<p><i>"Keith Richardson has an obvious gift for conveying difficult ideas in a reader-friendly fashion....This is a very important and timely contribution to theory-building in developmental psychology at both undergraduate and graduate level."</i><br />—<b>Brian Hopkins</b><br /><i>Lancaster University</i></p><p><i>"Authoritative in his approach, the author has a strong grasp of a wide range of theories and research, and I found his treatment of them to be clear, coherent and consistent. It is a text which...will be accessible to second and third year students, and immensely helpful to them for its presentation of a perspective which is not always easily grasped at this level, but which, in one way or another, informs much recent work in developmental psychology."</i><br />—<b>Gerard Duveen</b><br /><i>University of Cambridge</i></p>