Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: leaps, quantum
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-31
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0674035410
ISBN-13: 9780674035416
In 1953, reflecting on early ventures in quantum theory, J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke of terror and exaltation, of history happening in a realm so remote from common experience that it was “unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.” Yet now, anyone can Google “quantum theory” and find more than 34 million entries—from poets and historians, certainly, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How—and how pervasively—quantum mechanics has entered the general culture is the subject of this book, an engaging, eclectic, and thought-provoking look at the curious, boundlessly fe
Author: Jason Schwarz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: leaps, option, profiting, hunter, alpha
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-11-18
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0071634088
ISBN-13: 9780071634083
Discover how elite investors bring in triple-digit returns! With The Alpha Hunter, readers will learn how to manage the “four winds” of the stock market: bubbles, currency, economic contraction, and economic growth. Blending technical skill with a deep understanding of the fundamentals, the author provides what readers need to achieve risk-adjusted returns that earn higher than benchmark (alpha), as well as successfully invest in long-term equity anticipation securities (LEAPS). Using the information here, readers will learn how to use option LEAPS as b
Author: Bill Treasurer
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: giant, leaps, life, taking, principles, risk, powerful, right
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1576752461
ISBN-13: 9781576752463
Right risks are courageous, deliberate, life-affirming, and based on a person’s principles and values. This manual, both practical-minded and inspirational, shows how "right risks" are those that, regardless of outcome, are always deemed successful because they are taken with a clean conscience and clear calling. The book uses ten principles to help the aspiring risk-taker become more courageous in facing fear, more assertive in confronting others, and more comfortable with the uncomfortable - in short, how to become a more sensible risk-taker without compromising the excitement of doing
Authors:Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: thought, creative, analogy, leaps, mental
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262581442
ISBN-13: 9780262581448
"At once a contribution to the continuing scholarly debate on the nature of analogy and an accessible interdisciplinary overview for the general reader of this central process of thinking and communication." -- David Lorimer, Times Higher Education Supplement Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. Keith Holyoak and
Author: Bill Treasurer
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: giant, leaps, life, taking, principles, risk, powerful, right
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1442971975
ISBN-13: 9781442971974
Right Risk is about taking more deliberate and intentional risks in an increasingly complex world. It is about all the things that happen to you when you are planning for, engaging in, or running from, a risk. It aims to answer such questions as: How do I know which risks to take and which to avoid? How do I balance the need to take more risks with the need to preserve my safety? How do I muster up the courage to take risks when it is so much easier not to? How do I confront all those people who keep telling me what a mistake it would be to take the risk? And, most importantly, How do I make r
Author: Seana Coulson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: blending, meaning, construction, conceptual, shifting, leaps, frame, semantic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-11-02
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0521027837
ISBN-13: 9780521027830
Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting and conceptual blending. By addressing linguistic phenomena often ignored in traditional meaning research, Coulson explains how processes of cross-domain mapping, frame-shifting, and conceptual blending enhance the explanatory adequacy of traditional frame-based systems for natural language processing. The focus is on how the constructive proce
Author: Steven C. Wheelwright
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: speed, efficiency, quality, leaps, quantum, product, development, revolutionizing
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1992-06-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0029055156
ISBN-13: 9780029055151
Today, a company’s capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark. Drawing on six years of in-depth, systematic, worldwide research, they present proven principles for developing the critical capabilities for speed, efficiency, and quality that have worked again and again in scores of successful Japanese, American, and European fast-cycle firms. The authors argue that to survive
