The 'Arab spring', the Spanish 'Indignados', the Greek 'Aganaktismenoi' and the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement all share a number of distinctive traits. They made extensive use of social networking and were committed to the direct democratic participation of all as they co-ordinated and conducted the[...]

Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot?You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may helpbut theres only one way to ensure sustained innov[...]

Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths - Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific - are in fa[...]

Arguing for a retrieval of the landmark work, God's Fierce Whimsy, Stina Busman Jost establishes the critical importance of this volume for the construction of a dialogic theological method. This is accomplished through a close reading of God's Fierce Whimsy in which the author identifies key method[...]

This book helps you create greeting cards, custom notebooks, clothing and posters. For additional inspiration, the book includes a CD with 200 motifs from the artists. In recent years, printmaking - and screen-printing in particular - has been experiencing a huge renaissance among crafters, designer[...]

Collective Efficacy (CE), in the context of the teachers and schools, is the simple idea that the efforts of the faculty, as a whole, will have a positive effect on students. This practitioner-friendly book is designed to facilitate CE across schools and districts. This is achieved through collabora[...]

Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help - but there's only one way to ensure sustained [...]

The American way-independence, entrepreneurialism, liberty-has been under assault for decades. The cultural foundations of the United States and its institutions are devolving along the line of some futuristic apocalyptic novel and producing social, moral, and economic dry rot that can lead only to [...]