Author: Seppo Luhtala
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH
Keywords: success, world, class, athletes, pain, motivation, distance, runners, century, top
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-05
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 184126069X
ISBN-13: 9781841260693

In this work, the greatest stars of distance running reveal their vast experience for the young generation. The volume seeks to be a valuable addition to the ordinary training manuals by bringing a human substance to the mechanical part of training. There are no external comments whatsoever in the book’s pages; all the comments come from the athletes, who reveal their attitudes towards training and racing.

Authors:William R. Miller, Harold D. Delaney,
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keywords: nature, motivation, change, human, psychology, christian, perspectives, judeo
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1591471613
ISBN-13: 9781591471615

This volume is a further step in the dialogue between psychology and religion. The central question is how psychology’s understanding of human nature might be informed, altered, or expanded by historic Judeo-Christian perspectives. A majority of the U.S. clients that most psychologists serve are religious (primarily Judeo-Christian) in some sense, whereas psychologists tend to be among the least religious of any professional or scientific group. Thoughtful reflections on the interface of psychology with the dominant religious perspective of our culture, by well-respected senior scientist

Authors:Toby Greany, Jill Rodd,
Publisher: Network Continuum Education
Keywords: raising, standards, motivation, morale, practice, research, learning, learn, school, creating
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1855391864
ISBN-13: 9781855391864

Creating a learning to learn school is a book for heads, senior managers and teachers interested in developing better schools, classrooms and learners. The book sets out: why ’learning to learn’ is important; the implications of learning to learn for the government’s educational reforms; what is meant by learning to learn; the findings from the Campaign for Learning’s learning to learn research project; how heads and teachers can develop learning to learn in their own schools. Click here to access the colour poster Do you know how you learn best? This sets out the 5Rs f

Authors:Ruth Kanfer, Gilad Chen, Robert D. Pritchard,
Publisher: Routledge Academic
Keywords: organizational, frontiers, series, siop, future, motivation, past, present, work
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0805857451
ISBN-13: 9780805857450

This edited volume in SIOP’s Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors and authors show that motivation must be seen as a multi-level phenomenon where individual, group, organizational and cultural variables must be considered to truly understand it. The book adopts an overall framework that encompasses "internal" - from the person - forces and "external" - from th

Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Keywords: getting, right, things, motivation, insight, drucker, days, daily
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2004-10-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0750665998
ISBN-13: 9780750665995

A powerful new learning tool for the ambitious, self-directed manager, entrepreneur, or business person today, "The Daily Drucker" distils the essence of management guru Peter F. Drucker’s teachings in an easy-to-access, daily calendar format. It presents in organized form: a key statement of Druckers, followed by a few lines of comment and explanation, with topics ranging across a great many fields of his work: management, business and the world economy; a changing society; innovation and entrepreneurship; decision-making; and, the changing workforce and the non-profit and their managem

Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Keywords: getting, right, things, motivation, insight, drucker, days, daily
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-10-26
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060742445
ISBN-13: 9780060742447

Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year. These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker’s lifetime of work.

Authors:Zoltan Dörnyei, Ema Ushioda,
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: language, acquisition, second, identity, motivation
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1847691277
ISBN-13: 9781847691279

With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity.