Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development
Rethinking Innateness is a milestone as important as the appearance ten years ago of the PDP books. More integrated in its structure, more biological in its approach, this book provides a new theoretical framework for cognition that is based on dynamics, growth, and learning. Study this book if you are interested in how minds emerge from developing brains."
This accessible textbook introduces a range of key research methods that challenge psychology's traditional preoccupation with `scientific' experiments.
The recent widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways of gathering and analyzing data. This book provides a lucid and well-structured guide to effective methods, containing a range of qualitative approaches (for example, semi-structured interviews, grounded theory, discourse analysis) alongside a reworking of ...
This brilliant study -- Gaddis' fifth book on the Cold War -- provides an exhaustive and ever-quizzical approach to the early years of the superpower conflict. Gaddis has a knack for asking large and interesting questions, and he brings a lively style to his answers. Despite the promise of startling revelations from newly opened archives, what "we now know" turns out to bear an uncanny resemblance to what we thought then; never has "post-revisionism" seemed so indistinguishable from the original orthodoxy.
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This book traces the psychology, history, and theory of the compulsion to collect. As well as institutional collections it considers those that reflect a fascination with the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious.
"[A] brilliant book . . . a good read. Analysis of the relationship of collecting to identity, memory, and pyschosexual development raises fascinating questions."—The Modern Review
"[I]t is by challenging and expanding upon previous ideas and histories of collecting that the book offers ways of rethinking not only the nature of collecting but also the nature of museum practice."—Art History
This book is designed to be used either as a whole or in part. It should be of value, either in the initial training of new language teachers or as a basis for rethinking and mutually profitable discussions among those who are more experienced.
