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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2008
If you have children or grandchildren - you need to buy and read this book
Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen's laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of ...
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Cooking Light Superfast Suppers: Speedy Solutions for Dinner Dilemmas (Cooking Light)
Oxmoor House, 2003
GREAT Cookbook!
I LOVE this cookbook!!!!! It was a Christmas gift and ever since we've been having great dinners nearly every night. I don't even want to go out anymore. This book contains easy to make meals in under 30 minutes (with the exception of the chapter on crockpot cooking). ...
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Sophie's Dilemma (Daughters of Blessing #2)
Lauraine Snelling
Bethany House, 2007
Sophie's Delemma
Book received in less than a week. Book in excellent condition. Thank you for such good service.
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How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Rushworth M. Kidder
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
The few. The moral. The good people.
There are no books on the market that address morality that way that this book does. Not the Bible. Not my university textbook on ethics. None. It's one thing to talk about moral issues and take sides with them, but it is another thing entirely to talk about solid ...
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Would You Rather : Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder
David Gomberg, Justin Heimberg
Plume, 1997
"would you rather" the book
gr8 for travel/car/pocket/backpack. Innocent bystanders get a laugh when you read these out loud to your family and friends, all of a sudden everybody on the plane is your friend.
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Prisoner's Dilemma
William Poundstone
Anchor, 1993
Great introduction to the history of Game Theory and John von Neumann
I wont write a long review since others have done that. Ill just say that this is a great book for the layman if they want to understand something of the history of Game Theory and John von Neumann.
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If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do?
Sandra McLeod Humphrey
Prometheus Books, 1995
Kids and parents will love this book
This book is such a wonderful way to open up dialogue with yourchildren. They love to tell you what they would do and you get theopportunity to share your values at the same time. I really think this is a wonderful way to talk to your kids about peer pressure and ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Changed My World View
Let me put it out front -- I'm an omnivore and nothing in the book changes that. What has changed is my entire way of looking at food. The book is loaded with information that makes one reconsider the mix of foods you eat. What I like is that it does this while not ...
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...
Clayton M. Christensen
Collins Business, 2003
Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's ...
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
Matt Mason
Free Press, 2008
Good for outsiders of the movement
This book is slightly maddening. The intention is valid: to steer people towards thinking about piracy in a new light. The "pirate's dilemma" is whether to persecute and shut down piracy, or to recognize it as a kind of creative competition. If you can't beat them, ...
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Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice (Ethics in Crime and Justice)
Joycelyn M. Pollock
Wadsworth Publishing, 2006
Should have specified book was torn-not used
The book was classified as used but did not specifically say on the condition of the book being torn. The book was in really bad condition.
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The Dilemma Deepens: A Box of Unfortunate Events, Books 7-9 (The Vile Village; The Hostile Hospital; The ...
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
HarperCollins, 2003
Great series
My 14 yr old daughter who does not care to read has loved this series. She struggled thru volumes 4-6, but breezed thru 7-9 and is looking forward to the next in the series. Highly recommended from my standpoint.
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The Busy Mom's Guide to a Happy, Organized Home: Fast Solutions to Hundreds of Everyday Dilemmas
Kathy Peel
Picket Fence Press, 2008
Kathy Peel fans (and others) gotta have this book!
If you've read Kathy's books, you know they are based on her Family Manager "system" she created over 10 years ago. If you've hesitated to purchase her recent books thinking they're all the same info., don't hesitate anymore! This is the book I've been waiting for by ...
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Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
Barry Johnson
Human Resource Development Press, 1992
Helpful, practical insights into organizational dynamics.
This book really shows how we become stuck in dilemmas and static thinking, and how we can instead move at one with change. I am finding it tremendously helpful in analyzing entrenched organizational dysfunction that persists in spite of the efforts of well-meaning ...
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas
Deborah Luepnitz, Deborah Anna Luepnitz
Basic Books, 2003
Insightful, compassionate and accessible
With great grace and empathy, Luepnitz traces five divergent routes through the sometimes difficult process of analysis. Luepnitz' considerable training and erudition illuminate not just psychoanalytic history and theory, but the relationships of patients and their ...
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