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The Myth of the Spoiled Child by Alfie Kohn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alfie Kohn [Kohn, Alfie]

CHAPTER 7 Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated A Closer Look at Grit, Marshmallows, and Control from Within There’s not much mystery about the purpose of punishments and rewards: They’re generally intended ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching October 4,2017 )
War And Anti War by Alvin Toffler; Heidi Toffler
epub |eng | 1993-10-03 | Author:Alvin Toffler; Heidi Toffler

i - PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS O NE OF THE THINGS the introduction of a new war-form does is profoundly upset existing military balances. That is exactly what happened in the ...
( Category: Military October 3,2017 )
Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Edward Glaeser

What’s Wrong with Sprawl? In the nineteenth century, economics drove the growth of America’s cities. People moved to places, like Chicago, that were economic engines. In the twentieth century, an ...
( Category: Sociology October 3,2017 )
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Julie Salamon

Eight No Margin, No Mission From: Lillian Fraidkin, Senior Vice President & Chief of Staff Date: December 29, 2005 Subject: Budgetary Restrictions Please be advised that due to major budgetary ...
( Category: Administration & Medicine Economics October 3,2017 )
Tokyo From Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City by Edward Seidensticker; Donald Richie; Paul Waley
mobi |eng | 2010-12-10 | Author:Edward Seidensticker; Donald Richie; Paul Waley

Entrance to the new subway in Asakusa The subway company put up high buildings at each of its two original terminuses, Asakusa and Ueno. (For the Asakusa terminus, see page ...
( Category: Sociology October 3,2017 )
Capitalism by Geoffrey Ingham
epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Geoffrey Ingham

Some early family capitalists attempted to extend capital’s control over labour beyond their firm’s gates. In 1853, for example, Sir Titus Salt built a large textile factory and a small ...
( Category: Sociology October 2,2017 )
Palestinians in Syria by Anaheed Al-Hardan
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Anaheed Al-Hardan

SORROWFUL REGRET The Arabic word hasra and its verb tahasara entail both sorrow and regret. I therefore translate hasra as “sorrowful regret.” Later in the interview with Ahlam, I probed ...
( Category: Middle East October 2,2017 )
A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America by Keith P. Feldman
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Keith P. Feldman [Feldman, Keith P.]

The (Connecting) Link Between Framing the dissonance between Arab and American as “between worlds” has another genealogy that Said never substantively engaged, yet its presence indelibly marks the contingent relation ...
( Category: World October 2,2017 )
The Truth About Selma: What Happened When the Cameras Left and the Marching Stopped by Kersey Paul
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-01-13 | Author:Kersey, Paul [Kersey, Paul]

In the real world, those white police who dared stand athwart history on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and try and beat back Martin Luther King and his freedom marchers are ...
( Category: Sociology October 2,2017 )
Too High to Fail by Doug Fine
epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Doug Fine

TWENTY-ONE How a Plastic Zip Tie Undergoes a 50,000 Percent Markup and Becomes an Insurance Policy The amount of marijuana available for distribution in the United States is unknown; an ...
( Category: Industries September 30,2017 )
Jerusalem Unbound by Dumper Michael;
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Dumper, Michael; [Dumper, Michael]

5 JERUSALEM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHAT PROSPECT OF PEACE? RUNNING AND DIVIDED cities are not an obvious mix. However, during the course of my research for the Conflict in ...
( Category: World September 29,2017 )
iGen by Jean M. Twenge
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean M. Twenge

Sex in the Tinder Generation In 2015, a Vanity Fair article announced that Tinder and other hookup apps had created a “dating apocalypse.” It was now the norm, it declared, ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 29,2017 )
Collecting the World by James Delbourgo
epub |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:James Delbourgo [Delbourgo, James]

By the time he composed his autobiography decades later, completed and published in the course of the American Revolution, Franklin had made his life into a parable of self-making to ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2017 )
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Tom Nichols [Nichols, Tom]

I UNFRIEND YOU Learning new things requires patience and the ability to listen to other people. The Internet and social media, however, are making us less social and more confrontational. ...
( Category: Sociology September 28,2017 )
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Bruder

* He’s not the first down- on- his- luck person to consider that. Hawaii’s largest homeless shelter operator, the Institute for Human Services, gets between 100 and 150 calls and ...
( Category: Human Resources September 28,2017 )

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