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  • Visions of Aesthetics, the Environment & Development

    the Legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill

    Edited by Roger M. Downs, Lynn S. Liben, David S. Palermo ...
    Series series Penn State Series on Child and Adolescent Development
    Derived from a conference honoring the legacy of Joachim Wohlwill, this volume is designed to reflect as many facets of the late scholar's wide-ranging work as possible. As its title indicates, the book identifies three broad areas in which Wohlwill made significant contributions: art and aesthetics, human-environment interaction, and concepts of development. In each of these areas Wohlwill made ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    by Nadine Burke Harris ...
    “An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, Robert J. Sternberg, PhD ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • Learning to Learn More: Strategies to Quickly Overcome the Learning Curve

    by R S ...
    Simple and Useful Concepts for Overcoming the Learning CurveLearn How to Regain Control of Gaining New SkillsAre you struggling with learning difficulties, and don't even know it?Do you feel like your memory is slipping and you're not going anywhere in life?Do you just want to give up learning new things because the learning process is too hard?Are you frustrated by not being able to learn how to ... Read more

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  • Children's Understanding

    The Development of Mental Models

    by Graeme S. Halford ...
    This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Playful Brain

    Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience

    by Sergio Pellis, Vivien Pellis ...
    A groundbreaking study into the formative role of play in our livesSergio and Vivien Pellis have synthesized three decades of empirical research to create a remarkable work, unequalled in its field.A book that will not only expand our current knowledge of play behaviour, but will inspire change and progress from the laboratory to the playground. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Visual Aspects of Dyslexia

    Edited by John Stein, Zoï Kapoula ...
    Dyslexia affects about 10% of all children and is a potent cause of loss of self-confidence, personal and family misery, and waste of potential. Although the dominant view is that it is caused by specifically linguistic/phonological weakness, recent research within the field of neuroscience has shown that it is associated wtih visual processing problems as well. These discoveries have led to a ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development

    by Sara Meadows ...
    Series series Essays in Developmental Psychology
    The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of development is within the child and is largely unaffected by his or her experience of social interaction: on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development

    New Directions and International Perspectives

    Edited by Karen Caplovitz Barrett, Nathan A. Fox, George A. Morgan, Deborah J. Fidler, Lisa A. Daunhauer ...
    The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and physiological processes, mastery motivation, and atypical development to highlight how mastery motivation is ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Mind the Gap

    Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

    Edited by Joan Silk, Peter Kappeler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume features a collection of essays by primatologists, anthropologists, biologists, and psychologists who offer some answers to the question of what makes us human, i. e. , what is the nature and width of the gap that separates us from other primates? The chapters of this volume summarize the latest research on core aspects of behavioral and cognitive traits that make humans such unusual ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Mother and Her Child

    Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss

    by Inga Blom, Ann G. Smolen, Anni Bergman, Jennifer Bonovitz, Virginia M. Brabender, M. Hossein Etezady, April E. Fallon, Newell Fischer, Alexandra M. Harrison Harrison, Anna Ornstein, Daniela Polyak ...
    Series series Margaret S. Mahler
    The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational researchers, it elucidates the nuances of mothering, the child's tie to the mother, the mysteries ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Growing Up Fast

    Transitions To Early Adulthood of Inner-city Adolescent Mothers

    by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, Niobe Way ...
    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    In this book the authors examine in depth the lives of inner-city adolescent mothers, going beyond stereotypes to illuminate the diverse pathways to young adulthood taken by these young women. The different ways they respond to becoming a parent reflect a range of abilities, aspirations, and supports. Their often-creative solutions to living in poverty, the intensity of their desires to make their ... Read more

    $48.99 USD