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Author: Barbara L. Schneider
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780300082753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fascinating account of how the lives and dreams of American teenagers have changed in the past 50 years" (Mihaly Csikszentmihali), this landmark study offers practical, specific advice about how parents and teachers can better direct and support adolescents.
Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-08-02
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0197538355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs. Ambition is a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has brought art, airplanes, and antibiotics, as well as wars, genocide, and despotism. This mixed record raises obvious concerns about how we can channel ambition in the most productive directions. In Ambition, Deborah L. Rhode offers a comprehensive and engaging survey of the topic that focuses in particular on the nature of ambition in contemporary American life. To do this, she first explores three central focuses of ambition-recognition, power, and money-and argues that an excessive preoccupation with these external markers for success can be self-defeating for individuals and toxic for society. She then shifts to discussing the obstacles to constructive ambition and the consequences when ambitions are skewed or blocked by inequality and identity-related characteristics such as gender, race, class, and national origin. Rhode further addresses the ways that families, schools, and colleges might play a more effective role in developing positive ambition. Finally, she examines what sorts of ambitions contribute to sustained well-being, such as building relationships and contributing to society, rather than chasing extrinsic rewards such as wealth, power, and fame. Drawing upon leading thinkers on the topic and contemporary social science research while laying out an agenda for how ambition can be better developed, Ambition will force us reconsider the factors that shape our ambitions, and whether those ambitions meet our deepest needs and highest aspirations.
Author: Jean M. Twenge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1476755566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in the 1980s and 1990s, Millennials are reshaping schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are tolerant, confident, open-minded, aand ambitious, but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful and anxious. And these children of the Baby Boomers are now feeling the effects of the changing job market -- even as they are affect change the world over."--Back cover.
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Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunning Times magazine explores training, from the perspective of top athletes, coaches and scientists; rates and profiles elite runners; and provides stories and commentary reflecting the dedicated runner's worldview.
Author: Tasha Strong
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780316229692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A girl is inspired by an ambitious woman to ponder the word and claim it for herself as well"--
Author: Hana Schank
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0525558853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"These are the 'know your value' conversations that we need to have. These women--their challenges, choices, and successes--are all of us." --Mika Brzezinski Over the last sixty years, women's lives have transformed radically from generation to generation. Without a template to follow--a way to peek into the future to catch a glimpse of what leaving this job or marrying that person might mean to us decades from now--women make important decisions blindly, groping for a way forward, winging it, and hoping it all works out. As they faced unexpectedly fraught decisions about their own lives, journalists Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace found themselves wondering about the women they'd graduated alongside. What happened to these women who seemed set to reap the rewards of second-wave feminism, on the brink of taking over the world? Where did their ambition lead them? So they tracked down their classmates and, over several hundred hours of interviews, gathered and mapped data about real women's lives that has been missing from our conversations about women and the workplace. Whether you're deciding if you should pass up a promotion in favor of more flex time, planning when to get pregnant, or wondering what the ramifications are of being the only person in your house who ever unloads the dishwasher, The Ambition Decisions is a guide to the changes that may seem arbitrary but are life defining, by women who've been there. Organized by theme, each chapter draws on real women's stories of facing down crisis, transition, and decision-making to illustrate broader trends Schank and Wallace observed. Each chapter wraps up with a useful bulleted list of questions to consider and tips to integrate that will guide women of all ages along the way to finding purpose and passion in work and life.
Author: Howard Gardner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 030019918X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply--some would say totally--involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "app-dependent" versus "app-enabled" and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era. Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations.
Author: Camasha M Cevieux
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf lifes' road had a manual, the Ambitious Collective seeks to be just that. Written in Chapter long unapologetic prose messages from the author; it establishes the rules of engagement of what Ambition serves you, can punish you and make you aware. The authors' colorful metaphors represent her own experiences offering the reader a guide while still leaving room for the reader to see themselves and their experiences in each. Most importantly, the Ambitious Collective is a book that challenges the reader to offer their presence to others and to forgive those unqualified as it prepares the next generation of the Ambitious Collective with the tools necessary to continue and champion the movement. A must read for young people to professionals, the Ambitious Collective seeks to be kept, passed on and discussed.
Author: Peter Dwyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1134516282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYouth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s. The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium.
Author: Shawn R. Hutchinson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2021-10-20
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1665541636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShawn’s desire to help others achieve success in life is deeply rooted in his approach to life, and his own success. Shawn’s message of making an impact through personal transformation inspired his latest book, The Secrets of the Ambitious Mind. This book challenges all people to activate their ambitious mind, cultivate change, and elevate their future. Often times the path to ones dream or life goal is not map out and presented to them. The Secret of The Ambitious Mind will serve as a powerful reminder that the only guarantee in life for your success is you. And so you must “ Make your mark, by creating your own path”.
