This important volume deals with the issue of how to make comparisons in the field of human development.

Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's fore

Explaining the nature of theories in the field of child development (including why theories are useful and why there are multiple theories), Thomas' highly resp

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This brief, accessible core text provides a comprehensive view of the major developmental perspectives in a way that should appeal especially to students going