Nearly 40 years after their invention and a decade after exploding onto the mainstream, video games still remain a mystery to many parents, including which titles are appropriate, and their potential side-effects on kids. Now the answers are at your fingertips.Offering unrivaled insight and practical, real-world strategies for making gaming a positive part of family life, The Modern Parent’s Guide to Kids and Video Games provides a vital resource for today’s parent. From picking th...

Business, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but the basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organisation haven't. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty a...

Dream of launching a new product, project or startup? Wish granted! Thanks to crowdfunding, today’s hottest form of investment, suddenly anyone can bring any idea or invention to life on the Internet.The world’s leading guide to raising money online, The Crowdfunding Bible shows you how to launch, market and successfully run a high-tech fundraising campaign, regardless of industry or budget. It reveals the secrets to catching the media and public’s eye, and at...

GIVE EDUCATION AND LEARNING A HIGH-TECH UPGRADE! In Teaching Technology, the first training guide for tomorrow’s educator, teachers and parents will discover a complete range of activities and workshops for integrating technology into the modern classroom and household. Suitable for grades K-12, tweens, teens, college and beyond, it offers a full set of tools for teaching online safety, privacy and positive high-tech usage. Featured programs cover: • Internet Access & Online Safety • Apps,...

Are you a meeting planner organizing a special event? Don't send out an invitation, or book professional speakers or hotel space, without reading this must-see training guide first. Inside, meeting planners will find expert hints, tips and advice for getting more from every occasion, including: - Creating unforgettable events, conferences, and tradeshows - Sending ticket sales, attendance levels, and audience enthusiasm soaring - Making meeting planning and event setup simple and effortles...

From smartphone apps to tablet PCs and social networks, any business can use technology to increase ROI and boost productivity without sacrificing quality or customer service. A complete guide with hints, tips and advice for modern executives of all experience levels, small business expert and entrepreneur Scott Steinberg reveals how to tap their power within.From marketing and management to leadership, advertising and public relations, learn how to slash costs and maximize product...

Finding the courage to embrace change and take chances is the only way to succeed.Business, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organization haven't. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innov...

Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia before and during the Third Reich in depth and demonstrate how Nazi physicians incorporated mainstr...

Lawsuits. Scandals. Billion-dollar payouts. Giant plastic Stratocasters. Welcome to the weird, wild and whacked-out world of music video games: Every bit as glorious and gonzo as the legendary bands and songs that inspired its hard-partying ways.Rocking its way to the top of the charts faster than any genre before, music and rhythm gaming had become a $1.7 billion industry and breakout hit by 2008. But despite transforming pop culture, the category had all but single-handedly s...

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this ca...

What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals?“Adult time for adult crime” has been the justice system’s mantra for the last twenty years. But locking up so many young people puts a strain on state budgets—and ironically, the evidence suggests it ultimately increases crime.In this bold book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development offer a compr...

Boredom as an impetus for architectural theory and practiceAny theorist or practitioner of architecture must confront, and even be compelled by, boredom. Called ennui, Langeweile, or acedia, boredom is a pressing concern, as the production and obsolescence of images accelerates with new technologies, leaving individuals saturated with information presented in fleeting displays that are easy to produce, easy to delete, and easy to consume. In this innovative book, A...