Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. This book is an essential introduction to this transformative era.
Paley introduces a new rule—“You can't say you can't play”—to her kindergarten students and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule.... Læs mere
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. This title explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.
Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in... Læs mere
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Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its conception to its stardom, from its contribution to the San Francisco psychedelic... Læs mere
Is play an adaptation that teaches us skills and inducts us into communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming,... Læs mere
Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure.
Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur’s lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, Latour shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge.