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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has written 34 work(s)
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780671894801 | Abridged edition (Nightingale Conant Corp, June 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Providing an introduction to 'flow,' a new field of behavioral science that offers life-fulfilling potentialities, this study explains its principles and shows how to introduce flow into all aspects of life, avoiding the interferences of disharmony.
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Hardcover:
9780275947699 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1994, cover price $64.00
Paperback:
9780275947750 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1994, cover price $31.95
The author of Flow demonstrates how, with a scientific base to morality, we can transcend cultural and evolutionary programming and become more complex, integrated individuals, working for the common good. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Hardcover:
9780060166779 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author demonstrates how, with a scientific base to morality, we can transcend cultural and evolutionary programming and become more complex, integrated individuals, working for the common good
Paperback:
9780892361564 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, March 7, 1991, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life...read more
Paperback:
9780805807080 | Routledge, June 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life.
Product Description: Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life...read more
Hardcover:
9780805805529 | Routledge, June 1, 1990, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life.
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Paperback:
9780521438094 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1994), cover price $54.99
Product Description: To find out what teenagers' lives are like, two psychologists gave beepers to seventy-five adolescents, signaled them at random, and asked them to record their thoughts and feelings as they sat in classrooms, socialized with friends, and ate dinner with their families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780465006465, titled "Being Adolescent: Conflict and Growth in the Teenage Years" | Basic Books, March 1, 1984, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents the results of a unique study in which seventy-five teenagers were given electronic beepers and were asked to record their thoughts and feelings
Paperback:
9780465006458, titled "Being Adolescent: Conflict and Growth in the Teenage Years" | Reprint edition (Basic Books, October 8, 1986), cover price $26.50 | About this edition: To find out what teenagers' lives are like, two psychologists gave beepers to seventy-five adolescents, signaled them at random, and asked them to record their thoughts and feelings as they sat in classrooms, socialized with friends, and ate dinner with their families.
The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521239196 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 1981), cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment.
Paperback:
9780521287746 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $74.99
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