In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, Jeb Brugmann draws on two decades of fieldwork to offer an eye-opening anatomy of our urbanizing planet. Taking readers on a street-level tour of the world’s cities, Brugmann challenges …

Once upon a time there were no text messaging, no e-mail and no social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and MySpace. The introduction of these new forums for communication has radically transformed the way …

Business considerations such as the wireless World Wide Web, billions of new consumers, and an entrepreneurial ethos are all converging. How a corporation is organized and how people will be managed and employed will change …

Third Person explores strategies of vast narrative across a variety of media, including video games, television, literature, comic books, tabletop games, and digital art. The contributors — media and television scholars, novelists, comic creators, game …

In Africa’s Turn? Edward Miguel tracks a decade of hopeful economic and political trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. Miguel warns, though, that recent progress is fragile. Violence …

This book is revolutionary not only in its scope, but in the way it came to be. Through the wiki collaboration process, it evolved and developed online at ContentNation.com — literally created by the social …

In Chaotics, noted business strategists Philip Kotler and John Caslione present the intriguing, if unsettling, argument that these troubled times are not an aberration, but the new face of normal. In fact, the economic downturn …

A comprehensive, in-depth guide to conducting business in this new marketplace, The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World will ensure you make the best use of this site. With …

Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future is a one-stop resource for busy executives and senior policymakers who need a reliable, accessible guide to the big strategy questions surrounding energy. Supported by the latest …

This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a tour of the invisible nanoscale world. It offers many vivid color illustrations of atomic structures, each accompanied by a short, engagingly written essay. The structures advance from …