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  • TV-Hero(in)es of Boys and Girls

    Reception Studies of Favorite Characters

    by Maya Götz ...
    Out of all the media that today’s children encounter, what makes a particular TV character a child’s favorite? Based on 80 case studies, in-depth fan studies and standardized surveys with over 5,000 children between the ages six and twelve in Germany, this book elucidates how girls and boys use TV characters in their everyday lives and their identity work. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children

    When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland

    by Maya Gotz, Dafna Lemish, Hyesung Moon, Amy Aidman ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United States, Germany, Israel, and South Korea, it offers an innovative look at media's role on children's ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Fear in Front of the Screen

    Children's Fears, Nightmares, and Thrills from TV

    by Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish, Andrea Holler ...
    Experiencing fear in front of the screen is a common phenomenon in childhood, and a focus of public concern. Yet, research has encountered ethical and methodological challenges and has focused largely on the effects of watching disturbing news. In this innovative book, this universal experience is investigated in depth via two complementary studies:a retrospective study of experiences related by ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

    Edited by Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish ...
    Series Book 34 - Mediated Youth
    This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme of inquiry is the place media held in all of these aspects: the roles they played for children’s ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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  • The Sweet Spot

    The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeOne of Behavioral Scientist's Notable Books of 2021.. ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Violence Against Women During Coronavirus

    When Staying Home Isn’t Safe

    by Naomi Pfitzner, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Silke Meyer, Marie Segrave ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United Nations predicted that for every three months the COVID-19 lockdowns continued an additional 15 million cases of domestic violence would occur worldwide, termed the "shadow ... Read more

    Free

  • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Engaging, evocative. . . . [Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling.”—NPRWhy is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women

    Shifting the Needle

    Edited by Julia Buxton, Giavana Margo, Lona Burger ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The international strategy of criminalising the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a ‘drug free world’. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women ... Read more

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  • The Things We Love

    How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are

    by Aaron Ahuvia, PhD ...
    An "exciting and engaging" investigation (Jonah Berger) of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things—drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing.Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life you ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Children and Peace

    From Research to Action

    Edited by Nikola Balvin, Daniel J. Christie ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, ... Read more

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  • Social Work in the 21st Century

    An Introduction to Social Welfare, Social Issues, and the Profession

    by Morley D. Glicken ...
    A student-friendly introduction to the field of social work, social welfare, and the profession of social work, social issues, and social welfareDesigned to get students excited about the profession and thinking critically about what social workers do and how they operate within the larger system, this Second Edition explores social issues in the United States, looks at how the social welfare ... Read more

    $141.29 USD