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The Experimentation Field Book

A Step-by-Step Project Guide

2024 || Paperback || Jeanne Liedtka e.a. || Columbia University Press

This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings.

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Why Trust Matters (e-book)

An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us

2021 || E-book via Bookshelf || Benjamin Ho || Columbia University Press

Have economists neglected trust? The economy is fundamentally a network of relationships built on mutual expectations. More than that, trust is the glue that holds civilization together. Every time we interact with another person-to make a purchase, work on a project, or share a living space-we rely on trust.

Institutions and relationships function because people place confidence in them. Retailers seek to become trusted brands; employers put their trust in their employees; and democracy work...

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Mouthfeel

How Texture Makes Taste

2019 || Paperback || Ole Mouritsen e.a. || Columbia University Press

Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Eating triggers our imagination, draws on our powers of recall, and activates our critical judgment, creating a unique impression in our mouths and our minds. How exactly does...

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Essays on the Essay Film

2017 || Paperback || Nora M. Alter e.a. || Columbia University Press

The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh.

Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and ficti...

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Engaged Journalism / 1st edition

Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences

2015 || Paperback || Jake Batsell || Columbia University Press

Explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers.

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Unnatural Disasters

Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

2021 || Hardcover || Gonzalo Lizarralde || Columbia University Press

Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in sustainable development's which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to go green we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming.

Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on ou...

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Narrative and Numbers

The Value of Stories in Business

2017 || Hardcover || Aswath Damodaran || Columbia University Press

How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who spin compelling narratives and the number-crunchers who construct meaningful models and accounts. ...

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The Designing for Growth Field Book / 2nd edition

A Step-by-Step Project Guide

2019 || Paperback || Jeanne Liedtka e.a. || Columbia University Press

Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key questions of the design thinking approach. In the field book, Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, and Rachel Broz...

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Why Trust Matters

An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us

2021 || Hardcover || Benjamin Ho || Columbia University Press || ook als eBook

Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices.

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The Age of Sustainable Development / 1st edition

2015 || Paperback || Jeffrey D. Sachs e.a. || Columbia University Press

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metric...