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Autism and Asperger Syndrome by Uta Frith
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £57.21Is Asperger syndrome a syndrome in its own right or is it a form of autism? Sufferers from the syndrome are like autistic individuals in that they show the same kind of impairments from early... -
Autism: A Very Short Introduction by Uta Frith 9780199207565
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? ... -
Autism: Explaining the Enigma Uta Frith (University College London, UK) 9780631229018
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.53The updated edition of this classic account of autism includes a new chapter outlining recent developments in neuropsychological research, and overviews one of the most important theoretical and... -
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.49'Charming and addictively accessible' STEVEN PINKER 'Original, authoritative and beautiful' BRIAN COX 'The most wonderful adventure' ROBIN INCE A brilliantly illustrated journey through the... -
Neurocognitive Approaches to Developmental Disorders: A Festschrift for Uta Frith: A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by Dorothy Bishop 9781138883215
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Uta Frith has been an outstandingly influential figure in the field of developmental neuropsychology for over 40 years, and is internationally renowned for her work on developmental cognitive... -
The Autistic Spectrum 25th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Parents and Professionals Lorna Wing 9781841196749
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Over 500,000 people of all ages in the UK have disorders in the autistic spectrum. About one-third also have varying degrees of learning difficulty. All have impairment of social interaction,... -
Nadia Revisited: A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant Lorna Selfe (National Health Service (NHS), UK) 9781138381179
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This book re-examines the case of Nadia, discovered as a child aged six, who had been drawing with phenomenal skill and visual realism from the age of three, despite having autism and severe learning... -
Discovering the Social Mind: Selected works of Christopher D. Frith Christopher D. Frith 9781032477213
Booksplease Price: £44.72In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles,... -
Autism in History: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue by Rab Houston
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.37This engaging story of an eighteenth century Scottish laird whose brief arranged marriage was annulled on the grounds of his mental capacity - which seen through modern eyes can be identified as... -
Do Lemons Have Feathers?: More to Autism Than Meets the Eye by David J. Burns
Booksplease Price: £14.88"Are you beginning to see past the disability and starting to appreciate the gift?"In this unashamedly honest book, David J. Burns draws on his own lived experience of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)... -
Learning to Read – Psychology in the Classroom by E Funnell 9780631191339
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.71Learning to Read: Psychology in the Classroom is an informative and stimulating book for all those involved in the study of reading and the teaching of reading skills. This lively book links the... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or... -
What Mental Illness Really Is... (and what it isn't) Lucy Foulkes 9781529113372
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.35'A must-read... Fascinating' JO BRANDWe need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why.How do mental health problems arise?How do we... -
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London, UK) 9781405124010
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.87In this groundbreaking book, two leading authorities in the field review what we really know about how and when the brain learns, and consider the implications of this knowledge for educational... -
Phonological Skills and Learning to Read Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) 9780863771514
Booksplease Price: £91.09This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early... -
Socially Wired: How Culture Shapes Our Brains Matthew Schelke 9780231222266
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £67.10From birth, our brains are shaped by other people-in our families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, countries, and cultures. These social worlds make us who we are, but how this process works... -
Socially Wired: How Culture Shapes Our Brains Matthew Schelke 9780231222273
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57From birth, our brains are shaped by other people-in our families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, countries, and cultures. These social worlds make us who we are, but how this process works... -
The Neurology of Autism by Mary Coleman 9780195387766
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.21"This book includes up-to-date genetic evidence, underlining the complexities of genetic/environmental influences...I recommend this easy and informative read." European Journal of Pediatric... -
The Foundation of Literacy: The Child's Acquisition of the Alphabetic Principle by Brian Byrne
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This monograph brings together important research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages of reading development, and makes a... -
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research challenges and solutions Jo Van Herwegen (Kingston University, UK) 9781848723290
Booksplease Price: £55.81Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research... -
Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity, 4e by DUNSMUIR 9780335251346
Booksplease Price: £38.22"This new edition of an indispensable textbook... covers a huge range of topics illustrated by case studies and practical activities. It will enable schools to navigate through the complex challenges... -
Psychology: Why It Matters Richard Wiseman 9781509550432
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62You are remarkable: You experience a vast range of thoughts and feelings, including falling in love, remembering last Tuesday, and contemplating the meaning of life. And you can carry all sorts of... -
Psychology: Why It Matters by Richard Wiseman 9781509550425
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05You are remarkable: You experience a vast range of thoughts and feelings, including falling in love, remembering last Tuesday, and contemplating the meaning of life. And you can carry all sorts of... -
The Science of Reading: A Handbook Margaret J. Snowling (University of York) 9781405168113
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.31The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of... -
Dyslexia: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret J. Snowling
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29Since dyslexia was first described in the British Medical Journal in 1896, there has been debate about the definitions and diagnostic procedures used, with some casting doubt on its very existence... -
Autism Works: A Guide to Successful Employment across the Entire Spectrum by Adam Feinstein 9780815369318
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.83People with autism are being left behind today, with only 16 per cent in full-time employment. This inspiring book addresses the lack of understanding of the wonderful contributions people across the... -
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach by Amitta Shah
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.97This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework... -
Autism Works: A Guide to Successful Employment across the Entire Spectrum Adam Feinstein 9780815369486
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £22.99People with autism are being left behind today, with only 16 per cent in full-time employment. This inspiring book addresses the lack of understanding of the wonderful contributions people across the... -
Educational Neuroscience: The Basics by 9781032028552
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55Educational Neuroscience: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this emerging, interdisciplinary field. It explains how the brain works and its priorities for learning, and shows how educational... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £9.892018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara 9780198794981
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £22.52Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how... -
Autism: How to raise a happy autistic child by Jessie Hewitson 9781398721722
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99'Offers real-world advice while also highlighting the twin truths that autism is not a tragedy, and that adaptation and acceptance are not resignation' David Mitchell, bestselling author and... -
Secrets to Success for Professionals in the Autism Field: An Insider's Guide to Understanding the Autism Spectrum, the Environment and Your Role by Gunilla Gerland
Booksplease Price: £33.19Gunilla Gerland's extensive experience of the autism spectrum means she is expertly placed to offer a fresh perspective on working with autism as well as a wealth of effective tools and interventions... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on... -
Phonological Skills and Learning to Read Usha Goswami 9781138907485
Booksplease Price: £52.79In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy. The book... -
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton (University College, London) 9780631187585
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.37A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go... -
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach by John Morton 9780631187578
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £99.46A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go... -
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine 9780393340242
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children-boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks-we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay... -
Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development by Donna Coch
Booksplease Price: £73.25Thoroughly examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present research... -
Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience by Simon Baron-Cohen 9780199692972
Booksplease Price: £84.14This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts...