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How To Think Like a Neandertal There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals–some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes–one specimen had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene called FOXP2, which…. Click Here to Read More

Race, Crime, and Delinquency Unique in approach, this book uses criminology theories to explore the link between race and crime and delinquency. Offering a rich presentation, it introduces leading and contemporary theories and discusses their assumptions about race and crime and delinquency. Its approach fosters analysis and application and empirical articles are included throughout. Each chapter ends with a summary and discussion questions to further explore criminology theories and racial issues in criminal justice. Other hallmark features include: the use of criminology theory to examine the role of race in crime and delinquency; clear explanations of theories in each chapter…. Click Here to Read More

Totem and Taboo; Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Moffat, Yard and company Subjects: Psychoanalysis Taboo Totemism Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / General Psychology / Neuropsychology Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis Psychology / Ethnopsychology Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the…. Click Here to Read More

A Pig Don’t Get Fatter the More You Weigh It: Classroom Assessments that Work No matter how many times you weigh a pig, all you learn is how much it weighs. If you want to learn something else, you need a different assessment. This sensible book explains how well-constructed assessments provide data that is essential to the development of learning opportunities for all students. The text includes contributions from teachers and teacher educators, classroom vignettes, and alternative approaches that have been proven useful in assessing the needs of a wide range of students. List Price: $ 23.95 Price: $…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThe renewal of interest in psychological anthropology has called for a critical appraisal of past schools and approaches as well as an up-to-date review of the literature and evidence from contemporary research. This handbook, the first reference work devoted to this growing field, draws upon the work of distinguished contributors to overview historical, methodological, and critical material related to psychological anthropology. Psychological…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionIn Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs a political and cultural history of the island’s relations with France. Woven throughout is Vergès’s own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of Réunion itself. Originally settled by sugar plantation owners and their Indian and African slaves following a seventeenth-century French colonial decree, Réunion abolished slavery in 1848. Because plantation owners…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionAn illustrated chronicle of the Jewish experience from the Spanish Inquisition to the present discusses their exile, their subsequent life in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere, and more. The Jewish American Princess and other Myths: The Many Faces of…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionIn What Makes the Great Great, Dennis Kimbro, author of the bestselling Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, introduces inspiring people who have achieved greatness in their own unique way, then highlights those qualities each of us must develop before we reach our full potential. Regardless of how you define greatness–whether it’s success in business or in pursuing a personal goal–this book provides a proven approach to turning your dreams into reality.Part pep rally, part how-to book, What Makes the Great Great combines practical advice with pearls of wisdom from some of today’s most successful African Americans, including John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionIn response to shortcomings inherent in mainstream intelligence assessment, the authors of this volume propose a `bio-cultural’ model as an alternative approach to current models. They offer a comprehensive and informed understanding of biological and cultural influences on intellectual behaviour, and explore the implications of the bio-cultural model for practitioners, researchers and policy makers. Assessing Intelligence: Applying a Bio-Cultural Model…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionQualitative methodologies in cultural psychology often lack the objective and verifiable character of quantitative analysis. Author Carl Ratner corrects this shortcoming by rigorously systematizing qualitative methods. The book discusses, for example, means of systematizing such subjective reports as interviews, letters, and diaries, which often yield valuable data that is not easily quantified. Ratner argues that “complex psychological phenomena are expressed through extended responses” and hence are best studied by new, more regularized qualitative methods that go beyond measuring simple, overt responses. Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology:…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionAnalyzes the extent to which equal opportunity has grown for the black community in the last thirty years through interviews with black men and women who have achieved positions of power in the American workplace. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour. Children of the…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionRacial identity theories have been in the psychological literature for nearly thirty years. Unlike most references to racial identity, however, Thompson and Carter demonstrate the value of integrating RACE and IDENTITY as systematic components of human functioning. The editors and their contributors show how the infusion of racial identity theory with other psychological models can successfully yield more holistic considerations of client functioning and well-being. Fully respecting the mutual influence of personal and environmental factors to explanations of individual and group functioning, they apply complex theoretical notions to real-life cases in psychological…. Click Here to Read More