Human growth and development in children and young people: theoretical and practice perspectives

transformed, during the same period, by the same transformative force of computing? It is particularly welcome that the book includes a chapter on data protection, taking into account that the world’s first data protection law saw the light of day in the German state of Hesse, in 1970, and that German society is one of the most privacy-conscious in Europe (and possibly in the world?). Still, there is much to learn from this instructive monograph and it is interesting to note that the publisher offers a similar title on the history of computers in banking (Schmitt, Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft, 2021), comparing practices in saving banks in East and West from 1957 to 1991. Then we may perhaps hope that a social work title will emerge one day, possibly funded from the same research project of the Leibniz Centre for contemporary history research based at Potsdam University (?).