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  • The Anthropology of Childhood

    Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

    by David F. Lancy ...
    How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence. It is organized developmentally, moving from ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Raising Children

    Surprising Insights from Other Cultures

    by David F. Lancy ...
    Why in some parts of the world do parents rarely play with their babies and never with toddlers? Why in some cultures are children not fully recognized as individuals until they are older? How are routine habits of etiquette and hygiene taught - or not - to children in other societies? Drawing on a lifetime's experience as an anthropologist, David F. Lancy takes us on a journey across the globe to ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Learning Without Lessons

    Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities

    by David F. Lancy ...
    Series series Child Development in Cultural Context
    In Learning Without Lessons, David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for fostering learning in children that are found in small-scale, pre ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers

    by David F. Lancy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of children as workers is ephemeral in WEIRD society and in the literature on child development, there is ample cross-cultural and ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Child Helpers

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    by David F. Lancy ...
    Series series Elements in Psychology and Culture
    In most of the worlds' distinct cultures, children – from toddlerhood – eagerly volunteer to help others with their chores. Laboratory research in child psychology supports the claim that the helper “stage” is biologically based. This Element examines the development of helping in varied cultural contexts, in particular, reviewing evidence for supportive environments in the ethnographic record ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • I, Q

    by Peter David, John de Lancie ...
    Series series Star Trek: The Next Generation
    The enigmatic entity known as Q remains one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, yet no one, perhaps, understands Q as well as actor John de Lancie, who has played Q on television for more than a decade—now de Lancie and Peter David, bestselling author of acclaimed novels Q-in-Law and Q-Squared, have joined forces to send Q on an unforgettable cosmic odyssey, told from the mischievous ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood

    Edited by John Bock, Suzanne Gaskins, David F. Lancy ...
    The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, The

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Fishelson ...
    Narrated by John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Arye Gross, Harry Hamlin, Kaitlin Hopkins, Joseph Mascolo, Richard Hoyt Miller, John Randolph, John Rubinstein, Tom Virtue, Ping Wu, Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Angela Bettis, John Kapelos, Robert Machray, Jon Matthews, Johanna McKayas, Paul Mercier, Laurel Moglen, Michael Rivkin, Peggy Roeder, Douglas Weston ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    Dostoyevsky’s titanic novels are transformed into spellbinding full cast drama by playwright David Fishelson. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against one another. In The Idiot, we meet the childlike Prince Myshkin as he returns to the decadent ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Q-Squared

    by Peter David ...
    Narrated by John de Lancie ...
    Series series Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Unabridged

    2 hours 59 min

    In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful that Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Q-in-Law

    by Peter David ...
    Narrated by Majel Barrett, John de Lancie ...
    Series series Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Unabridged

    1 hour 28 min

    A celebration of love between two powerful rival families is cut short when the all powerful being called Q arrives and challenges the very concept of love.When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Brothers Karamazov, The

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Fishelson ...
    Narrated by John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Arye Gross, Harry Hamlin, Kaitlin Hopkins, Joseph Mascolo, Richard Hoyt Miller, John Randolph, John Rubinstein, Tom Virtue, Ping Wu ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    Playwright David Fishelson has adapted Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov into a spellbinding full-cast drama. The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.An L.A. Theatre Works full ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    La Bete

    by David Hirson ...
    Narrated by John de Lancie, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 3 min

    In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join Elomire's troupe. It is a battle of wits and witticisms ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD