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Author : Lina Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book New Ideas for Work and Play written by Lina Beard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lina Beard
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book New Ideas for Work and Play: What a Girl Can Make and Do written by Lina Beard and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'New Ideas for Work and Play: What a Girl Can Make and Do,' Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard present a pioneering collection that celebrates creativity, self-reliance, and the diverse capabilities of young women at the turn of the 20th century. With a rich array of projects ranging from simple handicrafts to more ambitious constructions, the anthology encapsulates a period of significant cultural and social transition, reflecting the evolving roles and perceptions of women in society. The variety of literary styles, from instructional prose to narrative storytelling, serves not only to instruct but also to inspire, highlighting the Beards' forward-thinking vision of female empowerment and independence. The Beards' backgrounds as founders of the first Girl Scouts of the USA troops in their area and their contributions as early leaders in promoting girls' self-sufficiency and creativity imbue the collection with historical and cultural significance. Their work is situated at the intersection of several important movements of their time, including the Arts and Crafts movement and the early waves of feminism. Together, their efforts represent a concerted push towards redefining the scope of women's achievements and aspirations. This collection is recommended for readers interested in exploring the rich tapestry of past gender roles, the history of youth education and empowerment, and the creative spirit. 'New Ideas for Work and Play' offers an inspirational glimpse into the past, encouraging modern readers to appreciate the progress made in gender equality and the perennial value of self-reliance and innovation.
Author : John M. A. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The ideas of work and play written by John M. A. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pete Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548398
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Win Forever written by Pete Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I know that I'll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was asked, 'Pete, which is better: winning or competing?' My response was instantaneous: 'Competing. . . because it lasts longer.'" Pete Carroll is one of the most successful coaches in football today. As the head coach at USC, he brought the Trojans back to national prominence, amassing a 97-19 record over nine seasons. Now he shares the championship-winning philosophy that led USC to seven straight Pac-10 titles. This same mind-set and culture will shape his program as he returns to the NFL to coach the Seattle Seahawks. Carroll developed his unique coaching style by trial and error over his career. He learned that you get better results by teaching instead of screaming, and by helping players grow as people, not just on the field. He learned that an upbeat, energetic atmosphere in the locker room can coexist with an unstoppable competitive drive. He learned why you should stop worrying about your opponents, why you should always act as if the whole world is watching, and many other contrarian insights. Carroll shows us how the Win Forever philosophy really works, both in NCAA Division I competition and in the NFL. He reveals how his recruiting strategies, training routines, and game-day rituals preserve a team's culture year after year, during championship seasons and disappointing seasons alike. Win Forever is about more than winning football games; it's about maximizing your potential in every aspect of your life. Carroll has taught business leaders facing tough challenges. He has helped troubled kids on the streets of Los Angeles through his foundation A Better LA. His words are true in any situation: "If you want to win forever, always compete."
Author : Adam L. Penenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101623020
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Play at Work written by Adam L. Penenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if we could tap into all the energy, engagement, and brainpower that people are already expending and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits? Harnessing the power of games sounds like a New-Age fantasy, or at least a fad that’s only for hip start-ups run by millennials in Silicon Valley. But according to Adam L. Penenberg, the use of smart game design in the workplace and beyond is taking hold in every sector of the economy, and the companies that apply it are witnessing unprecedented results. “Gamification” isn’t just for consumers chasing reward points anymore. It’s transforming, well, just about everything. Penenberg explores how, by understanding the way successful games are designed, we can apply them to become more efficient, come up with new ideas, and achieve even the most daunting goals. He shows how game mechanics are being applied to make employees happier and more motivated, improve worker safety, create better products, and improve customer service. For example, Microsoft has transformed an essential but mind-numbing task—debugging software—into a game by having employees compete and collaborate to find more glitches in less time. Meanwhile, Local Motors, an independent automaker based in Arizona, crowdsources designs from car enthusiasts all over the world by having them compete for money and recognition within the community. As a result, the company was able to bring a cutting-edge vehicle to market in less time and at far less cost than the Big Three automakers. These are just two examples of companies that have tapped the characteristics that make games so addictive and satisfying. Penenberg also takes us inside organizations that have introduced play at work to train surgeons, aid in physical therapy, translate the Internet, solve vexing scientific riddles, and digitize books from the nineteenth century. Drawing on the latest brain science as well as his firsthand reporting from these cutting-edge companies, Penenberg offers a powerful solution for businesses and organizations of all stripes and sizes.
Author : Lois Holzman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317384113
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Vygotsky at Work and Play written by Lois Holzman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vygotsky at Work and Play is an intimate portrayal of the Vygotskian-inspired approach to human development known as ‘social therapeutics’ and ‘the psychology of becoming’. Holzman provides an accessible, practical-philosophical portrayal of a unique performance-based methodology of development and learning that draws upon a fresh reading of Vygotsky. This expanded edition includes new content dealing with how Lev Vygotsky’s work can be applied to profound social issues of our times, including worsening police/community relations, authoritarianism in schools, the medical-model approach to social/emotional life, and the erosion of play in Western cultures. Holzman also weaves together Vygotsky’s discoveries with qualitative case studies from organizations that practice the approach in psychotherapy offices, classrooms, outside-of-school programs, corporate workplaces and virtual learning environments. The new edition of Vygotsky at Work and Play poses a practical-critical challenge to more traditional conceptions and methods of psychology and education, introducing performance as a new ontology and the author’s own activist research performance as a new way to do psychology. It is an essential read for researchers and professionals in educational and developmental psychology, psychotherapy, cultural historical activity, social science, performance studies and education.
Author : David D. Hamlin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472115884
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Work and Play written by David D. Hamlin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Justin Krebs
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602399824
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book 538 Ways to Live, Work, and Play Like a Liberal written by Justin Krebs and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets to leading a progressive life and why that s a good...
Author : Sandra Heidemann
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1933653736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Play written by Sandra Heidemann and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded version of Pathways to Play, the well-respected and relied-upon book, with additional theories
Author : Brigid Schulte
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826690
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Overwhelmed written by Brigid Schulte and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________________ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life – if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own “To Do” list' - Mail on Sunday ______________________ In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically (but surreptitiously) sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed. Realising she had become someone who constantly burst in late, trailing shoes and schoolbooks and biscuit crumbs, she began to question, like so many of us, whether it is possible to be anything you want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. So when Schulte met an eminent sociologist who studies time and he told her she enjoyed thirty hours of leisure each week, she thought her head was going to pop off. What followed was a trip down the rabbit hole of busy-ness, a journey to discover why so many of us find it near-impossible to press the 'pause' button on life and what got us here in the first place. Overwhelmed maps the individual, historical, biological and societal stresses that have ripped working mothers' and fathers' leisure to shreds, and asks how it might be possible for us to put the pieces back together. Seeking insights, answers and inspiration, Schulte explores everything from the wiring of the brain and why workplaces are becoming increasingly demanding, to worldwide differences in family policy, how cultural norms shape our experiences at work, our unequal division of labour at home and why it's so hard for everyone – but women especially – to feel they deserve an elusive moment of peace. ______________________ 'Every parent, every caregiver, every person who feels besieged by permanent busyness, must read this book' - Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All
Author : Alasdair Clayre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Work and play written by Alasdair Clayre and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Bogost
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096506
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Author : Horace Bushnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Work and Play written by Horace Bushnell and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jordan Collins
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780531132548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book It's Great to Work Together written by Jordan Collins and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the reader on how to work together in certain situations"--
Author : Pat Kane
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447207114
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Play Ethic written by Pat Kane and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. The Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives. Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished. The Play Ethic seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, The Play Ethic is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without. ‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, The Times
Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087404
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Play World written by Patricia Anne Simpson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
Author : FRANCES POWER COBBE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book HOURS OF WORK AND PLAY. written by FRANCES POWER COBBE and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
