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Spectacular Flops

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications
ISBN 13 : 1733376941
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Flops written by Michael Brian Schiffer and published by Eliot Werner Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed.

Spectacular Flops

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications
ISBN 13 : 1733376933
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Flops written by Michael Brian Schiffer and published by Eliot Werner Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed.

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496843258
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Terrence McNally written by Raymond-Jean Frontain and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938–2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and—in outrageous farces like The Ritz and It’s Only a Play—began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America’s treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater’s great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place. Conversations with Terrence McNally collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears McNally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over McNally’s fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class) and author of the book for the Best Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime), McNally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.

The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire

Author : Fred Coleman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312168162
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire written by Fred Coleman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Coleman, A Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, has spent over thirty years gathering observations and experiences to produce this in-depth, up-close, definitive examination of the fall of the Soviet Union and the people and events that contributed essentially to its demise. From the Kremlin Palace coup against Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the emergence of the Soviet dissident movement during Leonid Brezhnev's rule, to the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin's troubled presidency through 1995, Coleman was the man on the scene for virtually every defining event of Russian history in the postwar era.

The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules

Author : Philip Jenks
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857191136
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules written by Philip Jenks and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the tactics, strategies and insights relied on by 150 of the world's most respected financial experts are revealed in a concise, digestible form. Learn how you really make money in the markets from: - fund managers of billion-pound equity funds - traders in the options and futures markets - industry-rated analysts - economists from top business schools - writers on leading financial newspapers Each provides focused and practical rules on how to succeed in the market. Often counter-intuitive, their rules tell you exactly what to do and what not to do. No padding; just a rock-hard list of do's and don'ts. The contributors to this book are the elite of investing. They consistently beat the market because they know which shares to buy, at what price, and when. And, just as importantly, they know when to sell. Never before has so much quality advice been packed into a single book. If you want to increase your wealth through investing, this is an unmissable opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills from the best in the world.

Stock Market Trading Rules

Author : Philip Jenks
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857192132
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Stock Market Trading Rules written by Philip Jenks and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in 2001, The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules was compiled and published. The project was a huge success, the rules provided by the contributors were fascinating, insightful and entertaining, and for the first time the book pooled together collected wisdom of 150 of the world's greatest traders in one place. One of the many strengths of the rules that were written for and included in the original publication was their timeless quality - these gems of investing and trading wisdom apply to a range of markets across a spread of time periods and are not confined to one market or one set of circumstances. And so it is that the decision was made to republish the original rules in a more condensed form and in a new format. In this eBook you will find just that; 80 sets of trading rules from expert international traders. As with the original publication, these rules provide condensed knowledge from experts about what they consider to the key determinants of trading success. You will notice that the experts do not agree, this is intentional as trading is a diverse and conflicting pursuit, and you will notice that the rules are not comprehensive, this is also intentional, as this is a reference guide to be dipped into and to encourage you to take up further reading elsewhere on subjects that appeal to you. Traders of all experience levels will find these rules useful in clarifying aspects of their trading approach. The original publication of 150 rules is also available as an eBook, from all good online retailers. www.harriman-house.com/investingrules

The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules

Author : Philip Jenks
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0130094013
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules written by Philip Jenks and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of 150 successful fund managers, traders, analysts, economists, and investment experts offer advice, techniques, and ideas to increase returns and control risks in investing. Some of the areas of specialty discussed include international markets and capital flows, company valuation, liquidi

Italian Playwrights from the Twentieth Century

Author : Michael Vena
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483633527
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Italian Playwrights from the Twentieth Century written by Michael Vena and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian theater brings early on stage some of the most signifi cant productions of the 20th century, with major playwrights holding a pivotal role in the renewal of the European stage: Gabriele DAnnunzio, Eduardo De Filippo, Dario Fo, Luigi Chiarelli, Luigi Antonelli, Rosso di San Secondo, Enrico Cavacchioli, Massimo Bontempelli, Dacia Maraini, Ugo Betti, Diego Fabbri, thanks to such innovative movements from the early century called grotteschi and futuristi. If the early Pirandellian plays are added, we will have a comprehensive view of twentieth century theater, and the weight it will carry upon the coming generations.

Late Life Jazz

Author : Ken Crossland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199798575
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Late Life Jazz written by Ken Crossland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Clooney's 50-year career travelled a long road, from 50s novelty songs to timeless American jazz, combating personal strife and a drug-fueled mental breakdown along the way. Late Life Jazz tells the rise, fall and rise again story of America's finest girl singer.

The Gutless Wonder's Guide to Success

Author : Bob Goldman
Publisher : Creators Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949673863
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Gutless Wonder's Guide to Success written by Bob Goldman and published by Creators Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn how to win the hybrid office wars? How to become a master napper? How to get back to gossiping? How to make the most of your day at work (by working the least)? Allow business leader and humor writer Bob Goldman to navigate you through the minefield that is corporate life. He will provide you practical tips and attitude adjustments that guarantee laughter, if not financial success. This is a collection of the best of Bob Goldman from the past two and a half years.

Time To Tell

Author : Ronald Green
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785356968
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Time To Tell written by Ronald Green and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time seems to flash by when we are enjoying ourselves, and slows to a crawl when we are bored. Why? Does time exist, or is it an illusion? Does it flow? Is it linear? How real are our memories? When is now? These are just some of the questions that Time To Tell asks in its foray into what time is for us, what it does to us and for us, and how we live and react to it in our daily lives. Digging down to the roots of our lived experience in the world, Time To Tell takes us through a journey replete with twists and turns and “aha!” moments. Challenging the obvious, the book asks us to look anew at our perspective of what we naturally take for granted. Rattling the comfort of instant satisfaction, of reality shows, celebrity worship and the self-glorification of the I-generation, Ronald Green, with panache and authority, takes us on a journey that allows us a new way of looking at ourselves in the world, and to act upon what we discover.

Mediating Human Rights

Author : Lieve Gies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317950585
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Human Rights written by Lieve Gies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the original ambition to establish a human rights culture. The human rights regime has been high on the political agenda ever since the Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted. Often maligned in sections of the press, the legislation has entered popular folklore as shorthand for an overbearing government, an overzealous judiciary and exploitative claimants. This book examines a range of significant factors in the mediation of human rights, including: Euroscepticism, the war on terror, the digital reordering of the media landscape, , press concerns about an emerging privacy law and civil liberties. Mediating Human Rights is a timely exploration of the relationship between law, politics and media. It will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Law, Media Studies, Human Rights, and Politics.

Streetwise

Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829402
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Streetwise written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetwise brings together classic articles from the publication that helped revolutionize the way Wall Street does business. During the recession of the early 1970s, investment professionals turned to the theories of a small band of mathematical economists, whose ideas on such topics as portfolio development and risk management eventually led to the reform and maintenance of entire economies. This was the first time economists and practitioners had joined forces to such remarkable effect. Economist and money manager Peter Bernstein sought to encourage this exchange when, in 1974, he founded The Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM). For this present volume, Bernstein and JPM editor Frank Fabozzi have selected forty-one of the most influential articles to appear in the journal over the past twenty-five years, some of them written by Nobel laureates and all aimed at stimulating dialogue between academic economists wishing to understand the real-world problems of finance and investment professionals wanting to bring the most advanced theoretical work to bear on commerce. Financial economics is a youthful but vital field. Streetwise not only reflects its fascinating history but through articles on topics ranging from stock prices and risk management to bonds and real estate also offers relevant insights for today. The contributors are: R. Akhoury, R. D. Arnott, G. L. Bergstrom, G. O. Bierwag, F. Black, R. Bookstaber, K. Cholerton, R. Clarke, D. M. Cutler, C. P. Dialynas, P. O. Dietz, D. H. Edington, M. W. Einhorn, J. Evnine, R. Ferguson, P. M. Firstenberg, H. R. Fogler, F. Garrone, R. Grieves, R. C. Grinold, D. J. Hardy, D. P. Jacob, B. I. Jacobs, R. H. Jeffrey, R. N. Kahn, G. G. Kaufman, M. Kritzman, R. Lanstein, C. M. Latta, M. L. Leibowitz, K. N. Levy, R. Lochoff, R. W. McEnally, K. R. Meyer, E. M. Miller, A. F. Perold, P. Pieraerts, J. M. Poterba, K. Reid, R. R. Reitano, R. Roll, B. Rosenberg, S. A. Ross, M. Rubinstein, A. Rudd, P. A. Samuelson, R. Schweitzer, C. Seix, W. F. Sharpe, B. Solnik, L. H. Summers, A. L. Toevs, J. L. Treynor, A. Weinberger, and R. C. Zisler.

The End of American World Order

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509517111
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The End of American World Order written by Amitav Acharya and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American hegemony? A regionalized system of global cooperation, including major and emerging powers? In this updated and extended edition of his widely acclaimed book, Amitav Acharya offers an incisive answer to this fundamental question. While the US will remain a major force in world affairs, he argues that it has lost the ability to shape world order after its own interests and image. As a result, the US will be one of a number of anchors including emerging powers, regional forces, and a concert of the old and new powers shaping a new world order. Rejecting labels such as multipolar, apolar, or G-Zero, Acharya likens the emerging system to a multiplex theatre, offering a choice of plots (ideas), directors (power), and action (leadership) under one roof. Finally, he reflects on the policies that the US, emerging powers and regional actors must pursue to promote stability in this decentred but interdependent, multiplex world. Written by a leading scholar of the international relations of the non-Western world, and rising above partisan punditry, this book represents a major contribution to debates over the post-American era.

The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309451159
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force (USAF) has continuously sought to improve the speed with which it develops new capabilities to accomplish its various missions in air, space, and cyberspace. Historically, innovation has been a key part of USAF strategy, and operating within an adversary's OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is part of Air Force DNA. This includes the ability to deploy technological innovations faster than do our adversaries. The Air Force faces adversaries with the potential to operate within the USAF's OODA loop, and some of these adversaries are already deploying innovations faster than the USAF. The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle examines the current state of innovation and experimentation in the Air Force and best practices in innovation and experimentation in industry and other government agencies. This report also explores organizational changes needed to eliminate the barriers that deter innovation and experimentation and makes recommendations for the successful implementation of robust innovation and experimentation by the Air Force.

Uncle John's Fast-Acting, Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1607106000
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Uncle John's Fast-Acting, Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest, greatest volume in the popular Uncle John’s series, flush with fun facts and figures and plenty of trademark trivia. The dedicated folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute are back with some Fast-Acting, Long-Lasting relief for our legions of fans who have been suffering without a new infusion of Uncle John’s trademark trivia and obscure facts. That’s right, folks, this is the book you’ve been waiting for! Number 18 in the Bathroom Reader series is flush with fun, new factoids, trivia, and all the usual useless (and occasionally useful!) information our fans have come to expect. Ever wonder what you can do with Preparation H besides the obvious? Want to learn more about celebrity jailbirds or whether dragons really exist? Then it’s time to take the plunge!

Framework

Author : Tom Stempel
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606543
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Framework written by Tom Stempel and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third eidtion of this history of the art and craft of screenwriting from the silents to the present provides information and stories about those who write and have written for film. Includes anecdotal insights into the working lives of directors, producers, and stars, as well as how American movies get made.