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  • Nature's Music

    The Science of Birdsong

    by Hans Slabbekoorn, Peter R. Marler ...
    The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Cognitive Ethology

    Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin

    Edited by Peter Marler, Carolyn A. Ristau ...
    Series series Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series
    This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitive ethology. Stimulated by his work, this volume presents ideas and experiments in the field of cognitive ethology -- the exploration of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment during the course of their normal lives ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis

    by Peter Fonagy ...
    A BestsellerAttachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought."The book every student, colleague, and even rival theoretician has been waiting for. With characteristic wit, philosophical ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Natural History of Human Thinking

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The First Idea

    How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

    by Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart Shanker ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of how humans develop language skills through emotional interactions.In this highly original work, one of the world's most distinguished child psychiatrists together with a philosopher at the forefront of ape and child language research present a startling hypothesis—that the development of our higher-level symbolic thinking, language, and social skills cannot be ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Emotion in the Human Face

    Edited by Paul Ekman ...
    Emotion in the Human Face, originally published in 1972, was the first volume to evaluate and integrate all research on facial expression of emotion since Darwin published The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals a century earlier. In that edition, Dr. Ekman presented a detailed, critical discussion of research involving the face and emotion, focusing on the complex conceptual and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology

    by Peter Mitchell, Fenja Ziegler ...
    This new edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exciting new findings in the thriving area of developmental psychology.The book addresses a number of fascinating questions including:Are children born good or bad?What do children understand about the mind?What roles do nature and nurture play ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cognitive Gadgets

    The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

    by Cecilia Heyes ...
    “This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • Developmental Psychology

    A Student's Handbook

    by Margaret Harris, George Butterworth ...
    Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth have produced an outstanding volume that includes recent research from Britain, Europe, and the USA.The text is designed for undergraduate students who have little or no prior ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

    by Robert C. Richardson ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior

    by Sara J. Shettleworth ...
    How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to different ... Read more

    $83.69 USD