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Innovation Leaders Praise Breaking Away"Finally, innovation in a framework that is clear, insightful and easy to put into practice. This is a must read."-Angela Ahrendts, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry"Breaking Away has a clear and important message: that innovation-the dogged pursuit of new solutions to old problems-is often the defining feature of a successful endeavor, be it a research project, a corporation or a society."-Dean Kamen, CE...

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Published to wide acclaim in England, "Several Deceptions" introduces a new writer with a fresh voice, making her debut with four entertaining novellas.

In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit love between a queen of Bohemia and an exiled African prince. A gifted young doctor in the late seventeenth century, Balthasar struggles with very contemporary issues of identity, brought into play by his difficult heritage. Driven out of Holland by the plague, he makes his way first to the raffish, cynical...

An immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time, the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, a West African prince and former slave, fall in love and secretly marry. With great erudition and compassion, Jane Stevenson vividly renders both a portrait of an extraordinary relationship and a tumultuous p...