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The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos

Focal Press, 2010

The source of any photograph is not the camera or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder--it is the mind of the photographer: this is where an image is created before it is committed to a memory card or film. In The Photographer's Mind, the follow-up to the international bestseller, The Photographer's Eye,...

Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy

University of New York, 2002

Expecting to relax during a routine flight home, I casually glanced through the contents of the airline’s magazine and practically suffered a heart attack. The first feature article was entitled, “How to Live Forever”! Believing for a moment that Becoming Immortal had been scooped, I tore through the magazine...

Epigenetics and Assisted Reproduction: An Introductory Guide

CRC Press, 2018

Epigenetics is the study of how certain genes are activated without modification at the DNA sequence level, resulting in genetically similar individuals having different clinical outcomes. As contemporary medicine increasingly aims to personalize the medical approach to a patient's genetic profile, the factors that can affect...

The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products

Wharton School Publishing, 2005

Everyone is talking and writing about innovation. It is the fuel of business strategy. Design and innovation are words that are often used together or interchangeably. Design for us is both a broad concept of change through human problem solving and a word used to describe specific fields such as engineering design, interface design, or industrial...

The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Praise for The Strategy Gap

"With a better handle on the financial pulse of the business, enterprises will be better able to meet the Street’s expectations of financial transparency and corporate accountability. The writers do a masterful job of getting readers to this point of awareness, and further display their insight...

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. Such...

Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

O'Reilly, 2014

Learning Agile is a comprehensive guide to the most popular agile methods, written in a light and engaging style that makes it easy for you to learn.

Agile has revolutionized the way teams approach software development, but with dozens of agile methodologies to choose from, the decision to "go agile"...

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection (Advances in Database Systems)

Springer, 2009

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection describes the foundational framework for efficient Web service selection. It lays out a theoretical underpinning for the design of models and algorithms for searching and optimizing access to Web services.

Excerpts from Prof. Fabio Casati’s foreword:

This excellent book looks at the...

Introduction to Topology and Geometry

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

An easily accessible introduction to over threecenturies of innovations in geometry

Praise for the First Edition

...a welcome alternative to compartmentalizedtreatments bound to the old thinking. This clearly written,well-illustrated book supplies sufficient background to beself-contained. CHOICE

This fully...

New Era Value Investing: A Disciplined Approach to Buying Value and Growth Stocks

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

A unique guide that combines the best of traditional value theory with an innovative approach to assessing value in low or non-dividend paying stocks

In the 1990s, America's focus on productivity and innovation led to huge gains in technology, communication, and healthcare stocks, and contributed to the transformation of the...

Computing Information Technology: The Human Side

IRM Press, 2003

From the senior management to the clerical and support group levels, this study addresses the possible pitfalls and triumphs of implementing information technology (IT) into organizations in terms of organizational strategies, structures, and communication methods. Issues of human-computer interaction, ethics, privacy, and security are raised to...

Enterprise-Wide Change: Superior Results Through Systems Thinking (Jossey-Bass Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Leave piecemeal strategic change approaches behind and learn how to plan, facilitate, and integrate your change efforts for lasting success. Enterprise-Wide Change takes you through the "Rollercoaster of Change," showing you how to deal with resistance, regard skeptics as your best friends, and build a buy-in and stay-in strategy among...

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