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How Imitation Sparks InnovationIn many sectors, copying is more or less accepted as a business strategy. Knockoff        products that look, taste, and sound suspiciously like 'originals' abound in upscale        chain restaurants, fashion outlets, and contemporary architecture. And such        industries typically regard the pervasive piracy as a...

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This invaluable resource offers an accessible synthesis of research, theories, and perspectives on the family processes that contribute to development presenting cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work on the key developmental tasks and challenges in the transition between adolescence and adulthood....

This volume is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines....

Venture capital (VC) refers to investments provided to early-stage, innovative,        and high growth start-up companies. A common characteristic of all venture capital        investments is that investee companies do not have cash flows to pay interest on        debt or dividends on equity. Rather, investments are made with a view...