He's the last man a woman on the run should trust. He's also the only one who ever kept his word.Marin Kelso has spent four years turning fear into a system.Single mom. Night-shift 911 dispatcher. A woman who fled Harlan County with her daughter, a car full of what fit, and a rule she swore she'd never break again: never let a man decide her life for her own good. She doesn't need rescuing. She needs to be left alone long enough to keep the lights ...

We remember in social contexts. We reminisce about the past together, collaborate to remember shared experiences, and, even when we are alone, we remember in the context of our communities and cultures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach throughout, this text comprehensively covers collaborative remembering across the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, discourse processing, philosophy, neuropsychology, design, and media studies. It highlights poi...

This issue, we seem to have developed an Occult Detective theme. In my browsing, I stumbled upon a three-story series by L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace from 1902 that I had never read before. Inspired by this tale of a palmist-detective and her brother, I sat down and wrote a 10,000-word followup and decided to run it here first, along with the story that launched their adventures, “The Dead Hand.” I’m sure you’ll enjoy the classic first story in the series, and I hope you’ll...

A series of BBC Radio short stories, comprising of classic and period dramas featuring four female sleuths to rival Sherlock Holmes himself.The Redhill Sisterhood by Catherine Louisa PirkisAutumn,1897. Victorian undercover agent Loveday Brooke investigates some suspicious nuns who appear to have forsaken their vows – and turned to burglary.Mr Bovey’s Unexpected Will by LT Meade and Robert Eustace

This 2006 book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospect...

This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction between culture and giftedness, as well as how giftedness can be understood in terms of a construct of developing expertise. The authors also review and discuss a set of key studies that ad...

This new text consists of parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition along with new introductory material that as a whole provides a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of cognitive development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the history and systems, methodologies, and measurement and analytic techniques used to understand human cognitive development. The relevance of cognition is illustrated through engaging applications. ...

Introducing the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the first time.Structured around common training topics, the book:- Explains why you need to do research at all: what it is, why it′s important and its historical and philosophical context- Guides you through the confusing mass of research literature- Covers the ins and outs ...

Child study is a very complex field. Human beings, and children, specifically, are very complex beings. Consequently, simple answers and solutions to problems are very often just that: too simple. This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function. These theories and methods can be used as a kind of "tool kit" for application in a variety of situations by the people who work with children such as researchers, parents, educ...

Terence Butler, Southampton Solent UniversityDominic Upton, University of WorcesterLaura Scurlock-Evans, University of Worcester

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence. Each of the 42 chapters is written by world-renowned experts in their respective fields, and collectively, they cover the full range of topics of contemporary interest in the study of intelligence. The handbook is divided into nine parts: Part I covers intelligence and its measurement; Part II deals with the development of intelligence; Part III discusses intelli...

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction, and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but educational psychologists' work in these domains has centered primarily on the childhood and adolescent school years. More recently, however, a number of educational psychologists have studied lear...