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All Edge Inside the New Workplace Networks

Spinuzzi Clay

ISBN: HB: 9780226236964, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 9 tables

Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and c...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Business & Economics

Advocacy Championing Ideas and Influencing Others

Daly John A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188134, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving a problem or achieving a goal, sometimes the best ideas are passed over. Worse, a problematic suggestion with far less likelihood of success may be selected instead. Why would a gro...

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Business & Economics

Education

American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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Business & Economics

Accelerating Energy Innovation Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson Rebecca M., Newell Richard G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226326832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 9 tables, 1 halftone, 31 line illus.

Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the...

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Middle East

Business & Economics

Abu Dhabi Oil and Beyond

Davidson Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041539, ISBN: HB: 9781850659785, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Abu Dhabi is a new economic superpower that will soon wield enormous influence across both developing and developed worlds. The principal emirate of the United Arab Emirates federation commands over 8 percent of global oil rese...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Atlas of World Hunger

Bassett Thomas J., Winter-Nelson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226039077, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 35 tables, 47 halftones, 3 line drawings, 103 colour illus.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...

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Business & Economics

Agglomeration Economics

Glaeser Edward L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226297897, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 87 tables, 61 line illus.

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as t...

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