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  • Elton Mayo

    The Humanist Temper

    The definitive biography of the life and work of Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is the first full, accurate account of the activities and intimate life of one of Australia and America's pioneering social scientists. Mayo, who established the scientifi c study of organizational behavior, was highly infl uential in American social science and business management theory, following his work at the Harvard ... Leer más

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  • The Equivalents

    A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Leer más

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  • Am I Normal?

    The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

    de Sarah Chaney ...
    *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour**A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****'Riveting' Mail on Sunday *****'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day'Compelling'... ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Communication Skills: How to Increase Your Reading Speed

    "An invaluable Guide to the art of rapid readingIn todays fast-moving world, time is always a problem. Yet we have to read in order to keep up with what is going on around the world. Speed reading is what will tide us over.In this book you will learn how to skim through the pages of a book, passing over what is unnecessary. You will also widen your span of recognition and comprehend all that is ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Donald Horne

    A Life in the Lucky Country

    de Ryan Cropp ...
    The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most ... Leer más

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  • The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation

    de Elton Mayo ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of eleven of the Economic and Society series. Including an appendix on the political problem, this book includes the thoughts of Elton Mayo, seen initially as a modern social thinker who challenges the basic assumptions of the practical world of industry ... Leer más

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  • A New History of Management

    Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of 'good management' derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on ... Leer más

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  • Both Hands

    A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press

    Series series BIO002000
    Editor and publisher, workaholic and romantic, idealist and pioneer, Lorne Pierce once described his editorial desk as "an altar at which I serve - the entire cultural life of Canada." Pierce laboured at his altar between 1920 and 1960 as the driving force behind Ryerson Press, the leading publisher of Canadian works during the mid-twentieth century. In Both Hands, Sandra Campbell captures the ... Leer más

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  • Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning

    Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive experimental school in Louisville that won the attention of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. ... Leer más

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  • "Keep the Damned Women Out"

    The Struggle for Coeducation

    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Illness

    The practice of medicine has advanced dramatically in recent years, but the language used to discuss illness – by medical practitioners, patients and carers – has not kept pace. As a result, clinicians and, just as importantly, patients and their relatives and carers, are not able to communicate clearly in relation to illness. The upshot is misunderstanding and confusion on all sides. In this ... Leer más

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