Jack Foster: 9 books

Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling...

Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling...

A revised and expanded edition of a bestselling classic--more than 90,000 copies sold of the first edition This new edition includes to completely new chapters Cleverly weaves together exercises, stories, quotations, and illustrations to offer a fun and practical guide to idea generation How to Get...

Bazı insanlar nasıl bu kadar yaratıcı olabiliyor? Neden yaratıcı ve parlak fikirler bizim değil de onların aklına geliyor? Yaratıcı olmanın bir yolu ya da anahtarı var mı? Bu sorular zaman zaman hepimizin aklına gelmiştir. Bir yanıt bulmaya çalıştığımızda ise genellikle yaratıcılığın...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR  * Cranky Goblin Cooks  * Unscrupulous Chemists  * Lecherous Space Pirates  * Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes  * Soul-Searching Snot Elementals  The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

In 1869, the American diet was a dreary affair. Kitchen staples included bread, potatoes, other root vegetables, and meat. Tomatoes�then called "love apples"�were an exotic fruit. A young 25-year-old Henry J. Heinz helped to change all of that. He established his company based on a single premise:...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

What is counterculture? – It’s an alternative lifestyle… – The ideas that spread a revolution… – A movement that changes the world… This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature...