The Innovation Code The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Harmony is sublime in music but deadly to innovation. The only way to create new, hybrid solutions is to clash. Innovation happens when we bring people with contrasting perspectives and complementary areas of expert…
A history of Japan from 1853 to the 1980s discussing its development through topics such as Japan's relationships with the West, industrial development, religious practice, politics, society and the role of the military.
A history of Japan from 1853 to the 1980s discussing its development through topics such as Japan's relationships with the West, industrial development, religious practice, politics, society and the role of the military.
"Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezis-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentration of capital and labor, reveals the close links between …
Tells the story of the life of Alexander II, the reforming Tsar, who modernized Russia after her defeat in the Crimean War. He liberated serfs, and secured their endowment with land; reformed the Russian courts and created institutions of self-government; and promoted economic d…
"Empire and imperialism have returned with a vengeance - not as a set of ideas and practices to be exhumed by the historians, but as paradigms for 21st-century living. Harry Harootunian turns his gaze to signs of the new imperialism in the world - from the United States' occupat…
