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  No Contest: Case Against Competition (Paperback) By (author) Alfie Kohn

  

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  Short Description for No Contest 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 answ
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Published: 01 January 1993
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Psychology | Philosophy & Theory Of Education | Business & Management | Business Ethics | Psychiatry | Advice On Careers & Achieving Success
  • ISBN 13: 9780395631256 ISBN 10: 0395631254
  • Sales rank: 102,278

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• 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.