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Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
206 kr
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For James Burke, knowledge is a vast interconnected web - which means you never know how a new discovery or development, or even a chance accident, will affect everything else. To prove his point, he takes us on twenty exhilarating, all-new journeys through history's byways and shortcuts - from the zigzag path that starts with medieval spicy food and ends with smart bombs to the road that connects bottle caps with the Bowie Knife. Through these and hundreds of other fascinating examples - further linked by 447 cross references - Burke proves once more that he has 'one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world' - WASHINGTON POST.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
192 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2001
184 kr
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What do the Hubble Telescope, Buffalo Bill, and the Spanish Inquisition have in common, and how is the answer found in a certain fast food chain? How do margarine's strange origins tie in to plankton shells, receding stars, hot chocolate, and the first solo Atlantic flight? Continuing the fascinating journey he began in THE PINBALL EFFECT, James Burke shows how seemingly unrelated ideas and innovations bounce off each other, spinning a vast web of knowledge. Burke explains how the Internet is responsible for bringing these connections to light and claims this new awareness of our interdependence, with each other and with the past, will change our lives. Taking Burke's webbed approach to knowledge is one way that we can manage our information overload as we approach the ever-more-complex world that awaits us in the Twenty-First Century. Only by understanding the interrelated nature of the modern world can we hope to identify complex patterns of change and direct the process of innovation to the common good.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
184 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays all illustrate the surprisingly circular nature of change. In "Room with (Half) a View," for instance, Burke muses about the partly obscured railway bridge outside his home on the Thames, a musing which sets off a chain of thought that leads from the bridge's engineer to Samuel Morse, to firearms inventor Sam Colt, and finally to a trombonist named Gustav Holst, who once lived in the very house that blocks Burke's view. So it goes with Burke's entertaining and informative essays as each one highlights the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated events and innovations. Romantic poetry leads to brandy distillation; tonic water connects through Leibniz to the first explorers to reach the North Pole. This unique collection is sure to stimulate and delight history buffs, technophiles, and anyone else with a healthy intellectual curiosity.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
201 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
224 kr
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The Signers of the Declaration of Independence are like stuffed birds, museum exhibits from a moment in America's glorious past. They signed what might well have turned out to be their death warrant. And then, in almost every case, they faded from the scene. Who, for instance, remembers Button Gwinnett or Light-horse Harry Lee? AMERICAN CONNECTIONS brings the signers back to life. Each of the fifty-six chapters begins with a brief, humorous, thumbnail character sketch, in most cases revealing such hidden qualities as feet of clay, a dysfunctional family, a secret lover, financial shenanigans, or political back-stabbing, and so on. One of these connections triggers a series of linked events which, in the end, leads to the modern world, where the signer's name unexpectedly reappears. Some instances: - Josiah Bartlett reappears as the character carrying his name in the television show, 'The West Wing.' - William Whipple is a modern-world agronomist. - The modern-day Matthew Thornton is a NASA consultant. - Today's Robert Treat Paine is an oceanographer. - 20th century Samuel Adams set up the Food and Drugs Act. The storylines also introduce the reader to over 1,000 historical characters, ranging from kings and statesmen to spies, assassins, royal mistresses, astronomers, submariners, infanticides, con-men, actors, explorers, musicians, artists, inventors, transvestites, heroes, counterfeiters, conspirators, bomb-throwers, pill-makers and a host of others. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence will never seem the same again.
E-bok
Engelska, 2007102 kr
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Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood people: Some were shady financial manipulators, most were masterful political operators, a few were good human beings, and some were great men. The network that links them to us is also peopled by all sorts, from spies and assassins to lovers and adulterers, inventors and artists. The ties may be more direct for some of us than others, but we are all linked in some way to these founders of our nation. If you enjoyed Martin Sheen as the president on television''s The West Wing, then you''re connected to founder Josiah Bartlett. The connection from signer Bartlett to Sheen includes John Paul Jones; Judge William Cooper, father of James Fenimore; Sir Thomas Brisbane, governor of New South Wales; an incestuous astronomer; an itinerant math teacher; early inventors of television; and pioneering TV personality Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, the inspiration for Ramon Estevez''s screen name, Martin Sheen.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
321 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1997
298 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
398 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
223 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 128 kr
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This book offers innovative strategies for designing an Integrated Product Portfolio Management (IPPM) system that prioritizes customers, quality, growth and profits.It explores current frameworks for building product portfolios and provides creative ways to adapt to dynamic environments. The authors present practical solutions to overcome challenges and ensure products and services remain competitive amidst shifting stakeholder expectations, customer demands, economic changes, technological advancements and social trends. The book includes case studies from different industries and showcases ways to balance product portfolios, analyze trends, adapt to changing market conditions, anticipate hurdles, and build flexible and sustainable product portfolios. It highlights the role of machine learning, including applications of ChatGPT, and examines the evolving nature of stakeholder capitalism, emphasizing environmental, social and governance pressures. A practical guide for leaders and individuals looking to advance innovation, it offers personal, professional and corporate guidance on ways to improve the odds of product and service success.This book will be a valuable resource for middle and senior managers, strategic planners and product development professionals. It also will be of interest to students and faculty in marketing, product management, entrepreneurship and small business management, project management, strategic management and business leadership.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
588 kr
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This book offers innovative strategies for designing an Integrated Product Portfolio Management (IPPM) system that prioritizes customers, quality, growth and profits.It explores current frameworks for building product portfolios and provides creative ways to adapt to dynamic environments. The authors present practical solutions to overcome challenges and ensure products and services remain competitive amidst shifting stakeholder expectations, customer demands, economic changes, technological advancements and social trends. The book includes case studies from different industries and showcases ways to balance product portfolios, analyze trends, adapt to changing market conditions, anticipate hurdles, and build flexible and sustainable product portfolios. It highlights the role of machine learning, including applications of ChatGPT, and examines the evolving nature of stakeholder capitalism, emphasizing environmental, social and governance pressures. A practical guide for leaders and individuals looking to advance innovation, it offers personal, professional and corporate guidance on ways to improve the odds of product and service success.This book will be a valuable resource for middle and senior managers, strategic planners and product development professionals. It also will be of interest to students and faculty in marketing, product management, entrepreneurship and small business management, project management, strategic management and business leadership.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2025658 kr
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This book offers innovative strategies for designing an Integrated Product Portfolio Management (IPPM) system that prioritizes customers, quality, growth and profits.It explores current frameworks for building product portfolios and provides creative ways to adapt to dynamic environments. The authors present practical solutions to overcome challenges and ensure products and services remain competitive amidst shifting stakeholder expectations, customer demands, economic changes, technological advancements and social trends. The book includes case studies from different industries and showcases ways to balance product portfolios, analyze trends, adapt to changing market conditions, anticipate hurdles, and build flexible and sustainable product portfolios. It highlights the role of machine learning, including applications of ChatGPT, and examines the evolving nature of stakeholder capitalism, emphasizing environmental, social and governance pressures. A practical guide for leaders and individuals looking to advance innovation, it offers personal, professional and corporate guidance on ways to improve the odds of product and service success.This book will be a valuable resource for middle and senior managers, strategic planners and product development professionals. It also will be of interest to students and faculty in marketing, product management, entrepreneurship and small business management, project management, strategic management and business leadership.
E-bok
Engelska, 2025635 kr
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This book offers innovative strategies for designing an Integrated Product Portfolio Management (IPPM) system that prioritizes customers, quality, growth and profits.It explores current frameworks for building product portfolios and provides creative ways to adapt to dynamic environments. The authors present practical solutions to overcome challenges and ensure products and services remain competitive amidst shifting stakeholder expectations, customer demands, economic changes, technological advancements and social trends. The book includes case studies from different industries and showcases ways to balance product portfolios, analyze trends, adapt to changing market conditions, anticipate hurdles, and build flexible and sustainable product portfolios. It highlights the role of machine learning, including applications of ChatGPT, and examines the evolving nature of stakeholder capitalism, emphasizing environmental, social and governance pressures. A practical guide for leaders and individuals looking to advance innovation, it offers personal, professional and corporate guidance on ways to improve the odds of product and service success.This book will be a valuable resource for middle and senior managers, strategic planners and product development professionals. It also will be of interest to students and faculty in marketing, product management, entrepreneurship and small business management, project management, strategic management and business leadership.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
338 kr
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Desert by Design celebrates the interior worlds that exist in Earth’s most arid climes and, more importantly, the creative minds who inhabit themMarfa, Texas-based desert dwellers Molly Mandell and James Burke traveled the world to explore and photograph thirty incredible spaces. They made their way through the southwestern United States, to Mexico and Argentina, and to Morocco, Jordan, the Canary Islands, Rajasthan India, and even a micro-desert in New Zealand.They visited high desert and low desert, urban desert and rural desert, sandy desert and scrubby desert. They photographed everything from iconic properties inhabited by Yves Saint Laurent, César Manrique, and Donald Judd to thoughtfully curated, centuries-old adobe structures and modern, groundbreaking ones, all the while interviewing the choreographers, hoteliers, sculptors, environmentalists, chefs, audio engineers, and preservationists who bring them to life.This gorgeous coffee table book is an ode to these landscapes—their sounds, smells, flora, and fauna—filled with equal parts mystery and beauty and a glimpse into the projects and lives of those who have chosen to call them home.Desert by Design—its genuine, beautiful, and unexpected approach—is not your average interiors book. From tips for cultivating the intimate and unpretentious environment that is synonymous with the desert to images that evoke mindful living, it is both an homage to this unique and dynamic climate—its most extraordinary places and memorable personalities—and a manual for adopting elements of this lifestyle, no matter our location.Yes, this publication is for desert people, those who reside in it or who simply resonate with it. But it likewise exists for all of us who are seeking authentic design inspiration or courage to take the path less traveled, regardless of where we hang our hats.Deserts are known to be sensitive ecosystems where adaptability and resilience become common currency, requiring humans to live within the environment rather than apart from it. The result is a people who are inspired by challenge and who constantly create and innovate.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2006157 kr
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James Burke''s examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man''s understanding of himself and the world around him in The Day the Universe Changed.When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope. And with that single innovation, architecture, music, literature, science, politics—all of it changed, mirroring the new view of truth. This program is James Burke''s examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man''s understanding of himself and the world around him. Few people are able to look at human history and see it not as a jumble of half-remembered names and dates, but as an intricate mosaic of neatly interlocking pieces. Fewer still can describe the patterns and explain the parts of the puzzle so that it not only makes sense, but so that it also fascinates and intrigues, excites and entertains. James Burke tells history like it''s the plot of the most interesting mystery ever written.This program is read by the author.
E-bok
Engelska, 2009102 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays -- which originally appeared in James Burke''s popular Scientific American column -- all illustrate the serendipitous and surprisingly circular nature of change.In "Room with (Half) a View," for instance, Burke muses about the partly obscured railway bridge outside his home on the Thames. Thinking of the bridge engineer, who also built the steamship that laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable, causes him to recall Samuel Morse; which, in turn, conjures up Morse''s neighbor, firearms inventor Sam Colt, and his rival, Remington. One dizzying connection after another leads to Karl Marx''s daughter, who attended Socialist meetings with a trombonist named Gustav Holst, who once lived in the very house that blocks Burke''s view of the bridge on the Thames. Burke''s essays all evolve in this organic manner, highlighting the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated events and innovations. Romantic poetry leads to brandy distillation; tonic water connects through Leibniz to the first explorers to reach the North Pole.Witty, instructive, and endlessly entertaining, Circles expands on the trademark style that has captivated James Burke fans for years. This unique collection is sure to stimulate and delight history buffs, technophiles, and anyone else with a healthy intellectual curiosity.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010102 kr
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A captivating journey through interconnected history and innovative ideas that reveal the surprising links shaping our modern world.In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television’s Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history. Displaying mesmerizing flights of fancy, he shows how seemingly unrelated ideas and innovations bounce off one another, spinning a vast, interactive web on which everything is connected to everything else: Carmen leads to the theory of relativity, champagne bottling links to wallpaper design, Joan of Arc connects through vaudeville to Buffalo Bill. Illustrating his open, connective theme in the form of a journey across a web, Burke breaks down complex concepts, offering information in a manner accessible to anybody—high school graduates and PhD holders alike. The journey touches almost two hundred interlinked points in the history of knowledge, ultimately ending where it begins. At once amusing and instructing, The Knowledge Web heightens our awareness of our interdependence—with one another and with the past. Only by understanding the interrelated nature of the modern world can we hope to identify complex patterns of change and direct the process of innovation to the common good.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010102 kr
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Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work''s twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future.Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world.Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter," Burke''s twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft.Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.
E-bok
Engelska, 2012102 kr
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Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling book, James Burke brilliantly examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today. With dazzling insight, he untangles the pattern of interconnecting events: the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to the major inventions of the world. Says Burke, "My purpose is to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight innovations—the computer, the production line, telecommunications, the airplane, the atomic bomb, plastics, the guided rocket, and television—which may be most influential in structuring our own futures....Each one of these is part of a family of similar devices, and is the result of a sequence of closely connected events extending from the ancient world until the present day. Each has enormous potential for humankind''s benefit—or destruction." Based on a popular TV documentary series, Connections is a fascinating scientific detective story of the inventions that changed history—and the surprising links that connect them.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 698 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 641 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
123 kr
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Ljudbok
Engelska, 2021161 kr
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A collection of BBC radio documentaries celebrating the lunar landings and their legacyOn July 20th 1969, for the first time in history, man walked on the moon. Over 50 years later, this ''giant leap for mankind'' still captures our imagination, and in this 4-part collection, we bring together some of the most fascinating and insightful BBC documentaries about our ever-changing relationship with our only natural satellite.In Part 1: The Moon Landings, we hear personal accounts of what it was like to be part of some of the defining moments of the 20th Century. Walking on the Moon sees Buzz Aldrin reliving the perilous final moments before touchdown, while in Last Word, Matthew Bannister hears the story of that historic voyage, with contributions from friends, colleagues and old classmates of Neil Armstrong. The History Hour: Exploring Space features recollections of five landmarks in space travel, and in Seriously: Apollo 8, Helen Sharman hears about the first mission which took human beings beyond the earth''s orbit.Part 2: Legacy ranges from 1969 to the present day, and analyses the enduring significance of the moon landings. In James Burke: Our Man on the Moon, the key voice for the BBC coverage of the event revisits that dramatic time in front of a live audience. A Moon Landing Special assesses Apollo 11''s impact on politics and culture and ponders the future of space exploration. Give Me the MoonLITE finds Richard Hollingham examining British plans to return to space, and two episodes of The Infinite Monkey Cage - The Infinite Moonkey Cage and Astronaut Special - feature an extraordinary gathering of space explorers.Part 3: Why the Moon? considers how the moon has long been an object of fascination for humanity. The Why Factor investigates the moon in culture, and how it affects life on Earth. In Discovery: The Making of the Moon, Lucie Green asks ''Where does the Moon come from - and are we going back''? Meanwhile, in The Forum: The Moon from Earth, Rajan Datar and guests contemplate how our understanding of what the moon is and what it means has changed over time.Part 4: The Future probes the current state of space exploration. In Brainwaves: The Moon, Pennie Latin looks at the race to return to the moon, and in Tulips on the Moon, Richard Hollingham finds out whether it''s really possible to grow plants in space. Finally, In The Real Story: The Future of Space Exploration, Celia Hatton and guests discuss where we go next in our quest to understand our place in the universe.Copyright © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
150 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
150 kr
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Del 3 - Fireproof Commentaries
Unshakable Kingdom
A Fresh Look at Hebrews
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
150 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
154 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
117 kr
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