****A Forbes Best Business Book of the Year, 2015****Winner of the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship****When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong. or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the r...

What happens when your kitchen objects have had enough?Edwin Bellwether is thirty-four years old, five feet ten inches tall, and has been the most statistically average man in Britain for eleven consecutive years. He processes Form 27B/6s at the Ministry of Statistical Inevitability. He eats on a rotation of forty-two meals. He has never, in eleven years of daily use, wondered what his teapot thinks of him.He should have wondered.Gerald — as the teapot has called hi...

This book reconstructs the foundations of developmental and educational psychology and fills an important gap in the field by arguing for a specific spatial turn so that human growth, experience and development focus not only on time but space. This regards space not simply as place. Highlighting concrete cross-cultural relational spaces of concentric and diametric spatial systems, the book argues that transition between these systems offers a new paradigm for understanding agency and incl...

Fishing small streams in the southern Rocky Mountains. Discover the tiny streams tucked in among the famous rivers you read about. Paul takes you to his favorite special places, offering detailed instructions on where/when to go and how to fish them. Paul B. Downing, author of Handbook of Western Fly Fishing and Rocky Mountain Regional Editor of Fly Fish America, has spent the last 23 years fishing extensively throughout the Rocky Mountains. A Lifetime Member...

The human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people has been the focus of research in cognitive neuroscience for decades. What have we learned about this ability, and what open questions remain? In this Element the authors address these questions by considering the kinds of information an observer may gain when viewing an action. A 'what, how, and why' framing organises evidence and theories about the representations that support classifying an action; how the way an a...

This novel contribution examines the lived experiences of migrants in education in various international contexts, exploring common school system features that promote students’ inclusion and challenge their exclusion.With a range of international contributions and case studies from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe, the book offers critical, theoretically innovative understandings examining national policies and practices to develop reforms, focusing on agency, heterogen...

In recent years a new-disquieting-form of disruptive innovation has emerged, one that beats incumbents on both price and quality right from the start and quickly sweeps through every customer segment. This kind of big bang” disruption can devastate entire product lines virtually overnight. Look at the effect that free navigation apps, preloaded on smartphones, had on the market for devices made by TomTom, Garmin, and Magellan.Big-bang disruptions often come out of the blue from pe...

Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and H...

The old law of ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. – Martin Luther King Jr.Revenge. If you are a power-seeker, revenge can be a tool to remind others not to mess with you. Revenge can also be a way to keep order in a society where rules are weak. But revenge can come at a price. It can be a rusty knife in your back that leaves you dwelling on a spot, unable to move on, an unhappy disfigurement of shame.This collection of short stories, Revenge, puts together 25 very...

MAYA CHEN NOTICES THINGS MOST PEOPLE MISS.She's eleven years old, and she reads people the way others read books. Now, with her three best friends — methodical Theo, warm-hearted Finn, and the impossibly expressive Zara — she's turned that skill into something remarkable: The Emotion Detectives. Operating from a small, turpentine-scented art supply room at Maplewood Middle School, they take on the mysteries that no one else knows how to solve. Not the 'whodunit' ki...

Concentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experience and search for life meanings in terms of potential openings through relational space. Offering a radical spatial rereading of foundational ideas of influential thinkers Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur, it argues that these ideas can be rethought for a more fundamental understanding of life, self and other.This book offers a radical reconceptualisat...

Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Hobbes's political theory a...