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No Contest : The Case Against Competition Paperback - 1992
by Alfie Kohn
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- Paperback
Updated for the 1990s, the award-winning book that stands as the definitive critique of competition. Kohn says that contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to "human nature", but actually poisons our relationships, damages our self-esteem, and holds us back from doing our best. Includes new matial on "cooperative learning" in the classroom. "By perceiving that cooperation is the answer, not competition, Alfie Kohn opens a new world of living".--Dr. W. Edwards Deming.
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- Title No Contest : The Case Against Competition
- Author Alfie Kohn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd, Revised
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1992
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0395631254I3N00
- ISBN 9780395631256 / 0395631254
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cooperativeness, Competition (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92026141
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.14
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Summary
No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers.