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  • The Relevance of Education

    by Jerome Bruner ...
    "Education is in a state of crisis. It has failed to respond to changing social needs—lagging behind rather than leading." The crisis that Jerome Bruner identifies in this volume admits of no easy solutions. But the noted American psychologist makes clear that educational reform must begin with the understanding of how a child acquires information and converts knowledge into action. Drawing on his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Constructing Panic

    The Discourse of Agoraphobia

    by Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs ...
    Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Reappraisal of Economic Development

    Perspectives for Cooperative Research

    by Andrew H. Whiteford, Jerome Bruner ...
    What have the social sciences to show for decades of systematic investigation of the problems of economic development? What basic problems have they solved and what remains to be done in the development of viable theoretical approaches to this area of research and policy? In an unusually open discussion, thirty-three experts from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, geography, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Unschooled Mind

    How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

    by Howard Gardner ...
    Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    by Daniel N. Stern ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    While most psychotherapies agree that therapeutic work in the 'here and now' has the greatest power to bring about change, few if any books have ever addressed the problem of what 'here and now' actually means.Beginning with the claim that we are psychologically alive only in the now, internationally acclaimed child psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern tackles vexing yet fascinating questions such as: ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Conversations with my sons and daughters

    by Mamphela Ramphele ...
    Where did we lose our idealism and why and at what cost?' In these conversations with people of a younger generation Mamphela Ramphele responds to the growing despair among young South Africans about the cracks that are appearing in our system of governance and threatening the idealism of the country that reinvented itself with the dawn of democracy in 1994. She shows incisively how successive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • About Behaviorism

    by B.F. Skinner ...
    A seminal work that delves into the depths of one of psychology's most influential and controversial philosophies.Written by a leading proponent of behaviorism, this comprehensive book offers an exploration of the principles and arguments that underpin this groundbreaking approach to understanding human behavior."About Behaviorism is an opportunity to match wits with one of the great men of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Frames of Mind

    The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

    by Howard Gardner ...
    In this groundbreaking classic, a leading psychologist argues that there are many human intelligences**.**"Brilliant." —New York Review of BooksWhen we call someone “intelligent,” we are often referring to traits like their high SAT score, their performance on an IQ test, or their ability to perform in today’s schools—which prioritize linguistic and mathematical abilities. Traits like these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Therapeutic Communication

    Knowing What to Say When

    by Paul L. Wachtel, PhD ...
    A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some communications in therapy are particularly effective, while others that address essentially the same content may actually be countertherapeutic. He offers clear and specific guidelines for how to ask ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Rational Voter

    Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition

    by Bryan Caplan ...
    The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Psychology

    by Amelie von Zumbusch ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This volume is a comprehensive overview of the scientific discipline that studies psychological and biological processes and behavior in humans and other animals. It features chapters on the history of the field, the thought process, memory, theories of personality, and key figures—such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman—who helped shape the field. The ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Defense of Globalization

    With a New Afterword

    by Jagdish Bhagwati ...
    In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful ... Read more

    $13.29 USD