More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book "The Innovator's Dilemma" illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive atta[...]
An analytical argument for the intellectual benefits of popular elements from modern pop culture, including video games and reality TV programs, explains how today's electronic games and television shows have contributed to higher IQ scores and may be helping people to develop improve cognitive abil[...]
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From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, "The Ghost Map" is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero,[...]
The great thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi began his life as an orthodox Islamic believer but felt that to fully experience complete union with the divine he must abandon institutionalised religion and its prescribed forms of worship. Surrendering his will to his overriding ur[...]
Around the world, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems and other real-time process control networks run mission-critical infrastructure - everything from the power grid to water treatment, chemical manufacturing to transportation. This book addresses security issues affecting SCA[...]
The bandsaw is a woodworking favourite and this highly visual guide covers all there is to know about working with one, from basic uses to some of the more advanced. The bandsaw is a woodworking favourite and the workhorse of any wood shop. Craftsmen and women turn to this practical tool for a wide [...]
In this age of climate change, killer germs, and obesity, it's easy to feel as if we've fallen out of synch with the global ecosystem. This ecological anxiety has polarized a new generation of Americans: many are drawn to natural solutions and organic lifestyles, while others rally around high-tech [...]
Children's play is focused, purposeful, and full of learning. As children play, they master motor development, learn language and social skills, think creatively, and make cognitive leaps. Let's Play provides caregivers, teachers, and parents with a variety of budget-friendly, child-centred experien[...]
Completely revised, this fifth edition of Bailey's Head and Neck Surgery - Otolaryngology offers the most current and useful evidence-based information available for the practicing otolaryngologist and otolaryngology resident. Written to increase the reader's understanding, retention, and ability to[...]
Meeting a key need for teachers, this book provides practical, data-based tools for helping students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) succeed in the classroom. The authors combine instructional expertise with extensive knowledge about the nature and treatment of ADHD. Coverage in[...]
The only pressure cooker book written with a trained chef. Features over 200 delicious recipes.
With delightful illustrations, including houses from the medieval 1500s, the romantic Victorian era and the 18th and 19th century, beautiful presentation, highly visual approach and detail, special pop ups, embossing, flaps and inserts, this book is a keepsake to be treasured for years to come.[...]
The management of oak forests is essential to the ecosystems of many countries, and current trends in managing forests are based on sustaining desired ecosystems, rather than timber and other commodity outputs. By considering oak forests as responsive ecosystems, this updated new edition draws on th[...]
Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent colonially constructed inequalities. This book attempts a more complex a[...]
How to do Cat's Cradle, Jacob's Ladder, Cup and Saucer, Eiffel Tower and Witch's Broom.
Identifies common behavior clusters in children and offers advice on dealing with specific temperament types effectively[...]
Jean Johnson--the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny novels--returns to the world she introduced in "A Soldier's Duty "with a terrible vision of the future...
Promoted in the field for courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in the Space Force Na[...]
This is a travel book and a love story. With the Norwegian fjords and coastline as a backdrop, Pål Espolin Johnson declares his love of his native land with its narrow fjords, magnificent mountains shooting straight up from the sea, and the resilient people who inhabit its rugged coastline.We follo[...]
Efter kalla krigets slut stod USA ensamt kvar som supermakt, lika mäktigt som en gång romarriket. I Imperiedrömmar beskriver Chalmers Johnson USA:s strategi för att kontrollera världens råvarukällor och sprida till alla kontinenter.
Chalmers Johnson skildrar i sin bok hur den a[...]
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