Communicating by speech is seemingly one of the most natural activities for humans. However, despite its apparent obviousness and ease, speech production is a very complex activity with multiple levels of organization involved with transforming cognitive intent into a meaningful sequence of sounds. This book establishes a connection between the physiology of speech and linguistics, [...]

Here at last is a reissue of Kasper’s major work with a brilliant new introduction surveying recent developments in Christology. Kasper assesses the Christological enterprise in the Church from the earliest down to the most recent times which can be recommended without hesitation to teacher and serious student. The book also provides a solid theological [...]

Bringing together some of the leading commentators on the two regions, this book explores many of the key issues which have informed Europe’s relationship with the Middle East from its colonial legacies to an uncertain economic future. It finds that Europe has been increasingly influential throughout the region through its economic strategies, although it is [...]

This collection of essays approaches the role of demons and the devil in ancient and medieval Christianity from a variety of scholarly perspectives: historical, philosophical, and theological as well as philological, liturgical, and theoretical. In the opening article Gerd Theissen presents a wide-ranging overview of the role of the devil, spanning the Hebrew Bible, the [...]

1) Young Children’s Cognitive Development Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning,Working Memory,Verbal Ability,and Theory of Mind – Wolfgang Schneider 2) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development – Brian Hopkins 3) Adolescent Psychological Development Rationality Morality and Identity 2nd ed – David Moshman 4) HANDBOOK OF ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY – RICHARDM LERNER 5) Research Manual In Child Development 2nd [...]

Why do people behave in moral ways in some circumstances, but not in others? In order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from traditional approaches to morality that suggest that children acquire morals through socialization, cultural indoctrination, and moral reasoning. He suggests that such approaches can be subsumed, refined, and revised gainfully within [...]