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  • The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood

    Edited by John Bock, Suzanne Gaskins, David F. Lancy ...
    The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

    From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What WeDo

    by Alan Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa ...
    Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians ruin their careers with sex scandals? Why and how do we really fall in love? This engaging book uses the ... Read more

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  • The Intelligence Paradox

    Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One

    by Satoshi Kanazawa ...
    A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligenceSatoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day." That book answered such burning questions as why women tend to lust after males who already ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Nature of Human Development

    by Barbara Rogoff ...
    Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the ... Read more

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  • Friendship

    Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship

    by Daniel J. Hruschka ...
    Series Book 5 - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
    Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Psychology

    Research and Applications

    by John W. Berry, Ype H. Poortinga, Seger M. Breugelmans, Athanasios Chasiotis, David L. Sam ...
    Cross-Cultural Psychology is a leading textbook offering senior undergraduate and graduate students a thorough and balanced overview of the whole field of cross-cultural psychology. The team of internationally acclaimed authors present the latest empirical research, theory, methodology and applications from around the world. They discuss all domains of behavior (including development, social ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Participant Observation

    A Guide for Fieldworkers

    by Billie R. DeWalt, Kathleen Musante (DeWalt) ...
    Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use of participant observation. The authors have written a guide to the collection of systematic data in ... Read more

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  • Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves

    A Gender Lens on Social Psychology

    by Jocelyn A. Hollander, Daniel G. Renfrow, Judith A. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The second edition of Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves has been updated throughout, and is an ideal introduction to the discussion of gender in social psychology.The book examines the basic underpinnings of everyday interaction: from how we think, to who we see ourselves and others to be, to how we interact with others. Each of these processes is based on both social psychology and gender (as ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Educating Emergent Bilinguals

    Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

    by Jo Anne Kleifgen, Ofelia García ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students’ futures, such as building on students’ home languages and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Frans de Waal Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Frans de Waal

    by Corey Kemp ...
    This book is your ultimate Frans de Waal resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Frans de Waal's whole picture right away. Get countless Frans de Waal facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Frans de Waal Handbook is ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
    Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Warriors and Worriers

    The Survival of the Sexes

    by Joyce F. Benenson ...
    The question of exactly what sex differences exist and whether they have a biological foundation has been one of our culture's favorite enduring discussions. It should. After a baby is born, a parent's first concern is for its physical health. The next concern is its sex. Only in the most modern societies does sex not virtually guarantee the type of future life a new human being will have. Even in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD