<P style="MARGIN: 0px">This book is written primarily for psychology and education students whose programs include a course in child psychology, </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> child development, or theories of development.  The text may also be used to supplement courses on child development </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> organized thematically or chronologically.  Instructors of graduate courses in child development may wish to consider this text </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> as a primary synthesis containing more source material and source citations than others of its kind.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">      The primary aim of the book is to describe what developmental theories are, what they can do, where they come from, how </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> they work, and how they can be used to explain human nature.</P>