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Made to Serve: How manufacturers can compete through servitization and product service systems

Timothy Baines, Howard Lightfoot — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive, practical introduction to one of the most important new trends in manufacturing, globally

The delivery of a service component as an added value when providing products, servitization is all the rage in the manufacturing sector around the world. Yet, despite the clear competitive advantage of servitization, most manufacturers remain reluctant to venture into, what for them, is a strange new world. Written by a team of internationally

Stress Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Allen Elkin — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy.

It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it's love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red

Credit Securitisations and Derivatives: Challenges for the Global Markets

Daniel Rösch, Harald Scheule — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive resource providing extensive coverage of the state of the art in credit secruritisations, derivatives, and risk management

Credit Securitisations and Derivatives is a one-stop resource presenting the very latest thinking and developments in the field of credit risk. Written by leading thinkers from academia, the industry, and the regulatory environment, the book tackles areas such as business cycles; correlation modelling and interactions

Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought AD

Xavier De Kestelier, Brady Peters — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Architects are now taking advantage of the computer in new ways through experimentation with algorithmic and simulation-driven design. Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought focuses on this emerging theme in design practice, showcasing built and soon-to-be-built projects and providing a state of the art in computational design. Computational design is considered to be first a design tool, and second a series of instruments that can

Enterprise in Action: A Guide To Entrepreneurship

Peter Lawrence — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

An authoritative guide to understanding and mastering the core issues and competencies involved in entrepreneurial success

Where do entrepreneurial opportunities arise? How do successful entrepreneurs exploit trends? What is the role of innovation in entrepreneurship? How do companies get started and become self-sustaining? Based on studies of 80 companies, including 30 Sunday Times Fast Track Companies, and 20 highly successful US entrepreneurial

Student Leadership Practices Inventory Scoring Software, 3rd Edition

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Student Leadership Practices Inventory Scoring Software, Third Edition is an update to include the following features:

Photoshop CC For Dummies

Peter Bauer — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Stretch your creativity beyond the cloud with this fully-updated Photoshop guide!

Photoshop puts amazing design and photo-editing tools in the hands of creative professionals and hobbyists everywhere, and the latest version - Photoshop CC - is packed with even more powerful tools to help you manage and enhance your images. This friendly, full-color guide introduces you to the basics of Photoshop CC and provides clear explanations of the menus, panels

The Posthuman

Rosi Braidotti — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human.

The Media in Transitional Democracies

Katrin Voltmer — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The last quarter of a century has seen an unprecedented wave of democratization around the globe. In these transitions from authoritarian rule to a more democratic order, the media have played a key role both by facilitating, but frequently also inhibiting, democratic practices to take root. This book provides an accessible and systematic introduction to the media in transitional democracies. It analyses the problems that occur when transforming the

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The Media in Transitional Democracies

Katrin Voltmer — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

Pascal Bruckner — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism

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Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

Donatella Della Porta — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.

In this highly articulate book, Donatella della Porta analyses diverse conceptions and practices of participatory and deliberative democracy, building upon recent reflections

Creative Industries in China: Art, Design and Media

Michael Keane — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Creative industries in China provides a fresh account of China’s emerging commercial cultural sector. The author shows how developments in Chinese art, design and media industries are reflected in policy, in market activity, and grassroots participation.

Never has the attraction of being a media producer, an artist, or a designer in China been so enticing. National and regional governments offer financial incentives; consumption of cultural goods and

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Creative Industries in China: Art, Design and Media

Michael Keane — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

British Foreign Policy: Crises, Conflicts and Future Challenges

Jamie Gaskarth — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources. But how does a small island on the edge of Europe continue to exercise this level of power on an international scale? What kind of actor is Britain internationally? And what future challenges will confront British foreign policymakers in a multi-polar world of emerging powers?

In this comprehensive introduction

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British Foreign Policy: Crises, Conflicts and Future Challenges

Jamie Gaskarth — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most

Thomas Hale, David Held, Kevin Young — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties and international institutions - have broken down.

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Congo

Thomas Turner — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the world's bloodiest hot spots. 2003 saw the end of a five-year war in which millions lost their lives - one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II. Despite recent peace agreements and democratic elections, the country is still plagued by army and militia violence. Congo remains deeply troubled, since the deep-rooted causes of conflict have not been adequately addressed.

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Against Epistemology: A Metacritique

Theodor W. Adorno — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This classic book by Theodor W. Adorno anticipates many of the themes that have since become common in contemporary philosophy: the critique of foundationalism, the illusions of idealism and the end of epistemology. It also foreshadows many of the key ideas that were developed by Adorno in his most important philosophical works, including Negative Dialectics.

Against Epistemology is based on a manuscript Adorno originally wrote in Oxford in 1934-37

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On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Luc Ferry — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ways: love. It affects not only our personal lives

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