Author: S. Chandrasekhar
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: science, motivations, aesthetics, beauty, truth
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1990-10-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226100871
ISBN-13: 9780226100876

"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."--Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature

Author: David E. Lowes
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: histories, motivations, movements, dictionary, capitalist, anti
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-07-11
List price: $113.95
ISBN-10: 1842776827
ISBN-13: 9781842776827

The book is an alternative dictionary of politics. Organized in an easily accessible alphabetical format, it provides self-contained entries that introduce and explain concepts and issues that are important to the anti-capitalist movement. It demonstrates how the meaning and relevance of some of these have changed over time and illustrates a linkage between past and present activity that might be unfamiliar to people who are involved or interested in the current movement.The book is an alternative dictionary of politics. Organized in an easily accessible alphabetical format, it provides self-c

Authors:Cindy M. Meston, David M. Bu,
Publisher: Times Book
Keywords: adventure, revenge, everything, motivations, sexual, sex, understanding, women
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805088342
ISBN-13: 9780805088342

An unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women’s sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America’s leading research psychologists Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide women’s sexual decisions and explain the deep-s

Authors:Christopher G. Pernin, Brian Nichiporuk, Dale Stahl,
Publisher: Rand Corp
Keywords: implications, army, prospects, motivations, future, war, unfolding
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0833046314
ISBN-13: 9780833046314

Author: Zoltan Dornyei
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: language, learning, research, applications, series, theory, advances, orientations, attitudes, motivations
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-18
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 140511116X
ISBN-13: 9781405111164

Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses motivation in language learning - motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation. Discusses and dissects the intriguingly complex characteristic of motivation in the process of language learning. Explores recent developments and the most important research directions in the field, including a selection of data-based studies by some of the best-known motivation researchers.