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Author: Laura E. Berk
ISBN : 0205748597
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Format: PDF
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This shorter, essentials version of Berk’s best-selling Development Through the Lifespan, 5/e, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Exploring Lifespan Development includes all the features Berk’s texts are known for: Engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, the most up-to-date research, and practical applications that help students relate the subject to their personal and professional lives.
Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher, has refashioned her text to provide the core information in the field with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Visually stunning, pedagogically balanced, and fully integrated, the Exploring edition has all the great features of Development Through the Lifespan, 5e, in an abbreviated form. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way.
Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters,” who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains—physical, cognitive, emotional, social—throughout the text narrative and in special features.
Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers. As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old.
Berk presents the most important classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, coherent, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. Strengthening the connections among developmental domains and highlighting the application of theories and research to the real world, this text presents the most important scholarship in the changing field of human development.
Direct download links available for Free Exploring Lifespan Development (2nd Edition) [Download: Palm Reader] [Paperback]
- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 2 edition (February 22, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0205748597
- ISBN-13: 978-0205748594
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 10.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I read a review that said this 2nd edition is the same as the cheap 1st edition only pictures were changed but it was just one person review and I didn't want to risk it. I always try to buy a book online ahead of time, so I don't have to pay 4 times more at the university book store.
I went ahead and purchased the 2nd edition. Then I downloaded the 1st edition for free. I opened the 2nd edition book and the 1st edition downloaded book, went chapter by chapter - THEY ARE IDENTICAL. Word-to-word! All the titles of the chapters - it's all the same. Yes, the pictures/photographs may vary but all the charts and the text did not change. So, save yourself money. You can buy the 1st edition for about ten bucks or download it for free.
By Sun Shine
This is a fairly decent text for human development. Each age group explores physical, emotional and mental development using some widely acknowledged theories such as Vygotsky and Piaget. Each is broken down to a level that is easily comprehensible even for someone who has not taken previous psychology courses. My main complaint is that the author also uses the book as her personal soapbox and expresses her personal views as fact. She seems to be pretty liberal in most things so if you're liberal you would probably have no issues with what she says. But, putting that aside, the book seems fairly decent for a beginning level college course.
By J. Boyd
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