Your Child's Development presents parents with a classic--a solid, fascinating, up-to-date and endlessly useful book on how children develop physically and mentally, how they learn to walk and speak and read and socialize, aquire reasoning power and a moral sense, contend withs sex, make friends and become independent. 325 photographs, drawings ...
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth - such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: ...
This concise but comprehensive book deals with the behavioural and development problems of very young children. It is written, without jargon, in a style that will appeal to a broad range of professionals in early education, medicine and child care, as well as to educational and clinical psychologists who work and advise in this field. The authors ...
In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the experience of writing. This study argues that literature ...
Byron's poetic reputation is currently founded on his comic epic Don Juan and its cognates "Beppo" and "The Vision of Judgement"; works lying outside this goup are still regarded with some uncertainty. This study demonstrates that some of Byron's most deeply held critical and political convictions - but also certain aspects of his experience over ...
This is a guide for parents to the challenging process of helping their children develop. It sets out all that parents need to know about the way a child develops - physically, mentally and emotionally - from birth, through infancy and childhood, to the crucial period of adolescence. While the main narrative focuses on the grand patterns of ...
This study provides an introduction to the everyday life and emotional needs of hospitalized children, their families and hospital staff. Although written primarily for professionals working in a paediatric setting, it has much relevance for parents as well. It combines an up-to-date review of current research literature with the personal ...
There are over 400,000 people in Great Britain with a scar, blemish or deformity which may severely affect their ability to lead a normal life. This practical but sensitive book explores the complex and often distressing problems and issues that result from looking 'visibly different', and highlights a range of approaches which can enhance the ...
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