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Adaptation in Metapopulations

How Interaction Changes Evolution

by Michael J. Wade ...

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of ... Read more

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All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of
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GAIN

Demystifying GenAI for office and home

by Michael Wade, Amit Joshi ...

Understand how GenAI is different from other tech innovations and what you can do to harness its power.This book argues that GenAI represents a genuine paradigm shift in technological innovation. The authors, the same team behind the popular podcast 'Mike & Amit Talk Tech', combine academic rigor with practical business insights, incorporating perspectives from diverse industry experts and their ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Understand how GenAI is different from other tech innovations and what you can do to harness its power.This book argues that GenAI represents a genuine paradigm shift in technological innovation. The authors, the same team behind the popular podcast 'Mike & Amit Talk Tech', combine academic rigor with practical business insights, incorporating perspectives from diverse industry experts and their
... Read more
Digital Vortex

How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game

by Michael Wade, Jeff Loucks, James Macaulay ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from ... Read more

$8.99 USD

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from
... Read more
Orchestrating Transformation

How to Deliver Winning Performance with a Connected Approach to Change

by Michael Wade, James Macaulay, Andy Noronha ...

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is
... Read more
Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges

by James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen, James Clay Moltz, Matthew R. Crook, Wade L. Huntley, Michael S. Malley, Jon R. Lindsay ...

A unique overview of the United States’ current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent. While modernization is crucial to the future success of NC3 systems, the transition from analog to digital technologies ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A unique overview of the United States’ current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent. While modernization is crucial to the future success of NC3 systems, the transition from analog to digital technologies
... Read more
Hacking Digital: Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation

by Michael Wade, Didier Bonnet, Tomoko Yokoi, Nikolaus Obwegeser ...

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and
... Read more
Orchestrating Transformation

How to Deliver Winning Performance with a Connected Approach to Change

by Michael Wade, James Macaulay, Andy Noronha ...

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is
... Read more
Digital Vortex

How Today's Market Leaders Can Beat Disruptive Competitors at Their Own Game

by Michael Wade, Jeff Loucks, James Macaulay ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from ... Read more

$9.99 USD

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from
... Read more
Audiobook

Shadowstrings 2 - Sounds from the Dark

by Katja Behnke, Katja Behnke ...

Narrated by Ty Harper, David Ault, Nichalia Schwarz, Karilynne Davies, Elie Hirschman, Ana Barclay, Vincent Fallow, Michael Wade, Red Aller0, Eddy Yeung1, Anthony Ray Morales2, Ryan Lahey3 ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Shadowstrings
Unabridged

1 hour 3 min

Claudia and Christian are in shock: Anne and Daniel have disappeared. How is this possible, they were with them just a moment ago! It all started so harmlessly: holidays together in a remote house in the middle of a forest. But then they heard this eerie violin melody and an old desk with a mysterious letter appeared from nowhere. Are these events connected with the disappearance of Daniel and ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Claudia and Christian are in shock: Anne and Daniel have disappeared. How is this possible, they were with them just a moment ago! It all started so harmlessly: holidays together in a remote house in the middle of a forest. But then they heard this eerie violin melody and an old desk with a mysterious letter appeared from nowhere. Are these events connected with the disappearance of Daniel and
... Read more
Audiobook

Hacking Digital

Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation

by Michael Wade, Didier Bonnet, Tomoko Yokoi, Nikolaus Obwegeser ...

Narrated by Kim Niemi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and
... Read more
Audiobook

Bookcases

A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

by Martyn Wade ...

Narrated by mx Maggie Steed, Michael Cochrane, Joan Sims, Elizabeth Spriggs, David Horovitch, Charles Simpson, Geoffrey Whitehead, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 44 min

The complete Series 1 and 2 of the historical comic sitcom about an embattled Victorian publishing companyLondon, 1853, and the sedate religious publishing house of Spavin and Spavin is about to experience a radical shake-up. Vivacious actress Cordelia is on the hunt for a husband and has her eye on Gerald, one of the firm's partners, while her son Primus has ambitions to take over the firm. And ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The complete Series 1 and 2 of the historical comic sitcom about an embattled Victorian publishing companyLondon, 1853, and the sedate religious publishing house of Spavin and Spavin is about to experience a radical shake-up. Vivacious actress Cordelia is on the hunt for a husband and has her eye on Gerald, one of the firm's partners, while her son Primus has ambitions to take over the firm. And
... Read more
Audiobook

Mazes of Power

by Juliette Wade ...

Narrated by Michael Crouch, Will Ropp, Brian Nishii ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Broken Trust
Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

This debut work of sociological science fiction follows a deadly battle for succession, where brother is pitted against brother in a singular chance to win power and influence for their family.The cavern city of Pelismara has stood for a thousand years. The Great Families of the nobility cling to the myths of their golden age while the city's technology wanes.When a fever strikes, and the Eminence ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

This debut work of sociological science fiction follows a deadly battle for succession, where brother is pitted against brother in a singular chance to win power and influence for their family.The cavern city of Pelismara has stood for a thousand years. The Great Families of the nobility cling to the myths of their golden age while the city's technology wanes.When a fever strikes, and the Eminence
... Read more

Also available as: eBook