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
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
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
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
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 Confusious and Aristotle
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
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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