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REVIEWS BOOKS
Reviews in Brief Human Development in the Twenty- consideration of human development
By Kathy Carey First Century: Visionary Ideas from as system of complex relationships in
Systems Scientists which the individual is embedded.
A Parent’s Guide to the Edited by Alan Fogel, Barbara J. King, Among the other valuable offerings
Montessori Classroom and Stuart G. Shanker in this book are the exploration of
(Revised and in color, March 2009) Cambridge: Cambridge University genetic connections to experience and
By Aline D. Wolf Press, 2008 behavior, a discussion of the types of
Altoona, PA: Parent Child Press, 2009 $105.00 relationships that support human devel-
$6.50 opment, issues in anthropology includ-
ing a very interesting article on why
animals make a difference in a child’s
development, and a discussion on the
possible causes of sibling differences,
including the influences of attachment,
disabilities, marital communication pat-
terns, and the child’s function in the
parental constellation.
This is not a book for the casual
reader but rather an excellent addition
to a teacher education program’s
library, a source for directed reading for
graduate students, and a volume for
Contemporary child development those of us intent on integrating class-
research has shed the parent-child dyad room practice with the best of current
Aline Wolf’s revised edition of A approach, favoring instead a focus on thought and research.