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The International Handbook of Positive Psychology
This handbook discusses the latest findings from different fields of positive psychology from a global perspective by providing a coherent framework to get a better understanding of the development and practice of positive psychology. It starts with the parameters of positive psychology and a summary of the historical rise of positive psychology (both first wave and second wave of positive psychology) in the US, and its slow but steady growth on a global scale. This handbook highlights the major contributions of positive psychologists across 17 major regions of the world on theory, research, assessment and Practice. It discusses how positive psychology can progress human living in different countries and it shows the reasons why positive psychology has become an important source in research and education around the world.
Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives
Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a "culture of poverty," Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can help counter inaccurate stereotypes about global poverty. It provides invaluable insight into strategies that may help people in developing countries improve their wellbeing. The similar socioeconomic characteristics and economic circumstances of t...
Throwaway Girls
A timely edge-of-your-seat thriller from a debut writer to watch. Caroline is only three months from her great escape — leaving behind her rigid prep school and the parents who think they can convert her to being straight — when her best friend, Madison, goes missing. There’s no question that Caroline will get involved in the investigation. After all, she has her own reasons for not trusting the police, and she owes Madison big time. But Caroline uncovers a wider mystery as she follows the clues, with other missing girls and no one on the case. Why isn’t anyone looking for these girls? And what’s the connection between them and Madison? Could it be . . . Caroline herself?
Let the Storm Break
While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known.
Let the Sky Fall
A broken past and a divided future can’t stop the electric connection of two teens in this epic series opener from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. She’s also a guardian—Vane’s guardian—and has ...
Neverseen
The fourth book in the international bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Perfect for readers aged 9+ and fans of Harry Potter, Rick Riordan and Amari and the Night Brothers. Sophie Foster is on the run – but at least she’s not alone. Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. They still have doubts about the shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. And as they settle into their new lives, they uncover secrets bigger than anything they’d imagined. But their enemies are far from done, and unleash a terrifying plague that threatens the safety of an entire species. Sophie and her friends fight w...
Abitare la Terra n.46-47/2018 – Dwelling on Earth
EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL REPRESENTATION, RESTORATION, REDESIGN, RESILIENCE Paolo Portoghesi RESILIENCE OF THE ROYAL SITE OF CARDITELLO. GOVERNANCE AND REGENERATION OF THE TERRITORY OF FERDINANDO DI BORBONE Carmine Gambardella THE WORK OF THE ARCHITECT FRANCESCO COLLECINI Riccardo Serraglio FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: UNESCO-GREECE MELINA MERCOURI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Mechtild Rössler, Roland Chih-Hung Lin, Akane Nakamura ADAPTION AS UNIQUENESS IN SEWELL: FROM A HOSTILE TERRITORY TO A HOMELY LANDSCAPE Maria Dolores Munoz Rebolledo NO MORE MASTERPLAN: THE CITYFORMING PROTOCOL Maurizio Carta TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF DISASTER-RESILIENT DESIGNS IN WORLD CULTURAL HERI...
Classification of London's Public Transport Users Using Smart Card Data
Understanding transit users in terms of their travel patterns can support the planning and design of better services. User classification can improve market research through more targeted access to groups of interest. It facilitates planning through better survey design, as well as more detailed evaluation, through analysis of impacts based on the characterization of the affected users. Classification of public transport users can be enhanced through the use of data from smart cards. The objective of the thesis is to categorize and better understand travel patterns of London's public transport users, using an extensive database of Oyster Card transactions. Several travel characteristics rela...
