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Award-winning sportswriter Joan Ryan whisks readers from the sports
field to the research lab on an ambitious quest to understand the
seemingly indefinable phenomenon called team chemistry. Nearly ten
years in the making, Intangibles is packed with stories and
characters from the usually hidden subculture of locker rooms
worldwide, and threaded with fascinating insights about the human
mind and human relationships. Ryan pulls from a range of science
disciplines - neuroscience, sociology, psychology and more - to
debunk the notion that team chemistry is just a throwaway
explanation for every fun-loving, underdog team that wins. Instead,
she makes the case that team chemistry is a biological construct
with a single function: to elevate performance. Ryan introduces us
to the seven archetype characters who seem to emerge on almost
every team with good chemistry, and two outlier archetypes she
describes as 'Super-Carriers' and 'Super-Disruptors' of chemistry.
Along the way, the author finds herself having to challenge her
assumptions about situations and people, leading, for example, to
the surprising discovery that difficult star players are not the
Super-Disruptors one often imagines they are. She finds, too, that
dysfunctional, contentious teams that still manage to win do have
team chemistry, just a different variety. A ground-breaking
examination that promises to transform how sports and business
leaders think about high performance, Intangibles finally proves
how all of us affect one another, profoundly influencing who we are
and how we function within our own teams of colleagues, friends and
family.
Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, "The Water
Giver" is Joan Ryan's honest account of her doubts and mistakes in
raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal
accident gave her a second chance as a parent.
This study marks a major step in making collaboration between
seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality.
Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in
later life or even return to university after retirement. "Grey
Matters "is the result of a pilot project developed to study the
effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors. Because
the project was such a success, the authors were encouraged to make
their model available both to seniors interested in undertaking
their own research and to those hoping to involve seniors in
collaborative research. This guide provides a helpful framework for
making the most of research projects by and with seniors, including
sections on such techniques as narrative interviews, focus groups,
and surveys.
Joan Ryan and her research team have carefully documented Dogrib
traditional justice as it has been practised over the past century.
Relying upon information received from the elders of Lac La Martre,
Northwest Territories, they have unearthed a sophisticated body of
Dogrib law, the understanding of which has important implications
for contemporary ways in which the Dogrib people and the department
of justice can deal with social control. The material is organized
and presented in a way that makes it accessible to both Dene and
non--Dene readers alike. The methodology of the book is one of
"participatory action research," in which the community itself
owned and directed the research, training, and outcomes. By
exposing the very different values and legal systems of the Dene
and non--Dene, this book sets the framework for the possibility of
a Dene-controlled and culturally appropriate justice system. The
book will be of value to those interested in native
self--government, constitutional rights, and aboriginal law, as
well as to all those involved with First Nations peoples.
This reader contains a mixture of new narratives on suffrage,
together with reinterpretations of some long-established "truths"
about the campaign by British women for the vote. Some chapters
shift the focus from "the great and the good" based in London, and
explore the issues which motivated supporters in other parts of
Britain. Other chapters illuminate the lengths some men were
prepared to go to see women become voters - and the lengths others
were prepared to go to stop them. A variety of topics is covered by
the contributors, who include both established scholars and writers
relatively new to the field "A Suffrage Reader" provides an
opportunity to push back the boundaries of suffrage history,
enabling us to think again about the diverse and sometimes
contraditory motives for, and outcomes of, involvement in the long
campaign by women for the vote in Britain. The book also makes it
possible to pause and reflect upon recent developments in writing
on suffrage history, and the extent to which this has been bound up
with developing attitudes towards politics in the latter decades of
the 20th century.
When students need to review chapter material, the supplemental
Workbook provides a pen and paper method. Using objective questions
and activities, students can prepare for classroom instruction or
review for quizzes and tests.
When students need to review chapter material, the supplemental
Workbook provides a pen-and-paper method. Using objective questions
and activities, students can prepare for classroom instruction or
review for quizzes and tests. The Workbook also includes worksheets
for the Unit Projects.
PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY, Third Edition, covers the most current
and relevant financial topics that impact today’s students,
including budgeting, identity theft, saving, investing, risk
management, and careful use of credit. This text teaches students
how to plan and manage their personal finances; how to live a
financially successful life; and what their financial
responsibilities are as citizens. It is aligned with the Jump$tart
Coalition's National Standards for Personal Financial Literacy. The
personal focus of this course makes it relevant and meaningful to
those just starting down the path to personal financial
independence. MindTap for Personal Financial Literacy, Updated
Precision Exams Edition, 3rd edition is the digital learning
solution that helps teachers engage and transform today’s
students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic
assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time
course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn
cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and
memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap for this course
includes the full, interactive eBook as well as auto-graded reading
activities throughout the eBook for each lesson as well as student
tools like flashcards, practice quizzes, and auto-graded homework
and tests.
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