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Visit sagepub.com to explore our complete catalog and for table of contents information. 35 TexTbooks evolutionar y Psychology evolutIonAry PSychology: Neuroscience Perspectives concerning Human Behavior and Experience William J. Ray, Pennsylvania State University This text gives students a clear understanding of how current psychological knowledge of human behavior and experience draws from a variety of perspectives. It begins with an understanding of evolution and the close connection between organisms and their environment, focusing on how the environment and genes can influence humans and the cultures of which they are a part. Using current research in social processes, decision making, and brain imaging, Ray explores how humans solve certain life problems in the same way that many non-human species do. He also highlights human abilities not seen in other species, including our ability to use language, develop culture, and create writings and art that can influence other humans thousands of years later. Written in a clear, easy-to-understand manner, the book emphasizes developmental processes and family relationships, sexual and social relationships, and emotionality and language. It concludes with an examination of health and disease, psychopathology, and culture, all seen through an evolutionary lens. CONTENTS PART I: Introduction and Background / 1. Introduction to an evolutionary perspective / 2. What is evolution? / 3. Evolution and genetics / PART II. Basic human function and process / 4. Evolution of brain and function / 5. Developmental processes / 6. Emotionality / 7. Language / 8. Sex and gender / 9. Sexual selection / 10. Kin and family relationships / 11. Social relations / 12. Making social decisions / PART III. Applications / 13. Health and disease / 14. Psychopathology / 15. Culture hArdcover ISbn: 978-1-4129-9589-4 • ©2013 • 536 PAgeS • • eSSentIAl evolutIonAry PSychology Simon Hampton, University of East Anglia, UK This text offers a sound, brief, and student friendly explanation of how evolutionary theory has been and is applied in psychology. The book unpicks the very essence of human evolution, and how this knowledge is used to give evolutionary accounts of four of the central pillars of human behavior—cooperation, attraction, aggression, and family formation. PAPerbAck ISbn: 978-1-4129-3585-2 • ©2011 • 280 PAgeS • family violence family violence from a gloBal PerSPective: A Strengths-Based Approach Edited by Sylvia M. Asay, University of Nebraska at Kearney • John DeFrain, University of Nebraska - Lincoln • Marcee Metzger, Voices of Hope • Bob Moyer, Family Violence Council This title draws on the expertise of authors from 21 countries to tell the story of domestic violence in their country, including a personal case study of someone who has experienced domestic violence. The editors incorporate a strengths-based perspective, which includes individual, relationship, community, and societal strengths. The book blends academic, professional, and victims' expertise to determine these strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims and increased accountability for perpetrators, including improved policy formation and research. KEy fEATurES • The book uses a strength-based perspective that focuses on the de- fining strengths victims of domestic violence use to overcome abuse. • Family violence is discussed from a global perspective, exploring the similarities and differences in countries from all seven major geo-cultural areas of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, and Oceania. • Each chapter is written by a native author who has first-hand knowl- edge and experience in the culture of his or her country. • The final chapter not only summa- rizes the similarities and differ- ences but identifies solutions to the challenges of family violence found around the world. CONTENTS Africa / 1. Family Violence From a Global Perspective: Strengths-Based Research and Case Studies: The Case of South Africa / 2. Domestic Violence in Botswana: Factors That Help Women Overcome Abuse / 3. Domestic Violence in Kenya: Strengths-Based Research / Asia / 4. Domestic Violence in a Chinese Cultural Context: Who Gets the Blame? / 5. Family Violence From an Indian Perspective / 6. Marital Violence in South Korea / Europe / 7. Domestic Violence Against Women in Greece / 8. Family Violence in Moldova / 9. Violence in the Modern Russian Family / Latin America / 10. Intrafamilial Violence and Social Vulnerability: A Glimpse of the Reality in Brazil / 11. Family Violence in Mexico / The Middle East / 12. Contextualizing Oppression and Family Violence in Israel: Israeli and Palestinian Experiences / North America / 13. Family Violence in Canada / 14. Family Violence in the United States: A Community and a Country Respond / Oceania / 15. Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Striving to Address Domestic and Family Violence in Australia / 16. Family Violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand PAPerbAck ISbn: 978-1-4129-9933-5 • ©2014 • 328 PAgeS •