Автор: Wisnioski Matthew, Hintz Eric S., Kleine Marie Stettler Название: Does America Need More Innovators? ISBN: 0262536730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262536738 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 50790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree--Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation.
The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator.
Contributors Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Beno t Godin, Jenn Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk, Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel, Matthew Wisnioski
Автор: Reinhard F. Stettler Название: Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society ISBN: 0295996706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295996707 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime of work in forestry and genetics to guide him, Reinhard Stettler celebrates both what has been learned and what still remains a mystery as he examines not only cottonwoods but also trees more generally, their evolution, and their relationship to society.
Cottonwoods flourish on the verge, near streams and rivers. Their life cycle is closely attuned to the river's natural dynamics. An ever-changing floodplain keeps generating new opportunities for these pioneers to settle and prepare the ground for new species. Perpetual change is the story of cottonwoods -- but in a broader sense, the story of all trees and all kinds of life. Through the long parade of generation after generation, as rivers meander and glaciers advance and retreat, trees have adapted and persisted, some for thousands of years. How do they do this? And more urgently, what lessons can we learn from the study of trees to preserve and manage our forests for an uncertain future?
In his search for answers, Stettler moves from the floodplain of a West Cascade river, where seedlings compete for a foothold, to mountain slopes, where aspens reveal their genetic differences in colorful displays; from the workshops of Renaissance artists who painted their masterpieces on poplar to labs where geneticists have recently succeeded in sequencing a cottonwood's genome; from the intensively cultivated tree plantations along the Columbia to old-growth forests challenged by global warming.
Natural selection and adaptation, the comparable advantages and disadvantages of sexual versus asexual reproduction, the history of plant domestication, and the purposes, risks, and potential benefits of genetic engineering are a few of the many chapters in this story. By offering lessons in how nature works, as well as how science can help us understand it, Cottonwood and the River of Time illuminates connections between the physical, biological, and social worlds.
Автор: Rene Stettler Название: The Politics of Knowledge Work in the Post-Industrial Culture: Understanding the Dissemination of Knowledge of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts ISBN: 3990435914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783990435915 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 74320.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Cultural work and knowledge are the central topics of this book and intersect with many of the concerns on how to involve the general public in scientific, technological and economic developments to address urgent changes often deemed to be of a highly scientific nature – including climate change, sustainability, environment and development.
Автор: Parsons Jennifer Stettler Название: Fragile Earth ISBN: 1880897318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781880897317 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 32340.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Contemporary artists probe the impact of human intervention on the environment
Just as artists of the 19th and 20th centuries participated in forging an American natural history as explorers, cataloguers, collectors, and early environmentalists, contemporary artists continue to incorporate and comment on the natural world in their art. Motivated by the inexorable rise of urban-industrial development and the subsequent deterioration of our planet, artists confront the vulnerability of our environment and the effects of global climate change to illustrate the continued relevance of ecology and nature conservation to contemporary artistic practice. In Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, leading artists Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison, and James Prosek make natural elements their medium conceptually and literally, from prints created with eel bodies, to ceramic sculpture mimicking coral bleaching, cabinets filled with colorful plastic collected from oceans and rivers, and walls covered with shockingly beautiful, preserved insects. Bringing an artistic perspective to natural science, these essays and written conversations showcase the persuasive role artists can play in advocating for the preservation of our earth.
Автор: Reeder Tj Название: A Long Lonely Road Volume Five ISBN: 1540685462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540685469 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Reeder Tj Название: A Long Lonely Road Volume Two ISBN: 1533038910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781533038913 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 25280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Books 6 through 10 of the popular Kindle series "A Long Lonely Road", Volume Two continues the adventures of our hero, John Long Walker, as he and his growing community figure out how to not just survive, but thrive at the end of the world as we know it. Not the usual Rambo, but not the common alternative clueless urbanite, either, John is an older man with a lot of practical knowledge...and the sense and humor needed to build a new life for himself and those around him.
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