Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae.
I’m sure you could read the above sentence, but will it suffice for your Masters thesis or PhD dissertation. Definitly not!
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Ever wondered how your instinct, intuition, gut-feel or snap judgements work? Can you trust your intuition? Can you learn how to improve your snap judgements?
Blink is a brilliant book about those two seconds where you decide whether you like a person or not, or where you decide whether you are in danger or not, or where [...]

The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes tells of the fascinating journey of Christopher Kremmer in his search for carpets in the countries where they originated. Amongst others he visits regions such as Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir and in the process he meets the most wonderful people, providing [...]

Organizations often boast about their knowledge management initiatives. Upon further investigation however it often turns out to be nothing more than an exercise in capturing ‘knowledge’ in a database and giving employees in the organization access to the database. And more often than not the ‘knowledge management initiative’ gets canned after a few months, because [...]

All over the world we increasingly see organisations, leaders and managers trying to solve complex problems by applying simple, non-integrated solutions. The solutions often solve only a small part of the problem, whilst when looking at the bigger picture, it gives rise to wider problems. Such one-dimensonal solutions demonstrate a lack of a systems thinking [...]

The past few months I’ve really been struggling to make progress with writing my dissertation. Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way? Last week Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis arrived by courier and having read the advice of Joan Bolker [...]

Knowledge Puzzles: An Introduction to Epistemology provides a thorough introduction to the theory of knowledge. The book is based on the use of puzzles to encourage further study and also includes recommended further reading. The book succeeds in explaining complex epistemological issues in an easy-to-read (and understand!) format. I definitely recommend this book to [...]