Strategic Human Resource Management: A Reader, contains 24 articles that describe the field of managing human resources strategically.

Strategic Human Resource Management

Business & Money

Jackson, Susan

Schuler, Randall S.

Economics

Wiley/Blackwell

The experience of flow is still one of the least understood phenomena in sport. And yet it is one of the richest, most memorable experiences an athlete will ever know.
Some call it a natural high. Others refer to it as being in a zone. Whatever it's called, flow is an elusive and very sought-after psychological state that athletes, coaches, and sport psychologists have tried to understand, harness, and employ to their benefit since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first coined the term back in the early 1970s. 
Now, in the first book devoted exclusively to flow in sports, the pioneering legend Csikszentmihalyi and sport psychology researcher Susan Jackson attempt not only to explain the phenomenon but also to identify the key conditions associated with its occurrence.
The book begins with a description of what flow is and is not. Flow is defined as a person's total absorption into an activity. While it is always a peak, satisfying experience, it is not necessarily associated with peak performance on every occasion. 
Most of the book delves deeply into the key factors leading up to and accompanying the flow experience. The authors also recommend certain actions on the part of the athlete or coach to optimize the conditions in training and performance that allow flow to occur. The book is full of vivid examples, captivating quotes, and revealing research findings that enhance the authors' clear and insightful text. 
The sport setting is rife with opportunities to experience flow-be it in pick-up games or the Olympics. But until now, flow has been an infrequent, accidental, and even mysterious phenomenon to most athletes. With Flow in Sports, this optimal experience becomes both more familiar and more achievable. Get to know flow, and get into it. Find out what you've been missing.

Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály

Psychology & Counseling

Human Kinetics

Five years ago, Nick lost his brother, Josh, to the sea. But he never forgot him. Suddenly, a sandcastle-building, sand-spitting crab appears in Nick's life and takes him on a wondrous journey to a hidden island with beautiful creatures and the chance to get his family all together again. the crab share a secret with Nick, and tells him to never give up on what you want. He also shows him The Secret of Mermaid Island!

The Secret of Mermaid Island

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Journey Publications

Don’t lose your cool. Anger, hatred, loathing and all the negative effects of living out there in the world confront and confound all of us. They can make our lives miserable, or worse. Anger will lead even the coolest among us to making really bad decisions, into dangerous situations and even to consequences that can take years to get back under control.  But the science of anger management is advanced, it’s real and it’s available now.  This book is designed to provide:  • Comprehensive understanding of the sources, effects and consequences of mishandled anger  • Immediate and practical steps to relief, treatment and management, with no sacrifices • A thorough guide to integrating and better understanding all of the emotions • Care and counseling for life partners, family members – and the people around them • A clear path to healing, from abuse, loss and failure, be it perceived or in earnest.  Anger management techniques, courses and classes all lead back to individual responsibility. Healing from anger starts there too. Yet often, those suffering the most from mismanaged anger will not seek the help they need. This comprehensive guide makes a concise simple guide for the self-motivated or for the people most affected by the destructive effects of too much anger. Complete emotional health and wellbeing is not only fully realizable, it’s a tremendous relief and it’s a lot simpler than you might think. While anger or rage can multiply and infect all aspects of a person’s life and livelihood, it doesn’t have to. Often keenly intelligent, angry people are blunted from true growth and healing by the discouraging effects of anger, hatred, low self-esteem, and sometimes worse. This quick guide is designed to super-charge the healing process with practical, no-nonsense and straightforward answers to the most difficult questions surrounding an already difficult topic.  • Put shame, embarrassment and low self-esteem to rest, easily, and forever • Live more fully, by fully exploring and experiencing the range of emotions available • Stop acting on impulse and learn to better express emotions, as they emerge • Put aside what other people think or assume and live more fully, for yourself, and only for yourself • Manage annoyances, bad past decisions and mistakes, better, and starting today Readers learn to better mitigate negative influences and impulses, and quickly begin to make better decisions with regard to reactions, regrets and negativity. And they don’t need continual external pressure to do it. This is the guide to self-healing, and better accommodating all of your own experience, without reflection or regret, so that all of your decisions are better informed. Ultimately true anger management comes from the individual better able to feel and experience whatever the world comes up with.  While emotional health is not a well-explored topic for many readers, those who know that they or someone they love can benefit from better anger management will benefit ten-fold. Simple, clear and compassionate answers accompany multiple techniques, exercises and changes to lifestyle that actually work. Whether you’ve been recommended to look into anger management exercises, or you just think something is missing, this is the guide with the answers.  Anger management techniques don’t have to add further stress to emotional states that are already being tested. In fact, the solution should be quite the opposite. Compassionate, and full of complete adult-level understanding, this is the quickest and simplest anger management solution on the market. Easily readable and ready to solve even the most distressing of situations, getting started is easy – and this anger management solution really will last a lifetime.

The Smart & Easy Guide To Anger Management: The Self Help Solution For Managing Anger Problems In Relationships For Men, Women & Kids

Self-Help

Anger Management

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This is a story written from my journals. From immigrating as a four-year-old and trying to fit into a different culture to turning away from God in my teens. From a violent marriage doomed to fail and the death of my son, with the repercussions that followed. And yet, also between the lines, there is the joy and reverence for life itself. Making a lot of mistakes through life, I have learned not to give myself over to another set of values, or to another human being. It took me a long time to find myself and to love the person I was meant to be. I still have a lot to learn, even now, about love and how we are to address love and forgiveness in our lives. My story is a testimony to "the old truths." To me, it is a reminder not to make the same mistakes. In the end, it turned out to be not only the story of the first forty years of my life, but my spiritual journey as well. There are still thirty years of untouched journals...

The Little Aussie Battler

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Austin Macauley

A poetic meditation on life, loss, and legacy.\n“So what lasts?” asks the speaker in the poem “El Anatsui.” This is the central question of Susan Jackson’s new collection In the River of Songs. Jackson is a poet dedicated to exploring the mysteries of what it means to be fully human in a world where love, loss, pain, and joy are irrevocably nested together. These poems seem to answer that whatever does last is not easily defined; maybe only the intangible qualities of heart, perseverance, generosity of spirit, and moments when the poet is suddenly anchored in appreciation for “the ever-flowing fullness of the world.” Readers will be touched by the intimate beauty of the poems in this new volume.

In the River of Songs

Poetry

CavanKerry Press

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