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Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Across the... (more)

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive... (more)

The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development (Paperback))

The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development (Paperback))

by Stephen Cawood

Go beyond the single player campaign. Apply real-world military maneuvers to Halo 2 and sharpen your battle performance with "The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques"! Explore strategies and tactics for single or multiplayer play, get practical advice from expert players, master advanced combat and team strategy, and learn how to apply real-world military tactics to your game and... (more)

Wikinomics

How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive... (more)

Windows XP Answers from the Experts

by Jim Boyce

Jim Boyce and Deb Shinder have answered enough XP questions through their web sites and newsletters to fill a book. So, that’s what they did. Windows XP Answers from the Xperts is loaded with easy-to-adopt advice on upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting Windows XP. Coverage includes network setup, security, and resource sharing, remote access, customization, XP Service Pack 2, and plenty of information on... (more)

Working Knowledge

by Thomas H. Davenport

The definitive overview of knowledge management, now available in paperback This influential book establishes the enduring vocabulary and concepts in the burgeoning field of knowledge management. It serves as the hands-on resource of choice for companies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable source of competitive advantage going forward. Drawing from their work with more than 30 knowledge-rich... (more)

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger

“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)

Power ShiftAlvin Toffler

Power Shift

by Alvin Toffler

A Grammar of the Multitude (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

A Grammar of the Multitude (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

by Paolo Virno

Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories--such as "the people"--that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of "people,"... (more)

Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World

Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World

by Keith Yamashita

Everyone gets stuck sooner or later. The big question is how do you get unstuck? People and organizations get stuck because the most ambitious and rewarding work brings with it the most challenges. Unstuck is a smart, fearless, totally practical guide to turn to for inspiration and immediate solutions. It’s meant to be acted on, not just read. And it’s based on the proven practices the authors have... (more)

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

by Pierre Le?vy

Shows how unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advance. A unique contribution to the growing interest & debate on network communication and the impact on human cognition. DLC: Information technology - Social aspects.

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

by N. Katherine Hayles

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek -style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles... (more)

Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence: Simple Solutions for Busy People

Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence: Simple Solutions for Busy People

by Charles Schwab

When it comes to investing, most of us know where we'd like to be but not how to get there. We'd like nothing better than to sit down with an experienced professional who can guide us through the bewildering array of choices. Reading this easy-to-understand book is like having the founder and CEO of a $350 billion brokerage firm sit at your kitchen table and distill his 40-plus years of accumulated wisdom in a... (more)

Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice

Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice

by Mccaughey

The Internet played a pivotal role in some of the most memorable instances of political activism in recent years. 1999's "Battle of Seattle" saw more than 70,000 protestors come together by means of online organizing to take on the World Trade Organization. Similar ad hoc groups were assembled largely with the aid of decentralized online information sites at the April 2000 World Bank protests in Washington, D.C.;... (more)

The Class of the New

by Richard Barbrook

Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age

Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age

by Tiziana Terranova

This is an innovative study of digital culture, in particular the politics of the emerging digital culture, and especially the cultural and political dimensions of network technologies. Across the cybercultural landscape of mailing lists, discussion groups, e-zines and the digital press, it sees the emergence of a new collective political subject, a networked intelligence. The author touches on key concepts... (more)

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast

by Carmel McConnell

The only way to do it...is to do it. Change Activist shows you how to make a difference in the world while achieving personal fulfillment in your career. The author argues that profit and principles are mutually achievable, and guides you toward become the driving force behind bigger, better, and more value-based results.

Mammon Inc.

by Hwee Hwee Tan

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition

by American Psychological Association

Style manual for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals across all fields. Provides clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style. Includes examples, new guidelines and advice, and more. Previous edition: c1994. Softcover, wire-spiral edition is also available. Hardcover edition due later.

One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money in the Market, Miniature Edition

One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money in the Market, Miniature Edition

by John Rothchild, Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, is now a handy, useful Running Press Miniature Edition™! Readers will learn what stocks to avoid, how to decipher Wall Street jargon, how to design a perfect portfolio, and countless other ways to succeed in business and finance. Packed with insightfrul excerpts from essays in the original One Up on Wall Street , as well... (more)

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