And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

This legendary book was first published in English in 1990. It has been re-translated and extensively revised, including material not found in the original translation. It is Altshuller's most popular book in Russia on how to become an inventor, and how to solve technical problems. The translator, Lev Shulyak, is himself an accomplished inventor, engineer and TRIZ expert. 

The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world’s most respected consulting firms.
Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. 

The Thinking Manager's Toolbox: Effective Processes for Problem Solving and Decision Making

In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often.
How can you help your company solve a problem in just a few days that's been plaguing managers for three months? How can you bring a room of executives to a consensus on a critical decision that the CEO and his committee have been wrestling with for years? Of course, this is easier said than done.

CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Emergency Medicine

The essential problem-oriented guide to all diseases that present to the emergency department-now updated and expanded! Concise, accurate coverage of common emergency problems, organized by organ system/anatomic region-and ideally suited to the fast-paced ER Cohesive priority-based and problem-based organization that reviews special aspects of emergency medicine

Differential Equations With Boundary-Value Problems

This Fourth Edition of the expanded version of this best-selling A FIRST COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH MODELING APPLICATIONS places an even greater emphasis on modeling and the use of technology in problem solving and now features more everyday applications. Both texts are identical through the first nine chapters, but this version includes six additional chapters that provide in-depth coverage of boundary-value problem-solving and partial differential equations, subjects just introduced in the shorter text.