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Achievement / Gwen Bradford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradford, Gwen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achievement motivation.
- Performance.
- Success.
- Values.
- Performance technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gwen Bradford presents a systematic account of what achievements are, and why they are worth the effort. She argues that more things count as achievements than we might have thought, and offers a new perfectionist theory of value in which difficulty, perhaps surprisingly, plays a central part in characterizing achievements.
- Contents:
- Achievements: they're great- but what are they?
- Difficulty
- Competent causation
- The value of achievement
- The relative value of achievement
- Puzzles and games.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bradford, Gwen. Achievement.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-178247-5
- OCLC:
- 905691076
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