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  • Talking Heads

    The Neuroscience of Language

    by Gianfranco Denes ...
    Translated by Philippa Venturelli Smith ...
    The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that could be investigated scientifically. As a consequence, an increasing number of scientists began to ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

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    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious - have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive ... Read more

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  • Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids

    The One Brain Book You Need to Help Your Child Grow Brighter, Healthier, and Happier

    by Dr. David Walsh, Ph.D. ...
    Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest “right” way to nurture their kids’ developing brains and behavior. And every day there’s a new technology that demands your child’s attention, a new game or toy that purports to make your kid smarter, and a new snack promising to be healthy as well as tasty. How’s a busy parent to make heads or tails of ... Read more

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  • Beat Insomnia with NLP

    Neurolinguistic programming techniques to improve your sleep

    by Adrian Tannock ...
    Insomnia is a problem that seriously affects millions of people. But Adrian Tannock has found that by using NLP techniques, people can hugely improve their sleeping experience.This book is full of practical, NLP-based guidance, which will help everyone from serious sufferers to people who have the occasional problems. These NLP techniques, combined with the friendly and straightforward approach of ... Read more

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  • Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

    by Xiao-lei Wang ...
    Series Book 14 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care

    Edited by Phyllis B. Mitzen, ACSW, LCSW, Martha B. Holstein, PhD ...
    Series series Springer Series on Ethics, Law, and Aging
    Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care. Building on their research study at the Park Ridge Center, editors Holstein and Mitzen, together with a team of experts, examine the complexities involved in developing an ethics for community-based long-term care. They also challenge policymakers to make home care a more viable option for older people in ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • Discourse Analysis and Applications

    Studies in Adult Clinical Populations

    Edited by Ronald L. Bloom, Loraine K. Obler, Susan De Santi, Jonathan S. Ehrlich ...
    Application of analytic discourse techniques to clinical practice is relatively recent. This book's contributors begin with the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a rich source of data for describing the complex relationships among language, social context, and the cognitive processes that underlie discourse comprehension and production. Evidence is provided that when ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

    by Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what abstract concepts and words are, and what they mean in psycholinguistic research. Then the authors go on to describe and critically discuss the main theories on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Varieties of Orthographic Knowledge

    II: Relationships to Phonology, Reading, and Writing

    Edited by V.W. Berninger ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The role of orthography in reading and writing is not a new topic of inquiry. For example, in 1970 Venezky made a seminal contribution with The Structure of English Orthography in which he showed how both sequential redundancy (probable and permissible letter sequences) and rules of letter-sound correspondence contribute to orthographic structure. In 1972 Kavanagh and Mattingly edited Language by ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Acquired Aphasia

    Edited by Martha Taylor Sarno ...
    With chapters containing up to 50 percent new coverage, this book provides a thorough update of the latest research and development in the area of acquired aphasia. Coverage includes the symptoms of aphasia, assessment, neuropsychology, the specific linguistic deficits associated with aphasia, related disorders, recovery, and rehabilitation. This comprehensive compilation, written by some of the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

    Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

    Edited by Jiansheng Guo, Elena Lieven, Nancy Budwig, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Keiko Nakamura, Seyda Ozcaliskan ...
    Series series Psychology Press Festschrift Series
    This volume covers state-of-the-art research in the field of crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language. The forty chapters cover a wide range of topics that represent the many research interests of a pioneer, Dan Isaac Slobin, who has been a major intellectual and creative force in the field of child language development, linguistics, and psycholinguistics for the past four decades ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders

    Edited by Argye E. Hillis ...
    The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders is the essential guide to the scientific and clinical tenets of aphasia study and treatment. It focuses on how language breaks down after focal brain damage, what patterns of impairment reveal about normal language, and how recovery can be optimally facilitated. It is unique in that it reviews studies from the major disciplines in which aphasia research is ... Read more

    $224.99 USD