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paperback. Zustand: As new. 280 pp. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative social play that surrounds him? The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jasonthe loner and outsiderand of his ultimate triumph and homecoming into the society of his classmates. As we follow Jasons struggle, we see that the classroom is indeed the crucible within which the young discover themselves and learn to confront new problems in their daily experience. Vivian Paley recreates the stage upon which children emerge as natural and ingenious storytellers. She supplements these real-life vignettes with brilliant insights into the teaching process, offering detailed discussions about control, authority, and the misuse of punishment in the preschool classroom. She shows a more effective and natural dynamic of limit-setting that emerges in the control children exert over their own fantasies. And here for the first time the author introduces a triumvirate of teachers (Paley herself and two apprentices) who reflect on the meaning of events unfolding before them. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Animal Thinking by Donald R. Griffin. This softcover edition, 5th printing, is in Very Good Plus (VG+) condition. The covers are in great shape and the binding is square and tight. There is minor abrasion on the half-title page, but the interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment to ensure protection from the elements, and a USPS electronic tracking number will be provided free of charge. Feel free to contact us for more information or additional pictures.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Trade Paperback. Good. 3rd Printing. Book has some wear, mostly at edges; tight; text clean; reading copy. Published at $14.95.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Focuses on Victorian culture, assessing the immense influence the ancient Greeks had on British classical education, the images and themes of George Eliot's writings, Christian sensibility, decorative arts, and English playing fields during the nineteenth century Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. This book contrasts Malthus with competing theories. Petersen discusses the trends since Malthus' day in fertility, mortality, and population growth. Also compares Malthus' economics with that of his contemporary, David Ricardo, as well as the links to the Keynesian thought of recent time. Petersen also comments on Malthus' stand on birth control, as well as on the rise of the neo-Malthusian movement and its successor in today's less developed countries. The review of both population trends and demographic theory over the past century and a half gives the reader a base from which he can judge in what respects Malthus did, or did not, forecast the future accurately. As Petersen points out, Malthus also influenced the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, as well as its offshoot, Social Darwinism. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Fine. Revised ed. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Audience: General/trade.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: jacketcondition. x + 213 pp. Rubber-stamped on first page. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 208 pp. No dust jacket. Rubber-stamped on inside front cover. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 224 pp. Rubber-stamped on half title page. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 275 pp.Ê dj. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 264 pp. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 223 pp. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 424 pp. Ex-library. book.

Hardback. Zustand: As new. xii + 303 pp. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 374 pages.

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.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 208 pp. dj. Rubber-stamped on half title page. Brief notation on front free endpaper. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. xiii + 336 pp. Ex-library. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, focuses on 32 of the paintings by Guercino remaining in Britain, most of which are illustrated in colour. It includes an essay by Francis Russell, a director of Christie's, London, on the collecting of, and taste for, Guercino in Britain, and an outline of Guercino's career by Michael Helston, Curator of Spanish and later Italian painting at the National Gallery. 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: Fine. 3rd Edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001. 129 pages. Classic for 50 years. Clean throught; tight binding. . Printed Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 8vo. Language: ENG.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. xv + 256 pp. dj. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biologys progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the geneword and objectas the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life. 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: Fair. First Edition. Looking at this book you would think it is in very good condition, however the DJ is partially attached to the cover and back from age and moisture. I did not try to remove it. Inside the book is very good. this is a hard cover first edition. Please email us for a picture, we ship fast.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by JEFF ALBERTSON COVER PHOTO (illustrator). first edition, thus. VERY GOOD clean, bright .old bend to back cover.; red & white titles on photo cover showing 2 blond children playing on green house steps ; 8 Photos in text; 160pg pages; classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses.Bruner's foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Ex. Library Book; 199 pages.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Fine. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 282 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. sc 253.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine or Very Good+ condition. The covers are in great shape with only light shelf wear. The binding is square and tight. An organization stamp is neatly marked out on the title page. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, ink lines in margins or a few words underlined on about 15 pages, a couple of pages dog-eared, otherwise very good gray half-cloth with yellow boards. JOLLY, ALISON. Lucy's legacy: sex and intelligence in human evolution SOME MARKINGS. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999, 518pp., . Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of cooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of molecules to the rise of a species inextricably linked by language, culture, and group living. This is the story that unfolds in Lucy's Legacy, the saga of human evolution as told by a world-renowned primatologist who works among the female-dominant ringtailed lemurs of Madagascar. We cannot be certain that Lucy was female-the bones themselves do not tell us. However, we do know, as Jolly points out in this erudite, funny, and informative book, that the females who came after Lucy-more adept than their males in verbal facility, sharing food, forging links between generations, migrating among places and groups, and devising creative mating strategies-played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as "man" ever did. In a book that takes us from the first cell to global society, Jolly shows us that to learn where we came from and where we go next, we need to understand how sex and intelligence, cooperation and love, emerged from the harsh Darwinian struggle in the past, and how these natural powers may continue to evolve in the future. Winner of the 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Sociology and Anthropology Category., Includes information on bonobos, chimpanzees, competition, cooperation, Charles Darwin, evolution, food and food supply, genes, gorillas, harems, kinship, language, lemurs, Japanese macaques, mating and mates, memes, menopause, monkeys, monogamy, natural selection, offspring, orangutans, poetry, sex, societies/social groups, tools and toolmaking, violence, war/warfare, etc. 9780674000698 ISBN 0674000692.