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Partners and Rivals
The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Until the global financial crisis, China was thought to be decades away from overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy. But while the US skirted economic stagnation, China was able to successfully navigate the crisis, and its growth continues to accelerate. Has the time arrived...
It's Not Complicated
The Art and Science of Complexity in Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective. Compartmentalizing problems and solutions and assuming everything can be solved with the right formula can no longer keep pace with the radical changes occurring daily in the modern business world.
It’s Not...
Diaminds
Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.
Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum...
Design Works
How to Tackle Your Toughest Innovation Challenges through Business Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
High-profile business leaders in organizations around the world now use approaches and methods from the design world to drive breakthrough innovation and growth.
How can you translate design thinking into doing in a way that will lead to bigger breakthroughs and business strategies for success?
Design...
The Thoughtful Leader
A Model of Integrative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Leadership is a quality that is difficult to define. Some believe that it is innate, the gift of a selected few. Others believe that it is a skill that can be learned but don’t agree on what, exactly, should be taught.
In The Thoughtful Leader, Jim Fisher provides an invigorating, inclusive...
Wicked Strategies
How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” These problems appear to be unsolvable and they render traditional analytical tools of strategy virtually impotent.
Wicked Strategies...
Dominion and Agency
Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade, 1867-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign publishers instead. The subsequent development...
The Internet Trap
Five Costs of Living Online
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the Internet pervades our professional and personal environments....
Back from the Brink
Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing. Fueled by a top rating from DBRS, ABCP had found its way into the portfolios of some of Canada’s most sophisticated investors as well...
by Bryce Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical Leadership describes the unusual position of...
Knitting & Other Stories
Margaret River Short Story Competition 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Twenty-four stories were selected from 260 entries submitted to the Margaret River Short Story Writing Competition. These are stories about men, women - and children - who stand aside from the mainstream world, and see it, as Emily Dickinson would say, 'aslant'. In Barry Divola's winning story, Knitting,...
A World of Songs
Selected Poems, 1894–1921
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in...
The Metaphor of Celebrity
Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom – Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, and Gwendolyn MacEwen – and the specific moments...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons. A dynamic social network of authors, editors, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, printers, and marketers must work together to turn a manuscript into a book.
Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text explores the theories...