What happens when a child's or adult's existing theories come into contact with new evidence? The authors examine these fundamental processes of knowledge acquisition, using a microgenetic method in which the coordination of theory and evidence is followed in sessions over several months. Working on problems in physical and social domains, both children and adults show progress in the level of strategies used—progress that was maintained when new problems were introduced. The authors identify multiple forms of competence—strategic, metastrategic, and metacognitive—involved in the process of developmental change, and they relate their work to issues in the study of conceptual change, causal and scientific reasoning, and the development of thinking skills.

Strategies of Knowledge Acquisition (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

ANDERSON, Christopher

Kuhn, Deanna

Garcia-Mila, Merce

Zohar, Anat

Psychology & Counseling

University of Chicago Press

The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms. Drawing on the archives of Warner Bros. and David O. Selznick Productions and on interviews with participants in both industries, Christopher Anderson demonstrates how the episodic telefilm series, a clear descendant of the feature film, became and has remained the dominant narrative form in prime-time TV. This research suggests that the postwar motion picture industry was less an empire on the verge of ruin—as common wisdom has it—than one struggling under unsettling conditions to redefine its frontiers. Beyond the obvious contribution to film and television studies, these findings add an important chapter to the study of American popular culture of the postwar period.

Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Texas Press

Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties (Texas Film Studies Series)

Business & Money

Extensive discussions with the noted actress provide a revealing portrait of Hepburn's formative years, her social activist parents, and the tragedy that changed her life

YOUNG KATE (Delta Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Delta

Provides a compendium of intimate details about the personal lives of the world's most famous celebrities, including their sex lives, wealth, homes, life-styles, and more

Book of People

History

World

Perigee Trade

This book reveals the most intimate details about contemporary celebrities such as how much they make, whom they sleep with, and where and how they live

New Book of People (1986. Photographs, Capsule Biographies and Vital Statistics of over 500 Celebrities)

Reference

Selected Writings of Max Reger

Max Reger (1873-1916) was a celebrated German composer, performer on piano and organ, and conductor. Well known for his compositions for keyboards and orchestra, Reger worked during the crucial decades when Western music transformed itself from the misty veil of Romanticism and Impressionism to the more hard-edged modernism that would prevail in the 20th century. Less well known are his writings about music and the composer's craft. Although he wrote a major book on music theory published in 1903 (and translated into English a year later), his extended essays on composition, his fellow composers, and analysis have never appeared before in English. Christopher Anderson, a noted Reger scholar, has gone back to original manuscripts as well as the published versions of these writings to produce definitive new texts. Additionally, Anderson has written an opening essay placing Reger's writings and music in the context of his time. This volume will appeal strongly to those interested in the Late Romantic era, musical composition and aesthetics, and of course those interested in the music and life of Reger

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

Based on conversations with Katherine Hepburn, this book recounts family days of her youth. Includes sixteen photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Young Kate

Dell

Day Diana Died, The

Young Kate is the story of Katharine Hepburn and the story of her parents Kit and Hep.

Young Kate: The Remarkable Hepburns & the Childhood

Random House Value Publishing

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