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Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity)

George G. Gumerman, Timothy A. Kohler

About the Author Timothy A. Kohler, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University. George...

Handbook of behavioral state control: cellular and molecular mechanisms

Helen A. Baghdoyan, Ralph Lydic

Handbook of behavioral state control: cellular and molecular mechanisms...

Young men and masculinities: global cultures and intimate lives (Global Masculinities)

Victor J. Seidler

About the Author Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths Coll...

Human Behavior Learning and Transfer

Yangsheng Xu, Ka Keung C. Lee

Human Behavior Learning and Transfer...

Material Identities (New Interventions in Art History)

Joanna Sofaer

Book Description Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for conveying certai...

Ecology of social evolution

Judith Korb, Jürgen Heinze

Review From the reviews: "The ecology of social evolution … attempt to redress a perceived bias for genetic...

Evaluating and treating adolescent suicide attempters: from research to practice

Anthony Spirito, James C. Overholser

Review "This book contains a number of pearls of clinical wisdom that can be helpful in evaluating suicidal youth... this...

Human behavior and social environments: a biopsychosocial approach

Dennis Saleebey

Review Saleebey is telling an evocative story of how we "become human" through the lifecycle. (Michael Hayes Clinical Socia...

Desiring revolution: second-wave feminism and the rewriting of American sexual thought, 1920 to 1982

Jane F. Gerhard

Review This fascinating book enriches history, women's/gender/sexuality studies, feminist theory, American studies curricul...

In search of the person: philosophical explorations in cognitive science

Michael A. Arbib

In search of the person: philosophical explorations in cognitive science...

Exceptional Language Development in Down Syndrome: Implications for the Cognition-Language Relationship (Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics)

Jean A. Rondal

Review "I strongly recommend this book to all scholars who are interested in questions about the human mind and its devel...

The Century of Sex: Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900-1999

James R. Petersen

Amazon.com Review James R. Petersen, the former Playboy Advisor, turns pop historian in The Century of Sex, a breezy, da...

The Onset of Language

Nobuo Masataka

Book Description The Onset of Language outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behaviour ...

Perceptual learning

Tomaso Poggio, Manfred Fahle

About the Author Manfred Fahle is Head of the Institute of Brain Research IV and the Unit for Human Neurob...

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Review This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech. Folia Linguis...

Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice (Guides to Individualized Evidence-Based Treatment)

Lizabeth Roemer, Susan M. Orsillo

Review "Wide ranging in its coverage and grounded in its delivery, this book illustrates the nuts and bolts of mindfulnes...

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI

John Johnston

Review "John Johnston is to be applauded for his engaging and eminently readable assessment of the new, int...

An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (Third Edition)

John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies

From the Back Cover The third edition of this successful textbook looks again at the influence of natural selection on be...

Principles of neural science

Eric R. Kandel, Thomas M. Jessell, James Harris Schwartz

Review "This is a simply wonderful book that makes accessible in one place all the details of how the neuron and brain wo...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change

Kelly G. Wilson, Kirk D. Strosahl, Steven C. Hayes

Review "Once in a while, there is a unique contribution to psychotherapy. Even more rare is the grounding of that contrib...

Space and Social Theory (BSA New Horizons in Sociology)

Dr Andrzej Zieleniec

Space and Social Theory (BSA New Horizons in Sociology)...

Concise Handbook of Experimental Methods for the Behavioral and Biological Sciences

Jay E. Gould

Concise Handbook of Experimental Methods for the Behavioral and Biological Sciences...

Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom

Christine Wallach, Sally Boggeman, The New City School, Thomas R. Hoerr

From the Back Cover The New City School in St. Louis, Missouri, has been successfully using Howard Gardner's Multiple Intel...

Animal Minds

Donald R. Griffin

Amazon.com Review In 1945, Donald Griffin was one of the codiscoverers of echolocation by bats. In the 1980s he became a...

Risk Revisited (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Pat Caplan

Review An authoritative and compelling text exploring Risk from a variety of cultural perspectives, highly recommended re...

Asperger Syndrome and Psychotherapy: Understanding Asperger Perspectives

Paula Jacobsen

About the Author Paula Jacobsen, child psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, is part of the West Valley Gr...

Manhood of Humanity

Alfred Korzybski

Manhood of Humanity...

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)

Robert J. Richards

From Library Journal Richards traces scientific and philosophical concepts of the mind's evolution through scholarly writ...

Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution

Frederick L. Coolidge, Thomas Wynn, Sophie A. De Beaune

Book Description This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the condi...

Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (LEA's Communication Series)

Review ...while this book is not intended as a clinical guide to assessment, it does aim to provide a theoretical framework...

Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care, A Guide to Good Practice

Faith Gibson, Errollyn Bruce, Pam Schweitzer

About the Author Pam Schweitzer became fascinated by reminiscence and oral history after many years working in Theatre in...

Brain, Behavior, and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders (Challenges in Language and Literacy)

Elaine R. Silliman, Maria Mody

Review "This book is a gem. While recognizing the important role neurobiology plays in learning, the editors and contributo...

The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate

P. Christopher Earley, Professor Cary L. Cooper, Sue Cartwright

From the Back Cover This is the first truly international book on the subject of culture and climate in organizational be...

Making Sense of Everyday Life

Susie Scott

Review "This book is a wonderful introduction to sociology. It makes the reader rethink and re-evaluate the meaning and i...

The Neurobiology of Painting, Volume 74: International Review of Neurobiology

Peter Jenner, R. Adron Harris, Ronald J. Bradley

About the Author Arnold Miller, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, is Executive Director of the Language and Cognitive Devel...

How Power Corrupts: Cognition and Democracy in Organisations

Ricardo Blaug

About the Author RICARDO BLAUG is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds, UK. ...

A Beginner's Guide to Training in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Professor Stephen Palmer, Professor Robert Bor

Review 'This book will be of interest to anyone who may be considering training for a career in counselling and psychothe...

Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning

Catherine E. Myers, Mark A. Gluck

Review "Gateway to Memory is a valuable addition to the introductory textsdescribing neural network models...

WJ III Clinical Use and Interpretation: Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)

Dawn P. Flanagan, Fredrick A. Schrank

Book Description Provides practitioners and graduate trainers with much-needed methods for using and interpreting the mos...

Sex, Men, and Babies: Stories of Awareness and Responsibility

Sally Hutchinson, William Marsiglio

Review "Sex, Men, and Babies is a significant contribution to a surprisingly under-researched area: the meaning and place o...

The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought

Peter Carruthers

Review No one will read The Architecture of the Mind without being informed, stimulated, challenged and inspired. It is e...

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 9

Michael C. Mozer, Michael I. Jordan, Thomas Petsche

About the Author Michael C. Mozer is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute o...

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8

David S. Touretzky, Michael C. Mozer, Michael E. Hasselmo

About the Author Michael C. Mozer is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Sci...

Social Psychological Foundations of Health and Illness

Jerry Suls, Kenneth A. Wallston

Review "Clinical Practice gives Health Psychology its heart, but Social Psychology is the brains behind the operation. Wi...

Pleasures and Perils: Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture

Debra Curtis

Review I have rarely come across a book that I have been as impressed by as Pleasures and Perils. Curtis moves effortless...

Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Educational Settings: A Handbook for Practice

Arthur Freeman, Ray W. Christner, Rosemary B. Mennuti

Review "...This book is a good resource for school psychologists who are interested in providing direct mental health ser...

Helping Children with Autism Become More Social: 76 Ways to Use Narrative Play

Ann E. Densmore

Review "Individuals with developmental disabilities are finally starting to receive the public and professional attention t...

Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)

Mark E. Casey, Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor

Review 'Since the 1980s theories of intersectionality have provided a vital means of exploring the overlapping, interweav...

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