A developmental psychologist examines storytelling as an essential form of expression for children which enables them to interpret their own experiences and communicate their view of the world

Product Description: In this work, a developmental psychologist examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. Engel explores: the different functions of the storytelling process; the way the storytelling process changes as the child grows older; the different types of stories children tell; and the development of a child's narrative voice...read more

This informative and engaging book explores how factors such as the place, company, purpose and situation can profoundly affect the essence and experience of a memory. Blending vivid anecdotes with the startling findings of memory research, Engel examines the implications of context and purpose for memory, including the motivation to remember and the strength or quality of the memory itself. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This informative and engaging book explores how factors such as the place, company, purpose and situation can profoundly affect the essence and experience of a memory. Blending vivid anecdotes with the startling findings of memory research, Engel examines the implications of context and purpose for memory, including the motivation to remember and the strength or quality of the memory itself...read more

Product Description: Decades of work in psychology labs have vastly enhanced our knowledge about how children perceive, think, and reason. But it has also encouraged a distorted view of children, argues psychologist Susan Engel in this provocative and passionate book--a view that has affected every parent who has tried to debate with a six-year-old...read more

Product Description: Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have sent to the orphanage for a boy. So when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up, she is not quite what they had in mind. Anne Shirley soon sets the quiet island community of Avonlea talking of little else...read more

Product Description: This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance merits...read more

Product Description: This “compassionate guide for parents and readers” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals how to distinguish between the childhood traits that are cause for concern, and those that are not.Every parent hopes their child will grow up to be happy, smart, popular, and successful—and as a result, many are anxious and eager to find clues to what their child’s future will be...read more

Product Description: Susan Engel reads this brand new novelization of a classic Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana, and K-9.The stone circle of Bodcombe Tor, in the south west of England, stands in tribute to a mysterious goddess. Long ago, six huge monoliths were arranged in a half circle, with an altar stone in the center...read more

Product Description: Despite American education’s recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic...read more