The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring your material so that you get your message across, such as understanding the demands of particular audiences, subjects, and situations. Clearly organized, the book is arranged in four sections: A Communicating in everyday life - covers a wide range of communicatio...

Essayer de restituer la pensée, non pas d’un, mais de deux auteurs constitue un exercice assez singulier. Cela suppose, en effet, de rendre compte de leurs travaux communs, tout en intégrant ce que chacun peut avoir de spécifique. Cela étant, l’apport de John Seely Brown et Paul Duguid réside moins dans l’accaparement d’un quelconque objet de recherche, auquel on associerait immédiatement leurs noms, qu’à leur positionnement dans un champ de connaissances déjà constituées. Rendre justice à...

The 21st century is a world in constant change.In A New Culture of Learning, Doug Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic.Typically, when we think of culture, we think of an existing, stable entity that changes and evolves over long periods of time. In

Essayer de restituer la pensée, non pas d’un, mais de deux auteurs constitue un exercice assez singulier. Cela suppose, en effet, de rendre compte de leurs travaux communs, tout en intégrant ce que chacun peut avoir de spécifique. Cela étant, l’apport de John Seely Brown et Paul Duguid réside moins dans l’accaparement d’un quelconque objet de recherche, auquel on associerait immédiatement leurs noms, qu’à leur positionnement dans un champ de connaissances déjà constituées. Rendre justice à...

In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they've carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into the stream. But many of us remain stuck in old practices -- practices that could undermine us as we search for success and meaning.In this revolutionary book, three doyens of the Inte...

Understand the human place in a digital world.“Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future,” The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We’re now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever.The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and obliterate social organizations. Pundits pr...

This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and...

"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever. The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and obliterate social organizations. Pundits predicted that information technology would spell the end of almost everythingfrom mass media to b...

Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human intervention implies a new understanding of the huma...

The Authoritative Guide to Building Service-Oriented Solutions with Microsoft .NET Technologies and the Windows Azure Cloud Computing PlatformIn SOA with .NET and Windows Azure, top Microsoft technology experts team up with Thomas Erl to explore service-oriented computing with Microsoft’s latest .NET service technologies and Windows Azure innovations.The authors provide comprehensive documentation of on-premise and cloud-based modern service techno...

This laboratory guidebook provides step-by-step procedures that will aid in the dissection and collection of major organs and tissues of the most common species of small animals used in biomedical research. Through extensive use of photographs and illustrations, it guides dissectors through a complete necropsy of each species for the purpose of collecting organs and tissues routinely examined by pathologists. The techniques described enable technicians to perform necropsies on almost any m...

Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned and describe eight essential practices for achieving success.Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation initiativ...