Author: Genrich Altshuller
Publisher: Technical Innovation Center, Inc.
Keywords: inventive, problem, solving, theory, triz, inventor, appeared, suddenly
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1996-05
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0964074028
ISBN-13: 9780964074026

This legendary book was first published in English in 1990. It has been re-translated and extensively revised, including material not found in the original translation. It is Altshuller’s most popular book in Russia on how to become an inventor, and how to solve technical problems. The translator, Lev Shulyak, is himself an accomplished inventor, engineer and TRIZ expert.

Author: F. A. Hayek
Publisher: Inst of Economic Affairs
Keywords: reader, digest, occasional, paper, april, appeared, serfdom, condensed, version, road
Number of Pages: 83
Published: 2001-12
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0255365306
ISBN-13: 9780255365307

In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of ’as in war, so in peace’, economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism. On its publication in 1944, the book caused a