The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics: A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work ... History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

Science & Math

McLaughlin, Peter

Renn, Jürgen

Damerow, Peter

Freudenthal, Gideon

History & Philosophy

Springer

Thriving in today's high-pressure work world. Having fun in the midst of chaos. Unleashing the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise you need to maximize your performance at work. That's what CatchFire is all about. Forget struggling through your work day stressed out, tired, or scattered. To work at peak productivity today you need focus, flexibility, confidence, humor, and a balanced, healthy lifestyle. You need CatchFire. Written by top business consultant Peter McLaughlin, co-author of the highly acclaimed Mentally Tough, CatchFire presents a seven-step program that will ignite your enthusiasm, boost your productivity, and energize your performance at work. Based on scientific research, hundreds of interviews with successful executives, and a nationwide Professional Workforce Survey, this book offers proven strategies to revitalize your body and brain--and provides real-life examples of how individuals and corporations stay healthy, focused, and fun in the face of tough deadlines, heavy workloads, and continual changes. Using CatchFire, you'll learn how to ¸ Master the power of a positive mind-set ¸ Tailor a personal "energy zone" that keeps you focused and effective at work Adopt a high-performance diet and daily aerobic exercise to maximize health, confidence, and productivity ¸ Put humor and fun to work for you ¸ Take short, frequent breaks that rapidly recharge your battery ¸ Embrace problems by channeling tension into determination McLaughlin has already helped thousands of business leaders and their staff nationwide to increase their output and transform their lives. Now it's your turn. Read CatchFire and spark the flame of success today.

CatchFire

Business & Money

Fawcett

What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science that has occurred over the past fifty years. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the postwar literature on functional explanation. The book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

For years Peter McLaughlin has taken his business clients to sports practices -- not to watch the teams. but to watch, listen, and learn from the coaches giving feedback to their players. As Peter says in the book:
 "There's energy in the air and every bit is freighted with feedback. Feedback is constant and continuous, Feedback is the norm. Feedback is the environment." 
 That's just one of the many important messages in Peter Mclaughlin's Feedback Revolution. Peter draws upon real-world examples of effective feedback: sports, the habits of great leaders, and, surprisingly, Reality TV. (If you think about it, the best reality TV shows are built on platforms of performance followed by feedback. Ratings go through the roof -- and everyone but businesses and organizations are paying attention.)
 Changing that lack of attention to feedback into an enthusiasm for effective, candid, timely, positive feedback is why Peter has written this book.
 With more than twenty years of consulting and giving keynote speeches to every kind of company from Apple to Polo/Ralph Lauren, from IBM and Deloitte Consulting to Insurance and Financial Services firms, Peter knows first-hand that feedback up and down the management chain is the "Elephant in the room" of corporate culture.
 The revolution of the title is the change of mindset about feedback from negative, narrow and fearful to positive, broadening and motivating; from anxiety and stress to anticipation and optimism.
 Drawing upon business experience, as well as deep study in fields including neuroscience and Positive Psychology, generational and media studies and more, Peter has created a thorough handbook for revolutionizing your approach to giving and receiving feedback, and dramatically energizing your business teams as you do.
 Among the book's topics:
 • A Feedback Self-Assessment -- how well do you do when it comes to giving and receiving feedback?
 • Hundreds of practical, hands-on and ready-to-be-used pieces of advice: every chapter includes a section called Tips, Tools, &amp; Tactics which are exactly what they sound like. 
 • How to make feedback a constant presence, because unlike fine wine, feedback doesn't age well. Lessons in how to give and receive "feedback on the fly" as well as in more formal feedback and performance review sessions.
 • A breakthrough chapter examining the differences in how feedback is given and received by different generations: crucial knowledge for today's multi-generational workplace.
 • As the chapter on how to ask for feedback shows, "How'm I doing?" may be the most important question a manager can ask! 
 • The role of technology: how giving feedback by email needs a different approach than feedback delivered in person or by phone. ("The Gettysburg Address made a great speech, but would have been a lousy email.") 
 • Lessons in how to ensure that the giver of feedback is in a positive emotional state even when the feedback includes negatives. "Always put on your own oxygen mask first." (Get into the right emotional state before trying to help others.) 
 • The role of environment in feedback -- from feng shui to blood sugar levels, Feedback Revolution shows you how to achieve maximum impact with your feedback.
 • Overcoming feedback anxiety: how transforming your approach to feedback will also transform annual performance reviews from anxiety-producing obligations into lively and welcomed examinations of where your business and your team are headed, as well as where you have been. 
 As Tom Peters says "feedback is not for amateurs...it is a skill to be studied, practiced and mastered."
 Feedback Revolution is the essential guide to the most necessary, and the most overlooked or avoided, aspect of business communications today.

Feedback Revolution: -From Water Cooler Conversations To Annual Reviews -- HOW TO GIVE AND RECEIVE EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK!

Skills

Java Creek Publishing

Thriving in today's high pressure work world. Having fun in the midst of chaos. Unleashing the energy, enthusiasm, and enterprise you need to maximize your performance at work. That's what CatchFire is all about. Forget struggling through your workday stressed out, tired, or scattered. To work at peak productivity today you need focus, flexibility, confidence, humor, and a balanced, healthy lifestyle. 
Written by top business consultant, Peter McLaughlin, CatchFire presents a seven step program that will ignite your enthusiasm, boost your productivity, and energize your performance at work. Based on scientific research, hundreds of interviews with successful executives, and a Nationwide Professional Workforce Survey, this book offers proven strategies to revitalize your body and brain-and provides real life examples of how individuals and corporations stay healthy, focused, and fun in the face of tough deadlines, heavy workloads, and continual changes.

CatchFire : A 7 Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Performance

Management & Leadership

FitnessAge Media

The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.

Becoming the Customer Beyond the techniques, the methods, and the science of sales, is one great truth: become the customer. See the world through the eyes of your customers or prospects. Understand their deepest motivations. Decode their hidden signals. Speak to them in their language and you will establish better rapport and close more sales. Becoming the Customer draws from the worlds of professional sales, behavioral research, and subconscious influence, including Neuro-Linguistic Programming, body language and hypnosis. It teaches you how to establish trust, understand and overcome objections, utilize the timeless principles of influence, and sell to the unique personality, emotions, needs and desires of your customer. This underlying philosophy -- literally "becoming the customer" - is the key to hearing what your customers are truly saying, placing their interests above your own, and becoming an agent of their success and wellbeing. In this way, everyone wins. "Becoming the Customer is really about becoming a better salesperson. A trained hypnotist and an experienced salesman, Peter weaves both parts of his illustrious career into a cohesive picture, showing us an unconventional path to the fine art of selling." --Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There "Becoming the Customer should be right next to Daniel Pink's To Sell is Human on your bookshelf. Peter's unique perspective, deep understanding of customer psychology, and wealth of on-the-street selling experience will help you more fully understand your customer and exponentially increase your sales." --Wayne Breitbarth, author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success: Kick-Start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search "I highly recommend Becoming the Customer to anyone who wants to improve their sales skills and understanding of people and why they buy. Through simple but powerful techniques and principles, Peter will give you a competitive edge in your selling career. If you have been looking for how to take yourself or your organization to the next level in selling, this book is for you." -- Teri Yanovitch, author of Unleashing Excellence

Becoming the Customer: Empathy, Influence and Closing the Sale

Marketing & Sales

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Fifty years on, this superb and exciting book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against the black nationalist 'guerillas' by the security forces and the intensity of the fighting and courage of the participants will surprise and enthrall readers. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides but equally the protagonists were playing for very high stakes. But this is more than just a book on military operations. The Authors are able to provide expert analysis of the historical situation and examines events up to the present day, including Mugabe's operations against rival tribes and white farmers. For a thorough work on its subject this book cannot be bettered. Essential reading for those wishing to learn more about a counterinsurgency campaign. The ingenuity of the Rhodesian military fighting against overwhelming odds and restricted by sanctions is impressive but the outcome culminating in the Lancaster House Agreement was inevitable.

The Rhodesian War: Fifty Years On [From UDI]

History

Moorcraft, Paul

Africa

Pen and Sword Military

The groundbreaking look at Feedback and how this vital communications tool can be transformed to become the heart of a company's culture.

FEEDBACK REVOLUTION ILF edition

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics: A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work ... History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

CatchFire

What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

Feedback Revolution: -From Water Cooler Conversations To Annual Reviews -- HOW TO GIVE AND RECEIVE EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK!

CatchFire : A 7 Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Performance

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics: A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work ... History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

Becoming the Customer: Empathy, Influence and Closing the Sale

The Rhodesian War: Fifty Years On [From UDI]

FEEDBACK REVOLUTION ILF edition