The Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development presents a comprehensive summary of research into child development from age two to seven.
Comprises 30 contributions from both established scholars and emerging leaders in the field.
The editors have a distinguished reputation in early childhood development.
Covers biological development, cognitive development, language development, and social, emotional and regulatory development.
Considers the applications of psychology to the care and education of young children, treating issues such as poverty, media, and the transition to school.
A valuable resource for students, scholars and practitioners dealing with young children.
As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens straddled the conflicts between culture and commerce that characterized the era he named the Gilded Age. In "Littery Man", Richard Lowry examines how Twain used these conflicts in his major texts to fashion an "autobiography of authorship," a narrative of his own claims to literary authority at that moment when the American Writer emerged as a profession. Drawing on wide range of cultural genres--popular boys' fiction, childbearing manuals, travel narratives, autobiography, and criticism and fiction of the period--Lowry reconstructs how Twain participated in remaking the "literary" into a powerful social category of representation. He shows how, as one of our cultures first modern celebrities, Samuel Clemens transformed his life into the artful performance we have come to as Mark Twain, and his texts into a searching critique of modern identity in a mass-mediated society. "Littery Man" will appeal to both Twain scholars and to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. - A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond.
- Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars. - Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth.
"Russian Empire" offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired political imaginaries and set limits on what the state could accomplish.
