Innovation Formula
The Innovation Formula
Time Wise
The instant international bestseller 'This charming book will save you more time than it takes to read.' Adam Grant 'A must-read. This book will transform how you approach your workday.' Greg McKeown 'Read this book!' Jake Knapp High achievers mos...
Time Wise
The instant international bestseller 'This charming book will save you more time than it takes to read.' Adam Grant 'A must-read. This book will transform how you approach your workday.' Greg McKeown 'Read this book!' Jake Knapp High achievers most definitely approach their workday differently. This book gives access to the secrets and strategies they've found for making things work. From Wharton Professor Adam Grant's trick to get into flow when he starts work, Google's Executive Productivity Advisor, Laura Mae Martin, and her inbox shape-shifting, to Cal Newport's multiple kaban boards, this isn't your typical productivity book. You know the basics and have heard the swallow-the-frog platitudes. Time Wise goes deeper and unveils some of the more counterintuitive but effective methods that boost your productivity. Some of the high achievers featured, along with their personal strategies, include Adam Alter setting systems instead of goals, Rita McGrath who consults her own personal
Families and Larger Systems
If individuals cannot adequately be understood without reference to the family system, families themselves are comprehensible only in a broader social context. FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMS is the first single-author book on families and larger syst...
In Search of the Nonprofit Sector
At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain t...
Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods
Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are very difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on th...
Shaping the Nation
The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, ...
The Order of Public Reason
In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised and more realistic account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and politica...
The Order of Public Reason
In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised and more realistic account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and politica...
Wege aus der Angst
People have a plastic brain that is capable of learning throughout their lives and must first find out what is important in life. That is why we are and will remain seekers. But we can all too easily get lost in the search for a happy and meaningf...
Strokes of Luck
Strokes of Luck provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. The first part tackles debates in moral luck, which are concerned with the assignment of blameworthiness to individuals who are...
Paul Robeson
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher call...
Lighting for Video
Enables readers to produce top-grade results whether they are lighting off-the-cuff with a portable compact kit or tackling a major project with an extensive heavy-duty rig. It does not assume technical knowledge or previous experience and after c...
Lighting for TV and Film
Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a...
Biblical interpretation
This book is the first historical survey of biblical interpretation which does justice to the subject in the context of Christian tradition and theology. Every period of Christian history is examined, with case studies which have been carefully ch...
Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932
This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the United States. Whereas most scholars cast the politics of industrialization in the progressive era as a narrow choice between breaking up and regulating ...
Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance s...
The 70 Weeks of Daniel
The 70 Weeks of Daniel
The Virgin Birth Myth
The Virgin Birth Myth
Die Ebenen
Die Ebenen
Lead Wars
Lead Wars
Two Speed World
Two Speed World
They Say / I Say
They Say / I Say
The Blood Atonement Deception
The Blood Atonement Deception