Bringing Out the Best in People
How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, Third Edition
By:
Aubrey C. Daniels
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 9781259644900
Publication Date: June 1, 2016
Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chairman of Aubrey Daniels International, and Founder of the Aubrey Daniels Institute. He and his consultancy have applied their proven behavioral performance management approach in hundreds of organizations worldwide.
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Cultural Foundations of Learning
Est and West
By:
Jin Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521768290
Publication Date: March 26, 2012
Jin Li is tenured Associate Professor of Education and Human Development at Brown University. Her research examines different cultural learning models and how such culturally based models shape children’s learning beliefs and achievement. She collaborates with researchers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the UK, Germany, Israel and the United States.
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Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
By:
David Sloan Wilson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300189490
Publication Date: January 13, 2015
David Sloan Wilson is president of the Evolution Institute and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at the University of Binghamton.
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Metaphors We Live By
By:
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 878-0-226-46801-3
Publication Date: April 15, 2003
George Lakoff is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of, among other books, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Moral Politics, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Mark Johnson is the Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Body in the Mind and Moral Imagination, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Johnson and Lakoff have also coauthored Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought.
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Natural Law and Natural Rights
Second Edition
By:
John Finnis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199599141
Publication Date: May 7, 2011
John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College. He is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Overload
How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
By:
Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691179179
Publication Date: March 17, 2020
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliate of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research and the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative.
Phyllis Moen is a McKnight Presidential Chair, professor of sociology, and director of the Life Course Center at the University of Minnesota. Her books include, most recently, Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose.
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Practical Wisdom
The Right Way to Do the Right Thing
By:
Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9781594485435
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
Barry Schwartz is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Paradox of Choice. A frequent lecturer at conferences (TED, Gel, etc) around the world, he is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, specializing in Psychology and Economics.
Kenneth Sharpe is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College where he teaches political philosophy, ethics, and political economy. His most recent book is Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial.
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The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle
Mirrors of Virtue
By:
Jiyuan Yu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415803052
Publication Date: June 16, 2009
Jiyuan Yu had been a member of the Philosophy Department of the University at Buffalo (SUNY) since 1997, and Director of the UB Confucius Institute since 2013. He had an international reputation for his work in ancient Greek philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy. He passed away in 2016.
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When More Is Not Better
Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
By:
Roger L. Martin
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 9781647820060
Publication Date: September 19, 2020
Roger L. Martin is Professor of Strategic Management, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where he served as Dean (1998–2013) and as Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute (2013–2019). In 2017 Thinkers50 named him the world’s #1 management thinker. He has published eleven books, as well as many Harvard Business Review articles.
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