Ideal for courses in multiple disciplines, the third edition of this award-winning text has been revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter’s sections. Patricia Leavy presents a practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres--narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Each genre-specific chapter is paired with an exemplary research article or online video link (at ...

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation--new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever.

Why? The management paradigm of...

How do you decide the best course of action for your company to take advantage of new opportunities? You must develop a business case to explore multiple alternatives before making a recommendation to support a particular option. This book shows you how to use a business case to define an opportunity, identify and analyze alternatives, and present your final recommendation to key stakeholders. You'll learn to - Clearly define the opportunity you'll want to address in your business case - Iden...

Become more mindful of the user when building digital products, and learn how to integrate a user-centered approach into your thinking as a web or app developer. This book shows you how the user experience is the responsibility of everyone involved in creating the product and how to redefine development principles when building user-centered digital products.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of t...

"Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Der Klassiker mit humorvollem Comic zur Vorentlastung und klassischem Originaltext mit Annotationen. Außerdem enthalten ist ein Anhang zu Leben und Werk von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Es ist spontane Entscheidung. Die Fahrkarte von Moskau nach Berlin kostet nur 96 Rubel, er braucht kein Visum, und außerdem lockt das Abenteuer - kurzerhand packt Wladimir Kaminer seine Sachen und reist im Sommer 1990 nach Deutschland. Berlin erweist sich schnell als ganz besondere Stadt. Hier trifft Wladimir seine zukünftige Frau Olga, ruft die Russendisko ins Leben und bringt sich mit dem russischen Lehrbuch "Deutsches Deutsch zum Selberlernen" eine neue Sprache bei. Mit hintergründigem ...

Einmal durch die Republik, von Nord nach Süd: Christian Krachts namenloser Ich-Erzähler berichtet von seiner Deutschlandreise. Der kleine Bildungsroman Faserland veränderte in Deutschland die Wahrnehmung einer ganzen Generation, von der es vorher hieß, sie habe gar keine Wahrnehmung.

Die Kontroversen, die 1995 sofort nach der Veröffentlichung des Romans Faserland ausbrachen, haben sich gelegt, der Roman ist heute ein Klassiker der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, der immer wieder n...

Awarded the Literature Prize of the VCIThis comprehensive textbook describes the synthesis, characterization and technical and engineering applications of polymers. Polymers are unique molecules and have properties different from any other class of materials. We encounter them in everyday life, not only in the form of the well-known, large-volume plastics such as PE or PP or the many other special polymers, some of which are very specifically modified but also in nature as polymeric biomolecu...