Today's best companies get it. From Costco(r) to Commerce Bank, Wegmans to Whole Foods(r): they're becoming the ultimate value creators. They're generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they're doing it for all their stakeholders. Not because i[...]
Represents the synthesis of research into positive definite matrices. This book gives techniques that have applications in the study of such matrices. It introduces several key topics in functional analysis, operator theory, harmonic analysis, and differential geometry - all built around the central[...]
Becoming a middle-income economy is an explicit development goal of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book assesses the implications of that goal for secondary education in Ethiopia. It shows that a rapid expansion of secondary education will be needed to support the country s transition fr[...]
Beginning around 15 years ago, a loose affiliation of scholars, writers and filmmakers living in Berlin began presenting films that offered a new, aesthetically driven form of political cinema. Abandoning the post-totalitarian context embraced by most commercially popular German films at the time, t[...]
This is a concise introduction to Fourier series covering history, major themes, theorems, examples, and applications. It can be used for self study, or to supplement undergraduate courses on mathematical analysis. Beginning with a brief summary of the rich history of the subject over three centurie[...]
Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Wegmans, Costco, The Container Store. Iconic CEO Mackey and professor Sisodia show how such companies are creating a movement that's transforming business.[...]
Most textbooks in the field are either too advanced for students or don't adequately cover current research topics. Bridging this gap, Electronic Structure of Materials helps advanced undergraduate and graduate students understand electronic structure methods and enables them to use these techniques[...]
Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Indian immigration to South Africa, Rajendra Chetty's The Vintage Book of South African Indian writing is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour, as moving and diverse as the people and land that inspired it. It showcases the rich texture a[...]