The Developing Person Through the Life Span (paper)

This is a best selling life span textbook by a respected author with a distinctive passionate and engaging voice. The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. It also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application.