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Books by Authors Who Have Appeared at NAMTA Conferences

Thomas Berry
Louise Chawla
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Lise Eliot
Howard Gardner
Jane Healy
Alfie Kohn
Richard Louv
Robin C. Moore
Brian Swimme
Frank Wilson

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Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry, a faculty member emeritus at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, spoke at "The Epic of Evolution," a conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and supported by NAMTA, November, 1997.

The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Thomas Berry / Hardbound / Published 1999

The Dream of the Earth

Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1990

The Dream of the Earth/Cassette

Thomas Berry / Audio Cassette / Published 1993

The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era—A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos

Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1994

Earth & Spirit: The Spiritual Dimension of the Environmental Crisis

Fritz Hull (Editor), Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1994

Earth Sky Gods and Mortals: Developing an Ecological Spirituality

Jay B. McDaniel, Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1990

Earth Story, Sacred Story

James Conlon, Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1994

Growing Up Green: Education for Ecological Renewal

David Hutchison, Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1998

Befriending the Earth

Thomas Berry, Stephen Dunn / Paperback / Published 1991

Dawn over the Earth/Audio Cassette

Thomas Berry / Audio Cassette / Published 1991

Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Universe

Thomas Berry / VHS Tape / Published 1997

 

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Louise Chawla

Louise Chawla is a Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado. She completed her preschool (3-6) and elementary (6-12) Montessori training through the St. Nicholas Training Centre (London, England) and taught at the Walden School, a Montessori school in suburban Philadelphia. From there, her interest in children’s informal learning in their communities led her to a master’s in education and child development from Bryn Mawr College, followed by a doctorate in environmental psychology from the City University of New York. She has written widely on children and nature, children in cities, and the development of environmental activism, and some of her work has appeared in The NAMTA Journal.

In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory

Loiuse Chawla / Paperback / Published 1994

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Louise Chawla, editor / Paperback / Published 2002

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology at The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. He is director of the Quality of Life Research Center, and has served on the U.S. Child Labor Advisory Committee, the Center for Giftedness at the U.S. Department of Education, the Board of Advisors for Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Advisory Board for the J.P. Getty Museum. Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the author of fourteen books including Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (excerpted in The NAMTA Journal, Winter, 1997), and Finding Flow, published in 1997. He has collaborated most recently on a book titled Good Work, When Excellence and Ethics Meet. He has appeared at numerous NAMTA conferences and plans a joint project with NAMTA on the study of normalization. Several of his articles have appeared in The NAMTA Journal.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Paperback / Published 1991

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience/Cassette

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Audio Cassette / Published 1994

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Hardcover / Published 1975

The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Paperback / Published 1994

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Hardcover / Published 1997

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Paperback / Published 1998

Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (Contributor) / Paperback / Published 1992

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Paperback / Published 1997

Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity

David Henry Feldman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, et al / Hardcover / Published 1994

The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson / Paperback / Published 1991

Being Adolescent: Conflict and Growth in the Teenage Years

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, et al / Paperback / Published 1986

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, et al / Hardcover / Published 1993

Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, et al / Paperback / Published 1996

Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

Robert Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Paperback / Published 1990

 

 

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Lise Eliot

What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

Lise Eliot / Paperback / Published 2000

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Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences has been featured at two NAMTA conferences (in 1996 and 1998) and in an issue of The NAMTA Journal.

Intelligence Reframed

Howard E. Gardner / Hardback Published 1999

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences / Tenth Anniversary Edition

Howard E. Gardner / Paperback / Published 1993

Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives

Howard Gardner, et al / Paperback / Published 1996

Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice

Howard E. Gardner / Paperback / Published 1993

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi

Howard E. Gardner / Paperback / Published 1994

Extraordinary Minds

Howard Gardner / Paperback / Published 1998

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Jane M. Healy

Dr. Healy, an expert in child brain development, has appeared at numerous NAMTA conferences. Several of her articles have appeared in The NAMTA Journal.

Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think

Jane M. Healy / Paperback / Published 1991

How to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations With Your Kids

Jane M. Healy / Paperback / Published 1994

Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence

Jane M. Healy / Paperback / Published 1994

Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds—For Better and Worse

Jane M. Healy / Hardcover / Published 1998

Helping Your Child Succeed in School: A Guide for Parents of 4 to 14 Year Olds

Michael H. Popkin, Jane Healy, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

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Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn, a teacher-turned-lecturer on discipline and classroom management, has spoken at numerous NAMTA conferences. He has also had an article published in The NAMTA Journal.

No Contest: The Case Against Competition

Alfie Kohn / Paperback / Published 1992

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes

Alfie Kohn / Paperback / Published 1995

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

Alfie Kohn / Paperback / Published 1996

Education, Inc.: Turning Learning into a Business

Alfie Kohn (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

Alfie Kohn / Paperback / Published 2000

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Alfie Kohn / Paperback / Published 2006

The Homework Myth

Alfie Kohn / Hardcover / Published 2006

 

 

 

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Richard Louv

Richard Louv is a futurist and journalist focused on family, nature, and community. He is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers and magazines. He spoke at the NAMTA conference Science, History, and the Arts Through Nature's Keyhole, Atlanta, GA, January, 2006.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Richard Louv / Hardcover / Published 2005

The Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Richard Louv / Paperback / Published 1998

The Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Richard Louv / Hardcover / Published 1996

Childhood's Future

Richard Louv / Hardcover / Published 1991

101 Things You Can Do for Our Children's Future

Richard Louv / Paperback / Published 1993

 

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Robin C. Moore

Robin Moore is professor of landscape architecture, College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, and an expert in the design of play, learning, and educational environments. He spoke at the NAMTA conference Science, History, and the Arts Through Nature's Keyhole, Atlanta, GA, January, 2006.

Plants for Play: A Plant Selection Guide for Children's Outdoor Environments

Robin C. Moore / Paperback / Published 1993

Natural Learning: The Life History of an Environmental Schoolyard

Robin C. Moore, Herbert H. Wong / Paperback / Published 1997

The Complete Playground Book

Arlene Brett, Robin C. Moore et al. / Paperback / Published 1993

Play for All Guidelines: Planning, Designing and Management of Outdoor Play Settings for All Children

Robin C. Moore et al. / Paperback / Published 1992

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Brian Swimme

Brian Swimme teaches cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He spoke at "The Epic of Evolution," a conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and supported by NAMTA, November, 1997.

The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story

Brian Swimme / Paperback / Published 1988

The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era—A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos

Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry / Paperback / Published 1994

Canticle to the Cosmos (Audio Cassette)

Brian Swimme / Audio Cassette / Published 1996

The Dancing Animal Woman: A Celebration of Life

Anne Hillman, Brian Swimme / Paperback / Published 1994

The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story

Brian Swimme / Hardcover / Published 1996

The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology

Jose Arguelles, Brian Swimme / Paperback / Published 1987

New Natural Selection (Teilhard Studies)

Brian Swimme / Paperback / Published 1983

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Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson, associate clinical professor of neurology and medical director of the Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, spoke at Montessori and the Information Age, Seattle, WA, March, 2000.

The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture

Frank Wilson / Paperback / Published 1999

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