Alibris: Diffusion

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Sale books bring joy to the world: Save 25% or more

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Thomas L Friedman add to wishlist In THE WORLD IS FLAT, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies more books like this by Jared Diamond add to wishlist This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition more books like this by Dr. Everett M Rogers add to wishlist In an age of ever-increasing technological innovation, this renowned volume - which has sold more than 30,000 copies in each edition - is more important than ever. DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS lucidly explains how inventions are almost always perceived as uncertain or even risky. To overcome this, most people seek out others like themselves who ... see all copies from $20.09! new only from $20.09! \| SVS
4	Diffusion of Innovations more books like this by Everett M. Rogers add to wishlist At the heart of DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS is Rogers' basic belief in the "innovation/adoption" cycle, detailing the time line in which products new to the market lag before wide adoption. While early adopters will always exist, Rogers contends, the broad success of a product is tied less to its innovation and more to other people's acceptance of it ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $7.01! \| signed copies
5	Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology more books like this by Henry William Chesbrough add to wishlist In today's information-rich environment, companies can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own ideas to advance their business, nor can they restrict their innovations to a single path to market. As a result, says Harvard Business School professor Henry W. Chesbrough, the traditional model for innovation - which has been largely internally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization more books like this by Nayan Chanda add to wishlist Since humans migrated from Africa and progressively dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, ... see all copies from $3.03! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems more books like this by E L Cussler add to wishlist This overview of diffusion and separation processes brings unsurpassed, engaging clarity to this complex topic. Diffusion is a key part of the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and at the core of understanding chemical purification and reaction engineering. This spontaneous mixing process is also central to our daily lives, with ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
8	Democratizing Innovation more books like this by Eric Von Hippel add to wishlist Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $10.23! \| SVS
9	Guns germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13000 years more books like this by Jared M. Diamond add to wishlist This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $15.54!
10	Memory and the Mediterranean more books like this by Professor Fernand Braudel add to wishlist This is the story of the Mediterranean in ancient times, from its geological beginnings to the great civilizations that flourished along its shores. With its extraordinary depth and range of knowledge, Braudel's superb history brings to life as never before the beginnings of Western culture. 15 maps. 4 illustrations. of photos. see all copies from $4.87! new only from $4.87! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations more books like this by Thor Heyerdahl add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions
12	Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations more books like this by Ivan Karp (Editor), Corinne A Kratz (Editor), Lynn Szwaja (Editor) add to wishlist "Museum Frictions" is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, "Exhibiting Cultures" and "Museums and Communities", have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, "Museum Frictions" is a ... see all copies from $18.68! new only from $23.30! \| SVS
13 view cover	Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media more books like this by Ella Shohat, Shohat Ella add to wishlist "Unthinking Eurocentrism" explores issues of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism in relation to popular culture, film and the mass media. The book "multiculturalizes" media studies by looking at Hollywood movie genres such as the western, the musical and the imperial film from multicultural perspectives, examining issues from the racial politics of ... see all copies from $9.24! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	Exhibiting Cultures PB more books like this by Ivan Karp (Editor), Steven D Lavine (Editor) add to wishlist Bringing together museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology, Exhibiting Cultures engages in debate over meaning and representation that have accompanied and driven museums' efforts regarding multiculturalism. The contributors represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $22.94! \| SVS
15 view cover	Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm more books like this by Henry Chesbrough (Editor), Wim Vanhaverbeke (Editor), Joel West (Editor) add to wishlist Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and his collaborators investigate this phenomenon, linking the ... see all copies from $29.44! new only from $29.44! \| SVS
16	Loss and Change more books like this by Peter Marris add to wishlist Through a study of responses to loss and change this text explores the relationship between conservatism, bereavement and loss or "innovation". see all copies from $2.38! first editions
17 view cover	Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others more books like this by David Kord Murray add to wishlist In a book poised to become the bible of innovation, a renowned creativity expert reveals the key to the creative process. Murray explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing readers how new ideas are merely the combinations of existing ideas. see all copies from $6.30! new only from $8.06! \| SVS
18 view cover	The mathematics of diffusion more books like this by John Crank add to wishlist see all copies from $40.30! new only from $90.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Guns, Germs, and Steel more books like this by Jared Diamond, Professor Grover Gardner (Read by) add to wishlist This history examines the influences of geography and environment on the development of civilization and seeks to find large patterns that might explain why, in the modern period, some groups seem to have significantly greater material wealth than others. The author is an evolutionary biologist and his scientific approach to human history draws ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain more books like this by Toshio Moritani, Sven Ekholm, Per-Lennart Westesson add to wishlist This practical-minded text helps the radiologist and the clinician understand diffusion-weighted MR imaging. The book's 15 chapters range from basic principles to interpretation of diffusion-weighted MR imaging and specific disease. In this second edition, diffusion tensor imaging (fractional anisotropy, color map and fiber tractography) is ... see all copies from $54.00! new only from $74.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea more books like this by Andrew Strathern add to wishlist In this work on migration in New Guinea, migration is seen as the total circulation of people, objects, ideas and ritual complexes across, as well as within, cultural boundaries. The essays discuss how processes of flow have a transformative effect on the constitution of cultural groups themselves. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
22	Early man and the ocean more books like this by Thor Heyerdahl add to wishlist see all copies from $15.44! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Emperor's Giraffe and Other Stories of Cultures in Contact more books like this by Samuel M Wilson add to wishlist Focuses on little-known moments in history when two culturespreviously unknown or little known to each othermet, and altered the course of history.. An outbreak of a disease known as the black vomit prevents the English from strengthening their hold in The New World in the eighteenth century, with huge repercussions; the untimely death of an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Transmitting Culture more books like this by Regis Debray, Professor Ra(c)Gis Debray, Professor Eric Rauth (Translator) add to wishlist How do we explain the fact that certain ideas, at certain moments in time, can have earthshaking effects? Or that some cultures have left an indelible mark while others have not? Why did Jesus, rather than Mani the Mesopotamian or the Eastern god Mithra, take hold among masses of people? Why did Karl Marx instead of Pierre Proudhon or Auguste ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	On the Geometry of Diffusion Operators and Stochastic Flows more books like this by K D Elworthy, D Elworthy, Y Le Jan add to wishlist Stochastic differential equations, and Hoermander form representations of diffusion operators, can determine a linear connection associated to the underlying (sub)-Riemannian structure. This is systematically described, together with its invariants, and then exploited to discuss qualitative properties of stochastic flows, and analysis on path ... see all copies from $24.58! new only from $24.58! \| SVS

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond see all from $1.99! new only from $9.00!
	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt, Stephen J Dubner see all from $1.99! new only from $5.93!
	The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel see all from $1.99! new only from $20.00!
	Museums & Communities PB by Ivan Karp (Editor), Steven D Lavine (Editor), Christine Mullen Kreamer (Editor) see all from $4.59! new only from $24.48!
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn see all from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
	Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape by Henry Chesbrough see all from $12.00! new only from $24.84!