Authors:Ethel Tobach, Betty Rosoff,
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: determinism, genes, gender, genetic, alternatives, racism, sexism, challenging
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1558610901
ISBN-13: 9781558610903

In this highly volatile debate over the scientific treatment of race and gender, this is the first collection to examine race and gender together. In an effort to uncover the social underpinnings of hatred based on difference, this volume challenges arguments that such traits such as intelligence or aggression are genetically determined along racial or gender lines and provides alternative accounts of the origins of racism and sexism and-most importantly-the nature and consequences of intersection. Contriubutors include Beverly Greene, Gerald Horn, Ruth Hubbard, Gisela Kaplan, Lesley

Authors:Laura Martin, Katherine Nelson, Ethel Tobach,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: doing, social, cognitive, computational, perspectives, learning, knowing, psychology, theory, practice, sociocultural
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1995-09-29
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0521462789
ISBN-13: 9780521462785

These essays by leading theorists and researchers in sociocultural, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology honor the memory of Sylvia Scribner, who believed that science holds a responsibility to human welfare and understanding and whose work is recognized by the authors as seminal to their own thinking. The themes include the relationship between history and culture, the importance of context to thinking, the place of literacy in human activity and thought, and cognition in school and in the workplace. The volume presents applications of activity theory to fundamental issues in

Authors:Ethel Tobach, Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Mary Brown Parl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, doing, cognitive, perspectives, learning, computational, sylvia, practice, selected, writings, mind, scribner
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1997-01-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521467675
ISBN-13: 9780521467674

Sylvia Scribner’s contributions to the emergent field of cultural psychology have been monumental. Her studies of reasoning and thinking within contexts of culture and activity added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many now consider a distinctive branch of psychology. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner’s wide-ranging and prolific career. The book is arranged chronologically and includes five section introductions by the editors, placing Scribner’s work in the context of her life, her commitments, and the

Author: Ethel M. Dell
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: stories, odds
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1434601218
ISBN-13: 9781434601216

“If he comes my way I’ll shoot him!” said Dot Burton- her blue eyes gleaming in her boyish tanned face. “I’m not such a bad shot am I Jack?” (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

Author: Ethel Halstead
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: lobo, sangre
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2003-07-08
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 1410728390
ISBN-13: 9781410728395

Walking cautiously she tried to keep herself concealed from view of whatever was out there. This time she was taking no chances; she removed her Glock from its holster and held it in her hand as she investigated the spot the animal had fled from. As she moved in that direction she detected a faint but putrid odor. At times the odor grew heavier, then it would fade. She walked a few yards before the smell became obvious again. After walking another fifty yards the stench became constant and totally disgusting. There was something dismal and frightening about the foul smell. Except for her etern

Author: Ethel Traphagen
Publisher: Fournier Press
Keywords: illustration, design, costume
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408656256
ISBN-13: 9781408656259

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Ethel M. Dell
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: print, large, race, obstacle
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0554235897
ISBN-13: 9780554235899

A long green wave ran up gleaming like curved glass in the sunlight and broke in a million sparkles against a shelf of shingle. Above the shingle rose the soft cliffs clothed with scrubby grass and crowned with gorse.