Product Description: Animal behavior, as a discipline, has undergone several key transitions over the last 25 years, growing in both depth and breadth. Key advances have been made in behavioural ecology and socio-biology, in the development of studies integrating proximate and ultimate causation, in the integration of laboratory and field work, and in advances in theoretical work in areas such as sexual selection, foraging and life-history traits...read more

Product Description: Animal behavior, as a discipline, has undergone several key transitions over the last 25 years, growing in both depth and breadth. Key advances have been made in behavioural ecology and socio-biology, in the development of studies integrating proximate and ultimate causation, in the integration of laboratory and field work, and in advances in theoretical work in areas such as sexual selection, foraging and life-history traits...read more

Product Description: Rather than merely celebrating great men and historical events, as many histories of psychology have done, this "new history" of psychology places people and events in social and temporal perspective. What emerges is the humanness of psychology, its human successes, failings, an decompromises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The latest in the series Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Vol. VI pays tribute to several big names in psychology, such as Abraham Maslow, Henry Murray, Edmund Clark Sanford, James McKeen Cattell, Robert Woodworth, and Nobel Prize winner Niko Tinbergen, and some perhaps lesser known luminaries who nonetheless made significant contributions to the field...read more

Product Description: The American Psychological Association is proud to present the fifth v olume in its series, Unification Through Division. This book presents the histories of History of Divisions 19, 22, 30, 32, 34, 40, and 50. The series explores the maturation of psychology through a historica l retrospective of APA's divisions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A history of many of the fifty divisions of the American Psychological Association. For historians of psychology and others interested in the history of this field. Softcover. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Contemporary Issues in Comparative Psychology", provides an overview of current research in the branch of comparative psychology that lies within the mainstream of the study of animal behaviour. The book presents some of the best work being done by psychologists studying animal behaviour, and remonstrates the concerns and the achievements of this dynamic field...read more

Product Description: In these autobiographical essays by pioneers in the field of animal behavior, the authors discuss childhood, education, moments of discovery, and the attractions of the research that each pursued. The field of animal behavior has been interdisciplinary throughout its history, and the two psychologists and seventeen biologists in Donald Dewsbury's collection provide a fascinating assortment of backgrounds and interests...read more