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Worn Out: How Retailers Survei...An immersive, first-hand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance ... An immersive, first-hand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance in the digital age.Technology has sped up the world of retail clothing, rushing affordable, trendy garments to consumers and enriching multinati more
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The Myth That Made Us: How Fal...How our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to c... How our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes-and what we can do to fix the system.2024 Axiom Business Book Awards - Silver Medal in Economics more
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Cloud Empires: How Digital Pla...The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of en... The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online ris more
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Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: Why The...The first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, ... The first comprehensive economic and legal analysis of hub-and-spoke cartels, with detailed case studies.A cartel forms when competitors conspire to limit competition through coordinated actions. Most cartels are composed more
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Changing Minds: How Aging Affe...Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.We acquire ... Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even more
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Qualitative Representations: H...An argument that qualitative representations-symbolic representations that car... An argument that qualitative representations-symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units-are central to human cognition.In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representati more
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The Expressive Moment: How Int...A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast,... A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music.The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond q more
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Carbon Captured: How Business ...A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory fo... A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely a more
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How Knowledge Grows: The Evolu...An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientif... An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification.Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cog more
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The Genius Checklist: Nine Par...What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.Wha... What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Sufferi more
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How Reform Worked in China: Th...A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic refo... A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.As China has transformed itself from a centrally plann more
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Wired for Innovation: How Info...Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of tech... Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation.A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation more
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Making Democracy Fun: How Game...Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.Anyone who has ever been ... Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingl more
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Plato's Camera: How the Physic...A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of... A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offer more
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Programmed Inequality: How Bri...This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Brit... This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) more
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How AI Is Transforming the Org...A clear-eyed look at how AI can complement (rather than eliminate) human jobs,... A clear-eyed look at how AI can complement (rather than eliminate) human jobs, with real-world examples from companies that range from Netflix to Walmart.Descriptions of AI's possible effects on businesses and their employ more
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The AI Advantage: How to Put t...Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence f... Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in more
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The Innovator's Hypothesis: Ho...Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with ... Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with the 5x5 framework: 5 people, 5 days, 5 experiments, $5,000, and 5 weeks What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "inno more
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We Now Disrupt This Broadcast:...The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovativ... The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV.Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent more
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How Not to Study a Disease: Th...An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a ro... An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure.For decades, some of our best and brightest medical scientists have dedicated t more
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