With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by LaunchPad (comprehensive course) or Achieve Read & Practice (e-book + online homework), Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organized approach.

This is not a reorganized iteration of another Berger textbook, but rather a fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic. But as always with Berger, it is exceptionally accessible and compelling, distinguished by an engaging narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and an emphasis on relating universal themes to students own lives.

The LaunchPad option for this book offers a variety of engaging activities including Data Connections (a hands-on approach to understanding research data, Visualizing Development, (which explores important concepts through a combination of media), and Developing Lives (where students to “raise” a virtual child from newborn to teenager).

CHAPTER 1: The Life-Span Perspective
CHAPTER 2: Theories
CHAPTER 3: Genes and Generations
CHAPTER 4: Growth Over the Life Span
CHAPTER 5: Brain Development and Neuroscience
CHAPTER 6: Sensation, Perception, and Movement
CHAPTER 7: Memory and Information Processing
CHAPTER 8: Language: Communication from Prenatal to Death
CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and Cognition
CHAPTER 10: Personality, Identity, and Self
CHAPTER 11: Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 12: Emotional and Moral Development
CHAPTER 13: Attachment: Family and Friends
CHAPTER 14: Lifelong Education
CHAPTER 15: Health, Wellness, and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 16: Death and Dying