From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s Bell Labs-officially the research & development wing of AT&T-was the biggest & arguably the best laboratory for new ideas in the world From the transistor to the laser from digital communications to cellular telephony it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs In The Idea Factory Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions & delivers a riveting & heretofore untold chapter of American history At its heart this is a story about the life & work of a small group of brilliant & eccentric men-Mervin Kelly Bill Shockley Claude Shannon John Pierce & Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs Today when the drive to invent has become a mantra Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges & solutions to technological innovation Here after all was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born ...

Take your passion & make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor & Alex Pellew Do you have an idea in you? A hobby a project a product something that could change your life? The Idea in You is a bulletproof system for finding the right idea & shaping it in to a success
- on your own terms With advice from the people behind the likes of Pizza Pilgrims Parkrun & Decoded The Idea in You will show you what to expect how to think & what to do when launching your own venture Making your idea happen is possible
- & it will be one of the most inspiring & energizing experiences of your life What are you waiting for?'A wonderfully inspirational book that will help unleash your ideas on the world' Michael Acton Smith creator of Moshi Monsters' Every great business starts with an idea this book will help you find yours' Richard Reed co-founder Innocent Drinks' It seems to me that many could-be creators simply lack support in their lives someone genuine who listens to their ideas & pushes boundaries to make it all seem possible Alex & Martin must recognize this too because their book is a generous offer of encouragement & spirit a drum beat that stirred my creative confidence' Zach Klein co-founder of Vimeo

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From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice Is justice an ideal for ever beyond our grasp or something that may actually guide our practical decisions & enhance our lives? At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable & competing positions can each be well defended Rather than rejecting these pluralities we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism & address vital questions of global injustice The breadth of vision intellectual acuity & striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book 'A major advance in contemporary thinking' John Gray Literary Review ' The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice' Hilary Putnam Harvard University ' Sen writes with dry wit a feel for history & a relaxed cosmopolitanism a conviction that economists & philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost every page' Economist ' Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual' New Statesman Books of the Decade Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 & was Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1998-2004 His most recent books are The Argumentative Indian Identity & Violence & Development as Freedom His books have been translated into thirty languages ...

With an introduction by Evie Wyld The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny & touching romance between two people who've given up on love Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook New South Wales pop 1374 it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears & Harley Savage a woman altogether too big & too abrupt for comfort Harley is in Karakarook to foster ' Heritage' & Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge From day one they're on a collision course But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites something unexpected happens sometimes even better than perfection ...

In his classic book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork Here he turns his focus to the individual revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player In The Ideal Team Player Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley a leader desperate to save his uncle s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess & then build a culture of hiring & development around those virtues Beyond the fable Lencioni presents a practical framework & actionable tools for identifying hiring & developing ideal team players Whether you re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork a staffing professional looking to hire real team players or a team player wanting to improve yourself this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK AWARDMotion sickness Nightmares Forgetting people's names Why did I walk into this room?? For something supposedly so brilliant & evolutionarily advanced the human brain is pretty messy fallible & disorganised In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory & the impact of these quirks on our daily lives Expertly researched & entertainingly written this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life & what on earth it is really up to ...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel Prince Myshkin the last poverty-stricken member of a once great family & regarded by many as an idiot returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement But this is only the main thread of a rich & complex book in which a dazzling host of characters from generals to street urchins present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution A tragicomic masterpiece ...

Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters from the beautiful self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin & the radical student Ippolit The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal & intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation 704 pages Dostoevsky Fyodor ...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction & Notes by Agnes Cardinal Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory & financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters & which ultimately lead to tragedy he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection & Dostoevsky's own views afflictions & manners His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot ...

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium the gentle & naive epileptic Prince Myshkin
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