This is a comprehensive overview of personality development - from inter-utero life to adulthood - focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances.

This text outlines eight major perspectives on behaviour and their implications for the classroom: biological, behavioural, cognitive-behavioural, social learning, psychodynamic, humanist, ecosystemic and ecological.

The author considers music playing traditions which have developed physical mastery to serve expressive ends. He asks how well performance proper has stood up and where its unique value lies. Aimed at students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, musicologists and performance specialists.

Features a selection of seven essays that displays the author's incisiveness and brilliance of exposition in the examination of ethical subjects and the nature of truth.

This lucid collection of essays the continental-analytic divide, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life.

Reflecting on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry in the fields of exercise, health and sport, this book addresses the underlying assumptions of what shape scientific enquiries ought to take in these disciplines. It raises questions such as: Do natural and social scientists need to understand philosophy of science? Are statistics misused?

What is race? Can we do without race? What is racism and why is it wrong? What should our policies on race and racism be? Using the tools of philosophy this book addresses these and other fundamental questions.

A collection of key readings in the philosophy of social science, covering the essential issues, problems and debates in the field.