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Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide Geoffrey Bowker 9780805824032
£82.00This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been... -
Visual Navigation: From Biological Systems To Unmanned Ground Vehicles by Yiannis Aloimonos
£92.60All biological systems with vision move about their environments and successfully perform many tasks. The same capabilities are needed in the world of robots. To that end, recent results in empirical fields that study insects and primates, as well as in... -
Basic and Applied Memory Research: Volume 1: Theory in Context; Volume 2: Practical Applications by Douglas J. Herrmann
£89.00Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Neither basic nor applied research has an independent impact. These volumes examine the convergence of basic... -
Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy With Deaf Persons Neil S. Glickman 9780805814897
RRP: £48.99£42.66The impetus for this volume is the growing awareness within the mental health and larger community of a culturally affirmative model for understanding and assisting deaf people. In contrast to the "medical-pathological" model which treats deafness as a... -
The Psychology of Prejudice: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 7 by Mark P. Zanna
£20.60This volume consists of expanded and updated versions of papers presented at the Seventh Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology. The series is designed to bring together scholars from across North America who work in the same substantive... -
Career Development and Vocational Behavior of Racial and Ethnic Minorities by Frederick Leong
RRP: £89.99£78.49This volume presents the single most comprehensive source of knowledge on the career development of racial and ethnic minorities. In so doing, it serves as a resource to graduate students learning about career development and career counseling,... -
Social Psychology of Health and Illness by Glenn S. Sanders
£59.86This books describes how and why "distant" social influences, such as socialization practices, interpersonal relationships, and social organization, are often just as important as medical considerations in determining an individual's tendency... -
Parallel Models of Associative Memory: Updated Edition Geoffrey E. Hinton 9780805802702
£78.60This update of the 1981 classic on neural networks includes new commentaries by the authors that show how the original ideas are related to subsequent developments. As researchers continue to uncover ways of applying the complex information processing... -
Philosophy of Science: An Overview for Cognitive Science William Bechtel 9780805802214
£39.04This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of science, Bechtel writes for an audience with little or no... -
How To Do Things With Logic C. Grant Luckhardt 9780805800760
£44.98In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe... -
Second Language Acquisition in Childhood: Volume 2: School-age Children by B. McLaughlin
£22.53First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780805800968Author B. McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Psychology PressPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 476g -
Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics by Robert A. M. Gregson
£39.04Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics utilizes new results in systems theory as a foundation for representing sensory channels as a form of recursive loop processes. It demonstrates that a range of phenomena, previously treated as diverse or anomalous, are... -
Stress, Coping, and Disease by Philip M. McCabe
RRP: £37.99£33.78The third volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping, this book focuses on the role of biophysical factors in four of the greatest health problems confronting us today: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and the... -
Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives Thomas R. Zentall 9780805801040
£70.99First published in 1988. During the past decade there has been a marked increase in the number of North American and European laboratories engaged in the study of social learning. As a consequence, evidence is rapidly accumulating that in animals, as in... -
Object Perception: Structure and Process by Bryan E. Shepp
£60.26This collection of research on object perception focuses on holistic and featural properties of objects, the mechanisms that produce such properties, how people choose one type of property over another, and how such choices are improved during the course... -
Psychology and the Question of Agency Jack Martin 9780791457269
RRP: £24.78£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791457269Author Jack MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Emotions and the Family by Richard A. Fabes
£33.48"The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another" Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general... -
Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy by David A. Pare
£44.40Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy provides mainstream academics and practitioners with easy access to cutting-edge thinking in social constructionist psychology and therapy. This unique book is geared to readers who may not be familiar... -
Wu Wei, Negativity, and Depression: The Principle of Non-Trying in the Practice of Pastoral Care by Siroj Sorajjakool
£33.08Discover a pastoral approach to depression that combines Eastern wisdom and Western science!Wu Wei, Negativity, and Depression reveals a way to break the cycle of depression, not by denying it or fighting it, but by the ancient principle of wu wei,... -
The Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy Lorna L Hecker (Purdue University, USA) 9780789004000
£58.88When did you last have enough free time to carefully create, develop, and test a therapeutic concept or teaching method to improve the help you provide to your patients? With The Therapist's Notebook, a compilation of original ideas by practicing... -
Divorce and Remarriage: International Studies by Craig Everett
£25.44Divorce and Remarriage brings together for the first time a unique collection of international studies focusing on many aspects of divorce particular to individual cultures. It looks at the implications of divorce on the personal level, as well as on the... -
Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship: Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Foundations of Psychotherapy by Frederic J. Leger
£87.00Seeking to transfer knowledge across ideological boundaries within a theoretically valid, scientific framework, Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship draws upon and relates existing research from psychotherapy and the allied fields of human behavior... -
The Pastoral Care of Depression: A Guidebook by Harold G. Koenig
£20.60What is depression, and what are its many and varied types? Who becomes depressed, and how can it be recognized? How can depression be measured, and what are its suicidal potentialities? What are the therapeutic interventions the pastor can use in... -
Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat Jonathan B. Imber 9780765805928
RRP: £45.99£40.13For nearly half a century, social scientists have made claims that there is a "therapeutic ethos" with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture, twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its... -
Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development Clara Thompson 9780765809674
RRP: £43.99£38.44Clara Thompson was a leading representative of the cultural interpersonal school of psychoanalysis, sometimes known as the "neo-Freudians," which included Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, and Harry Stack Sullivan. "Classical analysts" once viewed neo-Freudians... -
Between Rationality and Irrationality: The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System by Mordechai Rotenberg
RRP: £45.99£40.13Jewish Scriptural interpretation entails a potential therapeutic bridge between the rational-material and the irrational-mystic in the world of psychotherapy. PaRDeS, as this system is known, is derived from the following concepts. "P" denotes... -
An Anatomy of Humor Arthur Asa Berger 9780765804945
RRP: £43.99£38.44Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social researchers analyze humor or try to determine what makes it... -
A Cognitive Approach to Situation Awareness: Theory and Application Sebastien Tremblay 9780754641988
RRP: £130.00£112.51The importance of 'situation awareness' (SA) in assessing and predicting operator competence in complex environments has become increasingly apparent in recent years. It has been widely established that SA is a contributing factor to many commercial and... -
The Significance of Consciousness by Charles Siewert
RRP: £109.00£85.21Charles Siewert presents a distinctive approach to consciousness that emphasizes our first-person knowledge of experience and argues that we should grant consciousness, understood in this way, a central place in our conception of mind and intentionality... -
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn by Pamela A. Moss
RRP: £32.99£28.38Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL - as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to... -
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda by Okhee Lee
RRP: £26.99£19.99The achievement gaps in science and the under-representation of minorities in science-related fields have long been a concern of the nation. This book examines the roots of this problem by providing a comprehensive, 'state of the field' analysis and... -
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire by John M. Janzen
RRP: £29.00£22.54In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the... -
Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices Jose Leon-Carrion (University of Seville, Spain) 9780415653701
RRP: £32.99£29.56Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury.Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It... -
Tip-of-the-tongue States: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval by Bennett L. Schwartz
RRP: £19.99£15.94Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, deja vu, and visual illusions, TOTs dazzle us with their subjective strength, yet, at the same time, puzzle us with our frustrating inability... -
Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition Timothy P. McNamara 9780415651677
RRP: £53.99£46.87Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge... -
Purkinje's Vision: The Dawning of Neuroscience by Nicholas J. Wade
RRP: £51.99£45.19The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to function; pharmacologists view in awe his... -
Psychophysics Beyond Sensation: Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition by Christian Kaernbach
RRP: £51.99£46.19This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate the extent of the domain of psychophysics, ranging from sensory processes,... -
Organizational Surveys: The Diagnosis and Betterment of Organizations Through Their Members by Frank Joseph Smith
RRP: £23.99£20.99Surveys conducted within organizations have become an important aspect of human resource management and organizational functioning. This new book by Frank Smith--a leader in this field--offers a unique perspective on organizational surveys. It emphasizes... -
Neuropsychology of Art: Neurological, Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives Dahlia W. Zaidel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9780415650403
RRP: £49.99£43.50The significance of art in human existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery. In Neuropsychology of Art, Dahlia W. Zaidel explores the brain regions and neuronal systems that support artistic creativity, talent, and... -
Minority Influence and Innovation: Antecedents, Processes and Consequences Robin Martin (Aston University, UK) 9780415650175
RRP: £49.99£43.90Social groups form an important part of our daily lives. Within these groups pressures exist which encourage the individual to comply with the group's viewpoint. This influence, which creates social conformity, is known as 'majority influence' and is the...