Meyer, Christopher, and Davis, Stan:It's Alive! : The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business
- Erstausgabe 2017, ISBN: 9781400046416
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The Technical Press Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. 553-1084 pages. No dust jacket. Volume II. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown stain… Mehr…
The Technical Press Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. 553-1084 pages. No dust jacket. Volume II. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with large splits to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards., The Technical Press Ltd, 1939, 2.5, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. , 1977. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. ORIGINAL 1977 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-corporate library; light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves, o/w in very good condition. ., Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin., 1977, 3, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin., 1977. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. ORIGINAL 1977 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-corporate library; small creases at corners of wraps and leaves, o/w in very good condition.., Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin., 1977, 3, Penguin. Good. 187mm / 114mm. Paperback. 2002. 544 pages. Cover very worn<br>It is July, 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue th e passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre chain of events about to engulf him. It is July, 2003 . In the middle of its maiden voyage the luxury cruise ship Emera ld Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why d idn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutio nary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects directo r Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the di saster, but he has no idea of the bizarre chain of events about t o engulf him. In the next few weeks, Pitt will find himself confr onted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mech anical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previous ly known only to legend. At the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt's own life that will cha nge for ever ... ., Penguin, 2002, 2.5, International Marine Pub. Co. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., International Marine Pub. Co, 2.5, Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Worldwatch Institute. 1999. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F First Edition in Spanish Used. Paperback. Near Fine., Worldwatch Institute, 1999, 4, London, United Kingdom: Stanford Maritime, 1976. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages including many black-and-white photographs and detailed drawings; DJ gently bumped along edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good ++., Stanford Maritime, 1976, 4, Hounslow, UK : MacGregor Publications , 1983. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages including many full colour illustrations; book very gently read, if at all, very clean and unmarked, essentially as new; DJ has numerous chips and short tears. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H may be requested] See also our listings for Edwin Green's A Business of National Importance: The Royal Mail Shipping Group, 1902 - 1937, and for David Williams' Liners in Battledress: Wartime Camouflage and Colour Schemes for Passenger Ships. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good., MacGregor Publications, 1983, 3.75, Unknown, NULL. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:, Unknown, 0, Pantheon Books, 2003, 338 Pp. , 2003. HARDCOVER; in near fine condition with dustjacket. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine., Pantheon Books, 2003, 338 Pp., 2003, 4, Pantheon Books, 2003, 338 Pp. , 2003. HARDCOVER; in near fine condition with dustjacket. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine., Pantheon Books, 2003, 338 Pp., 2003, 4, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity., Mariner Books, 6, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1973. AF3 - Geophysics (Vol. 38, No. 2, April 1973) Book is cocked, wrinkling, cracks, chipping and wear on the spine, rubbing and wear on some edges, corners and sides, less than an inch tear on the back bottom right corner, wrinkled and crease, lightly soiled, moderate discoloration and normal shelf. The Journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Here are some of the articles in this issue: Seismic refraction modeling by computer (James H. Scott); Vibroseis refraction weathering techniques (Robert L. Geyer); Three-dimensional model-Gulf of Mexico (John W. Meek).... Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1973, 2, NY: Putnam, 2017. 1st Edition Thus. MMPB Oversized 4.25"x7.5. Near Fine-Collectible. Roland Dahlquist. 474 pgs. First printing, Premium edition. Author photo c D. Knight. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday"Under attack!"from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there. Just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. As Pitt and Giordino explore, a blast from the stern scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking them with it. The more the two of them search for the secret of the death ship, the deeper they descend into an extraordinary series of discoveries. A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. A brilliant developer of advanced drone technology on an unknown mission. Modern-day nuclear smugglers, determined Ukrainian rebels, a beautiful anti-terrorism agent from Europolall will combine to present Pitt with the most dangerous challenge of his career. And not only Pitt. His two children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are exploring a mysterious shipwreck of their own, when they are catapulted into his orbit. The three of them are used to perilous situationsbut this time, they may have found their match. Source: Publisher., Putnam, 2017, 4, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1972. AF2 - Geophysics (Vol. 37, No. 4, August 1972) Book is slightly cocked, crease and some wear on the spine, rubbing and some on the sides, edge and corners, bumped corners with some wrinkling and light crease, foxing, highlighting on some inside pages, discoloration, and normal shelf wear. The Journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Here are some articles in this issue: Velocuity variations around Leduc reefs, Alberta (Thomas L. Davis); Seismogeologic experience in the Beaufort Sea (H. Hofer and W. Varga); Review of data processing and interpretation methods in gravity and magnetics, 1964-71 (F.S. Grant).... Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1972, 2, New York, NY: Crown Business, 2003. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (Hardcover in DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY CROWN BUSINESS-COPYRIGHT 2003-276 PAGES) by Christopher Meyer (Author), Stan Davis (Author)... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 275 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (Hardcover in DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY CROWN BUSINESS-COPYRIGHT 2003-276 PAGES) by Christopher Meyer (Author), Stan Davis (Author) Why we are on the cusp of a new economic era that will make the changes and challenges of the Information Era seem like child s play From the bestselling authors of Blur a defining book of the Information Age comes a startling glimpse into the near future and the emerging economy that awaits us. It s Alive foretells the jolt the world is about to receive as the science of molecular evolution races out of the laboratories and into the business world. Think back to the early 1970s. Imagine the opportunities for your business, career choice, and investments had you received an advance report on the ways in which computer and information technology would revolutionize the world. It s Alive provides that opportunity today: a realistic and persuasive look into the future the molecular economy and how it is starting to overtake and reshape the Information Age. Today s gene mapping and molecular engineering are equivalent to the introduction of transistor radios at the advent of the information economy. Solid-state technology moved from the labs into the business arena, providing in turn the transistor, the microprocessor, and the modem and the information business. During the next ten years, molecular technology will follow the same pattern, moving from the lab and into the basic operation of the corporation itself. Chris Meyer and Stan Davis are our guides in understanding this new future. They show that not only biological systems evolve. The rules of evolution help explain the process of change in biology, business, and the economy, thereby providing a management guide to the business world around the corner. It s Alive is not science fiction or futurism. It bases its insights and predictions on the impact the molecular economy is already having in such diverse business environments as manufacturing, financial services, and energy. Through in-depth case studies of Capital One Financial, the U.S. Marine Corps, British Petroleum, and the biotech firm Maxygen, Meyer and Davis show how adaptive behavior works in the real world. As the rules of evolution combine with the connected economy, our business world will become unpredictable, volatile, and continually adaptive in other words, alive., Crown Business, 2003, 2.75<
