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In this book, Tiffany Field relates meaningful experiences she has shared with her friends and family across her life span. She has modeled this ?memoir? after the Spoon River Anthology, with one page allotted to each friend and family member who is given initials, not their real names. She is very grateful for her friends and family, who appear here in brief sketches, and knows she has other friends and family she has yet to remember in a future volume. The photos with faces are near and dear friends who gave their permission, and those who cannot be identified are random photos taken...

Although the therapeutic benefits of touch have become increasingly clear, American society, claims Tiffany Field, is dangerously touch-deprived. Many schools have "no touch" policies; the isolating effects of Internet-driven work and life can leave us hungry for tactile experience. In this book Field explains why we may need a daily dose of touch. The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy and well into childhood. Touch is critical, too, for...

In this book, Love Lost, Tiffany Field shares poetry (nonrhyming poetry) that she has written about her experiences with love and love lost. She says she can only write poetry when she is full of the love experience or is forlorn over the love lost. Many will identify with the very joyful and the very sad experiences of love and love lost.

In the late 1960s, after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy, a number of investigators some anthropologists, some psychologists, some psychiatrists and paediatricians, and even a few ethologists developed the conviction that certain contributions to the understanding of infancy would come from, and perhaps only come from, cross-cultural and cross-population studies.

This book, originally published in 1981, represents part of the first fruit of that conviction, and its impressive range of chapters justifies not only the belief itself but also the...

• An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted.
  
• Features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years.
  
• Draws on recent advances in neuroscience to...

• An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted.
  
• Features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years.
  
• Draws on recent advances in neuroscience to...