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Collaborative Leadership: Six Influences That Matter Most

Peter M. DeWitt - 2016 - Education - No preview available
Get the fuel you need to drive collaborative leadership in your school! What type of leadership do you practice? Many of us rely on transformational and instructional leadership. But there are advantages in applying a holistic angle including all ...

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

Diane Atkinson - 2018 - Social Science - No preview available
Almost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote--and this is their story. Britain's women's suffrage campaign began in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century ushered in a more militant ...

Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do Whar We Do

John Bargh - 2017 - No preview available
'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and Goliath The world's leading expert on the ...

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me!): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad ...

Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson - 2016 - Cognitive dissonance - No preview available
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why theparade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes?Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we seehypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we ...

Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

George E. Vaillant - 2015 - Psychology - No preview available
At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and ...

Creating Person-centred Organisations: Strategies and Tools for Managing ...

Stephen Stirk, Helen Sanderson - 2012 - Social Science - Limited preview
A guide for charities and private sector organisations in health and social care on how to become a person-centred organisation, which provides strategies and tools rooted in experience.

Loneliness: Human Nature And The Need For Social Connection

John T Cacioppo, William Patrick - 2009 - Family & Relationships - Limited preview
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for chronic loneliness--which he defines an unrecognized syndrome--and brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression. 12 illustrations.

The Time Paradox: Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage

Philip G. Zimbardo, John Boyd - 2010 - Self-Help - No preview available
Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In fact, time gives direction and depth to our lives ...

Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women

Joyce Marlow - 2017 - History - No preview available
Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870 It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting ...

Positive Psychology In A Nutshell: The Science Of Happiness: The Science of ...

Boniwell, Ilona - 2012 - Psychology - Limited preview
"The best general introduction to positive psychology available." Dr Alex Linley, University of Leicester, UK "Dr Ilona Boniwell is recognized as Europe’s leading researcher, innovator and thinker in the expanding world of positive psychology ...