For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top…
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us …
In 1850, an epidemic swept America—but instead of leaving victims sick with fever or flu, this epidemic involved a rabid craze for the music of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. American showman P. T. Barnum (who would later go on to found the circus now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey), a shrewd marketer and self-made millionaire, is credited with spreading “Lindomania” through a s…
The web has been with us for more than a quarter of a century. It has become a daily and ubiquitous source of information in many peoples’ lives around the globe. But what does it tell us about historical and social change? For a researcher in the twenty-second century, it will seem unimaginable that someone studying the twenty-first c…
This book describes programming techniques for writing applications that use persistent memory. It is written for experienced software developers, but we assume no previous experience using persistent memory. We provide many code examples in a variety of programming languages. Most programmers will understand these examples, even if they have not previously used the specific language. he persis…
This book was written to provide a single, complete, and annotated description of our present knowledge of the Moon. It is intended for a wide range of readers, including scientists who are studying the Moon and trying to understand its place in the solar system, designers now planning missions to return to the Moon, and engineers and astronauts who may participate in the future exploration of …
Standar Akuntansi Keuangan (SAK) yang disusun oleh lembaga Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia (IAI) selalu mengacu pada teori-teori yang berlaku daan memberikan tafsiran dan penalaran yang telah mendalam dalam hal praktek terutama dalam pembuatan laporan keuangan dalam memperolah informasi yang akurat sehubungan data ekonomi. Berdasarkan pernyataan di atas dapat dipahami bahwa Pernyataan Standar Akuntan…
You've heard of IQ. You've heard if EQ. And you definitely know the importance of getting good gredes at school. But do you know that there are far more contributing factors to success? How to Multiply your child's intelligece takes you beyond 'A's and examinations to explain why some seeminglly hopeless cases emerge as high achievers later on. It introduces seven intelligences inherent in ev…