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Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience by Ila Parasnis 9780521645652
RRP: $43.85$37.75The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability is gathering support among educators, linguists, and researchers involved in the education of deaf... -
The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology by Kopano Ratele 9781776143900
RRP: $30.95$23.19What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African - with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a... -
Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities by Eduardo Duran 9780807761397
$47.69In this groundbreaking book, Eduardo Duran-a psychologist working in Indian country-draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. This second edition includes an... -
Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation by Zoltan Kovecses 9780521844475
RRP: $122.55$94.87To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought?... -
Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation by Zoltan Kovecses 9780521696128
RRP: $42.56$36.61To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought?... -
Critical Perspectives on Activity: Explorations Across Education, Work, and Everyday Life by Newton Duarte
RRP: $85.13$76.14The last two decades have seen an international explosion of interest in theories of mind, culture, and activity. This unique collection is the first to explicitly reach back to the tradition's original critical impulse within which the writings of Karl... -
The Island of Memes: Haiti's Unfinished Revolution by Dr Wade W Nobles 9781580730532
RRP: $29.61$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580730532Author Dr Wade W NoblesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe by B. Bradford Brown 9780521006057
RRP: $50.30$42.91The life stage of adolescence now occurs in most corners of the world, but it takes different forms in different regions. Peers, with such a central role in Western adolescence, play a comparatively minor role in the lives of Arabic and South Asian... -
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Research and Applications by John W. Berry 9780521762120
RRP: $141.90$125.94Cross-Cultural Psychology is a leading textbook offering senior undergraduate and graduate students a thorough and balanced overview of the whole field of cross-cultural psychology. The team of internationally acclaimed authors present the latest... -
Teaching and Learning in Japan by Thomas P. Rohlen 9780521651158
RRP: $56.75$48.96Major scholars on Japan explore the Japanese style of learning in this important volume, drawing upon ethnographic and experimental studies of learning throughout the lifespan. The reader will get an inside view of Japanese teaching methods, where the... -
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Bridging Worlds of Difference by Lawrence E Hedges 9780692904725
RRP: $19.30$17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692904725Author Lawrence E HedgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Listening PerspectivesPublisher Listening PerspectivesWeight(grams) 381g -
Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling by Zoltan Kovecses 9780521641630
RRP: $89.01$79.43This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Kovecses illustrates through detailed... -
Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition by Susan C. Seymour 9780521598842
RRP: $47.72$40.39This book presents an in-depth study of 24 Hindu families, of different caste and class groups, who reside in a recently urbanizing part of India. Beginning with a two-year study of family organization and child-rearing practices in the mid-1960s, the... -
Sociocultural Studies of Mind by James V. Wertsch 9780521470568
RRP: $83.85$74.39Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the primary question: how is mental functioning related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it exists? Although the contributors speak from different perspectives, there is a clear set... -
Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing by Laura M.W. Martin 9780521462785
RRP: $141.90$120.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cultural Psychology and Acculturation by Pawel Boski 9781009451055
RRP: $64.49$64.31This Element offers a new theoretical model of acculturation within the general framework of cultural psychology. It is divided into four sections. First, cross-cultural and cultural orientations are contrasted. The psychology of economic migration... -
In Search of Integrity: A Life-Journey across Diverse Contexts by Robert Serpell 9781009523844
RRP: $64.49$64.31This Element traces the origins of an individual's philosophical orientation and the processes by which it was elaborated over the course of his life-journey. The author discusses how selected stories from his personal experience reflect the intimate... -
Indigenous Psychology in Africa: A Survey of Concepts, Theory, Research, and Praxis by Seth Oppong 9781009486972
RRP: $64.49$64.31Understanding human behaviour, thoughts, and emotional expressions can be challenging in the global context. Due to cultural differences, the study of psychology cannot be de-contextualised. This calls for unearthing of the explanatory systems that exist... -
Agency and Transformation: Motives, Mediation, and Motion by Nick Hopwood 9781009153676
RRP: $135.45$121.66Understanding and promoting agency are crucial to addressing urgent social problems of our time. Through agency, we can take transformative steps toward the future that ought to be. This book shows how contemporary conceptualizations from... -
Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition by Susan C. Seymour 9780521591270
RRP: $129.00$113.92This book presents an in-depth study of 24 Hindu families, of different caste and class groups, who reside in a recently urbanizing part of India. Beginning with a two-year study of family organization and child-rearing practices in the mid-1960s, the... -
Perspectives on Activity Theory by Yrjo Engestrom 9780521431279
RRP: $161.25$126.61Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its... -
Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing by Laura Martin 9780521089180
RRP: $49.01$42.16These essays by leading theorists and researchers in sociocultural, cognitive, developmental and educational psychology honour the memory of Sylvia Scribner, whose work is recognized by each of the authors as seminal to their own thinking. The themes... -
Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience by Ila Parasnis 9780521454773
RRP: $122.55$93.62The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability is gathering support among educators, linguists, and researchers involved in the education of deaf... -
Japanese Frames of Mind: Cultural Perspectives on Human Development by Hidetada Shimizu 9780521781596
RRP: $129.00$99.45Japanese Frames of Mind addresses two main questions in light of a collection of research conducted by both Japanese and American researchers at Harvard University: What challenge does Japanese psychology offer to Western psychology? Will the presumed... -
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture by Sevda Bekman 9780521876728
RRP: $141.90$99.96Cigdem Kagitcibasi has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respected cross-cultural psychologists. This collection of essays has been produced in honor of Professor... -
Universals of Human Thought: Some African Evidence by Barbara Bloom Lloyd 9780521298186
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book was originally published in 1981 and the theme of universals attracted a great deal of attention in the decade preceding publication. Psychologists and linguists in particular attempted to identify substantive universals that underlie the... -
Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-cultural Perspective by Pierre R. Dasen 9780521191050
RRP: $141.90$105.02Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ('put the knife to... -
Happiness in America: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuel 9781538115794
RRP: $38.70$34.42Much interest currently revolves around happiness in America, so much so that one could reasonably argue that there is a "happiness movement" afoot. The wide range of arenas in which happiness intersects reflects the subject's centrality in... -
Expired Mindsets: Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well by Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc 9781636764801
RRP: $20.63$15.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636764801Author Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc NccFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams)... -
Indigenous Psychology in Africa: A Survey of Concepts, Theory, Research, and Praxis by Seth Oppong 9781009392846
RRP: $21.93$18.99Understanding human behaviour, thoughts, and emotional expressions can be challenging in the global context. Due to cultural differences, the study of psychology cannot be de-contextualised. This calls for unearthing of the explanatory systems that exist... -
In Search of Integrity: A Life-Journey across Diverse Contexts by Robert Serpell 9781009523820
RRP: $21.93$18.99This Element traces the origins of an individual's philosophical orientation and the processes by which it was elaborated over the course of his life-journey. The author discusses how selected stories from his personal experience reflect the intimate... -
Cultural Psychology and Acculturation by Pawel Boski 9781009451109
RRP: $21.93$18.99This Element offers a new theoretical model of acculturation within the general framework of cultural psychology. It is divided into four sections. First, cross-cultural and cultural orientations are contrasted. The psychology of economic migration... -
Collective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture by James H. Liu 9781108984737
RRP: $29.66$26.65Collective memory can make and break political culture around the world. Representations and reinterpretations of the past intersect with actions that shape the future. A nation's political culture emerges from complex layers of institutional and... -
Psychology's WEIRD Problems by Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira 9781009303514
RRP: $21.93$18.99Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem has come to be widely acknowledged, yet there has been little progress toward... -
The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe by B. Bradford Brown 9780521809108
RRP: $65.79$59.68The life stage of adolescence now occurs in most corners of the world, but it takes different forms in different regions. Peers, with such a central role in Western adolescence, play a comparatively minor role in the lives of Arabic and South Asian... -
What Americans Build and Why: Psychological Perspectives by Ann Sloan Devlin 9780521516570
RRP: $60.63$54.63What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans' built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at... -
Wounded For My Destiny: A Wounded Warrior Overcomes Survivor's Guilt: Manifesting Love by Tiffany Denmark 9781632272805
RRP: $20.58$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632272805Author Tiffany DenmarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Tiffany DenmarkPublisher Tiffany DenmarkWeight(grams) 127g -
Codependency: A Complete Guide in Learning How to Overcome Negative Energies (How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself) by Jessie Woodard 9781777803278
RRP: $24.45$15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777803278Author Jessie WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Harry BarnesPublisher Harry BarnesWeight(grams) 200g -
How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of White Conservative Christians by Dave Verhaagen 9781666710687
RRP: $37.41$26.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666710687Author Dave VerhaagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Whole Brother: Debunking the Myths That Break the Black Family by Maliek Blade 9781952602030
RRP: $25.77$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952602030Author Maliek BladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Renown PublishingPublisher Renown PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...