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  • Archipelago

    A Reader

    by Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley ...
    Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shooting the Sleaze

    by Alan Robinson ...
    Shooting the Sleaze is a comic thriller that tingles the spine while tickling the funny-bone. It sets official state agencies at loggerheads with private sector counter-intelligence, each employing its own little band of killers. These frequently fall over each others feet. Meanwhile, someone is killing off reporters of the nations leading tabloid. Odd movements like The Poor Peoples Army and the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement

    The Shingo System

    by Alan Robinson ...
    Here's the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It's an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty)

    by Spider Robinson, James Alan Gardner ...
    Series Book 20 - Tesseracts
    Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological.The stories contained within the pages of Compostela are a refelction of the world we live in today; where science produces both wonders and horrors; and will ... Read more

    $7.80 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Idea-Driven Organization

    Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

    by Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder ...
    **"Examples from all over the world make it fun to read . . . convincingly demonstrate[s] the power of incorporating frontline thinking into your organization." —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of TriggersToo many organizations overlook, or even suppress, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation—and it's right under their noses. The frontline employees ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Implementing TPM

    The North American Experience

    by Andrew Ginder, Alan Robinson, Charles J. Robinson ...
    This book provides an understanding of the complexity and comprehensiveness of the total productive maintenance (TPM) process. It supplements works by Japanese authors with guidance and detail on how the TPM process relates to North American plants or facilities. ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Ideas Are Free

    How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

    by Alan G Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder ...
    The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way ... Read more

    $18.09 CAD

  • Ideas Are Free

    How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

    by Alan G Robinson, Dean M Schroeder ...
    "A clear and concise prescription for turning an organization into an idea machine." —Jeff Taylor, Founder of Monster.comThe fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work, front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advances in Visual Informatics

    9th International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2025, Guangzhou, China, November 12–13, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Halimah Badioze Zaman, Peter Robinson, Alan F. Smeaton, Timothy K. Shih, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Zheng Huajing, Li Xiaoping, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ely Salwana Mat Surin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Visual Informatics, IVIC 2025, held in Guangzhou, China in November 12-13, 2025.The 36 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Keynote; Modeling and Simulation; Mixed Reality and Human-Computer Interaction; Intelligent ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Practical Innovation in Government

    How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations

    by Alan G Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder ...
    This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with ... Read more

    $23.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Corporate Creativity

    How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen

    by Alan G. Robinson, Sam Stern ...
    Narrated by Sam Stern ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 6 min

    Most companies know that their creative performance falls far short of potential, but they don't know what to do about it. Corporate Creativity has the answers. ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Compelling Convictions

    Finding Our Future in a Modern World

    Edited by Terry L. Brensinger, Jennifer Lancaster, Alan Robinson ...
    A fresh look at our core valuesIn the twenty years since a group of Brethren in Christ pastors, educators, administrators, and laypeople first met to identify ten core values for the North American church, much has changed—including the continuing decline of the church in the west; dynamic social movements for racial, gender, and economic justice; vast advances in technology, and a worldwide ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD