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  • The Life and Times of Braden Schultz and Other Works

    by Charles E. Rouse ...
    A single moment can change everything.In 1974 Southern California, eighteen-year-old Braden Schultz is a quiet B-student who plays clarinet in the high school marching band. But when relentless bullying pushes him over the edge, a split-second reaction lands him in the Pomona City Jail facing assault charges. The Life and Times of Braden Schultz is a heartfelt, nostalgic coming-of-age story that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges

    Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience

    by Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, William B. Rouse ...
    Series series Stevens Institute Series on Complex Systems and Enterprises
    Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilienceThis book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world. The authors examine the challenges of education, energy, healthcare, national security, and urban resilience. The book covers challenges in education including America's use ... Read more

    $65.00 USD

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  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... Read more

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  • The Immigrant Exodus

    Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

    by Vivek Wadhwa ...
    A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Invisible Wealth

    The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

    by Arnold Kling, Nick Schulz ...
    The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Innovation Policy: A Guide For Developing Countries

    by World Bank ...
    Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty?In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Standing on the Sun

    How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world--Brazil, India, China, and others--will surge forward.As these ... Read more

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  • Make It In America, Updated Edition

    The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

    by Andrew Liveris ...
    The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEOAmerica used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over the last several decades, ... Read more

    $11.00 USD

  • The Science of Science Policy

    A Handbook

    Edited by Julia I. Lane, Kaye Husbands Fealing, John H. Marburger, III, Stephanie S. Shipp ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the changing framework in which innovation occurs, policymakers cannot predict how best to make and manage ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Digital Kenya

    An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making

    Edited by Bitange Ndemo, Tim Weiss ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the initial entrepreneurial spirit and digital revolution ... Read more

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  • Producing Prosperity

    Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

    by Gary P. Pisano, Willy C. Shih ...
    Manufacturing’s central role in global innovationCompanies compete on the decisions they make. For years-even decades-in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ... Read more

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