October 4, 2013

King: Four Design Thinking Tools for Engaging Your Team

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. Today, we feature a Aug 2013 article by Andrew King, co-author of “Solving Problems with Design...

October 3, 2013

Kevin Bennett on How Design Thinking Leads to Better Planning

In an August 2013 Forbes article Kevin Bennett, co-author with Jeanne Liedtka and Andrew King of of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: 10 Stories of What Works,” explains how design thinking can create a better understanding of today to get...

October 2, 2013

Jeanne Liedtka on the "Moses Myth" of Innovation

Today we continue our week-long feature of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett and published by Columbia Business School Publishing. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway...

October 2, 2013

Hollywood & Hitler, Erich Fromm, The Secret Financial Life of Food, and More Author Events

For those on the East Coast and/or in Portugual we’ve got some great events coming up in October. These include Thomas Doherty talking about his much-discussed book Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Lawrence...

October 1, 2013

Design Thinking for the Financial Industry via "Solving Problems with Design Thinking"

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. In the following excerpt from the book, the authors provide a case study of design thinking...

October 1, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Smart Machines, Prehistoric Animals, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new titles: Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions George R. McGhee Jr. Scholastic...

September 30, 2013

Nessa Carey Explains Epigenetics with Marshmallows and Gum Drops

Genetics and epigenetics are admittedly not the easiest concepts to grasp. However, in this video, Nessa Carey, author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance (now available in paperback) helps out...

September 30, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! These are just a few of our favorite posts from last week, since we didn’t have a chance to fill you in on Friday (sorry...

September 27, 2013

Laura Frost on David Foster Wallace and Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure

The following is an excerpt from “Modernism’s Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure,” the final chapter in Laura Frost’s The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents. In the chapter Laura Frost looks at “David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite...

September 26, 2013

Interview with Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure

“It’s a rare work of academic literary criticism that finds a general audience. There is still a kind of snobbery—not unlike the modernists’, actually—that if it’s not ponderous, contorted, and insular, then it’s not serious. God forbid that scholarly work...

September 25, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 2 — Laura Frost

This is second part of Laura Frost’s essay “Of Modernism and Muscle Cars” (you can read part 1 here). Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents “Modern literature should be commemorated in all...

September 24, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 1 — A Post by Laura Frost

Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, our featured book of the week: “Modernism constantly puts up … resistance and, even more audaciously, it asks its viewers to value, savor, and learn to...