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The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects

Addison Wesley, 2005

The new software management classic: in-the-trenches wisdom from legendary project leader Joe Marasco

Over the course of a distinguished career, Joe Marasco earned a reputation as the go-to software project manager: the one to call when you were facing a brutally...

The Selfish Meme : A Critical Reassessment

Cambridge University Press, 2004

'Distin's discussion is even-handed and informative for those wishing to update themselves on the current state of play in the field.' Scientific and Medical Network Review
'A model of clarity, the book's appeal is wide - from philosophers to sociologists, anyone interested in how cultures change will benefit from reading The Selfish Meme. Her...

Structures of Participation in Digital Culture

Social Science Research Council, 2008

Digital technologies have been engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia to YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider...

Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2014

Mordechai Cogan (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus of Biblical History in the Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written widely on the relationship of Israel and Judah with the Mesopotamian empires during the first millennium b.c.e., and history-writing in the ancient...

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Penguin Press, 2004

A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits...

Instant: The Story of Polaroid

Architectural Press, 2012

"Instant photography at the push of a button!" During the 1960s and '70s, Polaroid was the coolest technology company on earth. Like Apple, it was an innovation machine that cranked out one must-have product after another. Led by its own visionary genius founder, Edwin Land, Polaroid grew from a 1937 garage start-up into a...

Reflect and Relate: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication

St Martin Press, 2009

The most successful new interpersonal communication textbook in over a decade, Reflect & Relate broke new ground with its emphasis on critical self-reflection, practical skills, and relationships in context. Reflect & Relate fosters self-awareness by having students examine their own experiences, practice...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Ballantine Books, 1992

Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on...

Why People Die by Suicide

Harvard University Press, 2007

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die.

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Dictionary of Plant Lore

Academic Press, 2007

Sadly, this book is published posthumously. It results from the author’s interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies developed over several decades of research and teaching. Although the author was checking the first print at the time of his death, any inaccuracies or omissions would undoubtedly have been rectified...

Supply Chain Collaboration: Roles of Interorganizational Systems, Trust, and Collaborative Culture

Springer, 2012

To survive and thrive in the competition, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. Internet based technologies, particularly interorganizational systems, further extend the firms’ opportunities to strengthen their supply chain partnerships...

Mast Cells: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Humana Press, 2005

A cutting-edge collection of readily reproducible techniques for the isolation, culture, and study of activation and signaling in human mast cells. These methods take advantage of the latest advances in molecular biology, technology, and information science. They include methods for the identification of mast cells, the development of mast...

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