THE SUBJECT OF “DESIGN THINKING” IS THE RAGE AT BUSINESS SCHOOLS, THROUGHOUT CORPORATIONS, AND INCREASINGLY IN THE POPULAR PRESS-DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE WORK OF IDEO, A LEADING DESIGN FIRM, AND ITS CELEBRATED CEO, TIM BROWN, WHO USES THIS BOOK TO SHOW HOW THE TECHNIQUES...
IN A LITTLE OVER TWO CENTURIES, AMERICA HAS GROWN FROM A REGIONAL POWER TO A SUPERPOWER, AND TO WHAT IS TODAY CALLED A HYPERPOWER. BUT CAN AMERICA RETAIN ITS POSITION AS THE WORLD'S DOMINANT POWER, OR HAS IT ALREADY BEGUN TO DECLINE? HISTORIANS HAVE DEBATED THE RISE AND FALL...
"THE MOST CONSISTENTLY BRILLIANT SCIENCE FICTION WRITER IN THE WORLD." --JOHN BRUNNER THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? WAS PUBLISHED IN 1968. GRIM AND FOREBODING, EVEN TODAY IT IS A MASTERPIECE AHEAD OF ITS TIME. BY 2021, THE WORLD...
AWARDS
American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS)’s Science Books & Films Best List WINNER 2016
National Book Critics Circle Awards FINALIST 2016
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award FINALIST 2017
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews
Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life?but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.
IN MULTITUDE HARDT AND NEGRI ARGUE THAT THE REVERSE IS TRUE: THE GRIEVOUS FAILURES OF THE... A MULTITUDE, WITH THE POWER TO FORGE A DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE PRESENT WORLD ORDER. EXHILARATING IN ITS OPTIMISM, RANGE, AND DEPTH OF INSIGHT, MULTITUDE CONSOLIDATES HARDT AND...