Lives Across Cultures (4th Edition) [Paperback]

Harry W. Gardiner (Author), Corinne Kosmitzki (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0205494757 | ISBN-13: 978-0205494750 | Publication Date: April 22, 2007 | Edition: 4

The fourth edition of this market-leading cross-cultural human development text offers an interdisciplinary exploration of major developmental topics across the lifespan. Presented in a chronological-within-topics approach, this text focuses on cultural contexts throughout the world while emphasizing links between theory, research and practical applications.  

 

Editorial Reviews

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What Reviewers Are Saying About Lives Across Cultures, 4e

 

 

 

“Harry Gardiner and Corinne Kosmitzki, and their own very capable hands, skillfully and in an engaging and personal style, have energetically and generously updated and extended the coverage provided in the third edition of Lives Across Cultures.  Covering all of the major developmental topics from cradle to grave, they take the reader through the labyrinth of lives that work and play and, unfortunately, fight through occasional major crises and the vexing problems of growing up.  The style and tone of the book is genuinely comfortable.  Reading it is like having a friendly dialogue with gentle and caring friends.”

 

From the Forward by Walter J. Lonner

                                                                                    Western Washington University

 

 

 

 

“To our knowledge this book has no competition, and is unique … It is unusual for a book to change a curriculum, but rather than being written to fill a demand for classes in cross-cultural human development, it appears that these courses are being created at various universities because Gardiner and Kozmitzki published this text … As Lonner writes in the foreword, the field is changing quickly and significantly, and LAC is in great hands as Gardiner and Kosmitzki reflect this change in each new edition. This is an improved edition, not just a newer edition.”

 

                                                            David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb

                                                                        Southeastern Louisiana University

From the Back Cover

What Reviewers Are Saying About Lives Across Cultures, 4/e

 

 

“Harry Gardiner and Corinne Kosmitzki, and their own very capable hands, skillfully and in an engaging and personal style, have energetically and generously updated and extended the coverage provided in the third edition of Lives Across Cultures. Covering all of the major developmental topics from cradle to grave, they take the reader through the labyrinth of lives that work and play and, unfortunately, fight through occasional major crises and the vexing problems of growing up. The style and tone of the book is genuinely comfortable. Reading it is like having a friendly dialogue with gentle and caring friends.”

 

From the Forward by Walter J. Lonner

Western Washington University

 

 

 

“To our knowledge this book has no competition, and is unique … It is unusual for a book to change a curriculum, but rather than being written to fill a demand for classes in cross-cultural human development, it appears that these courses are being created at various universities because Gardiner and Kozmitzki published this text … As Lonner writes in the foreword, the field is changing quickly and significantly, and LAC is in great hands as Gardiner and Kosmitzki reflect this change in each new edition. This is an improved edition, not just a newer edition.”

 

David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb

Southeastern Louisiana University

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 4 edition (April 22, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205494757
• ISBN-13: 978-0205494750
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harry Gardiner is retired from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he taught for more than 25 years. He has degrees from American International College, the University of Hawaii, and Manchester University in England, where he met his future wife, who was from Thailand. He chased her to Asia, where they married and moved to the United States two years later. He often says that he "grew up" in an Asian American family in which his wife was Asian, he was American, and their children were Asian American and he was the minority--"the one with the blond hair and the blue eyes!" He was a charter member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. In addition to publishing articles in a wide variety of journals and participating in national and international meetings, he has coauthored a number of chapters on cross-cultural topics for other books. He has engaged in training, teaching, and research in Europe, Asia, and the United States. In his "spare time" he enjoys writing for Cobblestone, a history magazine for young children, and has contributed interviews with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Muppet creator Jim Henson, Tom Rockwell, son of the artist Norman Rockwell and author of the popular book "How to Eat Fried Worms," among others. He enjoys watching the development of his four young grandchildren as they navigate a much more culturally diversified world than he experienced at their ages. The photo to the right shows him at the age of two "working" on one of his first books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Prompt delivery, January 19, 2012

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Book was in the shape as described and arrived with a week. Notifications allowed for knowledge that book was shipped. Good prompt service. Thank you..

3.0 out of 5 stars For a human development course, September 28, 2011

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This book was okay. It supplemented the course lectures and the book does give some good insights. I learned a lot from reading the book.

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