youth’ is defined as persons 16 and over but under age 18). The issue is raised as to whether the denial of the youth vote undermines democratic principles and ... Read more

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  • Epistemic Cognition and Development

    The Psychology of Justification and Truth

    by David Moshman ...
    Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people’s knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs. Multiple literatures in psychology and education address aspects of epistemic cognition. In the absence of a coherent conceptual framework, however, these literatures mostly fail to communicate with each other and often connect only loosely to genuine epistemology ... Read more

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  • Perceptual Development in infancy

    The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 20

    Edited by A. Yonas ...
    Series series Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series
    Each year, the Institute of Child Development brings together a group of distinguished investigators who share a common desire to understand the nature of development. The chapters in this volume are based on papers presented at the 20th of this continuing series, the Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology. The meetings were held October 31 through November 2, 1985, at the University of Minnesota. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD