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- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Abuse
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Child Development
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Children with Special Needs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: General
- Young Minds in Social Worlds
- Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.
- Paperback October 2009
- Becoming Byzantine
- Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children’s lives, and provides a basis for further study. This collection of eight articles drawn from a May 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture.
- Hardcover September 2009
- Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans
In only a few species do males strategically employ violence to control female sexuality. Why are females routinely abused in some species, but never in others? And can the study of such unpleasant behavior help us to understand the evolution of men’s violence against women? The book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species—including all of the great apes and humans—and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.
- Hardcover June 2009
- Medicating Children
- Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. This book is unique in that it integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy.
- Hardcover January 2009
See also: All Books in FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS.