Publications
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. Basic Books, 2012.
Monitoring Child Well-being: A South African Rights-based Approach. HSRC Publishers, 2007.
Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Penn University Press, 2015.
Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self : 18 to 36 Months. Goddard Press, 1999.
The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools: Teaching Responsibility, Creating Caring Climates. Good Books, 2005.
Lifetime Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40. High/Scope Press, 2005.
Learning to Live Together in Peace from Early Childhood. Madrid, Spain: AMEI-WAECE Publications, 2006.
Learning for Peace: Lessons learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Context Programme. Eds. Nikola Balvin, and Daniel J. Christie. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
The Jigsaw Classroom: Building Cooperation in the Classroom. Longman, 1997.
Interactive Conflict Resolution. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love. Blatimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1967.
Inequality in America: What role for human capital policies?. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
The Indescribable and the Undiscussable: Reconstructing Human Discourse After Trauma. Central European University Press, 1999.
Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Fully Revised Third Edition. UNICEF, 2007.
Horizontal Inequalities and Post-Conflict Development. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. W. W. Norton, 2011.
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Handbook on counselling asylum seeking and refugee women victims of gender-based violence. European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme , 2019.
Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy. New York, NY USA: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Groups in harmony and tension: an integration of studies on intergroup relations. Octagon Books, 1966.
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1996.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.
G Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. Taylor & Francis, 2014.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. National Academies Press, 2000.
From conflict to peace building: The power of early childhood initiatives: Lessons from around the world. World Forum Foundation, 2007.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 2011.
Fostering and Measuring Skills. OECD Publishing, 2014.
Forgiveness is a Choice: A Step-by-step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope. American Psychological Association, 2001.
Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Free Press, 2000.
Father Need: Why father care is as essential as mother care for your child. New York, NY: Free Press, 2000.
Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications. L. Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School. Taylor & Francis, 2005.
The Family and the MDGs. Doha, Qatar: Doha Institute for Family Studies and Development, 2012.
Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health. Ed. Theresa M. Wizemann. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2019.
Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition. Kappa Delta Pi, 1998.
Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue. Eds. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, and Renáta Katalin Nelson. De Gruyter, 2021.
Education for a Civil Society: How Guidance Teaches Young Children Democratic Life Skills. NAEYC, 2012.
The Ecology of Human Development: experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press, 2009.
The Ecology of Human Development. Harvard University Press, 1979.
Early Childhood Programs as the Doorway to Social Cohesion: Application of Vygotsky’s Ideas from an East-West Perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Early child development: A powerful equalizer. British Colmbia, Cananda: HELP Research Institute, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia, 2007.
The early care and education teaching workforce at the fulcrum: An agenda for reform. New York, NY: Teacher's College Press, 2008.
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers. National Academies Press, 2001.
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers. Eds. B. T. Bowman, M. S. Donovan, and M. S. Burns. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.
Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel. State University of New York Press, 1999.
On Dialogue. Routledge, 2004.
The Descent of Man. D. Appleton and Company, 1871.
Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005.
Death, Hope and Sex: Steps to an Evolutionary Ecology of Mind and Morality. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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