Chris Pannell

From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-the-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you. And Pink has discovered thirty years of scientific data that confirm these ideas and show an exciting way forward.As he did in his groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out the hard science for these surprising insights, describes how people and corporations can embrace such ideas (some of them are already doing it), offers details about how we can master them, and provides concrete examples on how intrinsic motivation works on the job, at home, and in ourselves.This is a book of big ideas that explains how each of us can find the surest pathway to high performance, creativity, and even health and well-being.

Contains twenty-three poems. First publication by Canadian poet, who subsequently won the Acorn Plantos People's Poetry Award in 2010.

The Internet has over-filled our cups with information. If ignorance is bliss, are we still comfortable with knowing, or thinking we know so much? We’ve got plenty to take responsibility for: adverse climate, strife between nations, poverty, economic issues. Should we really be so proud of our technological accomplishments, given our limited life spans? What has happened to our relationship with the natural world? A Nervous City cruises around town and observes: it’s a watchful book -- in the first part we’re in Hamilton, mostly. In the second part, it’s our world of culture, our arts. In the last part we’re in both the historical past (Egypt, Rome, France) and also the present days of those places.