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Mind as Action by James V. Wertsch 9780195117530
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $94.56Wertsch argues against reductionist accounts of human cognition and proposes a sociocultural perspective, which moves beyond the isolated individual. He suggests that "mediated action" and cultural... -
Voices of Collective Remembering by James V. Wertsch 9780521008808
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $56.12There is currently a great deal of discussion in the humanities and social sciences about collective memory, but there is very little agreement on what it is. The first goal of this volume is to... -
Sociocultural Studies of Mind by James V. Wertsch 9780521470568
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $121.35Sociocultural 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... -
Sociocultural Studies of Mind by James V. Wertsch 9780521476430
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.17Sociocultural 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... -
Voices of Collective Remembering by James V. Wertsch 9780521810500
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $112.73There is currently a great deal of discussion in the humanities and social sciences about collective memory, but there is very little agreement on what it is. The first goal of this volume is to... -
How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach by James V Wertsch
Booksplease Price: $63.43How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can... -
The Concept of Activity in Soviet Psychology by James V. Wertsch 9780873321587
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40An anthology of Chinese writings drawn from the late-1980s Maoist revival in mainland China. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, these selections are introduced and annnotated to provide an... -
Voices of the Mind: Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action by James V. Wertsch 9780674943049
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $55.97In Voices of the Mind, James Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is the... -
Ragnar Rommetveit: His Work and Influence:a Special Issue of mind, Culture, and Activity by James V. Wertsch
Booksplease Price: $83.28This special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity revisits Rommetveit's ideas in admiration for his quest to understand meaning, language, and mind. It also reflects the inspiration he has provided... -
Memory and Political Change by Aleida Assmann 9780230302006
Booksplease Price: $91.14Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment... -
Introduction to Vygotsky by Harry Daniels
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34This thoroughly updated third edition provides students with an accessible overview of Vygotsky's work, combining reprints of key journal and text articles with rich editorial commentary. Lev... -
The Development of Cognitive Anthropology by Roy G. D'Andrade 9780521459761
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $47.97In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by... -
National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times by Henry L. Roediger III 9780197568675
Booksplease Price: $186.15This volume brings together distinguished scholars to address broad societal claims about the surge in populist nationalism in the scholarly literature on collective memory. The book sets the stage... -
Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National Narratives: A Sociocultural Approach to Schematic Narrative Templates by Ignacio Bresco de Luna 9781648026621
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $123.32In his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and... -
Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National Narratives: A Sociocultural Approach to Schematic Narrative Templates by Ignacio Bresco de Luna 9781648026614
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $67.86In his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and... -
Creativity and Development by R. Keith Sawyer 9780195149005
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $72.97What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields... -
The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon Katie Rose Hejtmanek 9781479831814
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Reveals the Christian foundations of CrossFit CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the... -
The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon Katie Rose Hejtmanek 9781479831784
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $111.77Reveals the Christian foundations of CrossFit CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the... -
Rethinking Educational Theory: Education as Expanding Dialogue Rupert Wegerif 9781803926407
Booksplease Price: $160.49This book offers a coherent theory of education, education as widening and deepening dialogic space, that addresses the fundamental educational questions: What should we teach? How should we teach... -
Rethinking Educational Theory: Education as Expanding Dialogue Rupert Wegerif 9781049404172
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $57.92This book offers a coherent theory of education, education as widening and deepening dialogic space, that addresses the fundamental educational questions: What should we teach? How should we teach... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing by Rosalind Horowitz
RRP: $189.13Booksplease Price: $171.85This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common... -
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky by Harry Daniels
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $66.50L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His... -
Collective Remembering by David Middleton 9780803982352
Booksplease Price: $232.11Profoundly challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, Collective Remembering is concerned with remembering and forgetting as socially constituted... -
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky by Harry Daniels 9780521831048
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $134.02L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His... -
Education and Dialogue in Polarized Societies: Dialogic perspectives in times of change Ola Erstad 9780197605424
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $104.77A number of scholars within the social sciences and the humanities have elaborated on the cultural and psychological dimensions of living through social, economic and political crises. Still,... -
Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory by Mikyoung Kim 9780230237476
Booksplease Price: $90.25The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming... -
Reenacting the Enemy: Collective Memory Construction in Russian and US Media by Ludmila Isurin 9780197605462
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $105.36This book examines how Russian and American media narratives inform the ways individuals in both countries consume and construct collective memories of one another in an age of media distrust. Using... -
Collective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture by James H. Liu 9781108833523
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $162.81Collective 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... -
Studies on the History of Behavior: Ape, Primitive, and Child L.S. Vygotsky 9781138983311
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29The surge of contemporary interest in Vygotsky's contribution to child psychology has focused largely on his developmental method and his claim that higher psychological functions in the individual... -
Bullish on Uncertainty: How Organizational Cultures Transform Participants by Alexandra Michel
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $39.80Bullish on Uncertainty provides rare insight into the secretive world of Wall Street high finance, which has shaped influential business, governmental, and cultural leaders and keeps supplying new... -
Bullish on Uncertainty: How Organizational Cultures Transform Participants by Alexandra Michel 9780521869966
RRP: $118.95Booksplease Price: $114.45Bullish on Uncertainty provides rare insight into the secretive world of Wall Street high finance, which has shaped influential business, governmental, and cultural leaders and keeps supplying new... -
Memory in Mind and Culture by Pascal Boyer 9780521758925
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $74.06This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies,... -
Memory in Mind and Culture by Pascal Boyer 9780521760782
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $183.51This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies,... -
Banal Nationalism by Prof. Michael Billig
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $99.00Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of...