Mark Christensen: 7 books

Book cover of Build the Perfect Beast

Build the Perfect Beast

The Quest to Design the Coolest Car Ever Made

by Mark Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

Mark Christensen grew up with a simple dream-to build a 600 horsepower suicide machine able to accelerate from zero to sixty in less time than it takes to read this sentence. When a friend offers him $100,000 to realize that dream, Christensen enlists Nick Pugh, the best young auto designer in the...
Book cover of Acid Christ

Acid Christ

Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy

by Mark Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described...
Book cover of HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation (with featured article "Reinventing Your Business Model" by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann)
by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Mark W. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

This book provides the essential ideas on how both startups and incumbent businesses can generate new business models, develop digital business models, and innovate within existing business models. Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan, Steve Blank, Mark W. Johnson,...
Book cover of The Teabo Manuscript

The Teabo Manuscript

Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán

by Mark Z. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now...
Book cover of At The Helm: Volume 2: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
by Rhett C. Bruno, Steve Beaulieu, Jason Anspach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence's longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...  Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you...
Book cover of WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks

From Popular Culture to Political Economy

by Christian Christensen, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, William Uricchio
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

“Little did I know that I was getting involved with WikiLeaks at the time of the biggest leaks in human history.” — Birgitta JónsdóttirWithin a relatively short period of time, WikiLeaks became the best-known whistle-blowing organization in the world. Due in large part to the release of massive...
Book cover of Translated Christianities

Translated Christianities

Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

by Mark Z. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers...
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