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  • The iConnected Parent

    Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up

    by Barbara K. Hofer, Abigail Sullivan Moore ...
    "Just let go!" That’s what parents have been told to do when their kids go to college. But in our speed-dial culture, with BlackBerries and even Skype, parents and kids are now more than ever in constant contact. Today’s iConnected parents say they are closer to their kids than their parents were to them—and this generation of families prefers it that way. Parents are their children’s mentors, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Personal Epistemology

    The Psychology of Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing

    Edited by Barbara K. Hofer, Paul R. Pintrich ...
    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and educational perspective. Both theory building and empirical research have grown dramatically in the past decade but, until now, this work has not been pulled together in a single volume. That is the mission of this volume whose ... Read more

    $166.26 CAD

  • Science Denial

    Why It Happens and What to Do About It

    by Gale M. Sinatra, Barbara K. Hofer ...
    How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and well-being, as well as their communities, nations, and planet. Understanding key psychological explanations for ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Science Denial

    Why It Happens and What to Do About It

    by Gale Sinatra, Barbara Hofer ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and well-being, as well as their communities, nations, and planet. Understanding key psychological explanations for ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Conspiracy

    Why the Rational Believe the Irrational

    by Michael Shermer ...
    Narrated by Michael Shermer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Emergent Literacy and Language Development

    Promoting Learning in Early Childhood

    Edited by Paula M. Rhyner, PhD ...
    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    This concise, accessible book explores the connection between language acquisition and emergent literacy skills, and how this sets the stage for later literacy development. Chapters address formative early experiences such as speaking and listening, being read to, and talking about print concepts and the alphabet. Written for early childhood professionals, reading specialists, and speech–language ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Breaking the Age Code

    How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

    by Becca Levy, PhD ...
    Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book AwardYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.The often-surprising results of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Sexual Paradox

    Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap

    by Susan Pinker ...
    After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs? Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers? Psychologist Susan Pinker explores the illuminating answers to these questions in her groundbreaking first book.In The Sexual Paradox, Susan Pinker takes a hard look at how fundamental ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Quick Fix

    Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

    by Jesse Singal ...
    An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality.With their viral TED talks, bestselling books, and counter-intuitive remedies for complicated problems, psychologists and other ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reading in a Second Language

    Moving from Theory to Practice

    by William Grabe ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Linguistics
    This volume, through a detailed treatment of the cognitive processes that support reading, explains how reading really works. It offers a thorough overview of important and current research, including first language research, which is not often found in second language acquisition (SLA) publications. This book is a true example of applied linguistics; it makes well-defined linkages between theory ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD