- Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
- Hardcover September 2008
- How Infants Know Minds
- Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
- Hardcover April 2008
- Out of the Woods
- Deeply troubled teenagers spend time in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control--violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, a handful of them are thriving. In a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later, these teens tell their stories. Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on the poignant, dramatic, and funny interviews, we hear the kids growing into more composed versions of their tough and feisty selves.
- Paperback April 2008
- Education for Thinking
- Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn argues that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"--a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning.
- Paperback March 2008
- The Fundamentals of Brain Development
- In a remarkable synthesis of research from the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to the brain. In clear terms, with ample illustrations, Stiles explains the complexities of genetic variation and transcription, and the variable paths of neural development, from embryology through early childhood.
- Hardcover February 2008
- Sexual Fluidity
- Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
- Hardcover February 2008
See also: All Books in PSYCHOLOGY.