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• Books received

  - 2005-12-18

  Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession by John Peter-Pham, New York, Oxford University press, 368 pp 2004 Unfortunately the timing of this book was less than serendipitous. Nevertheless Pham gives us a Vatican insider's look at papal succession-and papal politics. Mary Magdalene: A...

  Tags: Books, church, Leadership, Strategy, succession, University of Oxford

• A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.(Book Review)

  - 2005-03-22

  A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 558. $30.00.) Questions about the establishment of the American Union are the focal point of this traditionally fashioned political history of...

  Tags: Leadership, PRODUCTIVITY, Republican, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

  Tags: analysis, innovation, knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Nelson, Richard, scholar, Strategy, Technologies, technology, theory, Unemployment, University of Oxford, Winter

• Making Sense: Philosophy behind the headlines. - book review

  - 2003-03-01

  by Julian Baggini Oxford, England and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002); 296 pp; $26.00 cloth. in the Monty Python sketch involving a soccer match between famous Greek philosophers and German philosophers, when the whistle is blown, the overly intellectual opponents commence walking about, stroking their beards instead...

  Tags: cloth, Government, Leadership, Strategy, University of Oxford

• BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-10-01

  Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. By William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 327. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. By Aristotle. Ed. Roger Crisp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xlii, 213. Metaphysics Book...

  Tags: Atlantic, Books, Cambridge, Leadership, Newton, Plato, Princeton University, Robert, Skeptic, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books Received

  - 1999-07-01

  Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Ackrill, J. and Judson, Lindsay (eds.), Aristotle Politics. Books Vand VI, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 265, 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Addis, Laird, Of Mind and Music, Ithaca, New York, USA, Cornell...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, Leadership, London, Princeton University, Strategy, U.K., U.S., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS: Oxford to host major new business fair.

  - 1999-02-24

  M2 PRESSWIRE-24 February 1999-RUBICON COMMUNICATIONS: Oxford to host major new business fair C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220299 A major new international event presenting Oxford as a showcase for innovation and entrepreneurs is being staged in the city this summer. ...

  Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, innovation, Leadership, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Open sore of a continent: a personal account of the Nigerian crisis

  - 1997-01-01

  The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Account of the Nigerian Crisis by Wole Soyinka (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510557-5) ON 12 JUNE 1993 the Nigerian people elected Moshood Abiola as their leader. Even as the elections were being internationally lauded, a despotic clique of power-crazed politicians, unsettled...

  Tags: continent, dictator, Leadership, MARKETING, Nigeria, Strategy, University of Oxford, villain