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Stop the School Bus

Getting Education Reform Back on Track

by Gerald N. Tirozzi ...

Narrated by Mark Whitten ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

From a seasoned veteran of public education, Stop the School Bus exposes the unwarranted and misguided school reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country. Gerald Tirozzi covers all the hottest school reform trendsincluding charter schools, teacher merit pay, Race to the Top, common core standards, and more. While some reform efforts are bringing about ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

From a seasoned veteran of public education, Stop the School Bus exposes the unwarranted and misguided school reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country. Gerald Tirozzi covers all the hottest school reform trendsincluding charter schools, teacher merit pay, Race to the Top, common core standards, and more. While some reform efforts are bringing about
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The Manager and the Monk

A Discourse on Prayer, Profit, and Principles

by Anselm Grn, Jochen Zeitz ...

Narrated by Mark Whitten ...

Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

What could the conversation between an internationally-prominent CEO and a career Benedictine monk possibly teach us about business? In The Manager and the Monk, Jochen Zeitz and Anselm Grün engage in a lively dialogue about leading with values in the fast-changing 21st-century world, exploring such questions as: Do core values stand a chance in the world of business? To what extent does a monk ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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What could the conversation between an internationally-prominent CEO and a career Benedictine monk possibly teach us about business? In The Manager and the Monk, Jochen Zeitz and Anselm Grün engage in a lively dialogue about leading with values in the fast-changing 21st-century world, exploring such questions as: Do core values stand a chance in the world of business? To what extent does a monk
... Read more

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Social Machines

How to Develop Connected Products That Change Customers' Lives

by Peter Semmelhack ...

Narrated by Mark Whitten ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

Over the past five years, our online interactions and connections have formed the backbone of companies like Facebook and Twitter and have defined whole new categories of social interaction. But where is it written that only humans can be social? What if machines like cars, bikes, health monitors, appliances, ATMs, and kiosks could all become members of your social network, and give you important ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

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Over the past five years, our online interactions and connections have formed the backbone of companies like Facebook and Twitter and have defined whole new categories of social interaction. But where is it written that only humans can be social? What if machines like cars, bikes, health monitors, appliances, ATMs, and kiosks could all become members of your social network, and give you important
... Read more

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Unrelenting Innovation

How to Create a Culture for Market Dominance

by Gerard J. Tellis ...

Narrated by Mark Whitten ...

Series series J-B Warren Bennis Series
Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

The hands on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your company Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organizations innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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The hands on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your company Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organizations innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation.
... Read more

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Aluminum Dreams

The Making of Light Modernity

by Mimi Sheller ...

How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and
... Read more
Mobility Justice

The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

by Mimi Sheller ...

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement.Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement.Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She
... Read more
Citizenship from Below

Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

by Mimi Sheller ...

Series series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the
... Read more
Unrelenting Innovation

How to Create a Culture for Market Dominance

by Gerard J. Tellis ...

Series series J-B Warren Bennis Series
The hands-on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your companyGerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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The hands-on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your companyGerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation.
... Read more

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Infrastructuring Urban Futures

The Politics of Remaking Cities

by Mimi Sheller, Nate Millington, Kafui Attoh, Meredith Whitten, Mark Usher, Michael Glass, Prince Guma, Andres Luque Ayala, Patrick Bigger, Jonathan Rutherford, Jen Nelles, Jean-Paul Addie ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and
... Read more
Island Futures

Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

by Mimi Sheller ...

In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean
... Read more
Tourism Mobilities

Places to Play, Places in Play

by Mimi Sheller, John Urry ...

Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption.This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider:Performing ... Read more

$130.53 CAD

Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption.This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider:Performing
... Read more
Effective Advertising

Understanding When, How, and Why Advertising Works

by Gerard J. Tellis ...

Series series Marketing for a New Century
Recently nominated one of five finalists selected for the 2005 Berry-AMA Book Prize for best book in marketing!"Tellis has done a remarkable job. He has brought together an amazingly diverse literature. Unlike some other sources that claim to be able to measure the effects of advertising, Tellis′s thoroughness and ability to understand and convey results of various experiments and statistical ... Read more

$108.79 CAD

Recently nominated one of five finalists selected for the 2005 Berry-AMA Book Prize for best book in marketing!"Tellis has done a remarkable job. He has brought together an amazingly diverse literature. Unlike some other sources that claim to be able to measure the effects of advertising, Tellis′s thoroughness and ability to understand and convey results of various experiments and statistical
... Read more