Columbia University Press (10 kníh )

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  Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie Designing for Growth EN

  Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2011 07 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Columbia University Press Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: 'design thinking.' or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book. The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth. was named a Top Innovation and Design…

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  David Foster Wallace Fate, Time, and Language EN

  In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant…

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  Kenneth N. Waltz Man, the State, and War EN

  What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.

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  Molecular Gastronomy EN

  Hervé This (pronounced Teess) is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he pioneered. Bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen, This uses recent…

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  Siddharth Kara Sex Trafficking EN

  Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and…

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  Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett Solving Problems with Design Thinking EN

  Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details ten real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial…

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  Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, Rachel Brozenske The Designing for Growth Field Book EN

  In Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G), Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie showed how design can boost innovation and drive growth. In this companion guide, also suitable as a stand-alone project workbook, the authors provide a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G toolkit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key questions of their…

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  Laura Rascaroli The Personal Camera EN

  The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but increasingly compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms - the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait - is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought, of investigation and self-reflection in which the filmmaker, instead of withdrawing behind the camera, comes out into the open to say `I', to…

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  Clayton Chin, Amy Allen The Practice of Political Theory

  Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? ...

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  Richard Rorty, Pascal Engel, William Mccuaig What's the Use of Truth?

  What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice...