Gunnar A. V. Borg was born in Stockholm on 28. November 1927. Educated at Stockholm University, he obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Lund in 1962. Subsequently he held various teaching and research appointments at the University of Umea in northern Sweden, where he also served as President of the Graduate School of Social Work and Public Administration in 1966-1967. In 1971 he was appointed Professor at Stockholm University, where he headed the Institute of Applied Psychology for ...

Heather is in trouble again. She's on a dream holiday with her mother staying in a secluded lodge in the frosty holiday state of Alaskation. Unfortunately a dream holiday turns into an horrific nightmare when her group have to somehow deal with the fact that there's a serial killer hidden in their midst. Amazingly, the group manage to neutralise the threat, but have they really managed to ensure their safety or is the killer just waiting for the right moment to strike again?Meanwhi...

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believers – any more than we would expect that to be the case of novelists, poets and painters. Yet for all that this is true, many of the greatest directors of classic European cinema (the period from the end of World War II to roughly the middle of the 1980s) were passionately interested not only in the spiritual life but in the complexities of religi...

Families, classrooms, all kinds of human groups are intricate, evolving social and emotional worlds. They exist to protect and nourish but living in them is not always easy. And, when one of us is not doing well, none of us are. This makes them a delicate, dynamic, messy, and endless work in progress.This book centres around those moments when we must get involved, or call a child out on an unsafe, careless, or selfish action. Pitched well beyond the superficiality of making "happy...

Insolvent is a story that follows two scientists who try to make the world a better place with what seems a miraculous invention. Unfortunately the world is too fragile and the economic system starts to disintegrate as people realize that they can finally be free. Afterwards a group of survivors create a utopian society in southern England but there lies an opportunity for power that proves too tempting to resist.This story questions the fragility of our society and the possibiliti...

This story has an idyllic backdrop, after a massive political upheaval America is embarking on a new path having abolished the economic system. In a country of satellite city states a killer relocates to the beautiful care state to escape his past. His past however won’t release him and when he starts to feel emotions that he’d never imagined before he ends up torn between primal urges and love. All the time a helpless witness is unable to intervene from within his paralyzed body.

For many, social thinking is hard-wired at birth and strengthens naturally through experiences. However, for a variety of reasons, some children find it harder to think and develop socially. What’s the Buzz? For Early Learners 2e is a fully updated social and emotional literacy foundation programme for children aged 4–8 years.Following the global popularity of the first edition of the What’s the Buzz programme, this revised edition leads children ...

War of the roses and fatal attraction are combined in this real life memoir."Mark le Foncé is brutally honest and engagingly candid in this account of the emotional, psychological and financial abuse he endured at the hands of a malevolent narcissist; hell bent on destroying him.You will find it hard to believe, that this systematic, relentless and heartless attack on a loving father was not perpetuated by an underworld criminal mastermind, by the person he trusted most - hi...

For a majority of filmgoers, the names most usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Yet during the early 1950s, at the same time that Kurosawa was becoming known to the public through the release of classics like Rashomon and The Seven Samurai, another Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi, quietly came out with a trilogy of films - The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu Monogatari and Sansho the Bailiff - that are the equ...

What’s the Buzz? is an internationally renowned series of programmes designed to help children and young people develop social and emotional awareness. Now available in a revised second edition, What’s the Buzz for Primary Students is a sixteen-lesson programme targeting everyday social challenges faced by primary aged children, such as peer pressure and bullying style behaviours; competition and handling disappointment; feelings and wellbeing and self-awareness. Each les...

This book provides an opportunity to teach the exquisiteness of being human to our children. Teaching Values of Being Human is a curriculum filled with conversations, lessons and activities that link education, the mind and the heart. It is packed with ideas to empower student agency and voice.Paving the way for practitioners to develop an emotionally responsive environment where young human beings can grow, this practical book encourages children to look inside themselves...

Pre-teens and teenagers are faced with a continually changing and complex social world that not only involves face-to-face action, but also online and social media interaction. What’s the Buzz with Teenagers? offers a highly practical programme designed to explicitly teach young people to get along and maintain healthy relationships with their friends, family and the broader community.Embracing current thinking on ‘self-awareness and behaviour transformation’ in adolescent...