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The personalized and the personal: Socially responsible innovation through big data

				The personalized and the personal: Socially responsible ... The possibility of creating data products and services fueled by fine-grained behavioral information, and informed by behavioral science and choice…
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Weekend Read: Disruption Is Not About Slaying Giants but about Serving New Customers

				Weekend Read: Disruption Is Not About Slaying Giants bu... Mark W. Johnson, co-founder and senior partner at Innosight: Disruption has been so abused and misapplied that it sometimes seems that we’ve forgotten what the ...
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10 TRENDS FOR 2015 | trendwatching.com

				10 TRENDS FOR 2015 | trendwatching.com Innovation opportunities to run with – and profit from – in 2015!
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Eleven Principles for Creating Great Community Places - Regency Centers

				Eleven Principles for Creating Great Community Places - ... The important starting point in developing a concept for any public space is to identify the talents and assets within the community. In any community there are peo...
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Using Design Thinking in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu

				Using Design Thinking in Higher Education (EDUCAUS... EDUCAUSE Review Online
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The Psychology of Side Projects and Creative Hobbies

				The Psychology of Side Projects and Creative Hobbies Spending your time on side projects or a creative hobby can make you happier, healthier, and more productive. Here's the science that explains why.
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The Accelerators

				The Accelerators Startup mentors discuss strategies and challenges of creating a new business.
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“Unboiling an egg” could have big implications for agriculture

				“Unboiling an egg” could have big implications for agric... The researchers’ goal is straightforward and ambitious: to affect the lives of one billion over the next decade.
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Ambergris is truly a testament to the transformative powers of nature. Secreted in the digestive tract of a sperm whale and excreted as whale dung, it floats for years in the sea, and changes, by the time it finally washes ashore, into a sweet-smelling waxy compound—one of the world’s most expensive substances—used in perfumes for centuries. Holy grail of beachcombers, immortalized by Herman Melville inMoby Dick, precious lumpy ambergris is the subject of our free e-book, Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp. Explore the natural history of whales, squid, ocean ecology, and a history of the perfume industry in the free e-book for February, Floating Gold. “In this entertaining natural history, molecular biologist and columnist Christopher Kemp recounts two years of obsessively combing beaches and visiting tight-lipped experts to discover the secrets of the international ambergris trade.”—Booklist Get the e-book edition of Floating Gold free in February! The Great Chicago Book Sale is ending! Floating Gold is one of 616 books available in our 2014-15 Great Chicago Book Sale Catalog. The cloth edition of Floating Gold is on page 31 and is just $9. Save up to 80% off list prices. Books start at just $5. Use promo code AD1209 to get the special prices in the catalog. The Sale Catalog has books in all subjects, for all readers: history, fiction, travel, literature, science, philosophy, and much more. And plenty of lovely art books. Prices are valid only until 2/27/2015. Quantities are limited, so some titles may be depleted before 2/27/2015. Order early. Keep searching with free scholarship from our Journals Division:Read “Ambergris: The Search for Its Origin” by Karl H. Dannenfeldt, published in Isis, vol. 73, no. 3 (1982). About Chicago's e-books: The University of Chicago Press has over 3000 titles in its Chicago Digital Editions e-book program. Some of Chicago's e-books are DRM-free, while others require Adobe Digital Editions software, which is freely downloadable. Chicago Digital Editions are powered by BiblioVault.

This is the February 2015 free e-book notification.