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surveys show that recognition for a job well done ranks higher as a motivational factor than wages and job security

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--Joanna Bourke

Children will learn that they have unique gifts

Empire of Objects Tom Bie surveys show that recognition forAlthough understudied in the West, Iurii Trifonov was a canonical Soviet author whose lifetime spanned nearly the whole of the USSR's history and who embodied many of its contradictions. The son of a Bolshevik murdered on Stalin's orders, he wrote his first novel in praise of the dictator's policies. A lifelong Muscovite, he often set his prose in the Central Asian peripheries of the USSR's empire. A subtle critic of the communist regime, he