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  • Startup Campus

    How UC Berkeley Became an Unexpected Leader in Entrepreneurship and Startups

    by Mike Alvarez Cohen ...
    How did the University of California, Berkeley—once skeptical of involvement with corporate activities—become a leader in entrepreneurship and startups? And how did the campus manage that transformation in ways that have advanced the university’s mission of research, education, and public service?Startup Campus tells the story of UC Berkeley’s reinvention from the perspective of faculty, staff, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm

    Scarred Discourse

    by Mike Alvarez, Lisann Anders, Warren J. Bareiss, Marta Carvalhal, Kathryn R. Fox, Carolyn E. Helps, Jill M. Hooley, Tina In-Albon, Anita N.D. Kwashie, John Levitt0, Shuang Liu1, Janine Lüdtke2, Yanni Ma3, Nicole S. Parrish4, Marc Schmid5, Taru Tschan6, Brianna J. Turner7, Shirley B. Wang8 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
    Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate harming of one's body without suicidal intent. NSSI tends to be secretive, often involving cutting, bruising, or burning on hidden parts of the body. While NSSI often occurs among adolescents, it is not limited to that age group. Communication and NSSI intersect in many ways, including conversation among family members, consultation with healthcare ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis

    A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh

    by Michelle Scollo, Mike Alvarez, Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Ruth Edmonds, Danielle Graham, Eean Grimshaw, Fran Gulinello, Tabitha Hart, Tamar Katriel, Sunny Lie0, Oren Livio1, Pauline Luk2, Lauren Mackenzie3, Gerry Philipsen4, Saila Poutiainen5, Lydia Reinig6, Laura Rosenbaun7, Lisa Rudnick8, Max Saito9, Natasha Shrikant0, Leah Sprain1, Brion van Over2, Richard Wilkins3, Ute Winter4, Saskia Witteborn5, Karen Wolf6, Nadezhda Sotirova7, Tovar Cerulli8, Liene Locmele9, Charles A. Braithwaite0, Patricia O. Covarrubias1, Mohan J. Dutta2, Sally O. Hastings3, Evelyn Y. Ho4, Dani S. Kvam5, James L. Leighter6, Katherine R. Peters7, Kelly E. Tenzek8, Michaela R. Winchatz9, David Boromisza-Habashi0, Donal Carbaugh1, Jolane Flanigan2, Trudy Milburn3, Tema Milstein5 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more clearly understood. This includes recognizing that we often communicate based on specific ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Future of the Professions

    How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

    by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind ...
    This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

    Organizing for Innovation and Growth

    by David J. Teece ...
    How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Why Managers Matter

    The Perils of the Bossless Company

    by Nicolai J Foss, Peter G Klein ...
    A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organizationAs business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. It’s tempting to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, and where employees in wacky ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Diversity & Inclusion: The Big Six Formula for Success

    by D.A. Abrams ...
    The case that I make for diversity and inclusion is not just sociological or democratic: it is a business strategy. That is the focus of this book. I developed this framework for corporations and associations. It will show you how to increase your revenues directly, through understanding the pathways that I provide, and by implementing the Big Six Action Plan that I outline, so that you can take a ... Read more

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  • The New ABCs of Research

    Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations

    by Ben Shneiderman ...
    The problems we face in the 21st century require innovative thinking from all of us. Be it students, academics, business researchers of government policy makers. Hopes for improving our healthcare, food supply, community safety and environmental sustainability depend on the pervasive application of research solutions. The research heroes who take on the immense problems of our time face bigger ... Read more

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  • The Management of Technological Innovation

    Strategy and Practice

    by Mark Dodgson, David M. Gann, Ammon Salter ...
    The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations. The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • University Technology Transfer

    What It Is and How to Do It

    by Tom Hockaday ...
    Demystifying technology transfer—an increasingly important but little-understood aspect of research universities' mission.How do we transfer the brilliance of university research results into new products, services, and medicines to benefit society? University research is creating the technologies of tomorrow in the fields of medicine, engineering, information technology, robotics, and artificial ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Power of Employee Resource Groups

    How People Create Authentic Change

    by Farzana Nayani ...
    This is the first authoritative book on building employee resource groups (ERGs) to empower underrepresented employees and positively impact diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within organizations and in society at large.In existence for decades, ERGs originated out of affirmative action policies and have evolved into powerful sources of employee activity and engagement. Organizations ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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