“There is a clear and urgent need to apply principles of positive psychology, positive leadership, and positive organizational practices to educational institutions. Compelling research shows that the performance and well-being of both students and teachers are significantly enhanced by the principles discussed in this book. Jolanta Burke has written a straightforward and clear explanation of how positive leadership can produce this outcome. It is a much-needed contribution.”
Professor Kim Cameron
Founder of the Positive Organisational Scholarship
University of Michigan
USA

“Clearly written, accessible and inspiring, Burke delivers a cutting-edge tour of positive psychology theory that celebrates the history and evolution of the field. Burke’s background as a psychologist, researcher and leader shines throughout the book. Readers are treated to a skillfully developed and engaging narrative that signposts strategies leaders can adopt to shape more holistic and caring cultures in their organisations. As we globally struggle to find better ways to support each other during the COVID19 pandemic, provocations to shape how we bounce back and adopt more positive practices in our schools are most welcome. Every once in a while, I buy a book in multiple copies because I know that my students and colleagues will be borrowing them, often. This is one of those books!!”
Dr. Karen Edge
London Centre for Leadership in Learning
University College London
UK

“Dr. Jolanta Burke has written a must-read book. Packed with insightful and expert knowledge, and with a direct writing style, the book offers a right balance between theory and practice. It introduces an original and provocative perspective to apply the latest research in the science of positive psychology in educational contexts and to encourage leaders to use new approaches to confront some of the main issues in school communities. During these challenging times for education, this is an evidence-based inspirational text for those who want to create schools in which everybody can flourish and thrive. As a lecturer in this field, I recommend this book as the perfect choice for every school leader and teacher, and every course in education studies.”
Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes
Director of Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology
University of East London
UK

“This is an important text and a very significant contribution to an aspect of school leadership that is growing in importance. Dr Burke has opened a door that has been locked or ignored for many years. Positive psychology offers important perspectives and a range of strategies that have great potential to challenge prevailing orthodoxies and provide a sophisticated conceptual framework that integrates academic rigour with professional relevance. This text will enhance academic programmes, school based professional development and personal reflection and learning.”
Professor John West-Burnham
Educational Leadership Expert
University of Worcester
UK

“Dr. Burke has written an important book and I expect Positive Psychology and School Leadership to become essential reading for both practitioners and academics working in the field of educational leadership and management. It is a timely book given the levels of stress and performativity associated with headship today, and a refreshing take on a much-neglected aspect: how to go deep into the minds and motivations of stakeholders to help them get the best out of themselves, and create the positive school culture that we know from educational effectiveness research matters so much to students and teachers alike.”
Professor Anthony Kelly
Educational Leadership Expert
University of Southampton
UK

“We have now reached a point in the development of positive psychology that its findings can be applied in a variety of settings to improve well-being and functioning. Nowhere is this more important than in our educational system. In this book, Dr Burke skillfully brings together relevant findings from positive psychology research and leadership theory to provide a wide-ranging guide for school leaders. She blends her own experience as an educational and academic leader with a rigorous assessment of the research literature on positive leadership in schools. Today there is widespread and growing interest in positive education, an approach that blends academic achievement with the development of strengths, resilience and character. This approach has been shown to be effective, not only in increasing children’s well-being, but also in enhancing their academic achievement. Dr. Burke’s work here on positive leadership in schools adds an important dimension to this vital new approach to education.”
Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
Founding Director of RCSI Institute of Leadership
Director of RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health

“The Essential Anatomy of the Doctor – Patient Relationship fuses the mix of art and science that is at the core of medicine. Using stories culled from his long career as an internist, he demonstrates how listening to patient stories is the portal to diagnosis and the establishment of trust. It is as though William Osler joined William Carlos Williams at the bedside.”
Thomas Duffy, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine/Hematology
Yale University

“The doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of medicine. Dr. Keating clearly articulates the essential elements – the anatomy – that forge this relationship, and using patient stories drawn from his many years of clinical practice makes it real and understandable. This is a must read for aspiring physicians, seasoned physicians in practice and, of course, their patients. It is a book that every physician will want on their bookshelf so they can reread it multiple times.”
Bruce M. Koeppen, MD, PhD
Dean
Frank H. Netter, School of Medicine
Quinnipiac University

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“The original and consistent opinion of Mikheil (Mkhako) Tsereteli about the nation as a hyper organism, about the state and homeland on the example of every nation, state and ethnos is not known apart from the narrow circle of specialists. In this perspective, his book Nation and Mankind is a masterpiece which should have been initially attainable both to the international scientific world and the broader audience interested in the creation, viability, functions and changes of the national and social organisms. The book is a sociological analysis written in the beginning of the XX century about sociological phenomena of different cultures, religions, and languages gaining the national color within each nation. It can be boldly said that the sociological science worldwide is flawed without considering this analysis. His aim was to protect the nation’s rights. The right of existence and immunity, universal and just equality, the right to establish a state of some form, the right of finding justice before the society of societies and equal and fair obligations before it these are the rights of a nation (Chapter 10, p.188). At the same time, the book gives the full picture of social creativity of humankind at the beginning of the XX century and the contribution of the Georgian nation as a national-social organism to the fund of mankind. If Nation and Mankind had been translated into different languages at the time of its creation, it would have become a deskbook for academic circles as well as for politicians and literate world.”
Inga Ghutidze
PhD in Philology, Professor

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This book is a concise historical insight into how the British economy developed and expanded from the Industrial revolution to date. Maurice also manages to portray the important political decisions mentioned in his book and illustrate the importance of such decisions on British society and the economy. It is an exquisite joy to read, and provides the reader with so much knowledge.
Mark Attard Montalto B.A. LL.D., M.Jur (Eur.Law)

There is a tendency among historians to downplay the role that economics play in historical events and their evolution. Yet, economic factors have been the catalyst sustaining revolutions. This study by Professor Mullard is, therefore, of huge importance because it demonstrates the interlink between economics and politics as it traces British and American history since the Industrial Revolution.
Godfrey A. Pirotta
Professor of Government and Policy Studies
Chairperson Mediterranean Diplomatic Academy
University of Malta
Malta

I have now had a chance to read through a couple of the chapters, Chapter 2 The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Chapter 3 Economics and Politics in 19th Century America. There is some really interesting material here, great breadth and the individual stories are compelling. The material in the chapters is very broad…covering a huge range which is very impressive

Professor Andrew Gamble
Professor of Politics University of Sheffield
Professor Emeritus University of Cambridge

“KJ Lee had an inauspicious start as a young child growing up in war-torn Malaya. Despite this he rose to the heights of great esteem and acclaim that he earned along the path to manhood and sage-status in the United States of America. One almost immediately senses in the book an elusive and driven quality in him as a very young man who was destined to change the imperfect world that was handed to him. He did this not for him alone, but for all he would meet along the way. His physical and emotional journey takes him beyond the security and comforts of family and familiarity. It takes him across the world while a mere teenager alone on a ship; not to seek his fortune but to create it. Despite now being world renowned as a scholar, a writer, a professor, an innovator and inventor, as well as an acclaimed surgeon, he is a humble, unassuming, kind and gracious man.”READ MORE…– Dr. Stephanie Paulmeno, President: Connecticut Nurses Association, President: Communities 4 Action, Chairman of the Board: The Patient is U Foundation, Inc.

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“The book Adolescent Dating Violence, with recourse to current scientific contributions, invites us to reflect on the new challenges of the 21st century, which have perpetuated a violence without temporal or geographical limits among adolescents. Dating violence, as an important predictor of domestic violence, requires urgent preventive measures, which are developed in this important editorial initiative…”READ MORE…– Mauro Paulino, Coordinator of Mind – Institute of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal

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“This book provides a lot of information about salaries, taxation, public spending, and exchange rates, among others, during Alexander the Great’s (356-323 B.C.) campaign in Asia. It is a very interesting read and an excellent source for economists, political scientists, policy makers, and historians. It is also a fascinating read for everyone who is interested in understanding one of the most important periods in human history. Dr. Kallianiotis, who is an expert both in public finance and in Greek history, is doing a great job in providing all the economic data and explaining how Alexander the Great spread, through his campaign, the Hellenic breakthroughs in science, philosophy, literature, medicine, and mathematics, among others, to most of the known world.” – Dr. Christos Pargianas, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Scranton, PA, USA

“Dr. Kallianiotis combines in a unique way different historians’ views in order to explain the Hellenic values. This book is an excellent source for economists, political leaders, policy makers, and historians as it addresses various aspects of the Alexander’s political history and economic policy with its surpluses. It also provides information on numismatics (currency, coins, and their values) which is important in facilitating price comparisons and exchange rates with respect to the U.S. dollar and the Greek drachma. Dr. Kallianiotis, who is a professor in finance, has done a superb job in providing us with the foundations and historic lessons from the Hellenic Studies in order to address today’s economic and social issues.” – Dr. Iordanis Petsas, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Scranton, PA, USA

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“This book offers an impressive geographical coverage of the ways intercultural education has been conceptualised, practiced and debated across the world. It critically assesses the potential and limits of interculturalism as a policy framework for governing diversity and as a pedagogical tool. A true reference for anybody interested in the central question of our time: how to live together in diversity?” – Marco Antonsich, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England

“Intercultural Education: Critical Perspectives, Pedagogical Challenges and Promising Practices, edited by Cinzia Pica-Smith, Carmen N. Veloria, and Rina Manuela Contini, provides a strong international sense of how interculturality manifests in different educational contexts. The efforts at promoting intercultural understandings stands to benefit humanity by ensuring less social strife and perhaps enabling increased opportunities for all. This work captures well the combination of points of view from different points-of-view and spaces… Read more at >>>“– Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2021 / Winter 2022).

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