America’s leading expert on adolescence offers his prescription for instilling a sense of purpose and fulfillment in today’s youth.Drawing on the revelatory results of a landmark study, William Damon—one of the country's leading writers on the lives of young people, whose book Greater Expectations won the Parents' Choice Award—brilliantly investigates the most pressing issue in the lives of youth today: why so many young people are "failing to launch"—livi...

William Damon offers the first, much-needed overview of the evolution and nurturance of children's moral understanding and behavior from infancy through adolescence, at home and in school.Drawing on the best professional research and thinking, Professor William Damon charts pragmatic, workable approaches to foster basic virtues such as honesty, responsibility, kindness, and fairness—methods that can make an invaluable difference throughout children's lives.

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The author argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens—to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems—the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good—and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, un...

Greater Expectations is the book that exposed the low standards that children are confronted with in our homes, our schools, and throughout our culture. It exploded many of the misconceptions about children and how to raise them, including the cult of self-esteem, "child-centered" learning, and other overly indulgent practices that have been watering down the education and guidance that we are providing our young people. It disclosed how the self-centered ethic is damaging our you...

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus affect our lives in myriad ways-the authors show how in their quest to build meaningful caree...

「透過這兩段人生的回顧，我們更能懂得原諒、欣賞自己和他人，並與過去和解，找到前進之路。」──《恆毅力》作者安琪拉．達克沃斯缺席的父親、追求獨立的母親與渴望成長的青年美國最具影響力的前五十名心理學家、美國國家科學院院士的人生和解之書在威廉．戴蒙的記憶中，父親於他出生前就死於二戰。但在母親的撫養與他自己的奮鬥下，幾十年後，他成為美國最受敬重的發展心理學大師，卻沒想到，他一直以來所認知的人生故事都是錯的。一切都源於他女兒的一通電話。據她調查，祖父不僅在戰爭中活下來，還擔任美國外交官，先後在德國和泰國過著精采的人生。不僅如此，他還是球藝精湛的高爾夫球玩家。巧妙的是，戴蒙也喜歡打高爾夫。他認為，這項運動能培養紳士精神、專注力、自我掌控力和企圖心，這也是他在青少年時期渴望擁有的智慧。在女兒告知他真相後，這位著名的心理學大師在六十多歲時，踏上了尋找父親蹤跡的解謎之旅。在挖掘這個曲折的人生故事時，戴蒙也向讀者介紹了心理學的新工具——生命回顧，也就是有意識地重新審視過往，用感恩和和解的心態看待現在...

Cynicism often seems a smarter choice than idealism. There are reasons for this. Politicians have disappointed us time and again; trusted institutions have proven to be self-serving and corrupt; hopes for lasting world peace repeatedly have been dashed; and social inequities persist and increase, unabated by even the grandest of charitable efforts. It is now considered foolish to think that people can be counted on to rise above their narrow self-interests to serve the broader good, or to ...

A look at the lives of twenty-three American moral leaders shows how these hometown heroes acquired their moral goals and sustained them in the face of grave risk and sacrifice, working for everything from civil rights to the poor.

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White**’s California Exposures*.”—Kirkus Reviews*Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the li...