Author: Richard A. Lippa
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: nurture, nature, gender
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-03
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0805853456
ISBN-13: 9780805853452
This engaging text presents the latest scientific findings on gender differences, similarities, and variations--in sexuality, cognitive abilities, occupational preferences, personality, and social behaviors. The impact of nature and nurture on gender is examined from the perspectives of genetics, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, neuroanatomy, sociology, and psychology. The result is a balanced, fair-minded synthesis of diverse points of view. Dr. Lippa’s text sympathetically summarizes each side of the nature-nurture debate, and in a witty imagined conversation between a personifi
Author: Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: nurture, nature, space, mirage
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2010-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0822347318
ISBN-13: 9780822347316
In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by genes and the environment in determining individual traits and behavior. Keller is interested in both how an oppositional “versus” came to be inserted between nature and nurture, and how the distinction on which that opposition depends, the idea that nature and nurture are separable, came to be taken for granted. How, she asks, did the illusion of a space between nature and nurture become entrenc
Author: Keith Richardso
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Keywords: interact, nurture, nature, psychology, developmental
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0805836241
ISBN-13: 9780805836240
This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with material that may be familiar to students, then leads them into areas of thought which may be less familiar but which are important and significant aspects of current research and debate in the field. T
Author: Keith Richardso
Publisher: Psychology Pre
Keywords: interact, nurture, nature, psychology, developmental
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 080583625X
ISBN-13: 9780805836257
This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with material that may be familiar to students, then leads them into areas of thought which may be less familiar but which are important and significant aspects of current research and debate in the field. T
Authors:Susan McKinnon, Sydel Silverman,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: nurture, nature, complexities
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226500241
ISBN-13: 9780226500249
Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality—not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality—can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past.Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology—cultural , archaeological, linguistic, and biological—to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human bio
Author: Matt Ridley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: nurture, turns, nature, gene, agile
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 006000679X
ISBN-13: 9780060006792
[Previously published as Nature via Nurture] Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior. Ridley recounts the hundred years’ war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. With the decoding of the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also
Author: Ba Luvmour
Publisher: Sentient Publications
Keywords: nurture, whole, child, rhythms, learning, parenting, using, natural, optimal
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-06-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1591810418
ISBN-13: 9781591810414
Optimal Parenting guides parents to create well-being at all stages of their children’s lives. It fills a void in parenting books by focusing on nurturing the whole child. It will appeal to anyone devoted to helping his or her children fulfill their potential, parents who want to be on the same "parenting page," and families who desire the strengths and skills to face life’s challenges together. Optimal Parenting shows you how to use Natural Learning Rhythms—a comprehensive, thoroughly researched, easy-to-understand system of child development and family dynamics—to create envir
