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Autor:
Steven Pinker
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author,'The Secret Life of Verbs.'Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acq
Autor:
Steven Pinker
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions:'donate them a book'sounds odd, for example, even though'give them a book'is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themse
Autor:
Linda Pound
Save time and gain confidence with Linda Pound's easy-to-read quick overview of the main cognitive development theories. If you are a Level 4/5, Foundation Degree, or undergraduate student in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies or primary education,
Autor:
Linda Mayes, Michael Lewis
Families, communities and societies influence children's learning and development in many ways. This is the first handbook devoted to the understanding of the nature of environments in child development. Utilizing Urie Bronfenbrenner's idea of embedd
Autor:
Melvin Konner
This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and unive
In order to understand how adults deal with children's questions about death, we must examine how children understand death, as well as the broader society's conceptions of death, the tensions between biological and supernatural views of death and th
Seventy-five years after Vygotsky's death, scholarship exploring developmental relations between language and thought continues to be strong. This edited volume compiles contributions from international leaders in the field on the roles of language a
Autor:
Gary W. Ladd
This volume sets out to celebrate the Quarterly's significant contribution to developmental research and to highlight the advances made in the field since the early 1950s.
Autor:
Linda B. Smith, Esther Thelen
A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development explores the value of dynamical systems principles for solving the enduring puzzles of development, including the ultimate source of change, the problems of continuity and discontinuities, and nonlinear outco
Autor:
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived