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2016

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This book presents an ethical framework which evaluates the legitimacy of the practice of ghostwriting. It explores the connection between personal authenticity and the use of ghostwriters in corporate, political, legal, higher education, and scientific contexts. It then examines the history of ghostwriting as a professional practice and introduces a model for ethical analysis.In this book, the authors shrewdly address crucial ethical questions such as: When is it acceptable for a ...

Price$107.09 USD

Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority

"The Psychological Difference" in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich

2017

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Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority is the first collection of essays dedicated to the study and application of Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority—a new ‘wave’ within Analytical Psychology which pushes off from the work of C. G. Jung and James Hillman. The book reflects upon the notion of psychology developed by German psychoanalyst Wolfgang Giegerich, whose Hegelian turn sheds light on the notion of soul, or psyche, and its inner logic and ‘thought’, forming a ra...

Price$69.99 USD

1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

2024

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Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, 1650–1850 invites readers int...

Price$115.99 USD

The Leader's Practice Guide

How to Achieve True Leadership Success

2017

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Against the backdrop of accelerating change and global turbulence, good leadership is called for now more than ever. But what constitutes “good leadership”? Why do teams follow some leaders willingly and others only because there is no better alternative? What attributes do individual employees look for in their leader and what behaviors should leaders model to build effective performance and create lasting trust? How do elements like morality, perseverance, duty, innovation, compassion, p...

Price$9.99 USD

Fiddled out of Reason

Addison and the Rise of Hymnic Verse, 1687–1712

2019

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Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "hymnic" verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examines—Addison's St. Cecilia's Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto ...

Price$38.99 USD

Learning to Enjoy Literature

How Teachers Can Model and Motivate

2021

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Students will not become enthusiastic readers of literature from a teacher simply assigning reading tasks and assessing the completion of the tasks, especially when the assessment takes the form of threatened quizzes. Instead, as this book shows, teachers have an obligation to reveal to learners the procedures that skilled readers follow as they work with and enjoy literature and a further obligation to help learners to recognize some value in tackling complex works of literature....

Price$32.99 USD

Overcentralization in Economic Administration

A Critical Analysis Based on Experience in Hungarian Light Industry

2023

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Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openly criticized socialist central planning. In this work the distinguished economist János Kornai begins a lifelong study of the economic organization of centrally planned economies. Professor Kornai's aim in this book was to observe the reality of the working socialist system, and to draw conclusions that were not distorted by the laws of...

Price$34.19 USD

A Carpetbagger in Reverse

Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman

2024

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From Alabama to Congress—Arthur W. Mitchell’s fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the only Black member of Congress during his four terms of service from 1935 to 1943.Born to former enslaved people in Alabama in 1883, Mit...

Price$25.19 USD

Teaching Literature in High School

Principles into Purposeful Practice

2021

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In looking for an approach to teaching literature in high school, teachers largely fall back on the methods that they had experienced as students. These practices often involve a teacher assigning a complex work of literature and then assessing students’ reading through in-class recitations or quizzes. Teachers typically dominate the discourse and sometimes take charge of the task by reading aloud whole swathes of texts to their students. We know from our own experience as teachers, superv...

Price$30.99 USD

Make Time

How to Focus on What Matters Every Day


Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

2018

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**From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits).“If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit**Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got t...

Price$15.00 USD

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How to Make What People Want

2025

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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a guide for starting big projects the smart way—based on firsthand experience with more than three hundred new products and businesses.Every big project—whether it’s creating new technology, developing a fresh line of sneakers, or opening a neighborhood café—requires a major investment to get off the ground. Unfortunately, most big projects flop with customers. Too many teams waste time, money...

Price$16.99 USD

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How to Make What People Want

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

2025

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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a guide for starting big projects the smart way—based on firsthand experience with more than three hundred new products and businesses.Every big project—whether it’s creating new technology, developing a fresh line of sneakers, or opening a neighborhood café—requires a major investment to get off the ground. Unfortunately, most big projects flop with customers. Too many teams waste time, money...

Price$14.99 USD

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