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Intimacies
ISBN: PB: 9780226043456, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
134 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central...
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£13,50
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What Intelligence Tests Miss The Psychology of Rational Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780300164626, Yale University Press, February 2010
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Critics of intelligence tests – writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman – have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critique...
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£19,00
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Child An Encyclopedic Companion
ISBN: HB: 9780226475394, University of Chicago Press, September 2009
1144 pp., 24.3x18.5 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings, 7 tables
"The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion" offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference. Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from...
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£69,00
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Parents' Guide to Baby Signs Early Communication with Your Infant
ISBN: PB: 9781563683985, Gallaudet University Press, January 2009
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 photos, 120 sign illus.
Experienced ASL instructor Leann Sebrey champions two-way sign communication between parents and their infants who are just months old as a way to bond more closely and reduce frustration, while also maximizing the children's intelligence and emotion...
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£15,00
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Psychotherapy with Deaf Clients from Diverse Groups
ISBN: PB: 9781563683992, Gallaudet University Press, April 2008
408 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
"Psychotherapy with Deaf Clients from Diverse Groups" begins with an overview on being a psychotherapist with deaf clients, including information on the diversity of consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and experiences. Deaf therapists and their i...
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£60,00
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Literacy and Your Deaf Child What Every Parent Should Know
ISBN: PB: 9781563681363, Gallaudet University Press, May 2003
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This guide provides parents with strategies for helping a deaf child learn to read and write, offering activities that parents can do at home with their deaf child and suggestions for working with the child's school and teachers.
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£19,00
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Parents and Their Deaf Children The Early Years
ISBN: HB: 9781563681370, Gallaudet University Press, April 2003
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To correct the paucity of information on deaf or hard of hearing children and their parents' experiences with early intervention services, researchers explored these relationships as part of the National Parent Project. From this investigation, "Pare...
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£46,00
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Inner Lives of Deaf Children Interviews and Analysis
ISBN: PB: 9781563682896, Gallaudet University Press, January 2001
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By conducting interviews with seven deaf children, ages seven to ten, Martha Sheridan offers a fresh look at their private thoughts and feelings in this watershed book. Each child possesses a unique cultural background, and Sheridan communicated with...
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£34,00
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Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality An Essay on Cultural Reproduction
ISBN: HB: 9780300070071, Yale University Press, June 1998
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Why do members of a society espouse culturally constituted beliefs that are at odds with their personal interests and experiences? In this book Melford Spiro, a psychological anthropologist, answers this question by investigating ideologies of gender...
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£22,50
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Signing Family What Every Parent Should Know about Sign Communication
ISBN: PB: 9781563680694, Gallaudet University Press, May 1998
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Signing Family" shows parents how to create a set of goals for signing centered around the needs of their deaf child, then describes in even-handed terms the major signing options available: American Sign Language, Signed English, Signing Exact...
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£22,50
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