Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Preface -- Introduction -- Human performance -- Cognition, perception and action -- Understanding pressure -- Decision-making under pressure -- The role of emotion in performance -- Resilience -- Aging and experience -- Confidence -- Psych…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
"From a longtime disability rights activist comes this moving window into the lives of people with disabilities and the lessons they can teach us .... Told through one hundred short, funny, harrowing, and thought-provoking stories, the book distills ten key lessons that reveal p…
I develop and argue for a new intentionalist theory of the speech act of singular reference. Specifically, I propose a Gricean theory of pragmatic competence within which referential competence can be identified and explained. I argue that combining insights from theories of mec…
Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. Working on the premise that the way we develop organisations depends heavily on how we organise and live our lives, the authors explore alternative methods.
Constructed around five major themes--play, organization, self, emergence, and coherence--this book offers a vigorous, path-breaking application of findings from the cutting edge of science to questions about how to live a life (Publishers Weekly). 24 photos.
Best-selling author Louise L. Hay has spent her life teaching people that their thoughts create their lives, and she has written numerous books for adults that have helped them discover their own self-worth. Similarly, Louise has always believed that if children could learn the …
"A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or s…