Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic & wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger Child of a scheming father & a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations & lethal religious fervour Jane's astonishing & essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history As a great-niece of Henry VIII & the cousin of Edward VI Mary I & Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny Her honesty intelligence & strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign & its unbearably poignant conclusion ...

Meadow Mori & Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles & both became film-makers Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant The two friends have everything in common
- except their views on sex power movie-making & morality & yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film & to life Until one day a mysterious woman with a unique ability to cold-call & seduce powerful men over the phone
- not through sex but through listening
- becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries Her downfall & what makes her so extraordinarily moving is that she pretends to be someone she is not Heart-breaking & insightful Innocents & Others is an astonishing novel about friendship identity loneliness & art


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Civilizations have never competed so fiercely to leaver their mark on history! Adda fifth player new Innovations & effects that bring even more unexpected developments in your games! Benefit from past abilities thanks to Echo effects gain influence directly through your innovations anticipate the discovery of Innovations by researching cards from upcoming periods ...

The Innovation Expedition does for innovation what Alexander Osterwalder&s mega bestseller Business Model Generation did for business modeling it makes a complicated business subject very accessible by telling the story in a visual way & by presenting a method that is tested & works! Gijs van Wulfen was chosen in 2012 by Linked In as one of the 150 thought leaders & was listed on the International Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012 About the Author Gijs van Wulfen is an international acclaimed innovation specialist author speaker & blogger He is founder & facilitator of the FORTH innovation method a structured effective way to ideate new products services & business models (wwwforth-innovationcom) Gijs is a both presenter & chairman at several (international) innovation conferences like the ISPIM Conferences & the European Conference on Creativity & Innovation In 2012 he was chosen by Linkedin as one of the 150 thought leaders & he is number 2 on the International top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012 ...

Innovation leaders promote & address the innovation agenda in their company Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives & do not hesitate to personally coach innovation teams For innovation to occur leadership has to be collective To create a momentum for innovation in their company leaders from different functions need to team up to build innovation networks Innovation leadership is not just an innate talent that can be selected at the hiring level It can be developed within an appropriate company culture through careful leadership development typically achieved through career management & coaching Innovation leaders also need to stay on board & it is the responsibility of the top management team to create an attractive climate to develop & keep its innovation leaders There are plenty of books that deal with innovation or with new product development or with leadership; this is different in its focus on the specifics of innovation leadership
- that particular form of leadership that stimulates & sustains innovation This book maps the broad territory of innovation leadership & contributes new thinking on the focus of the emerging leadership role of the CTO; distinction between 'front end' & 'back end' innovation leaders; the concept of aligning leadership styles with strategy; & the chain of leadership concept Combining practice-based & empirical research-based observations with simple conceptual frameworks illustrated by many company examples & case stories from a broad range of industries in the US & Europe this is a systematic presentation of innovation drivers & their implications in terms of what leaders need to do to make it work
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With Innovation Cities of Destiny the third expansion for the card game Innovation players can now add cities to their civilization-building efforts Unlike previous base game & expansion cards which each featured three icons & a text ability cards in Cities feature six icons that can provide you with extra actions icons & achievements Innovation Cities of Destiny is played with the base game & can be combined with any or all of the previous expansions ...

In loose terms Innovation is a Civilization-style game in which players first have access to low-powered cards in age 1 then build up to more powerful cards in later ages stacking new acquisitions on old to build the strength of their holdings Players meld cards score points & take special actions (called "dogma actions") unique to their cards in play in order to claim achievements The first player to claim 4-6 achievements depending on the number of players wins the game Innovation Echoes of the Past changes game play from the base game in a number of ways First there are now two draw decks to get cards from in each age -- players draw Echoes cards or Base cards depending on the contents of their hand Second the maximum player count is increased to five Third & most interestingly Innovation Echoes of the Past introduces new game mechanisms With foreshadow a player can stash a card under his player board then bring it into play (and use it) on a later turn when he melds a card that&s from the same age or a higher one With echo when a player takes the dogma action of a card in play he can receive additional actions showing on that card & any other cards visible in the same stack ...

Innovation Figures in the Sand an expansion for Carl Chudyk&s Innovation breaks from the format of that game by providing players with recognizable figures from history (instead of new inventions or concepts) with those figures showing up on your table to help you win the game – or maybe your opponent Historical figures tend to be somewhat fickle Figures

Includes:: 105 figure cards with the cards being similar to Innovation cards in that they&re divided into ten ages with five colors of cards in each age Instead of including a dogma power that players can use on their turn each card in Figures has a karma that changes the game in some way Karmas might take effect when you meld a card when you&re counting icons to determine whether you can share an action or when you take some other action in the game Instead of melding a card for example you might score it or instead of giving cards to opponents who demand from you you might return cards to the age decks Innovation Figures in the Sand

Includes:: five Decree cards one for each color Decrees are a special type of achievement but unlike all other achievements Decrees are not safe & can be stolen A player can have only one Figure in play after any action in the game; any additional Figures Fade from play moving to your score pile Innovation Figures in the Sand can be played with just the base game or combined with the Innovation Echoes of the Past expansion



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This long awaited book brings together some of the most recent innovations & applications of the traditional NLP model Each chapter describes a new model or application & contains step by step instructions or a case study on how & when to apply it For NLP Practitioners it provides an outstanding collection of new tools & ideas to tak 384 pages ...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer & the Internet It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution & a guide to how innovation really works What talents allowed certain inventors & entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed & others fail? In his exciting saga Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace Lord Byron's daughter who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s He then explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution such as Vannevar Bush Alan Turing John von Neumann JCR Licklider Doug Engelbart Robert Noyce Bill Gates Steve Wozniak Steve Jobs Tim Berners-Lee & Larry Page This is the story of how their minds worked & what made them so creative It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate & master the art of teamwork made them even more creative For an era that seeks to foster innovation creativity & teamwork this book shows how they actually happen ...