This Clay Christensen's groundbreaking bestselling work in education is now updated and expanded, including a new chapter on Christensen's seminal 'Jobs to Be Done' theory applied to education. "Provocatively titled, "Disrupting Class" is just what America's K-12 education system needs - a well thou[...]

Sometimes in the smallest of boys, there beats the biggest of hearts. Eleven-year-old Herman is a normal boy. He's just starting to notice girls and, in turn, be noticed by them. He is not that different from other boys, until the day he wakes up to discover that he's losing his hair...all of it. Pr[...]

A complete and comprehensive theory of failure is developed for homogeneous and isotropic materials. The full range of materials types are covered from very ductile metals to extremely brittle glasses and minerals. Two failure properties suffice to predict the general failure conditions under all st[...]

Shows how software development can be "industrialized" using ObjectOry, a environment evolved for the development of large software systems with an object-oriented approach. It relies on three techniques: conceptual modelling, object-oriented programming, and a block-oriented design technique.[...]

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Self-reconfigurable robots are constructed of robotic modules that can be connected in many different ways. These modules move in relationship to each other, which allows the robot as a whole to change shape. This shapeshifting makes it possible for the robots to adapt and optimize their shapes for [...]

Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion and a positive attitude to the job every day. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager has the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Seattle's Pike Place Fish [...]

From the award-winning picture book biographer of Woody Guthrie comes the inspirational story of Nellie Bly. Born in 1864, during a time in which options were extremely limited for women, Nellie defied all expectations and became a famous newspaper correspondent. Her daring exploits included committ[...]

That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes--most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's "Comfort Me with Apples" and Gabrielle Hamilton's "Blood, Bon[...]

At the heart of this work is the authors' premise that to have a successful marriage couples need to develop the ability to accept the unchangeable and change what can be changed. Included is clinical detail on how to develop a formulation encompassing the couple's conflict areas, enhance intimacy t[...]

Over the last decade, the close relationship between culture and economy - or "the experience economy" - has risen on the agenda. Although there is an established research field for analysing the economic impact of entrepreneurship, there is currently a limited amount of research that analyses the [...]

Praise for the" Second Edition""This book is a systematic, well-written, well-organized text on multivariate analysis packed with intuition and insight . . . There is much practical wisdom in this book that is hard to find elsewhere."
"--IIE Transactions"Filled with new and timely content, "Metho[...]