Understanding Child Development is refreshingly clear, readable and user friendly. With explanations of the key theories and research in all areas of child development this is the ideal source for students at NVQ Level 3 and 4, and on degree programmes. The book covers the main theoretical approaches and the key concepts that have shaped good practice, as well as providing underpinning knowledge. -- Early Years 20050701 I found this book useful and it adds practical meaning to those theories we might be familiar with but may not recognise where they fit into practice.
This title examines the remarkable life of Albert Einstein. Readers will learn about his family background, childhood, education, development of scientific and mathematic theories, and societal contributions.
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common.
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (4th Edition)
This edition of the bestselling guide retains the strong features of the original book; offering a comprehensive coverage of the main literary theories, further readings and bibliographies. At the same time, the new edition adds material on contemporary literary theories, such as: cultural materialism, post-colonial theory, feminist theory, black British, Afro-American, Asian, Caribbean theory, and gay, lesbian and queer theory. The book can be used in conjunction with Practising Theory and Reading Literature.
Presents 23 leading theories of personality in a thorough, interesting and logical manner. The book begins with an introductory chapter designed to acquaint students with the meaning of personality and provide them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory and its crucial contributions to science. The next seventeen chapters present twenty-three major theories with a fresh approach and a more complete view encompassing, a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research and applications to real life. When appropriate, the authors point out ways in which the theorists' life experiences may have helped shape her or his theory.
