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Culturematic
How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Welcome to Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football, Burning Man, the Ford Fiesta Movement, Rube Goldberg, NFL Films, Wordle, Two and a Half Men, a 10,000-Year Symphony, and ROFLCom Memes Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas
A Culturematic...
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the...
Generation to Generation
Life Cycles of the Family Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their...
by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
How to Invest Your Time Like Money is a concise, practical guide to get you out of time debt. Unlike others, who create the false hope that if only you worked harder, faster, longer, and smarter, you could do everything you want and make everyone happy, time coach Elizabeth Grace Saunders introduces...
by Arnold Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
A strong novel about two couples in the process of getting divorced and how divorce is seen in the early 20th century.
Nine Lies About Work
A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall call out nine big lies running through our organizational lives, reveal the core truths of the real world of work, and inspire freethinking leaders everywhere.
Provocative, cogent argument...
Africa for Kids
Exploring a Vibrant Continent, 19 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Africa is brought to life in this imaginative look at the plants, animals, and people that make it such a fascinating continent. Studies of both traditional tribes and modern African cities showcase Africa's diversity, and authentic activities allow kids to dive into the rich culture by making a Maasai...
Managing Global Innovation
Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The key to bridging your global innovation gap
In today’s global economy, it would be short-sighted to rely solely on local resources for new-product innovations. Instead, knowledge and activity critical to innovation most likely lie outside your company’s home territories-sometimes far...
Learning in Action
A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract theory-the learning organization...
The Socialist Imperative
From Gotha to Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of “Real Socialism.” Here, he develops...
A Kid's Guide to Asian American History
More than 70 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Asian American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Asian American history. This book is broken down into sections covering American descendents from various Asian countries,...
Faces of Latin America
Fourth Edition (Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. Duncan Green and Sue Branford take...
Billions of Entrepreneurs
How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures-and Yours
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajectories...
Think Twice
Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
No matter your field, industry, or specialty, as a leader you make a series of crucial decisions every single day. And the harsh truth is that the majority of decisions—no matter how good the intentions behind them—are mismanaged, resulting in a huge toll on organizations, the people they employ,...