This book discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, learning and literacy.
These include the ways games can marry pleasure, learning and mastery through the sense …

This chapter describes positive youth development (PYD) as an emerging arena of applied
developmental science. We show how PYD is both rooted in the theoretical traditions of …

Teachers Matteroffers the most definitive portrait of teachers’ lives and work to date. At a
time when teaching standards are high on the political and social agenda, the quality and …

The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since
1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound …

The difference between war and peace can be a matter of trust. States that trust each other
can cooperate and remain at peace. States that mistrust each other enough can wage …

This article fleshes out a recently introduced and empirically grounded framework of
organizational identity orientation, which refers to the nature of assumed relations between …

Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and
Authenticity, Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different …

The right to request flexible working has been introduced into the UK employment laws
against a background of post-fordist work practices, which already allow for employer rather …

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the
current fitness culture. Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes …

This paper presents an international perspective on successful principals. Data from the
International Successful School Principals' Project, now in its sixth year and presently in …