Last updated: 1/13/99
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Textbooks

Textbooks are in at:
Marwil Bookstore
4870 Cass (southeast corner of Warren and Cass)
Detroit, MI
Tel (313) 832-3078

ISP 5500 Section# 981, Call# 90577, 4 cr

• Howard Gardner, Creating Minds, pub. Basic Books 1993 (paperback).
• Alan G. Robinson & Sam Stern, Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen, pub. Berrett-Koehler Publishers (San Francisco) 1997 (paperback if available).
• Each student will choose a third text based upon her/his personal interests (This choice is subject to Instructor's approval). PLEASE NOTE: This is meant to introduce some creativity. Everybody can end up reading different books here.

ISP 5990 Section# 981, Call# 95268, 4 cr. (This course may be taken only with Section 981 of ISP 5500)

• David Packard, The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company, HarperCollins 1995 (paperback).
• Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, The Nature of Creativity, pub. Cambridge University Press 1988 (paperback).
• Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, pub. HarperCollins 1985 (paperback).

A reading schedule will be posted on the course web site before the start of classes. If you want to get a head start, start reading the texts listed first under each course (of course, don't read The HP Way if you are not taking ISP 5990!).

Suggestions for the third text for ISP 5500 will also be posted on the course web site before the start of classes. Each student will ask the Instructor about one or more books via email, and get replies via email. You can ask about specific books at any time, even before the course starts. There will be a date, posted on the course web site, by which time you must have made a suggestion, via email.