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Willpower rediscovering the greatest human strength

Draws on a landmark study linking willpower to glucose levels, identifying the pivotal roles of healthy eating and sleeping in achieving personal goals while outlining strategic recommendations for establishing self-control habits.

Main Author:	Baumeister, Roy F.
Other Authors:	Tierney, John
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Will. Self-control.
Online Access:	Go to Downloadable eBook Here.

Summary:	Draws on a landmark study linking willpower to glucose levels, identifying the pivotal roles of healthy eating and sleeping in achieving personal goals while outlining strategic recommendations for establishing self-control habits.
Physical Description:	291 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1594203075 : HRD 9781594203077 : HRD
Author Notes:	Roy F. Baumeister is the Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton in 1978 and did a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Baumeister has worked at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the University of Texas, University of Virginia, Max-Planck-Institute, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Baumeister's has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and from the Templeton Foundation. His research spans the areas of self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression, self-esteem, meaning, and self-presentation. He is the author of nearly 400 publications. His books include Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty , The Cultural Animal , Meanings of Life and Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. (Bowker Author Biography)

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