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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Covering the 16th to 20th centuries, this sweeping study examines a variety of European wars, the rise & fall of empires, changing alliances & national borders, the age of monarchy & revolution, world wars & totalitarianism. 435 pages, index. Dust Jacket condition Fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. **Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Business in the Pacific Northwest** / 1st Edition, 3rd Printing, 1997.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 331 pages, index. B/w illustrations. Some edgewear & tear to dust jacket. Dust Jacket condition good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Mother father deaf is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston, one of these children, takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on 150 interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States, Mother Father Deaf examines the process of assimilation and cultural affiliation among a population whose lives incorporate the paradox of being culturally Deaf yet functionally hearing. It is rich in anecdote and analysis, remarkable for its insights into a family life normally closed to outsiders. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Animal Cognition presents a clear, concise, and comprehensive overview of what we know about cognitive processes in animals. Focusing mainly on what has been learned from experimental research, Vauclair presents a wide-ranging review of studies of many kinds of animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons and titmice, baboons, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, and Japanese macaques. He also offers a novel discussion of the ways Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition. Individual chapters review the current state of our knowledge about specific kinds of cognition in animals: tool use and spatial and temporal representations; social cognition--how animals manage their relational life and the cognitive organization that sustains social behaviors; representation, communication, and language; and imitation, self-recognition, and the theory of mind--what animals know about themselves. The book closes with Vauclair's "agenda for comparative cognition." Here he examines the relationship of the experimental approach to other fields and methods of inquiry, such as cognitive ethology and the ecological approach to species comparisons. It is here, too, that Vauclair addresses the key issue of continuity, or its absence, between animal and human cognition. Given our still limited knowledge of cognitive systems in animals, Vauclair argues, researchers should be less concerned with the "why" question--the evolutionary or ecological explanations for differences in cognition between the species--and more concerned with the "what"--the careful work that is needed to increase our understanding of similarities and differences in cognitive processes. This thoughtful and lively book will be of great value to students of animal behavior and to anyone who desires a better understanding of humankind's relations to other living creatures. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine and cover; DJ has minor edge and corner wear. No major concerns.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, near fine. BRUNER, JEROME S. The process of education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, 24th printing, xxvi, 97pp., . CONTENTS: The importance of structure -- Readiness for learning -- Intuitive and analytic thinking -- Motives for learning -- Aids to teaching. 9780674710016 ISBN 0674710010 5.80.

hardcover. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 97 pp., Light pencil markings scattered throughout the text, else fine. Nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket.

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. Later prt. 8vo, 654 pp.

softcover. Zustand: Very good copy. 1st. 8vo, 433 pp., Dent on spine, else fine.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 411 pp.

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. BOMC ed. 8vo, 427 pp.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 223 pp.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2nd prt. 8vo, 211 pp.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition. Introduction by Kenneth R. Andrews. Contemporary classic on administration and organization. 334 pages, cover wear, internals clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. An unread tight copy of this attractive book. Analyzes influential statements made by Derrida, Foucault, and others to show how proposed conceptions of literary strategy are contradictory, underdeveloped, and at odds with the actual use of the term. Hardbound, 267 pages. Blurb by Charles Taylor. SALE/FERRY.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. There is highlighting and underlining in the text. There is a name written on the front end paper. The front and back cover have a light curl.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. HARDCOVER; in very good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Softcover; in fine condition. Book.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good softcover, wraps. Volume XXVIII, Number 2. December 1914. Leading articles are Mutuality and Consideration by Henry Winthrop Ballantine, Business Jurisprudence by Edward A. Adler, and Federal Employers' Liability Act by Edward P. Buford. Binding solid, wraps have scattered brown stains, not interfering with the readability. Small area of loss to wrap at spine bottom. Pages clean throughout. Many advertisements.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Edition Not Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light bumps and shelf wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark H. Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Useful for both practicing public executives and those who teach them, this book explicates some of the richest of several hundred cases used at Harvards Kennedy School of Government and illuminates their broader lessons for government managers. Moore addresses four questions that have long bedeviled public administration: What should citizens and their representatives expect and demand from public executives? What sources can public managers consult to learn what is valuable for them to produce? How should public managers cope with inconsistent and fickle political mandates? How can public managers find room to innovate? Moores answers respond to the well-understood difficulties of managing public enterprises in modern society by recommending specific, concrete changes in the practices of individual public managers: how they envision what is valuable to produce, how they engage their political overseers, and how they deliver services and fulfill obligations to clients. Following Moores cases, we witness dilemmas faced by a cross-section of public managers: William Ruckelshaus and the Environmental Protection Agency; Jerome Miller and the Department of Youth Services; Miles Mahoney and the Park Plaza Redevelopment Project; David Sencer and the swine flu scare; Lee Brown and the Houston Police Department; Harry Spence and the Boston Housing Authority. Their work, together with Moores analysis, reveals how public managers can achieve their true goal of producing public value. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. A nice tight copy. A few highlighted passages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era. Linking together and transcending Peter's many reforms of state and society, Cracraft argues, was nothing less than a cultural revolution. New ways of dress, elite social behavior, navigation, architecture, and image-making emerged along with expansive vocabularies for labeling new objects and activities. Russians learned how to build and sail warships; train, supply, and command a modern army; operate a new-style bureaucracy; conduct diplomacy on a par with the other European states; apply modern science; and conceptualize the new governing system. Throughout, Peter remains the central figure, and Cracraft discusses the shaping events of the tsar's youth, his inner circle, the resistance his reforms engendered, and the founding of the city that would embody his vision--St. Petersburg, which celebrated its tercentenary in 2003. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In this eloquent book, Cracraft illuminates an astonishing transformation that had enormous consequences for both Russia and Europe, indeed the world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children are frequently baffled by the first lessons of early schooling. Trained to gently resist the childs illogic, teachers sometimes create just the incomprehension and anxiety they mean to avoid. In Wallys Stories, Vivian Paley shows that none of this need be so. Wallys Stories is itself a story: the story of the evolution of a kindergarten classroom in which Paley learned to stop fighting childish fantasy and instead make use of it to stimulate the very best brand of thinking her five-year-olds can muster. Stories also lie at the heart of her classroom: stories that are first told by one of the children, then transcribed by the teacher, and then acted out by the class in dramatic productions of their own design. Paley shows that in the course of creating their own dramatic world, five-year-olds are capable of thought and language far in advance of what they accomplish in traditional classroom exercises. The childrens stories also become a vehicle that they can use to explain themselves to their teacher and to one another. Together, teacher and children develop an unusual environment, one that is logical and literate, based on rules of fairness, friendship, and fantasy. Vivian Paleys book is as refreshing as her teaching methoda new kind of book about a new kind of classroom. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Until very recently, almost all books on infancy assumed basic infant immaturity. Remarkably, as Tiffany Field shows in her survey of recent research, investigators are discovering that infants possess sophisticated perceptual skills, such as hearing, even before birth. Newborns can sense touch and motion, discriminate tastes and smells, recognize their mother's voice, and imitate facial expressions. In fact, the newborn is an active learner, looking, reaching, sucking, and grimacing from its first moments in its new environment. Field provides a readable account of our current knowledge about infant development. She looks at the emergence of sensorimotor and cognitive skills, which play an important role in social and emotional development in the months following birth as the infant experiences the world. In a chapter with important implications for working mothers, Field reviews the literature on infants in nursery and daycare programs, countering negative assessments with studies that show an enhancement of infants' social interaction in good care settings. In the concluding chapter, she pays particular attention to infants at risk because of disease (including AIDS), maternal drug use, prematurity, or maternal depression, and describes possible intervention strategies. The bibliography provides an invaluable summary of significant primary reference papers for professional researchers, students, and parents. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book introduces new ways of looking at language development. A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration, Pathways to Language balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague prepared to challenge current popular positions in these debates. The result is an unusually subtle, even-handed, and comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition, from fetal speech processing to the development of child grammar to the sophisticated linguistic accomplishments of adolescence, such as engaging in conversation and telling a story. With examples from the real world as well as from the psychology laboratory, Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith look in detail at the way language users appropriate words and grammar. They present in-depth evaluations of different theories of language acquisition. They show how adolescent usage has changed the meaning of certain phrases, and how modern living has led to alterations in the lexicon. They also consider the phenomenon of atypical language development, as well as theoretical issues of nativism and empiricism and the specificity of human language. Their nuanced and open-minded approach allows readers to survey the complexity and breadth of the fascinating pathways to language acquisition. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Duodecimo, light blue cloth in a narrow band dust jacket, iv, 195 pp., b/w illustrations, notes, index.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Duodecimo in dust jacket, vi, 152 pp., notes, index.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dusty jacket with a few short tears, xii, 234 pp., index.