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Human Development
Feel intimidated by the life-span course? You're in good hands with HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 8th Edition, as your guide. Complete, yet succinct and filled with real-life examples that aid understanding, the text has proven its ability to capture students' interest while introducing them to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. The efficient organization (chronological, but with a few chapters on key topical issues) allows this text to be briefer than many other texts for the same course. The material is relevant, too: You'll gain the foundations in important theories and research that enable you to become an educated interpreter of developmental information in your future career. In addition, basic and applied research along with controversial topics and emergent trends demonstrate connections between the laboratory and life.
£228.51
Cengage Learning, Inc Adult Development and Aging
Cavanaugh's bestselling ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING, 9th edition, covers the specific ages-stages of adult development and aging with a unique focus on "positive aging". Completely up to date, the new edition reflects the latest research, theory and issues. It includes discussions of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on every aspect of adult development and aging and how technology is increasing the likelihood of aging in place. Making it easier to study and learn, the text helps you connect what you're learning with real life while providing you with the tools you need to maximize course success, including review questions in each module, integrative questions and key terms with definitions. In addition, boxed features point out controversial issues about chapter concepts, illustrate aging principles through real-life examples and connect research to current social policy.
£190.60
University Press of America Media Effects on Voters: A Panel Study of the 1992 Presidential Election
How do today's voters react to the phenomenon of 'attack journalism' in this age of televised presidential campaigns? This book presents an intensive analysis of mass media effects on a panel of eighteen voters from Columbia, South Carolina during the 1992 presidential elections. Beginning with individual interviews in July of 1992 and continuing through November, Cavanaugh's study provides a long-term look at voters in the decision-making process as well as insight into how various news items affect their voting choices.
£88.46
Cengage Learning, Inc Essentials of Human Development: A Life-Span View
This streamlined, readable account of human development gives you the conceptual foundations that enable you to become an educated and critical interpreter of developmental information. ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 2nd Edition offers an introduction to relevant research and its application to important issues in life-span development. In addition, the text emphasizes the application of human development research across diverse professional settings. If you're pursuing a career related to psychology, education, health, or human sciences -- be it as a nurse, physician, educator, psychologist, social worker, or another similar profession -- this text will show you how human development research can allow you to work more effectively with future patients, students, or clients. Succinct and filled with real-life examples that aid your understanding, it will capture your interest while introducing you to the essential issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are.
£212.34
Cengage Learning, Inc Human Development: A Life-Span View
Feel intimidated by the life-span course? You're in good hands with HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 8th Edition, as your guide. Complete, yet succinct and filled with real-life examples that aid understanding, the text has proven its ability to capture students' interest while introducing them to the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. The efficient organization (chronological, but with a few chapters on key topical issues) allows this text to be briefer than many other texts for the same course. The material is relevant, too: You'll gain the foundations in important theories and research that enable you to become an educated interpreter of developmental information in your future career. In addition, basic and applied research along with controversial topics and emergent trends demonstrate connections between the laboratory and life.
£187.79
Cengage Learning, Inc Human Development: A Life-Span View
Gain a strong understanding of the issues, forces and outcomes that shape individuals into the people they become as you study the captivating content in Kail/Cavanaugh's HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW, 9E. This comprehensive, yet succinct, narrative offers a rich description of all life-span stages, tracing development from conception through late life. The authors use real-life examples to help you understand the relevance of the latest research as well as controversial topics and emergent trends. Updates explore the pandemic from a developmental perspective and examine issues such as the differences in emerging and established adulthood, the development of transgender children and advancements in holistic interventions for dementia. You gain the foundation in important theories and research to critically interpret developmental information throughout your career. MindTap digital resources are also available to strengthen your understanding.
£67.06
