Michael Cole

L.S. Vygotsky

The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society corrects much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays.

Development of Higher Psychological Processes

Mind in Society

It was supposed to be a simple bank robbery. Quick. Clean. Efficient. It was none of those. With police searching for them across the state, a band of criminals hide out in a desolate cabin on the frozen shore of Lake Shadow. Isolated, shrouded in thick forest, and haunted by a mysterious history, they thought it was the perfect place to hide. Tensions mount as they hear strange noises outside. Slain animals are found in the snow. Before long, they realize something is watching them. Something hungry, violent, and not of this world. In their attempt to escape, they found the Creature of Lake Shadow.

Creature of Lake Shadow

A series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact. Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter. His search for answers puts him on a collision course with an eighty-foot predator, long thought extinct. Violent and merciless, it has risen to the surface, and seeks to wreak havoc on the small island community. Things only get worse for Nico after he discovers that a ruthless band of criminals, responsible for the deaths of two Miami cops, are lurking on the island. As the body count mounts, Nico is forced to simultaneously battle two separate monsters: Man and Meg. The result is a bloodbath.

Megalodon: Bloodbath

Cynthia Lightfoot

Sheila R. Cole

Development is best understood as a fusion of biological, social, and psychological processes interacting in the unique medium of human culture. [In this text, the authors] have tried to show not only the role of each of these factors considered separately but also how they interact in diverse cultural contexts to create whole, unique human beings.-Pref.

The Development of Children

Paul Grimshaw

Neil Fowler

Adrian Burden

This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and easily, and provides lecturers with a flexible resource that they can use to support any introductory course on biomechanics. The book contains a wealth of useful features for teaching and learning, including clear definitions of key terms, lots of applied examples, guides to further reading, and revision questions with worked solutions. It has been significantly expanded to encompass rapidly developing areas, such as sports equipment design and modern optoelectronic motion analysis systems, and it includes a number of new sections that further develop the application of biomechanics in sports performance and injury prevention. A new companion website includes a test bank, downloadable illustrations and, where appropriate, suggestions for learning outcomes and/or lab-based sessions for lecturers. Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics has been an invaluable course companion for thousands of students and lecturers over the last decade. Engaging, direct, and now fully refreshed, it is the only biomechanics textbook you’ll ever need.

Second Edition

Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics

Stay away from the trees! In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Kira Brine hires a group of friends to help restore her private cottage. The fun little endeavor quickly turns tense as they hear strange noises in the woods. Branches snap and leaves rustle in the distance. Animals seem uncharacteristically frightened, then mysteriously disappear as the hours go on. The tension escalates into panic with the revelation that something is stalking the group. Something large. Something unnatural. Its claws can slice through bone with ease. Its web will ensnare anything at the slightest touch. Its venom can immobilize a human within seconds. It is a corruption of nature; a genetically spliced nightmare; an Arachnoid. Now, it is loose, and it needs to feed.

Arachnoid

Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial Killer In December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content—including four ciphers, three (now two) of which have never been solved—the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher Killer," but the murderer chose a different name for himself: the Zodiac. Eventually, he would claim to have murdered thirty-seven. Law enforcement, however, could only account for five. In 1971, authenticated communications with the Zodiac ceased. The elusive fugitive resurfaced briefly three years later, sending a small number of communiqués, before disappearing for good. What started out with shocking abruptness slowly dissolved into mysterious uncertainty. To this day, the Zodiac's true identity remains one of the twentieth century's greatest mysteries... Having established an analytical foundation in Volume 1, Michael uses Volume 2 to look across the entirety of the case and identify meaningful threads of commonality, exploring subjects such as the killer's methodology, persona, and ciphers.

Analysis and Fact-Based Speculation

The Zodiac Revisited, Volume 2

Sylvia Scribner

What are the intrinsic differences between the literate and the illiterate mind? The Vai, a small West African group, developed their own system of writing that flourishes today, althought no body of written literature exists and about half of those literate in Vai have never had formal schooling. Given this situation, Scribner and Cole were able to test mor than 1,000 subjects over a four-year period to measure the mental advantage of literates over nonliterates. "An ambitious and important bookambitious in scope and its continual reevaluation of aims and methods . . . and important for putting heretofore unexamined presumptions regarding the gognitive effects of literacy to empirical test."Language and Society

The Psychology of Literacy

Si admitimos que la cultura es un aspecto fundamental en la vida y pensamiento de las personas, en buena lógica también debe ser crucial a la hora del estudio de la vida mental. Michael COLE, conocido por su trabajo pionero en cognición y psicología del desarrollo, ofrece un multifacético estudio de lo que es, ha sido y puede llegar a ser la psicología cultural.Un ámbito teórico y empírico que ya está considerándose como una nueva disciplina; algo que el propio autor deja patente en el subtítulo del libro: “Una disciplina del pasado y del futuro”. Primero nos traslada al momento histórico en el que se concedía a la cultura un lugar de honor en la psicología. Describe lo que sucedió cuando esta disciplina fue englobada dentro de las ciencias naturales a finales del siglo pasado y la cultura llegó a ser una variable causal más. Una concepción que distorsionaba tanto la relación cultura - mente como los métodos necesarios para su estudio. La alternativa que el autor nos presenta trata a la cultura como el medio idiosincrásico de la vida humana, un medio saturado con artefactos, residuo de la experiencia de generaciones anteriores. El autor sostiene que la mediación a través de la cultura es la principal característica del pensamiento humano. Michael COLE, uno de los líderes de este movimiento, demuestra la utilidad de esta nueva concepción aplicándola a diversas cuestiones teóricas, metodológicas y prácticas en el estudio del desarrollo humano. Entre éstas destacan las relaciones entre naturaleza y educación, los procesos a través de los que la cultura posibilita o constriñe el desarrollo, el rol de la alfabetización y de la educación en el desarrollo cognitivo, y los procedimientos para diseñar nuevas formas de acción con capacidad para promover el desarrollo infantil. Estamos ante una extraordinaria síntesis de teoría y trabajo empírico que da forma a este nuevo ámbito de especialización que denominamos psicología cultural. Este libro puede considerarse una obra fundacional en esta emergente disciplina; una clara exposición de la psicología cultural en cuanto teoría general del pensamiento y acción humana. Michael COLE es Catedrático de Universidad de Comunicación y Psicología y Director del Laboratorio de Cognición Humana Comparada en la Universidad de California, San Diego, USA. Esta obra ha recibido los siguientes premios: - Premio de la Virginia and Warren Stone Fund en el apartado de publicaciones sobre educación y sociedad, en 1995. - Mención Honorífica en la categoría de Psicología otorgada por la Asociación de Editores Norteamericanos, en 1996.

una disciplina del pasado y del futuro

Psicología cultural

Lorenzo was a quiet Michigan town, known for its beautiful lake and resorts. Summer has arrived and water activities are abundant. It was one of the reasons Officer Royce Dashnaw took the job in the small town. Being a single dad, he wanted to live a quiet life where his daughter could enjoy the beauty of nature. Unfortunately, nature also has a dark side. The peaceful serenity of Lorenzo has been disrupted by a series of strange events. A woman flees from the water with strange bites on her legs; bodies are found in the shallows, stripped to the bone; and the local population of fish have mysteriously disappeared. As the body count rises, Royce learns the truth. Genetically enhanced fish have been dumped into the lake. With scissor-like jaws, they can reduce a full-grown adult to a mere skeleton in under a minute. A race against time ensues, as Royce and his partner struggle to evacuate the very large and busy lake before too many fall victim to the shredders.

Shredders

Isurus Palinuridae has escaped! After evading pursuit by its military creators, the shark-crustacean hybrid has disappeared in the Atlantic. In its search for food, it finds a new hunting ground off the shores of an island resort.Stuck in a dead-end animal caretaker job for the resort, Marine Biologist Julie Forster begins to notice strange events plaguing the island. Whales are turning up dead in the local waters, and fishermen are disappearing. After setting out for a task on the water, Dr. Forster discovers an enormous shark lurking off the island coast. With a thick exoskeleton, the creature is unlike anything she has ever seen. With an insatiable appetite, the creature attacks anything that moves. As events unfold, she discovers the truth about the creature's origin, and the imminent threat from its very existence.

Behemoth 2

In Northern Michigan, nature is about to reveal its deadliest secret. A series of strange events baffle the residents of a local resort town. People go into the water and disappear; lakeshore properties are mysteriously vacant; and a bizarre slimy mass accumulates within the weeds. When his customers begin to vanish without a trace, resort owner Greg Goodman unites with the local Sheriff to investigate the matter. Before long, they realize something is lurking in this lake-something that was not here before. The threat quickly escalates beyond the reach of the shoreline, forcing drastic government response, and attracts the attention of the mysterious organization N.E.C.T.O.R. led by Doctor Mike Wilkow.

Terror From The Crevasse

The 80-foot Megalodon that caused so much terror is dead, but the bloodbath has only just begun. The Omega Fury has been sunk. Giant predators, awakened by the Gota ja' Titan meteor, have taken over the mid-tlantic. Tensions increase as a titanic 120-foot megalodon is discovered near the Florida coast. With megalodon attacks on the rise, the military is forced to establish a base of operations on the island of Cielo Nublado. Police Chief Nico Medrano leads the evacuation effort while his ex-wife Denise Reta assists the military in tracking down the megalodons and the hyper- violent Kraken. Facing pressure from government figures, the military arranges an operation to lure the creatures away. In the process, they trigger the wrath of the Kraken. Intelligent, vehement, and incredibly powerful, it seeks to claim the territory for itself, and kill anything and anyone that dares to challenge it. With the body count rising, Denise and Nico have no choice but to conduct a strategy of their own: lure the 120-foot megalodon to the Kraken and allow nature to take its course. One outcome is certain-there will be bloodshed.

Megalodon Bloodshed

Jay Lemke

Robert Lecusay

Vera Michalchik

An extensive review of the literature on learning assessment in informal settings, expert discussion of key issues, and a new model for good assessment practice. Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-ended; participation is voluntary; and relationships, means, and ends are complex. This report charts the state of the art for learning assessment in informal settings, offering an extensive review of the literature, expert discussion on key topics, a suggested model for comprehensive assessment, and recommendations for good assessment practices. Drawing on analysis of the literature and expert opinion, the proposed model, the Outcomes-by-Levels Model for Documentation and Assessment, identifies at least ten types of valued outcomes, to be assessed in terms of learning at the project, group, and individual levels. The cases described in the literature under review, which range from promoting girls' identification with STEM practices to providing online resources for learning programming and networking, illustrate the usefulness of the assessment model.

Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments

The Development of Children 4th Ed + Journey Through Childhood Development Video 2-pack + Student Observation Workbook

The Development of Children, Readings on the Development of Children, And Student Media Tool Kit

Mary Gauvain

The Development of Children, 5e+ Readings

Olga A. Vasquez

Yrjö Engeström

Yrjo Engestrom

Olga Vasquez

This volume presents articles important to contemporary studies of the cultural and contextual foundations of human development. It address es the need to create a Psychology which focuses upon the actions of people participating in routine, culturally organized activities. The discussion includes: the nature of context; experiments as contexts; culture-historical theories of culture, context and development; the analysis of classroom settings as a social important context of development, the psychological analysis of activity in situ, and questions of power and discourse.

Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

Mind, Culture, and Activity

Joanne Cole

Here is Bod holding an apple. "I'm going to throw this apple up in the air and catch it," he says. "Watch me!" He throws the apple up in the air - and waits for it to come down. But it doesn't come down. "That's funny," says Bod. When Bod's friends see him waiting for the apple to come down, they wonder what he is doing and they decide to wait with him. What has happened to Bod's apple? Do you know?

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