Digitalization creates unique opportunities and poses transformational challenges for many companies across industries. In that context, the governance of digitalization has become the key success factor in mastering digital innovation and transformation. It requires boards of directors as well as top management teams to fully understand digital trends, identify their implications, derive adequate digital strategies, execute them swiftly, and monitor their diligent implementation. This boo...

In "How the Piano Came to Be," Ellye Howell Glover explores the intricate history and evolution of one of the most beloved instruments in Western music. With a blend of accessible prose and detailed analysis, Glover delves into the technological transformations that led to the modern piano, framing her narrative within the broader context of musical innovation in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rich in anecdotal evidence and historical references, the book not only chronicles the development ...

From creeping capitalism to abortion to government corruption, these three books shed light on controversial topics that are too often left in the dark.Curated by NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, the Forbidden Bookshelf series resurrects books from America's repressed history. All touching on bold and debated topics, these three books are more relevant today than ever.Friendly Fascism: Bertram Gross, a presidential adviser in the New Deal era, exp...

A fascinating first-person origin story of the Rastafari ideology, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican historyIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. with popularizing nonviolent protest strategies in later years, littl...

This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century laterIn the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end their unwanted pregnancies had limited options—many of them dangerous, even potentially fatal, and nearly all of them illegal. This groundbreaking work by...

A fascinating first-person origin story of Rastafari beliefs, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican historyIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests against British colonial rule. Adding a religious element to Marcus Garvey's message of African independence, he founded an organization called the Ethiopian Salvation Society. Though informed by Christia...

An anthology of speculative climate fiction and poetry by authors from around the world.Fishing for ghosts. Saving the Agassiz Icefield.A new North strong and sustainable. Robot mermaids with lasers.Teenage solar rogues. Activist archivists.The Queen of the May and the protean Lord of the Sea, struggling to cope with changes large and small.A future West both weird and wild.These greener futures hold all this and more.

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20...

CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 7. Christmas; or, The Good Fairy HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 8. The First Christmas of New England HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 9. Christmas Bells HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 10. T...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of new planets.Visiting, much less settling, those worlds will provide innumerable challenges.The men and women who make the journey will be those who don't fear the odds.They'll be Kepler's Cowboys.Saddle up and take an unforgettable journey to distant star systems. Meet new life forms--some willing to be your friend and others who will see you as the invader. Fight for justice in a lawless frontier. Go on...

Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in printAfter the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging from their politics and activism, and they discussed the purpose and responsibilities human beings share for the future. The recorded dialogue among these four friends invites r...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity ...