Seasons of Life: Our Dramatic Journey from Birth to Death - Hardcover

John Kotre; Elizabeth Hall

9780316502528: Seasons of Life: Our Dramatic Journey from Birth to Death

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316502529 ISBN 13: 9780316502528

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1990

Traces personal human development in five stages, offering insights emerging from research in psychology, biology, anthropology, and sociology

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From Publishers Weekly:

This hefty and detailed volume reprises in print a PBS-TV and radio series about nature's control of people's lives. Gathering data from studies of human behavior, Kotre, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, and journalist Hall report that biological, social and psychological "clocks" dictate similar changes in all persons, no matter how little else they have in common. It is, however, the respondents to the research team who color and energize the story. The interviewees include members of an extended family, living harmoniously on their long-established farm, and a 13-year-old single mother bringing up her baby with the help of her own mother. The widely different individuals met here conform to the laws governing physical, social and psychological growth in very personal ways. Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Kotre (psychology, Univ. of Michigan) and journalist Hall illustrate human development from infancy to late adulthood through a series of biographical sketches of real people representing all of life's stages, or "seasons." The narratives are bound together with fascinating details of our biological, social, and psychological "clocks." Engrossing and well written, this PBS television and radio tie-in should be a popular item for public libraries. Highly recommended.
- Anne Washburn, Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore Lib., Greensboro, N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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