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1. Science of the People

   Understanding and using science in everyday contexts

   By Joan Solomon

   How do people understand science? How do they feel about science, how do they relate to it, what do they hope from it and what do they fear about it? Science of the People: Understanding and using science in everyday contexts helps answer these questions as the result of painstaking interviewing by...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Passion to Learn

   An Inquiry into Autodidactism

   Edited by Joan Solomon

   This is the first book to provide a detailed overview and analysis of autodidactism, or self-education. Autodidacts' strong preference for teaching themselves is likely to manifest itself, in childhood, as a pronounced resistance to formal schooling. However, in later life, an autodidact's passion...

   Published August 27th 2003 by Routledge
3. Getting To Know About Energy In School And Society

   By Joan Solomon

   This work considers the different meanings of energy and its effects upon language and personality. It highlights, through a range of practical examples, the difficulties of teaching the concept of "energy" and ways in which it can be related to the everyday world and school physics....

   Published February 6th 1992 by Routledge
4. The Borderline Patient

   Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment

   Edited by James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among others) is followed by a section exploring a...

   Published May 31st 1987 by Routledge