Insight in Innovation
Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, ent...
Modernized O'Kelly Sicilian
·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Jan Boekelman has produced you with a playable repertoire out of a somewhat sideline Opening, which nobody dared to touch to make it into an entire repertoire. ·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Try to expand your knowledge in the 3.c3 variation and go beyond the b...
The Great Naval Game
This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and...
Practical Social Pedagogy
Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges...
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
Professor Vansina is the foremost authority on the history of Rwanda. The author of the classic Oral Tradition as History bases his account on hundreds of grass-roots narratives. It shows the historical roots of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 throug...
Aging of the Genome
Aging has long since been ascribed to the gradual accumulation of DNA mutations in the genome of somatic cells. However, it is only recently that the necessary sophisticated technology has been developed to begin testing this theory and its conseq...
Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies is an absorbing account of a case of suspected fraud involving the tragic career of the molecular biologist Franz Moewus that illustrates all that can go wrong in scientific knowledge-making. Jan Sapp follows Moewus' meteoric ...
Why Environmental Policies Fail
This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began ...
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unkn...
Tendon Transfers in Reconstructive Hand Surgery
Under the auspices of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Dr Friden has here assembled a collection of international experts to detail the practical and surgical implications of tendon transfers in a number of different c...
The Oxford Book of Oxford
In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of the University from its foundation in the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century, combining extracts from contemporary observers with her own informative commentary....