Search For Serendipity

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CSS Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788019869

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Search for Serendipity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Cosgrove
Publisher : Price Stern Sloan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-08
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0843104295

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In Search of the Saveopotomas by Stephen Cosgrove Pdf

A dinosaur who has hoarded possessions all his life discovers a new feeling of happiness when he gives away all but what he needs.

Author : Angelica Banks
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627794404

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Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks Pdf

A magical journey into the land where stories come from “[A] sweet-toned, summer-fun story.” —The New York Times Book Review When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog, Baxterr, discover that Tuesday's mother—the famous author Serendipity Smith—has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from. Here, Tuesday befriends the fearless Vivienne Small, learns to sail an enchanted boat, tangles with an evil pirate, and discovers the truth about her remarkable dog. Along the way, she learns what it means to be a writer and how difficult it can sometimes be to get all the way to The End. This title has Common Core connections. Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks, with illustrations by Stevie Lewis, is the first in a series. that continues with book two, A Week Without Tuesday. “This enchanting story . . . celebrates the imagination and the connection writers feel with their stories. Spunky characters; spot-on pacing, providing perfectly timed plot revelations; and fully imagined worlds make this a charming winner.” —Booklist, starred review “With cinematic imagery and keen wit, the authors construct an inventive novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Young writers will find inspiration in the tale—especially those who have a story within them but might be too shy to tell it.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Morton A. Meyers
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611451627

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Happy Accidents by Morton A. Meyers Pdf

A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.

Author : Royston M. Roberts
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471602035

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Serendipity by Royston M. Roberts Pdf

Many of the things discovered by accident are important in our everyday lives: Teflon, Velcro, nylon, x-rays, penicillin, safety glass, sugar substitutes, and polyethylene and other plastics. And we owe a debt to accident for some of our deepest scientific knowledge, including Newton's theory of gravitation, the Big Bang theory of Creation, and the discovery of DNA. Even the Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ruins of Pompeii came to light through chance. This book tells the fascinating stories of these and other discoveries and reveals how the inquisitive human mind turns accident into discovery. Written for the layman, yet scientifically accurate, this illuminating collection of anecdotes portrays invention and discovery as quintessentially human acts, due in part to curiosity, perserverance, and luck.

Author : Stephen Cosgrove
Publisher : Price Stern Sloan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-05
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 0843148721

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Wheedle on the Needle by Stephen Cosgrove Pdf

A Wheedle goes to great lengths to prevent the people of Seattle from disturbing his sleep.

Author : Douglas Edwards
Publisher : HMH
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547549033

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I'm Feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards Pdf

A marketing director’s story of working at a startup called Google in the early days of the tech boom: “Vivid inside stories . . . Engrossing” (Ken Auletta). Douglas Edwards wasn’t an engineer or a twentysomething fresh out of school when he received a job offer from a small but growing search engine company at the tail end of the 1990s. But founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin needed staff to develop the brand identity of their brainchild, and Edwards fit the bill with his journalistic background at the San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper of Silicon Valley. It was a change of pace for Edwards, to say the least, and put him in a unique position to interact with and observe the staff as Google began its rocket ride to the top. In entertaining, self-deprecating style, he tells his story of participating in this moment of business and technology history, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards, Google’s first director of marketing and brand management, describes the idiosyncratic Page and Brin, the evolution of the famously nonhierarchical structure in which every employee finds a problem to tackle and works independently, the races to develop and implement each new feature, and the many ideas that never came to pass. I’m Feeling Lucky reveals what it’s like to be “indeed lucky, sort of an accidental millionaire, a reluctant bystander in a sea of computer geniuses who changed the world. This is a rare look at what happened inside the building of the most important company of our time” (Seth Godin, author of Linchpin). “An affectionate, compulsively readable recounting of the early years (1999–2005) of Google . . . This lively, thoughtful business memoir is more entertaining than it really has any right to be, and should be required reading for startup aficionados.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Edwards recounts Google’s stumbles and rise with verve and humor and a generosity of spirit. He kept me turning the pages of this engrossing tale.” —Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street “Funny, revealing, and instructive, with an insider’s perspective I hadn’t seen anywhere before. I thought I had followed the Google story closely, but I realized how much I’d missed after reading—and enjoying—this book.” —James Fallows, author of China Airborne

Author : Samantha Copeland,Wendy Ross,Martin Sand
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031335297

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Serendipity Science by Samantha Copeland,Wendy Ross,Martin Sand Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices. The phenomenon of serendipity has been described in many ways since Horace Walpole initially coined the term in 1754 to categorize those discoveries that happen by “both accidents and sagacity”. This book offers a sampling of perspectives from experts in serendipity research from organizational studies, management theory, information science and library studies, psychology, literature, computer science, social science, ethics, and the history and philosophy of science. Considerations about the importance and role of serendipity are being raised now across science (both empirical and theoretical) as well as practice (from art and innovation to leadership and governance), with ever more eyes looking closer at its significance in human history and the likelihood it will play a key, while unpredictable, role in forming our future. Serendipity Science represents an emerging, and also important and potentially necessary field of study, if we are to deal well as a society with our complex times and uncertain future.

Author : Tammera M. Race,Stephann Makri
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780634319

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Accidental Information Discovery by Tammera M. Race,Stephann Makri Pdf

Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age provides readers with an interesting discussion on the ways serendipity—defined as the accidental discovery of valued information—plays an important role in creative problem-solving. This insightful resource brings together discussions on serendipity and information discovery, research in computer and information science, and interesting thoughts on the creative process. Five thorough chapters explore the significance of serendipity in creativity and innovation, the characteristics of serendipity-friendly tools and minds, and how future discovery environments may encourage serendipity. Examines serendipity in a multidisciplinary context Bridges theory and practice Explores digital information landscapes of the future with essays from current researchers Brings the concept of accidental discovery and its value front and center

Author : Lori McCay-Peet,Elaine G. Toms
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031023125

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Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments by Lori McCay-Peet,Elaine G. Toms Pdf

Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes. Serendipity, however, is evident in many fields of research, in organizations, in everyday life—and there is more to it than luck implies. While the phenomenon is strongly associated with in person interactions with people, places, and things, most attention of late has focused on its preservation and facilitation within digital information environments. Serendipity's association with unexpected, positive user experiences and outcomes has spurred an interest in understanding both how current digital information environments support serendipity and how novel approaches may be developed to facilitate it. Research has sought to understand serendipity, how it is manifested in people's personality traits and behaviors, how it may be facilitated in digital information environments such as mobile applications, and its impacts on an individual, an organizational, and a wider level. Because serendipity is expressed and understood in different ways in different contexts, multiple methods have been used to study the phenomenon and evaluate digital information environments that may support it. This volume brings together different disciplinary perspectives and examines the motivations for studying serendipity, the various ways in which serendipity has been approached in the research, methodological approaches to build theory, and how it may be facilitated. Finally, a roadmap for serendipity research is drawn by integrating key points from this volume to produce a framework for the examination of serendipity in digital information environments.

Author : Mark de Rond,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780521181815

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Serendipity by Mark de Rond,Iain Morley Pdf

Serendipity is a fascinating but elusive concept, and one which has been surprisingly influential in many areas of human discovery. The essays in this volume provide insightful and entertaining accounts of the relationship between serendipity and knowledge by some of the most eminent thinkers of this generation.

Author : Jeannie P Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135797560

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Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment by Jeannie P Miller Pdf

Explore the issues that are changing user/librarian interactions in today’s evolving electronic libraries This book examines the rapid advances in technology and scientific discovery that have changed the way sci/tech library users seek information—changes which have also necessitated increasingly high levels of skill in information technology and advanced subject knowledge from librarians. From negotiating the intricacies of working with e-journals to simplifying the data collection process, anyone involved in allocating library resources or prioritizing research agendas will find relevant, useful information here, as will those involved in library education. Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment: Challenges for Librarians and Researchers in the Sciences begins with “Scientific Communication: New Roles and New Players,” a detailed examination of the evolution of the information-seeking behavior of scientists, from the days of print-based resources to today’s electronic media. Next, you’ll find techniques designed to maximize the ability of scientists to make “lucky” connections in their electronic search for information in “Too Important to be Left to Chance: Serendipity and the Digital Library.” Four chapters in Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment bring you up-to-date information on various aspects of working with e-journals: “For Better or Worse: The Joys and Woes of E-Journals,” investigates the impact of electronic-only journal holdings on collection development decisions and the accompanying issues of archiving, economics, content, and research use “Scan It and They Will Come . . . But Will They Cite It?” provides citation data on the usefulness and impact of retrospective digitization projects for journal contents “The Use of Online Supplementary Material in High-Impact Scientific Journals” raises vital questions as to whether the print or electronic article should be regarded as the primary archival resource “Challenges and Opportunities for Bibliometrics in the Electronic Environment: The Case of the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science” investigates how issues of access, copyright, and fair use, as well as differences among online file formats may impact bibliometric analysis Two chapters in Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment are designed to help simplify the data collection process. “Information Overload: Keeping Current Without Being Overwhelmed” will show you how to identify needed sources by using current awareness services and e-mail filtering technologies “The Impact of Electronic Bibliographic Databases and Electronic Journal Articles on the Scholar’s Information Seeking Behavior and Personal Collection of Reprints” reviews organizational methods for managing large collections of electronic articles. In addition, this forward-thinking book contains four chapters that point out possible avenues for increased librarian-facilitated service to users: “Biology Databases for the New Life Sciences” discusses the new sequence, microarray, and protein structure databases, the emergence of bioinformatics, and the opportunities available to librarians in this developing area “Map and Spatial Data Acquisitions in the Electronic Age” shows how the traditionally complicated and time-consuming process of acquiring cartographic information can be simplified by efficient use of the Internet “Webinar Technology: Applications in Libraries” reviews the operation, application, and features of Webinars and compares this technology with Web tutorials, virtual reference, and courseware management systems, videoconferencing, and Webcasting “Preserving Digital Librari

Author : Giovanni Gavetti,William Ocasio
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784419455

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Cognition & Strategy by Giovanni Gavetti,William Ocasio Pdf

This volume has two goals. First, it intends to attract a representative sample of the most significant empirical and theoretical developments in the field of cognition and strategy. Second, it intends to take stock of these developments by proposing a preliminary synthesis of the disparate advances in this field.

Author : Robert K. Merton,Elinor Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691126302

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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity by Robert K. Merton,Elinor Barber Pdf

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950s by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.

Author : Stephen Bruce,Sarah Key
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780789320421

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Serendipity Parties by Stephen Bruce,Sarah Key Pdf

If Andy Warhol, Dr. Seuss, and Willy Wonka were to plan a party, it might turn out something like this. Hollywood stars, young trendsetters, and families from all over the world flock to Serendipity. With its dessert-loaded menu, fun decor, and carefree vibe, this is the place to celebrate any occasion that calls for lots of chocolate. Serendipity Parties brings the restaurant’s madcap sense of hospitality home. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, or a summer pool party, this book has a plan for you. Offbeat decor tips, must-have music, and hilarious anecdotal sidebars accompany delicious recipes that reflect Serendipity’s over-the-top style. Perfect for families, the book is also ideal for beginning hosts and hostesses looking to develop their own easy and exciting entertaining style.