Not In Your Genes
The real reasons children are like their parents
$46.95
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2017
Summary
A controversial and groundbreaking take on the nature-nurture debate.
Professor Robert Plomin, the world’s leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: ‘I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I don’t have any’.
Using a mixture of famous and ordinary people, Oliver James drills deep down into the childhood causes of our individuality, revealing why our upbringing, not our genes, plays such an important role…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091947682 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0091947685 |
| Author: | Oliver James |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vermilion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“Radical but full of hope … we really can choose our mental health and that of our children” - - Steve Biddulph, bestselling author of Raising Boys
Radical but full of hope … we really can choose our mental health and that of our children * Steve Biddulph, bestselling author of Raising Boys *
the nation’s shrink * The Times *
James is charting the new frontiers in psychology * Guardian *
Oliver James
Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist. Since 1987, he has worked as a writer, journalist, and television documentary producer and presenter.
His books include Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture, the bestselling They F** You Up*, and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4.
He is a trustee of two children’s charities: the National Family and Parenting Institute and Homestart.
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