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Many companies and executives talk about patents, but few can
demonstrate significant returns from them. Who are the elite
companies and managers that have created wealth and profit from IP
rights, and how have they done it? What do they advise others do to
achieve higher profit margins, better returns on costly R&D,
and increased shareholder value? This reader--friendly book focuses
on ten companies and managers/advisors who have successfully
implemented wealth--generating patent programs----and shows you how
you can do it too.
The first full length study of the development of the colonial
state in Africa. Professor Berman argues that the colonial state
was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective
political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the
profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with
African societies. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
A useful collection for students as the interest in the politics of
ethnicity continues. The politics of identity and ethnicity are
resurgent. Civil society, whose revival was much vaunted, was riven
by communal tensions particularly of ethnicity and religion. The
contributors address questions such as: Why is ethnicity a
political problem? How is the problem manifested? Which
institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that
ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building? North America: Ohio
U Press
A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of
colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the
sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2,
the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins
and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory
socialforces that articulated African societies to European
capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and
changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social
differentiation and class formation. There issubstantial new work
on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue
in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution
to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society
and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu origins of Mau Mau
and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of the
shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of
narrowly structuralist Marxisttheory of the state, and reflect on
the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U
Press; Kenya: EAEP WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 1994
A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of
colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the
sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2,
the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins
and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory
socialforces that articulated African societies to European
capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and
changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social
differentiation and class formation. There issubstantial new work
on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue
in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution
to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society
and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu origins of Mau Mau
and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of the
shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of
narrowly structuralist Marxisttheory of the state, and reflect on
the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U
Press; Kenya: EAEP WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 1994
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American Skull (Paperback)
John Roche; Illustrated by Denise Weaver Ross, Bruce Berman
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R459
Discovery Miles 4 590
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The Intangible Investor takes a hard look at the ways businesses
generate return on inventions and ideas, and how they and others
profit. Bruce Berman's fifth book also reveals what are behind
patent "trolls" and who are the real bad actors gaming the IP
system. It goes to the heart of the innovation economy, and
provides businesses, investors and general audiences: (1) a basis
for understanding how IP can generate hidden value (2) a foundation
for what is meant by patent quality, and who, in fact, are the IP
systems' bad actors, and (3) a context to discern IP developments
of the recent past in the hope of providing a clearer vision of the
future. "One of the most remarkable things about this collection is
how these essays have weathered the test of time," says Gene Quinn,
editor of the popular IP Watchdog and a patent attorney in the
foreword to the book. "While the 64 essays in The Intangible
Investor stretch back to 2003, they are as relevant today as they
were when they were written, which is a testament to Berman's
forward thinking and understanding of the issues." Viewed
collectively the contributions in The Intangible Investor provide
entrepreneurs, investors, IP professionals, and the general public
useful intelligence about how the IP industry works, and a
historical context for what it means for the future. The book took
eleven years to produce and includes columns originally contributed
to IAM on a wide range of IP topics from patent transactions to
illegal file sharing, legislation, valuations and public IP
licensing companies (PIPCOs). The title is a play on unapparent
stakeholders who rely on intangible assets like patents that escape
the balance sheet. The Intangible Investor is also an allusion to
Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which after 65 years is
still the definitive book on value investing. This book is intended
for anyone interested in business, new ideas or investing.
This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the
understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely,
colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work
and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the
authors have been exploring since 1976. The authors investigate
major themes. These include the conquest origins and subsequent
development of the colonial state, the contradictory social forces
that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the
creation of new political communities and changing meanings of
ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and
class formation. There is substantial new work on the problems of
Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political
thought. The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper
historical understanding of the development of contemporary Kenyan
society and, in particular, of the British and Kukuyu origins of
Mau Mau and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of
the shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the
limitations of narrowly structuralist Marxist theory of the state,
and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa. Book
Two on Violence and Ethnicity gives new insights into popular
consciousness, into revolutionary change and into the subtle
realities of ethnicity; it will be of particular value to readers
of Ngugi.
Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer
Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a
way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and
the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El
Paso for decades, is a documentarian who uses his camera to record
what's in front of him rather than for, as he puts it, ""mere
self-expression."" Berman's visual investigations of the everyday
realities of the border-detention centers, smeltertown cemeteries,
kids playing along a river levee, descanso crosses on telephone
poles for the disappeared-are exactly the stuff the poetry of
Gonzalez and Welsh is made of. The multilayered histories of the
border landscape provide an inexhaustible supply of rich and
fertile raw material for both Gonzalez and Welsh. But their poetic
visions allow them to capture elements of a personal and collective
past that historians have often failed to record.
This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full
length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.
Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the
contradictions between maintaining effective political control with
limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of
metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies. This
dialectic of domination resulted in both the uneven transformation
of indigenous societies and in the reconstruction of administrative
control in the inter-war period. The study traces the evolution of
the colonial state from its skeletal beginnings in the 1890s to the
complex bureaucracy of the post-1945 era which managed the growing
integration of the colony with international capital. These
contradictions led to the political crisis of the Mau Mau emergency
in 1952 and to the undermining of the colonial state. The book is
based on extensive primary sources including numerous interviews
with Kenyan and British participants. The analysis moves from the
micro-level of the relationship of the District Commissioners and
the African population to the macro-level of the state and the
political economy of colonialism. Professor Berman uses the case of
Kenya to make a sophisticated contribution to the theory of the
state and to the understanding of the dynamics of the development
of modern African political and economic institutions.
This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the
understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely,
colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work
and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the
authors have been exploring since 1976.
The authors investigate major themes. These include the conquest
origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the
contradictory social forces that articulated African societies to
European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities
and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of
social differentiation and class formation. There is substantial
new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and
civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought.
The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical
understanding of the development of contemporary Kenyan society
and, in particular, of the British and Kukuyu origins of Mau Mau
and the emergency of the 1950s.
They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about
development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist
Marxist theory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in
the future of Africa.
Book One on State and Class will be used by students of African
history as well as of colonial Kenya; it is also concerned with the
theory of history and of political science.
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