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Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace is the first book in the Innovation Elegance series. Although software is not what makes innovation difficult, innovators rely on software-centric methodologies. What makes innovation difficult is people: how we interact, govern, collaborate, or fail to collaborate. A people-centric methodology isn't shocking or revolutionary. It's just overdue. This book explains how to adopt the metaphors of a...

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Defect and Microstructure Analysis by Diffraction looks at a key aspect of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing the actual structure of materials. Diffraction analysis is typically based on idealized crystals. The impurities and irregularities that work themselves into virtually all crystalstructures, however, cause diffraction peak profiles to broaden and sometimes become asymmetric, making the data difficult to interpret. More powerful met...

Reagan wants to spend the weekend with her grandparents, who live just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She wants her grandmother to teach her how to knit. During her stay, she has an encounter with a little bear, and by the time the weekend is over, Reagan learned much more than how to knit.

Reagan wants to spend the weekend with her grandparents, who live just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She wants her grandmother to teach her how to knit. During her stay, she has an encounter with a little bear, and by the time the weekend is over, Reagan learned much more than how to knit.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Geneticists/people of metal at the University of Nairobi conduct a centuries-long genetic engineering initiative that transforms biological Africans into an entirely new, immeasurably smarter human species. Meanwhile, the people of metal who led the Human Rescue Initiative in Africa have built human colonies on two distant planets to assure that humans survive somewhere.Colonists find strange mosaic-like formations of small stones at ground le...

This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just read but taken in." -Library Journal Featuring a new introduction by Robert Hass, the nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, fir...

Eric Ambler's first six novels released between 1936 and 1940 quickly established his reputation as a master craftsman of intrigue and espionage narratives. Far less often discussed are the twelve Cold War novels he published, after an eleven-year hiatus as a screenwriter, between 1951 and 1981. This study argues that his entire corpus manifests late modernism's impulse toward a broadly social, political, and cultural critique of the times. Am...

Providing a satisfying patient experience is not only the right thing to do--it is the key to clinical and business success. A Physician Guidebook to The Best Patient Experience details the nuts-and-bolts behaviors that produce great physician-patient interactions. It helps physicians tackle the challenge of modifying ingrained behaviors to make changes that stick--and bolster their patient satisfaction scores. An exceptional resource for doct...

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There's no better place to see the beauty of God's creation than in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That's where Reagan, Mason, and Colton are going with their grandparents to have a picnic in Cades Cove. There will be wonderful things to see and tasty food to eat, but Grampy has a special surprise that creates a lasting memory for the children, one that they will long remember.

There's no better place to see the beauty of God's creation than in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That's where Reagan, Mason, and Colton are going with their grandparents to have a picnic in Cades Cove. There will be wonderful things to see and tasty food to eat, but Grampy has a special surprise that creates a lasting memory for the children, one that they will long remember.

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"--the home of the nation's largest Dominican community.The story of Washington...

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Snyder's story indulges in the utopian speculation of early sci-fi works." -KIRKUS REVIEWSIn 2065, a team at MIT brings to fruition efforts, already well under way today, to make functioning copies of actual human minds. When the mind-copies are installed in advanced robotic hardware whose functionality equals or exceeds the human body's, the resulting human robots can perform the same work as their biological originals-from carving a sculptur...