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The gardener and the carpenter : what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children / Alison Gopnik.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]Edition: First EditionDescription: x, 302 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780374229702 (hardback)
  • 0374229708 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BF713 .G67 2016
Other classification:
  • PSY004000
Contents:
Introduction: The parent paradoxes -- Against parenting -- The evolution of childhood -- The evolution of love -- Learning through looking -- Learning through listening -- The work of play -- Growing up -- The future and the past : children and technology -- The value of children.
Summary: "Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
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Book Book Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library Nonfiction 155.4 GOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 43185001050226
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.

Introduction: The parent paradoxes -- Against parenting -- The evolution of childhood -- The evolution of love -- Learning through looking -- Learning through listening -- The work of play -- Growing up -- The future and the past : children and technology -- The value of children.

"Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--

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