Learning is increasingly seen as crucial to the success of organizations Based upon in-depth research, including over 70 interviews with managers and employees, this text is a comprehensive analysis of learning organizations. Contents include: detailed case studies of five major international companies - Coca-Cola and Schweppes Beverages, 3M, Siebe, Mayflower and Morgan Crucible; the intellectual origins of organizational learning; best practice in organizational learning; the importance of leadership roles and skills; and a critical examination of the usefulness and relevance of...

Evariste Galois' short life was lived against the turbulent background of the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France, the 1830 revolution in Paris and the accession of Louis-Phillipe. This new and scrupulously researched biography of the founder of modern algebra sheds much light on a life led with great intensity and a death met tragically under dark circumstances. Sorting speculation from documented fact, it offers the fullest and most exacting account ever written of Galois' life and work. It took more than seventy years to fully understand the French mathematician's first...