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  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Your Competent Child

    Toward a New Paradigm in Parenting and Education

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Readers’ comments:A Fabulous, Important Book.Jesper Juul provides parents with such an amazing and absolutely vital approach to raising children that it rings true on every page. Some of what he suggests we as parents do is difficult, but all of it is right on about how we can raise confident, healthy, whole humans, right from the start. I was thrilled to have discovered a book that allowed me to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Family Life

    The Most Important Values for Living Together and Raising Children

    by Jesper Juul ...
    This book captures the essence of modern family life. Much has changed since our own childhoods; the good old days. Todays parents are challenged by the need to invent their own parenting style. This can only happen from within, based on our personal values and boundaries. Jesper Juul puts it very clearly: The love we feel for our children and our partners does not in itself have any value. It has ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Too Much Fun

    The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun.The Commodore 64 (C64) is officially the best-selling desktop computer model of all time, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. It was also, from 1985 to 1993, the platform for which most video games were made. But while it sold at least ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Half-Real

    Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds

    by Jesper Juul ...
    An in-depth analysis of game development and rules and fiction in video games—with concrete examples, including The Legend of Zelda, Grand Theft Auto, and moreA video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Do We Really Want Strong and Healthy Children?/Woman & Mother

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Do we really want strong and healthy childrenIn this essay Jesper Juul is asking not only parents but also institutions, policy-makers and experts to take a serious look at what they want with our children and youth because rhetoric and practice seem to contradictive. Jesper Juul is also making clear what a strong and healthy child is and the enormous impact it would have on our societies if we ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • No!

    by Jesper Juul ...
    This might be the most decisive book you can find in terms of defining your relationship with your partner, children, parents, siblings and close friends. Jesper Juul reveals with great insight why it is onlypossible to say Yes! to yourself when you also feel liberated and freeto say No! to others. By letting go of the obligation to be nice and the need to serve and please others, it is easier to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Here I Am! Who Are You?

    Resolving Conflicts Between Adults and Children

    by Jesper Juul ...
    In this excellent, short and instructive book - maybe one of Jesper Juuls best - he explains how to handle yourself as an adult in conflict with children. The many ideas, concepts and practical suggestions apply whether you are a parent or a professional working in the educational system. The title summarizes the essence of true dialogue and through plenty of everyday examples this book provides ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Handmade Pixels

    Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity

    by Jesper Juul ...
    An investigation of independent video games—creative, personal, strange, and experimental—and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a purely digital medium.Video games are often dismissed as mere entertainment products created by faceless corporations. The last twenty years, however, have seen the rise of independent, or “indie,” video games: a wave of small, cheaply developed, experimental, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Family Time

    by Jesper Juul ...
    In this book, you will spend some quality family time in each room of a typical home. We enter and work out what turns a house into a home. Then, we visit the parents bedroom, the nursery, the childrens room, the teenagers room, the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. In each room, a range of typical situations are analyzedthings most families have to deal with. How do you get young ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Relational competence

    Towards a new culture of education

    by Jesper Juul, Helle Jensen ...
    About this Book: Conflicts, grueling power struggles with difficult children, and destructive behavior daily challenge both teachers and parents. The main cause for disobedience and lack of discipline is a deeper-seated relational conflict between adults and children. Children want to learn; and they want to cooperate - provided their personal integrity and individuality are acknowledged and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • empathy

    it's what holds the world together

    by Steen Hildebrandt, Peter Høeg, Jes Bertelsen, Jesper Juul, Michael Stubberup, Helle Jensen ...
    This book is a concise theoretical and practical guide on how to help people improve contact with themselves and each other. Its authors met for the first time in 2007. We represent widely divergent professions, but we share an interest in the circumstances of children with regard to the rapid changes and drastic breakdown of values we all are currently experiencing, the great opportunities that ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD