Experiencing the Lifespan Fourth Edition

I have received this product at a discounted price in exchange for leaving an unbiased review. I like this recipe book because it has two plans to follow a healthy diet for comfort food and a grain-free diet plan. My husband likes Comfort foods but most of the Comfort Foods come with heavy calories. The nice thing about this book is all of the Comfort Foods taste just as good but have less calories and just as much flavor. Another nice thing about the recipes for health cookbook is it can be converted to fit many different dietary needs. I need a low calorie diet, my son needs a high fat and high calorie diet, and my husband needs a high-protein low-carb diet. I am able to make one meal and fit all of these plans into the same dish by adding or removing certain ingredients from the meal. We tried the apple banana pudding and it was absolutely delicious and was also easy to modify for my low sugar requirements as I added full-fat whipped cream to my son's for his high calorie diet and vanilla protein powder mixed with whipped cream for my husband's high protein diet.

This was my first time renting a book. Needed this book for my class for Spring 2017 semester. Instead of purchasing the book at my school's bookstore or buying the book altogether, renting was a great option for me because it was cheaper and I have no need for it since the class is finished. The book I received was brand new, which was a bonus. I already shipped it back and the process was simple.

I feel like the author did a good job of handling these topics and keeping up-to-date on current issues that face people at different life stages, as well as recent research that illuminates these topics. However, I read this book on my kindle paperwhite, and I had 2 issues with the formatting.1.) Whenever tables or graphs were presented, they were pretty useless in black and white, because they were formatted to be presented in color, so there was no telling which was the 'red line' being referenced in the text. A formatting change to make these graphs have contrast to work in a black and white reader would make these supplementary graphs and charts much more useful.2.) The answers to the end of section questions were always at the end of the chapter, not below the questions being asked, and by the time I got to the end of the chapter, I couldn't remember what the question was. The end of chapter just has a list of answers, and it might be a single letter from a multiple choice question. These answers should immediately follow the questions themselves, and because they did not, I stopped reading these questions entirely about half-way through the book, which made the material less effective for memory retention, as I was not practicing what I just learned.Overall, the author did a good job of writing this book, and the material was thoughtfully researched.

This is an excellent textbook, it explores more contemporary problems and feels up to date. I have had to mostly teach myself in my developmental psychology course, and this textbook has guided me really well. It is detailed while not being too wordy which I appreciate!

I bought this for my Kindle - it was really easy to read and navigate, and it also made studying really easy because of the search feature on Kindle books. I loved this! Another perk - this saved me about 100$ that I would have wasted needlessly on a paper textbook. Do yourself and the environment a favor, buy kindle books!

The overall book was great. It was very informative, easy to follow and I enjoyed reading it for class. I did not like, however, how political the author was in her writing. Every single page and every single paragraph read more as her views on how a child should be raised, how people should behave when they socialize, which methods of learning are better for children and young adults, and she constantly referenced holistic living as if it is the absolute best choice for anyone's life style. If this had been a book by the author writing about a subject she was passionate about it would have been fine, but call me a traditionalist. I do not find that it is ethical or appreciated for a textbook for schools to contain personal views from the author. That is why I am giving it 3/5 stars.

This book was amazing! I have never before enjoyed reading a textbook - not even once! However this text is written like a story and makes the information so much more accessible and helped an auditory learner like me grasp the material with more ease than ever before. I wish I had bought the text instead of renting it!!

Horrible textbook. Not only does the author cite outdated research but there’s so much opinion in the book. Rather than teaching development, it’s clear that this author wanted to teach people to think exactly like her. The personal stories are unnecessary and belong in a biography, not a text book. The author’s negative attitudes towards the poor, the overweight, minorities, and the lgbtq community are poorly disguised. There is a great need for a more up to date textbook on this material written by someone with the ability to keep personal opinions separate from fact. The inclusion of an image of overweight people eating lunch, clearly taken without their knowledge with a caption inviting us to make judgements about them based on their size blows me away. This author is clearly out of touch with current research studies (HAES) and encouraging bias attitudes. Worst text book I’ve come across so far. I can’t believe this made it past editors and into the school systems. Yes the authors attitudes may be subtle to some, but to anyone empirically minded, this book is outrageous.