The Origin of Intelligence in the Child Jean Piaget Routledge, 1998 Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that ...             Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)17 reviews Merleau-Ponty Routledge, 2002 A masterpiece! + Phenomenology of Perception- Brilliant, timely, everyone should read. + Breakthough Phenomenology + Wonderful             Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead)1 review George Herbert Mead University Of Chicago Press, 1967 The founding stone of symbolic interactionist theory This books represents the foundation for a major sociological approach - symbolic interactionism. The essential premise of symbolic interactionism is that all human action is essentially symbolic and that society is to be understood, not as a closed system to be studied in abstraction, but as a ...             Principles of Genetic Epistemology: Jean Piaget: Selected Works Volume 7 Jean Piaget Routledge, 1998 Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is ...             The Theory of Mind as Pure Act (Living Time Thought)1 review Giovanni Gentile Living Time Press, 2002 A theory of the world as structured through consciousness. I read a 1920s translation of this brilliant philosophical work by Gentile (more remembered for his wrong political leanings - fascism - than his contributions to philosophy). The book is believed to be solipsist (the position that nothing exists except thought/self), but is not so. Gentile ...             New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis1 review Sigmund Freud W. W. Norton & Company, 1965 a spotty but valuable supplement to the general introduction In these seven lectures, written in 1932, Freud supplements the "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" (also called the General Introduction to Psychoanalysis) delivered in 1915-17, with additions and amendments to his theory developed through the 1920s. The lectures contain a clear, concise ...             Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences26 reviews Howard Gardner Basic Books, 1993 Original and intelligent way of understanding human abilities + Stunning + Freedom to Pursue Our Natural Gifts! In one sense what Howard Gardner does in this book is expand our sense of what the human mind is and the human being actually does. For instead of accepting what had long been the standard model in which there are essentially only two different kinds of Intelligence, verbal and mathematical he ...             The Trauma of Birth3 reviews Otto Rank Dover Publications, 1994 A key book in the history of psychotherapy + Fascinating, and strangely enough... + Merger This edition contains an introduction by E. James Lieberman, biographer of Otto Rank (_Acts of Will_) and co-translator of Rank's _Psychology and the Soul_(1998). This work marks the break between Rank and Freud; written in 1924, it established the mother-child relationship as the central focus ...             Principles of Gestalt Psychology (International Library of Psychology) K KOFFKA Routledge, 1999 Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure ...             The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)60 reviews Roger Penrose Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 A great, great book. + A maverick says: + A mess + Do yourself a favor and read this book! + Walking past one another...             Verbal Behavior5 reviews B. F. Skinner Copley Publishing Group, 1991 An unjustly neglected classic + A Life Changer + A Diamond in the Rough + Brilliant, Eminently Useful, and Difficult + Fortunately Unlike Other Books             Critique of Pure Reason37 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1999 The Issue of Translation + Poor Binding + a good translation + seminal work of the greatest of philosophers             Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis2 reviews Sigmund Freud Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1989 a titan of modern thought + best intro to the thought of a great humanist This is the best introduction to Freud's ground-breaking psychological theories, now so much maligned and obscured by the apologists for the pharmaceutical stupefaction and mollification that now passes for psychiatry and keeps our bankrupt culture lurching forward. It takes courage to read this ...             Language and Thought of the Child (Routledge Classics) Jean Piaget Routledge, 2001 "His theory of child development has influenced the way millions of school children have been taught." -- Times Literary Supplement             The Concept of Mind8 reviews Gilbert Ryle University Of Chicago Press, 2000 A Matter of Mind + MENS SANA + One of the best book of the ordinary language philosophy + Ghosts + A Classic of Philosophy of Mind             An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Great Books in Philosophy)10 reviews John Locke Prometheus Books, 1994 Only to Be Used in Scholarly Research + One of the major works in Western Philosophy + Worth Re-Cognising + Outstanding work from a Giant of a Mind.             The Denial of Death51 reviews Ernest Becker Free Press, 1997 Clarifying Insight + Short review + Insightful, brilliant, clearly written, easy to digest, hard to stop thinking about A Pulitzer Prize winning book needs no recommendation from me, but I'll add my 2-cents. No book of philosophy, no novel, no discussion of religion, and no essay has had more impact on how I deal with life's issues than this book. I've read it and reread it, underlined passages, turned down page ...             Thought and Language - Revised Edition6 reviews Lev S. Vygotsky The MIT Press, 1986 A landmark... + My opinion + Change your life + Fantastic + The behavior of cognition             The Mentality of Apes (International Library of Psychology) Wolfgang Khler Routledge, 1999 Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure ...             Productive Thinking1 review Max Wertheimer Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx), 1982 A classic! By means of thought experiments and case studies (Gauss, Einstein etc) Wertheimer puts forward a view of creativity that preceded, but is strikingly similar to, Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions. For Kuhn, a scientific revolution starts with an anomaly, a problem: some fact or part of ...