Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: novelty, endless
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0691070180
ISBN-13: 9780691070186

Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation’s second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of

Author: James H. Austin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: art, novelty, lucky, creativity, chance, chase
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2003-09-14
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0262511355
ISBN-13: 9780262511353

This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field. Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome of his research and brought about novel results. He then goes beyond this story of serendipity to propose a new classification of the varieties of chance, drawing on his own research and examples from the h

Author: Matthew Rubery
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: invention, news, fiction, victorian, newspapers, novelty
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195369262
ISBN-13: 9780195369267

Rapid industrialization and new advances in technology marked the Victorian period as one of prodigious socio-cultural change. Chief among the many transformations of quotidian life was the swift and widespread dissemination of information made possible by the emergence of the daily newspaper, an unprecedented new media. The changes it wrought in politics, history, and advertising of the age have all been well-documented. But its influence on one area remains overlooked: the Victorian novel. Redressing this oversight, The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing worl

Author: Mario Bunge
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: toronto, studies, philosophy, knowledge, unity, convergence, qualitative, novelty, emergence
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-12-13
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0802088600
ISBN-13: 9780802088604

Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecules, the creation of ideas, and social inventions.Along the way, Bunge examines further topical problems, such as the search for the mechanisms underlying observable facts, the limitations of both individualism and holism, the reach of reduction, the abuses of Darwinism, the rational choice-hermeneuti

Author: Michael Segell
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novelty, king, cool, noisy, saxophone, horn, story, devil
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-22
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312425570
ISBN-13: 9780312425579

The 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell’s wonderfully researched, beautifully told The Devil’s Horn. Beginning with "a sound never heard before," Segell’s portrait follows the iconographic instrument as it is lauded for its sensuality, then outlawed for its influence, and finally credited with changing the face of popular culture. A deeply personal story of one man’s love for music-making, a universal story of artistic and political revolution, and a trenchant critique of the global forces that stand in art’s way, The Devil&

Author: Marina Bianchi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: consumer, frontiers, political, economy, routledge, choice, novelty, surprise, active
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-07-28
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415171903
ISBN-13: 9780415171908

Author: Lindy Smith
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Keywords: cakes, novelty, enchanting, guide, storybook, creating
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0715316826
ISBN-13: 9780715316825

15 step-by-step projects for enchanting cake designs Lindy Smith Delight children and adults alike with any of these 15 lively, fun cake designs based on well-loved fairy tales and enchanted stories. Well-known novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of delightful cakes, and guides the reader step by step, from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of tools and equipment available to today’s cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fondant, buttercream an