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Author: Joanne Barkan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780794412319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes lift-up flaps, a pull-out card, sliding tabs, a fold-out page, and textured illustrations.
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844035137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat were the first words spoken on the telephone? How did Frank Epperson accidentally invent the first ice lolly? Who queued all night ot make sure he got Britain's first number plate, 'A1'? The Book of Firsts describes the first instance of something happening. It is a painstakingly researched encyclopaedia of ground-breakin ginnovations and chievements. It provides the dates, details and the stories of the remarkable minds and personalities behind humankind's greatest milestones. It is packed with facts, photographs and pictures. As the story of each first unfolds, tales of other firsts that were made possible by this 'first first' are told. The book covers technical innovations, huamn endeavours, sporting greats, political milestones, cultural breakthroughs, medical achievements, and food and drink. Each story will delight and amaze, describin gand illustrating firsts ranging from the genuinely important (the first heart transplant) to the trivia beloved of quiz shows and dinner parties - the first item to be sold using a bar code was a packet of Wrigley's chewin gum, sold at 08.01 on 26th June 1974 in Ohio.
Author: Charles Murray
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 0061745677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
Author: Justine Toh
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Published: 2021-08
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ISBN-13: 9780647531327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you an achievement addict? It's hard not to be one given our collective obsession with success.Students fear that the ATAR will sum up not just their schooling career, but also their individual worth. Australians aren't just mad for sporting victory - skyrocketing house prices show we're equally hooked on owning property. Then there are the furious work habits of Silicon Valley CEOs, violin prodigies, and tiger mums.Why do we constantly strive for our significance - and could you quit the habit if you tried?
Author: George Nesty
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-04-26
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren often experience strong and sudden bursts of emotion. Learning how to manage their emotions in a healthy way is essential for their social development as well as their own wellbeing. Helping your child navigate their emotions can feel like an enormous challenge, but it doesn't have to be: "Two Monsters and Me" is here to help! In this self-help book for kids, Milo and two friendly monsters learn about anger, self-control, and manners while playing together and tackling common, everyday challenges. The book offers practical solutions for parents on how to calm and redirect their child's anger, as well as how to help them understand and manage this emotion. Self-regulation and tolerance are essential social skills and will improve your child's emotional health. Using fun and simple activities, this anger management picture book for children helps you teach your child how to recognize and cope with anger. While reading together, you will teach your toddler how to manage their anger in a healthy, positive way, and help your child grow confident and self-assured. Why is "Two Monsters and Me" a perfect choice for kids aged 4 to 8?
Author: Douglas Fisher
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1416614567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo school improvement effort can be effective without addressing school culture, and in this book you'll learn how to put in place the five pillars essential to building a culture of achievement.
Author: Brian Tracy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-06-07
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1439126275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian Tracy is one of the world's leading authorities on success and personal achievement, addressing more than 100,000 men and women each year in public and private seminars. In Maximum Achievement, he gives you a powerful, proven system -- based on twenty-five years of research and practice -- that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life. You learn ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. You learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness. You will immediately become more positive, persuasive, and powerfully focused in everything you do. Many of the more than one million graduates of the seminar program upon which this book is based have dramatically increased their income and improved their lives in every respect. The step-by-step blueprint for success and achievement presented in these pages includes proven principles drawn from psychology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, politics, history, and metaphysics. These ideas are combined in a fast-moving, informative series of steps that will lead you to greater success than you ever imagined possible -- they can raise your self-esteem, improve personal performance, and give you complete control over every aspect of your personal and professional life.
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lauren Hunter (Poet)
Publisher: Birds
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9780991429851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Art. "HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS is full of friends, aching, bleeding, feeling fine, the city, and listening. You know the right song can change everything, and can be a conduit for energy or rage? 'I look the day right in the eye and tell it to go fuck itself.' The right song can also turn you into a ghost." -- Amy Lawless "I feel so happy about this book of poetry by Lauren Hunter, 'this unremarkable bloom' whose key words are 'human' and 'achievement.' At a time when human is being cast as 'without anything,' Hunter's poems remind us that efforts toward beauty, toward imperfect and beautiful thinking, is to be in an actual 'human' place, and that the reason one goes there is in order to love. HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS and the poetry writing it will inspire in me and others will be a barricade against the rapid loss of the human I crave, the human that I've taken pleasure in, a human that, without the defense of poets like Lauren Hunter, is ever, in every nanosecond, accelerating toward extinction." --Rachel Levitsky
Author: Gwen Bradford
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0198714025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the magisterial to the mundane, achievements play a role in the best kind of human life, and many people think that they are of such importance that they are worth pursuing at the expense of serious sacrifices. Yet for all that, no philosophers have devoted more than a few short passages to discerning what makes achievements valuable, or even what makes something an achievement to begin with. Gwen Bradford presents the first systematic account of what achievements are, and what it is about them that makes them worth doing. It turns out that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and that what makes them valuable isn't something we usually think of as good. It turns out that difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements and their value: achievements are worth the effort. But just what does it mean for something to be difficult, and why is it valuable? A thorough analysis of the nature of difficulty is given, and ultimately, the best account of the value of achievements taps into perfectionist axiology. But not just any perfectionist theory of value will do, and in this book we see a new perfectionist theory developed that succeeds in capturing the value of achievement better than its predecessors.
