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Revisiting the fundamentals of innovation by considering the strengths and weaknesses of Design Thinking and the Lean Startup, expert David C. Roach focuses on innovation management and emphasizes the importance of managing the front-end of innovation, where critical decisions are made and concepts are shaped.

"More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted to him. In this first expansive study of Morris's life and contributions, David C. Crago persuasively argues that historians have wrongly marginalized Morris's role in the early antislavery movement. Morris was the first member of the US Senate to defend abolitionist positions in that body. Confronted with Southern demands for Congressional action to silence abolitionists and endorse slavery, he asserted that a proslavery interpretation of the Constitution was a distortion of the text. Instead, he argued, the Constitution neither identified people as property nor granted Congress the power to establish slavery in the territories or the District of Columbia. Although far outside the 1830s political consensus, Morris's ideas were quickly adopted by the nascent antislavery movement and became the cornerstone of antislavery political beliefs. Ultimately expelled from the Ohio Democratic Party and denied reelection to the Senate, within a decade his ideas would shape the core principles of both the Free-Soil and Republican Parties' platforms. The Creation of a Crusader fills an important gap in understanding the early American antislavery movement and sheds light on Morris's overlooked yet significant influence"--

Terrorism is a persistent form of political violence, but it appears intermittently, afflicting certain places in certain eras while others remain unscathed. Since the late nineteenth century, it has risen and fallen in recurrent generation-long spasms in which hundreds of short-lived groups wreak havoc. Why have past outbreaks of terror tended to come in waves, and how does this pattern shed light on future threats? David C. Rapoport, a preeminent scholar of political violence, identifies and analyzes four distinct waves of global terrorism. He examines the dynamics of each wave, contrasting their tactics, targets, and goals and placing them in the context of the much longer history of terrorism. Global terror emerged in the 1880s after technological changes transformed communication and transportation and dynamite enabled individuals or small groups to carry out bombings. Emanating from Russia, a first wave of anarchists assassinated prominent figures in what they called "propaganda of the deed." This was followed by a second wave of anticolonial terrorism that arose in the British Empire in the 1920s. Beginning in the 1960s, a third wave of New Left movements took hostages and hijacked airplanes. Most recently, religious movements—mostly but not entirely in the Islamic world—have constituted a fourth wave, pioneering self-martyrdom or suicide bombing. Rapoport also considers whether a fifth wave of anti-immigrant or white supremacist terror is emerging today. Recasting the complex history of modern political violence, Waves of Global Terrorism makes a major contribution to our understanding of the roots of contemporary terrorism.

Introduction / David C. Oh -- Part I: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other: 1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men / Min Joo Lee -- 2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han -- 3. The Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the Survival Audition Program in South Korea / Ji-Hyun Ahn -- 4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy / Eunbi Lee and Colby Y. Miyose -- 5. Two Sides of the "Other": Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Russell Edwards -- Part II: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other: 6. "Truth? No One Cares about the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady / Myoung-Sun Song -- 7. Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions / Miseong Woo -- 8. Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu Films / JongHwa Lee -- 9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in the South Korean Documentary Film Uri-Hakkyo / Min Wha Han -- 10. The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-Pop Star / Alice Nahyeon Kim and Sherry S. Yu -- Conclusion / David C. Oh -- Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction: From the Other Shore -- PART I: AUTOCRATIC RUSSIA, LETHARGIC RUSSIANS -- 1 An Empire of Climate -- 2 Endurance without Limit -- 3 Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor -- PART II: REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, INSTINCTUAL RUSSIANS -- 4 Little above the Brute -- 5 Sheep without a Shepherd -- 6 Feeding the Mute Millions of Muzhiks -- PART III: MODERNIZING RUSSIA, BACKWARD RUSSIANS -- 7 New Society, New Scholars -- 8 The Romance of Economic Development -- 9 Starving Itself Great -- 10 Scratch a Soviet and You'll Find a Russian -- Epilogue: Russian Expertise in an Age of Social Science -- Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index