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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roger m downs”
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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

    $84.99 USD

  • Why France?

    American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination

    by Roger Chartier ...
    France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

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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

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  • 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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  • Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

    The Vietnam War Revisited

    by Andrew Wiest ...
    Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.“This is a superb and compelling reexamination of the major historical, political, and ethical issues that continue to smoulder many decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, I highly recommend Rolling ... Read more

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  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $77.99 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    $68.99 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

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