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Breakaway: Small Business
An e-book Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2001
Several times a year, The Wall Street Journal publishes Special Reports entitled Breakaway: A Focus on Small Business. This ongoing feature is one of the most popular in both the print and interactive versions of the Journal. With 25 million small businesses in the United States employing more than...
Competitive Advantage of Nations
Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness...
by Paul Bohannan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Provides a step-by-step blueprint of cultural dynamics, defining the boundaries between matter and life, life and culture, and animal culture versus human culture. With all these basic concepts the author sets the stage for a renewal of anthropological enquiry.
Culture of Hope
A New Birth of the Classical Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
As we approach the new millenium, the moral, intellectual,and spiritual crisis of our time is visible most plainly in the sickness of the arts. The "postmodern" cultural establishment is philosophically empty and esthetically corrupt. But no one has been able to explain this decline or give a satisfying...
Defying the Crowd
Simple Solutions to the Most Common Relationship Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
World renowned psychologist Robert Sternberg presents a fresh and compelling picture of the creative process from the inception of an idea to its ultimate success. With illuminating examples, Sternberg reveals the paths we all can take to become more creative and shows how institutions can learn to...
Strategic Supremacy
How Industry Leaders Create Spheres of Influence from Their Product Portfolios to Achieve Preeminence
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Are upstart competitors taking deadly aim at your company's products and markets? Richard A. D'Aveni, author of the famous attacker's handbook Hypercompetition, presents coun-terrevolutionary strategies and tactics that any industry leader or established company can use to defend itself against revolutionaries,...
More Sex Is Safer Sex
The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
A witty and razor-sharp look at the many ways our individually rational decisions can combine into some truly weird collective results—and some hilarious and serious ways to fix just about everything.
Economics is no longer the “dismal science” dreaded by college freshmen. In recent years,...
The Big Questions
Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how...
Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.
In this "appetizingly provocative" (Los Angeles Times) book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions...
The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...
The Teaching Gap
Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.
For years our schools and children have lagged behind international...
Futurework
Putting Knowledge To Work In the Knowledge Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A look at how IPS builds specific information and tools directly into business processes and systems, enabling workers to independently solve problems on the job.
A company's success ultimately depends on each worker's completion of an infinite series of little "now's." To achieve peak efficiency...
YOU(r) Teen: Losing Weight
The Owner's Manual to Simple and Healthy Weight Management at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Every stage of life has its share of obstacles. But many folks would argue that the teen years—with all the ups, downs, and in-betweens of freaky friends and freaky and fiery hormones—can be more complex than rocket science. In YOU(R) Teen: Losing Weight, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz offer...
The Metaknowledge Advantage
The Key to Success in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the tradition of the bestselling Intellectual Capital, internationally recognized management and quality expert Rafael Aguayo shows how integrated mastery of many areas of knowledge --
MetaKnowledge -- can give corporate managers an edge, no matter what the future has in store.
In today's...