Chronicles the decline of IBM, explaining how corporate pride, inflexibility, bad decisions, and an inability to understand a changing marketplace has led to IBM's fall. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM

Business & Money

Carroll, Paul

Economics

Crown

Big Blues: The Unmaking Of IBM

Provides the inside story of the rise and fall of IBM, offering a devastating study of corporate bureaucracy, lack of foresight, and decline. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

Three Rivers Press

The Luke poems

Big Table Pub. Co.

The Poem in Its Skin

Big Table Publishing Co.

With the PC's introduction, IBM stood poised to extend its dominance into the 21st century. Yet, through corporate hubris, inflexibility and an inability to understand the marketplace, IBM lost its place as a golden symbol of American corporate might. Tracing IBM's every misstep, the author provides behind-the-scenes revelations and anecdotes about the computer industry. The result is one of the most instructive and important business stories of our time. "Carroll (a reporter for the WSJ) creates a you-are-there feel....Looks long and hard at the texture of decline inside the greatest corporation in the world." (The New York Times)

Biography & History

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

New and selected poems

Yellow Press ; distributed by SBD, Small Press Distribution

New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Serendipity Pr

A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We Can Proudly Leave our Kids by 2050

What if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want - and then invent it? Well, we can. Think of the wealth of technological resources already available to us. The computing power in that smartphone in your pocket could have guided 120 million Apollo-era spacecrafts to the moon and back. A gigabyte of memory cost $300,000 in the 1980s - today, it costs a fraction of a penny. Now, try to imagine 2050, when your computing devices will be a million times more powerful or available at one-millionth of today's prices.In this deeply researched and compelling book, the authors do the imagining for you, describing seven so-incredible-as-to-be-almost-magical capabilities that will be available by 2050 in computing, communication, information, genomics, energy, water, and transportation. You may finally get that flying car, have ample water even in a desert, and be treated for disease through microscopic robots in your bloodstream.Drawing on their decades of experience helping major organizations formulate strategies for innovation, the authors demonstrate how to use combinations of those seven capabilities to imagine "perfect" futures, whether that means reversing climate change, resolving today's disinformation crisis, or living 20 years longer. This book paints visions of how the world could - and should - look as we pass the planet on to future generations.We can use those visions to start inventing a perfect future - today.

A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the World We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050

Mui, Chunka

Andrews, Tim

Business Culture

Future Histories Press

The late 17th century through to the end of the 18th century saw rapid progress in the development of woodwind instruments and the composition of a vast body of music for those instruments. During this period a large amount of music for domestic consumption was written for a growing amateur market, a market which has regrown in the latter part of the 20th century. The last 30 years has also seen the standard of performance by professionals on these instruments rise enormously. This book provides a guide to the history of the four main woodwind instruments of the Baroque, the flute, oboe, recorder and bassoon, and this is complemented by a repertoire list for each instrument. It also guides those interested towards a basic technique for playing these instruments - a certain level of musical literacy is assumed - and it can be used by students, professionals and amateurs. Advice is also given on buying a suitable reproduction instrument from a market where now virtually any Baroque instrument can be obtained as a faithful copy. This is the first book of its kind and has its origins in the wind tutors of the 18th century.

Baroque Woodwind Instruments: A Guide to Their History, Repertoire and Basic Technique

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

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