Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter bryant

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  • USING MATHEMATICS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
    TEREZINHA NUNES / PETER BRYANT
    Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world. Internationally renowned experts Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant examine research into children’s mathematical development to show why it is important to distinguish bet...

    $1,120.00

  • PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING IN YOUNG CHILDREN
    PETER BRYANT
    Originally published in 1974: ‘This book sets forth a theory of cognitive development based on simple but powerful processes of inference. The theory is applied with great ingenuity and freshness to complex phenomena found during intellectual development. Dr Bryant has written an important and original book.’ (J.S. Bruner) ‘In this elegant, timely and brief volume, Dr Bryant pr...

    $1,100.00

  • PHONOLOGICAL SKILLS AND LEARNING TO READ
    USHA GOSWAMI / PETER BRYANT
    In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy. The book describes three causal factors which can account for children’s reading and spelling development: pre-school phonological knowledge of rhyme and alliteration the impact of alphabetic ins...

    $1,340.00

  • PHONOLOGICAL SKILLS AND LEARNING TO READ
    USHA GOSWAMI / PETER BRYANT
    This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes and other units of sound helps children learn about letter sequences when beginn...

    $2,320.00

  • LEARNING AND TEACHING MATHEMATICS
    PETER BRYANT
    The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematics provides an exciting account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics whic...

    $1,760.00

  • SOCIAL SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    PETER TROWER / BRIDGET BRYANT / MICHAEL ARGYLE
    In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years’ experience with the technique. The b...

    $1,540.00

  • IMPROVING LITERACY BY TEACHING MORPHEMES
    TEREZINHA NUNES / PETER BRYANT
    With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contr...

    $1,380.00

  • RED ALERT
    PETER BRYANT
    The basis for Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove: A chilling Cold War thriller in which unchecked power unleashes total nuclear disaster.   Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Receiving word of the attack already ...

    $229.00