The Scientist in the Crib
Title | The Scientist in the Crib PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Gopnik |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN | 9780965076005 |
A review of research on learning and infancy, drawn from hundreds of case studies, shows how children by the age of three are virtual learning machines and discusses how parents can help this learning process.
The Philosophical Baby
Title | The Philosophical Baby PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Gopnik |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2009-08-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0374231966 |
A leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother, explains the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments as they relate to the development of very young children.
The Gardener and the Carpenter
Title | The Gardener and the Carpenter PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Gopnik |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0374229708 |
"Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
How Babies Think
Title | How Babies Think PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Gopnik |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Cognition in infants |
ISBN | 9780753814178 |
Learning begins in the first days of life. Scientists are now discovering how young children develop emotionally and intellectually, and are beginning to realize that from birth babies already know a staggering amount about the world around them. In the first book of its kind for a popular audience, three leading US scientists draw on twenty-five years of research in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neuroscience to reveal what babies know and how they learn it.
The Little Giant Book of Science Facts
Title | The Little Giant Book of Science Facts PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Vecchione |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781402706530 |
Hundreds of fascinating, flabbergasting, and sometimes freaky facts are at your disposal in this fun-sized compendium. Uncover animal oddities, including the fact that certain species of frogs can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Find out how strange people really are: Did you know that the average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime—enough to fill two swimming pools? And there are botanical surprises, such as that bananas are actually herbs, plus science tidbits about the Earth, inventions, computers, and more.
The Mad Science Book
Title | The Mad Science Book PDF eBook |
Author | Reto U. Schneider |
Publisher | Quercus Books |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
You don't have to be an eccentric obsessive to be a scientist, but it helps... In The Mad Science Book, Reto Schneider tells the extraordinary tales of 100 of the more unusual experiments conducted across seven centuries of science. From the attempts of the 14th-century Dominican monk Theodoric von Freiberg to discover the cause of the rainbow, to the efforts of the 20th-century psychologist Harry Harlow to be the perfect mother to a family of reluctant rhesus monkeys, these are stories that are often bizarre, sometimes mind-boggling - occasionally stomach-churning - but always diverting, informative and enlightening.Among the myriad delights on display in this cabinet of scientific curiosities are the renowned doctor from Padua who sat in a pair of scales for 30 years, recording the minutest changes in his weight; the sheep, the duck and the rooster who became the world's first air passengers; the disgusting Dr Stubbins Ffirth, who swallowed other people's vomit in an attempt to prove that yellow fever cannot be transmitted from one person to another; the hapless soldier Alexis St Martin, left with a hole in his stomach after an accident with a musket; and the ever-optimistic Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, who injected himself with essence of guinea pigs' testicles as an anti-ageing remedy. There is trivia here in abundance, but also quirky, but genuinely influential, science, notably Merrill Flood's and Melvin Dresher's experiments with choices of outcomes, which have been widely influential as game theory.A fizzing cocktail of fascinating science and rich entertainment, The Mad Science Book tells the extraordinary stories of some truly, madly, geeky people. It should be top of every self-respecting science buff's Christmas 2008 wishlist.
What Makes Things Move?
Title | What Makes Things Move? PDF eBook |
Author | Althea |
Publisher | Troll Communications |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780816721245 |
Discusses how both living and non-living things move or are moved.