"The Innovator's Dilemma" demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market dominance. Drawing on patterns of innovation in a variety of industries, the author argues th[...]
The book, aimed at walkers and fell runners, includes detailed information on the challenging Lakeland Three Thousands; the Old County Tops; the Roman Road between Windermere and Penrith; the Eight Great Horseshoes; and Penrith to the Sea routes.[...]
Illustrated story of the world's greatest psychedelic rock band.
Section of poems by Bei Dao translated by National Book Award winning translator Clayton Eshleman with Lucas Klein. Bei Dao, one of China's foremost modern poets, has been translated into 30 languages and several times candidate for the Nobel Prize. Bei Dao is currently Professor of Humanities at th[...]
This is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Bartolome de Las Casas' life in a generation.[...]
Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.[...]
This 2011 volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that it sometimes takes priority over self-interest.[...]
The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation, and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard [...]
This is a brief but comprehensive book covering the set of EMC skills that EMC practitioners today require in order to be successful in high-speed, digital electronics. The basic skills in the book are new and weren't studied in most curricula some ten years ago. The rapidly changing digital technol[...]
Pierce examines growing alignment between powerful global bioindustries and education reform in the U.S. and how value-added measures and other neoliberal strategies embedded in policies such as 'race to the top' are involving schools in a project to manage and regulate educational life for competin[...]
Biocapitalism, an economic model built on finding and creating new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman entities. How should educators, students, and communities respond to such d[...]
Improvisation teachers have long known that the human mind could be trained to be effortlessly spontaneous and intuitive. Drinko explores what these improvisation teachers knew about improvisation's effects on consciousness and cognition and compares these theories to current findings in cognitive n[...]