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  • Toys and Communication

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including 1930’s Europe, Morocco, India, Spanish art of the 16th-19th centuries. Psychologists stress ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Toys, Games, and Media

    This book is a state-of-the-art look at where toys have come from and where they are likely to go in the years ahead. The focus is on the interplay between traditional toys and play, and toys and play that are mediated by or combined with digital technology. As well as covering the technical aspects of computer mediated play activities, the authors consider how technologically enhanced toys are ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems

    Series series Psychological Issues
    This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how ... Read more

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    Legitimate Peripheral Participation

    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in ... Read more

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  • Acting Out

    Understanding and Reducing Aggressive Behaviour in Children and Youth

    Are you one of the thousands of Canadians who work or volunteer with children and youth? Do you know:• how to respond effectively when a young person behaves aggressively?• what kinds of aggression are considered normal for a young person’s age and stage of development?• what kinds of aggression may suggest that a young person has a problem that needs specialized intervention?Acting Out aims to ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Mindful

    Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience

    The American Psychological Association’s 2014 survey on stress made an alarming discovery: America’s teens are now the most stressed-out age group in the country. Growing Up Mindful shows parents and professionals alike how to model and teach the skills of mindfulness that will empower our youth for the rest of their lives with greater self-awareness, resiliency, and confidence.While many adults ... Read more

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  • Making Peace with Yourself

    "I'm afraid of getting again.""When I look in the mirror, I'm never quite satisfied.""I can't stand criticism.""I'm always feeling tense and rushed.""I wish I could be happier."Do any of these sound familiar?Aren't they exactly the kinds of weaknesses that keep us from enjoying our lives to the fullest?This wise and compassionate book can help you confront these problems, perhaps for the first ... Read more

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  • Disability Across the Developmental Life Span

    For the Rehabilitation Counselor

    This is the only text to provide comprehensive coverage of human growth and development, a requirement mandated by the Council of Rehabilitation Education (CORE) for a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and for Licensed Professional Counselor certification. Written by an eminent leader in the field of disability studies, this book reflects a significant change in perceptions of ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Parental Control

    How Well-meant Parenting Backfires

    What is parental control? Is it positive or negative for children? What makes parents controlling with their children, even when they value supporting children's autonomy? Are there alternatives to control and how might we apply them in important domains of children's lives, such as school and sports? This book addresses these and other questions about the meaning and predictors of parental ... Read more

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  • Studies in Reflecting Abstraction

    by Jean Piaget ...
    This translation of the French Recherches sur l'abstraction reflechissante (1977), make available in English Piaget's only treatise on reflecting abstraction - a process he came to attribute considerable importance to in his later thinking and which he believed to be responsible for many of the advances that take place in human development, especially our understanding of mathematics.Rich with ... Read more

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  • Access to Language and Cognitive Development

    Edited by Michael Siegal, Luca Surian ...
    One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's cognitive development influenced by their early experience of, and access to, language? Likewise, what are the effects on development of impaired access to language? This book is the first to confront ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology

    Bringing together leading investigators, this comprehensive handbook is a one-stop reference for anyone planning or conducting research on personality. It provides up-to-date analyses of the rich array of methodological tools available today, giving particular attention to real-world theoretical and logistical challenges and how to overcome them. In chapters filled with detailed, practical ... Read more

    $79.99 USD