The Jamestown project / / Karen Ordahl Kupperman

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248349403316
• Autore: Kupperman Karen Ordahl <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Belknap, 2008
• ISBN: 0-674-02702-7; 0-674-03982-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 973.21
• Soggetti: Frontier and pioneer life - Virginia - Jamestown; Colonists - Virginia - Jamestown; Indians of North America - Virginia - Jamestown; Jamestown (Va.) Biography; Jamestown (Va.) History 17th century; Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Virginia Relations Great Britain; Great Britain Relations Virginia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-369) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Creation Myths -- 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World -- 2. Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation -- 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic -- 4. English Hunger for the New -- 5. Grasping America’s Contours -- 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects -- 7. Jamestown’s Uncertain Beginnings -- 8. The Project Revised -- 9. James Cittie in Virginia -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, Karen Kupperman shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.

Le Journal international de médecine : JIM

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910898155503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Paris], : [Société d'édition et de presse internationale médicale], [1979]-
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetti: Medicine; Periodical; Periodicals.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Title from cover.; Consists chiefly of articles selected and translated from various journals.

Children solving problems / / Stephanie Thornton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974803203321
• Autore: Thornton Stephanie <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 9780674044340; 0674044347
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 143 p. : ill
• Collana: The developing child
• Disciplina: 155.4/1343
• Soggetti: Problem solving in children; Child psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1/Why Children’s Problem- Solving Is Interesting -- 2/A Historical Perspective on ; Children’s Problem-Solving: Inference and the Development of Logic -- 3/Conceptual Tools for Solving Problems: Inherent Skills and Information -- 4/Working through a Problem and Discovering New Strategies -- 5/The Social Context of Children’s Problem-Solving -- 6/Conclusions -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Thornton surveys research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are--or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning--and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.