Download or read book How Confidence Works written by Ian Robertson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brilliant ... it will change how you think about confidence.' Johann Hari 'Important for everyone but crucial for women.' Mary Robinson 'Interesting and important.' Steven Pinker __________ Why do boys instinctively bullshit more than girls? How do economic recessions shape a generation's confidence? Can we have too much confidence and, if so, what are the consequences? Imagine we could discover something that could make us richer, healthier, longer-living, smarter, kinder, happier, more motivated and more innovative. Ridiculous, you might say... What is this elixir? Confidence. If you have it, it can empower you to reach heights you never thought possible. But if you don't, it can have a devastating effect on your future. Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen. Exploring the science and neuroscience behind confidence that has emerged over the last decade, clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson tells us how confidence plays out in our minds, our brains and indeed our bodies. He explains where it comes from and how it spreads - with extraordinary economic and political consequences. And why it's not necessarily something you are born with, but something that can be learned.
Download or read book The Filing Cabinet written by Craig Robertson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.
Download or read book The Works of Wm Robertson written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Wm Robertson D D written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of William Robertson written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire written by Stewart J. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of William Robertson, a leading figure in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
Download or read book Robertson s Book of Firsts written by Patrick Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely unlike any encyclopedia before it, The Book of Firsts is the product of decades of archiving and research from the incredible Patrick Robertson. For many years the proprietor of a stock photo archive and collector of all forms of ephemera, Robertson boasts a library that includes ads, clippings, and archival materials going back well over 100 years. In this amazing work, Robertson indexes and describes the things he considers socially relevant, such as the first black head of a white government (it's not who you think), the first baby carriage, and the first department store. He writes about all this with an unparalleled knowledge and impossible-to-fake fluency with a staggering number of subjects. What's more, Robertson renders this massive reference with subtle but distinctive humor, and an eye for fascinating detail. Every entry in this book includes a first time in America, and many also have firsts from elsewhere in the world. With a handsome design and an oversized trim, this will be both a groundbreaking work of reference and a beautiful gift for trivia heads.
Download or read book The Principal Dramatic Works of Thomas William Robertson written by Thomas William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J M Robertson written by Odin Dekkers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, J. M. Robertson: Rationalist and Literary Critic is a study of the life of one of the most erudite and prolific critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Scotsman John MacKinnon Robertson (1856-1933), rationalist and enemy of religion to the core, published over one hundred books and thousands of articles in fields as diverse as sociology, economics, history, anthropology, biblical criticism and literary criticism. This once widely known (and feared!) author was all too quickly forgotten after his death and his work is now seldom read. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Robertson’s writings and in particular his acute and powerful literary criticism – much respected by T. S. Eliot – have not lost their relevance for late twentieth century readers. Moreover, through the examinations of Robertson’s work in its contextual framework, this study provides a wide-ranging perspective on the late-Victorian literary scene, which perhaps present-day literary historians have not given the detailed attention it deserves.
Download or read book The Works of William Robertson D D written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of William Robertson to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart With a Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Wm Robertson An Essay on the Life and Writings of William Robertson With Plates Including Portraits written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Directory for Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The works of William Robertson D D To which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author by Dugald Stewart etc written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of W Robertson written by William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angus Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books 19301970 written by Jason D. Ensor and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970’ traces the history of the printed book in Australia, particularly the production and business context that mediated Australia’s literary and cultural ties to Britain for much of the twentieth century. This study focuses on the London operations of one of Australia’s premier book publishers of the twentieth century: Angus & Robertson. The book argues that despite the obvious limitations of a British-dominated market, Australian publishers had room to manoeuvre in it. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom. This book is the answer to the current void in the literary market for a substantial history of Australia’s largest publisher and its role in the development of Australia’s export book trade.
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