Product Description The most neglected of Durkheim's key works. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals makes a seminal contribution our understanding of the state.
Until now, evolutionary psychologists have focused largely on understanding adult behavior, giving little sustained attention to childhood. Developmental psychologists, for their part, have been wary of the perceived genetic determinism of evolutionary thinking. This important volume brings together an array of prominent developmental scientists whose work is explicitly driven by evolutionary concerns. Presenting sophisticated new models for understanding gene-environment interactions, the authors demonstrate how evolutionary knowledge can enhance our understanding of key aspects of cognitive, social, and personality development. Tightly edited chapters examine how different developmental mechanisms have evolved and what role they play in children's functioning and their adaptation to adult life. Essential topics covered include parent-child relationships, aggression, puberty, infant perception and cognition, memory, language, and more.
Child Development and Teaching the Pupil with Special Educational Needs
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.61 | Non-Fiction, Medicine | 19 February 2009
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All teachers and professionals dealing with children with special educational needs must have an understanding of child development in order to make judgments, against some notions of normality, about children's behavior in terms of delay, disorder and diversity. Written in accessible language for practitioners and students alike, this book helps keep track of children's developmental progress and provides a framework for understanding the child.
Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes a sexual desire "perverse," or particular sexual relations (such as incestuous ones) undesirable or even unthinkable? These and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity are pursued using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines. The discussion throughout is informed and motivated by the Spinozist hope that understanding our lives can help change them, can help make us more free.
Added by: Kyla | Karma: 209.07 | Periodicals | 28 January 2009
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Tapping the Muse
For me, the secret is always the lead—that’s journalist jargon for the opening of a story, the one provocative idea that will capture a reader’s interest. Once I’ve found that gem, the rest of the narrative seems to flow easily from the gray matter in my head down to my fingers pounding on the keyboard...
