Amazon Way
The 3rd edition of The Amazon Way is one of the rare business leadership books giving actionable insights for innovation and business growth to be the basis for your digital transformation gameplan. The Amazon Way translates Amazon's unique culture and management practices into insights and opportunities, as only an Amazon executive and expert advisor could do for the Amazon Leadership Principles giving readers one of the essential business leadership books for the digital era. Peppered with humorous and enlightening firsthand anecdotes with Jeff Bezos from the author's career at Amazon, this revealing business guide is also filled with the valuable lessons that have served Jeff Bezos' 'everything store' so well-providing expert advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors. The author was responsible for launching the Amazon Marketplace business and had accountability for the enterprise services business. Since leaving Amazon, Rossman has worked across every industry sector
Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader
"Reading this book is like having Jeff Bezos advise me." -Eric Martinez, Founder and CEO of Modjoul The former Amazon executive who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace delivers the ultimate playbook on how to "think like A...
Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era
Antisemitism has had a long and complex history in Russian intellectual life and has revived in the post-Communist era. In their concept of the identity of the Jewish people, many academics and other thinkers in Russia continue to cast Jews in a n...
Lie Groups
This book is intended as an introduction to the theory of Lie groups and their representations at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It covers the essentials of the subject starting from basic undergraduate mathematics. The co...
An Introduction to Qualitative Research
The updated Fourth Edition of Rossman and Rallis's popular introductory text leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research, and applied examples. Woven into the chapters are three theme...
Designing Qualitative Research - International Student Edition
Offering clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research, this fully updated¿ Seventh Edition¿ of Marshall and Rossman's bestselling text retains the useful examples, tools, and vignettes that makes it suc...
Designing Qualitative Research
Offering clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research, this fully updated Seventh Edition of Marshall and Rossman's bestselling text retains the useful examples, tools, and vignettes that has it such an outstanding resource. The book takes graduate students from selecting a research genre through building a conceptual framework, data collection and interpretation, and arguing the merits of the proposal. Now featuring a new co-author, Gerardo L. Blanco, this edition includes more on the history and new emerging genres of qualitative inquiry, as well as a more sustained and deeper focus on social media and other digital applications in conducting qualitative research. New application activities provide opportunities for students to try out ideas, while timely vignettes illustrate the methodological challenges posed by the intellectual, ethical, political, and technological advances affecting society.
Access to Special Collections and Archives
Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as special collections. Because of the rarity and value of these materials, they are handled differently than materials in other parts of academic library collections. Thus, a different set of access policies and procedures, as well as specialized staff, have been employed. This book provides a thorough exploration of access, which is a cornerstone of the library profession. It looks at how practitioners’ perceptions of access to special collections have changed from the formative period of the 1930s to today. Using a grounded theory approach on datasets comprised of LIS literature and interviews of special collections professionals with between 5 and 50 years of experience, two conceptual models developed. The two conceptual models are: Aspects of Access, which defines ten components that contribute to access goals: Diversity,
Designing Experiences
In an increasingly experience-driven economy, companies that deliver great experiences thrive, and those that do not die. Yet many organizations face difficulties implementing a vision of delivering experiences beyond the provision of goods and se...
