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Selected Biographies
Angell, James Rowland
Angell, J. B. (1971). The reminiscences of James Burrill Angell. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press.
Binet, Alfred
Wolf, T. H. Alfred Binet. (1973). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brentano, Franz
Velarde-Mayol. (2000). On Brentano. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Cattell, James McKeen
Cattell, James McKeen. (1981). An education in psychology: James McKeen Cattell's jounral and letters from Germany and England. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Darwin, Charles
Bowler, P. J. (1990). Charles Darwin: The man and his influence. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Eldredge, N. (2005). Darwin: Discovering the tree of life. New York: Norton.
Keynes, R. (2002). Darwin, his daughter, and human evolution. New York: Riverhead.
Descartes, Rene
Clarke, D. M. (2006). Descartes: A biography. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gaukroger, S. (1995). Descartes: An intellectual biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dewey, John
Martin, J. (2002). The education of John Dewey: A biography. New York: Columbia University Press.
Fechner, Gustav Theodor
Heidelberger, M. (2004). Nature from within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and his psychophysical worldview. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Galilei, Galileo
Reston, J. (1994). Galileo: A life. New York: HarperCollins.
Shea, W. R. (2003). Galileo in Rome : the rise and fall of a troublesome genius. New York: Oxford University Press.
Galton, Francis
Bulmer, M. G. (2003). Francis Galton: Pioneer of heredity and biometry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
Gilbreth, F. B. (1948). Cheaper by the Dozen. New York: T. Y. Crowell.
Lancaster, J. (2004). Making time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth: A life beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen." Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Goddard, Henry Herbert
Zenderland, L. (1998). Measuring minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hall, Granville Stanley
Ross, D. (1972). G. Stanley Hall: The psychologist as prophet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Helmholtz, Hermann von
Cahan, D. (Ed.) (1993). Hermann von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century science. Berkley: University of California Press.
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
Miller, R. (1990). Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Pioneer woman of psychology [videorecording]. Milwaukee, WI: Alverno College.
James, William
Lewis, R. W. B. (1991). The Jameses: A family narrative. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Richardson, R. D. (2006). William James: In the maelstrom of American modernism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Simon, L. (1996). William James remembered. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Loeb, Jacques
Rasmussen, Charles. (1998). Jacques Loeb : his science and social activism and their philosophical foundations. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Mill, John Stuart
Capaldi, N. (2004). John Stuart Mill: A biography. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Mill, J. S. (1960). Autobiography of John Stuart Mill: Published from the original manuscript in the Columbia University library. New York: Columbia University Press.
Morgan, Christiana
Douglas, C. (1993). Translate this darkness: The life of Christiana Morgan. (BF 109.M674 D68 1993)
Munsterberg, Hugo
Hale, M. (1980). Human science and social order: Hugo Munsterberg and the origins of applied psychology. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Babkin, Boris Petrovich. (1949). Pavlov: a biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Scott, Walter Dill
Lynch, E. C. (1968). Walter Dill Scott: Pioneer in personnel management. Austin: University of Texas, Bureau of Business Research.
Spencer, Herbert
Weinstein, D. (1998). Equal freedom and utility: Herbert Spencer's liberal utilitarianism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thorndike, Edward Lee
Joncich, Geraldine M. The sane positivist: a biography of Edward L. Thorndike. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Titchener, E. B.
Leys, R., & Evans, R. B. (Eds.) (1990). Defining American psychology: The correspondence between Adolf Meyer and Edward Bradford Titchener. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Raby, P. (2001). Alfred Russel Wallace: A life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Shermer, M. (2002). In Darwin's shadow: The life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace. New York: Oxford University Press.
Slotten, R. (2004). The heretic in Darwin's court: The life of Alfred Russel Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press.
Witmer, Lightner
McReynolds, P. (1997). Lightner Witmer: His life and times. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wolfe, Harry Kirke
Benjamin, L. T., Jr. (1991). Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Wundt, Wilhelm
Rieber, R. W. & Robinson, D. K. (Eds). (2001). Wilhelm Wundt in history: The making of a scientific psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Cordon, L. A. (Ed.) (2005) Popular psychology: An encyclopedia. Ref. BF31 .C715 2005
Fagan, T. K., & Warden, P. G. (Eds.) (1996) Historical encyclopedia of school psychology. Ref. LB1027.55 .H57 1996
Gall, S., Beins, B., & Feldman, A. J. (Eds.) (1996) The Gale encyclopedia of psychology. Ref. BF31 .G35 1996
Catalog search for UNLV Libraries books on the history of psychology
Christensen, A.L., Goldberg, E., & Bougakov, D. (2009). Luria's legacy in the 21st century. (RC348 .L87 2009)
Gould, Stephen Jay. (1996). The Mismeasure of man. (BF431 .G68 1996)
Hilgard, E.R. (Ed.). (1978). American psychology in historical perspective: Addresses of the presidents of the American Psychological Association, 1892-1977. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Lakoff, R.T., & Coyne, J.C. (1993). Father knows best: The use and abuse of power in Freud's case of Dora. (RC534 .L35 1993)
O'Connell, A.N. & Russo, N.F. (Eds.). (1983-) Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. New York: Columbia University Press. (BF109.A1 M6 1983 vols 1-3)
Richards, G. (1997). Race, racism and psychology: Towards a reflexive history. (BF76.45 .R53 1997)