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Diversity and Complexity

by Scott E. Page ...

Series series Primers in Complex Systems
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for ... Read more

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This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for
... Read more
The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page ...

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows,
... Read more

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The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (New Edition)

by Scott E. Page ...

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that
... Read more
It's Never Too Late

Getting Older, Wiser, and Worry Free in Our Golden Years

by Scott Page ...

Growing old doesn't have to be so hard with this "important and valuable book for baby boomers and their children" (Florence Henderson).We're all going to die.A jolting thought, yes, but an important truth. We all must come to terms with our mortality and move beyond the overwhelming fear and horror many Americans feel when confronted with the realities of growing old. Far too many of us feel ... Read more

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Growing old doesn't have to be so hard with this "important and valuable book for baby boomers and their children" (Florence Henderson).We're all going to die.A jolting thought, yes, but an important truth. We all must come to terms with our mortality and move beyond the overwhelming fear and horror many Americans feel when confronted with the realities of growing old. Far too many of us feel
... Read more
The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

by Scott Page ...

Series series Princeton Classics
In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that ... Read more

$24.19 CAD

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that
... Read more
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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page ...

Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

15 hours 45 min

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows,
... Read more

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The Diversity Bonus

How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

by Scott E. Page ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

Winner of the 2018 Gold Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards • Shortlisted for the 2019 CMI Management Book of the Year in “Aspiring Leaders,” Chartered Management InstituteWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other ... Read more

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Winner of the 2018 Gold Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards • Shortlisted for the 2019 CMI Management Book of the Year in “Aspiring Leaders,” Chartered Management InstituteWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other
... Read more

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Complex Adaptive Systems

An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

by John H. Miller, Scott Page ...

Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive
... Read more
The Diversity Bonus

How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

by Katherine Phillips, Scott Page ...

Series series Our Compelling Interests
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations,
... Read more

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Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

18 hours 18 min

A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords.Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham.Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, the son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love with his father’s ward, Rowena. Cedric, however, wishes her to ... Read more

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A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords.Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham.Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, the son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love with his father’s ward, Rowena. Cedric, however, wishes her to
... Read more

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Crystal Man, The

The Scientist Who Erased Himself

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 415 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

36 min

On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of ... Read more

$2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of
... Read more
Dominoes Level 2: Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Page, Bill Bowler, Sue Parminter ...

Series Book 2 - Dominoes
‘For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,’ says Holmes. ‘I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?’ Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes’ room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

‘For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,’ says Holmes. ‘I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?’ Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes’ room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in
... Read more

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