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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…
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- 9780262289504
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- 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages).
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The new economics :for industry, government, education
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management." --from The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education In this boo…
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- Third edition
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- 9780262355445
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Out of the crisis
Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management. " Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." --from Out of the Crisis In his classic Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming describes the fou…
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- [Reissue].
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- 9780262355438
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- 1 online resource (448 pages).
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Made in the USA :the rise and retreat of American manufacturing
"In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Reversing a famous information economy dictum, Smil…
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- 9780262316743
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) :illustrations
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design
Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations: frame creation. It applies "design thinking," but it goes beyond the borrowed tricks and techniques that usually characterize that term. The strategies presented are drawn from the unique, sophisticated, multilayered practices of top designers, and from insights that have emerged from fifty years of design …
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- 9780262328845
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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In the bubble : Designing in a complex world
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…
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- 0262201577
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- 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
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- 600 THA b
Productivity machines :German appropriations of American technologies from ma…
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- 9780262353717
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- 1 online resource (368 pages).
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Structures of scientific collaboration / of Scientific Collaboration
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations.
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Modellistica Numerica per Problemi Differenziali
In questo testo si introducono i concetti di base per la modellistica numerica di problemi differenziali alle derivate parziali. Si considerano le classiche equazioni lineari ellittiche, paraboliche ed iperboliche, ma anche altre equazioni, quali quelle di diffusione e trasporto, di Navier-Stokes e le leggi di conservazione; si forniscono inoltre numerosi esempi fisici che stanno alla base di t…
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- 1
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- 978-88-470-5780-7
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- XIX, 651
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- UNITEXT
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Industrial organization and the digital economy
Theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276009
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- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
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- 660 IND
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