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1 online resource. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life / Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore -- 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line / Kathleen Stewart -- 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement / Rebecca Cassidy -- 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport / Laura H. Mentore -- 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province / Nicholas J. Long -- 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery / Joanna Cook -- 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices / Olga Solomon -- 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money / Sarah F. Green -- 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam / Susan Bayly -- 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb / Peter Demerath -- 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory / Signithia Fordham -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Achievement motivation -- Social aspects.
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Academic achievement -- Social aspects.
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Ethnology.
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| Added Author |
Long, Nicholas J.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781782382201 1782382208 (DLC) 2013020237 |
| ISBN |
9781782382218 (electronic bk.) |
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1782382216 (electronic bk.) |
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9781782382201 |
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1782382208 |
| OCLC # |
EBC1564649 |
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