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Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: Edited by Martin N. Muller; Edited by Richard W. Wrangham; Hardcover April 2009

Medicating Children: Rick Mayes; Catherine Bagwell; Jennifer Erkulwater; Mayes and his coauthors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. This book is unique in that it integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy.; Hardcover January 2009

Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: Michelle J. Alpert; Saul Wisnia; Foreword by Cindy and Ted Purcell; Combining clinical experience with patients’ own stories, the authors cover the causes of and prognosis for SCI through case studies, review common courses of rehabilitation, and answer the “what now?” questions—from daily routines to larger issues concerning sex, education and employment, childbearing, and parenting with SCI.; Hardcover May 2008 / Paperback May 2008

How Infants Know Minds: Vasudevi Reddy; Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.; Hardcover April 2008