Editor's Note: Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Wiley, from Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business by Mikkel Svane with Carlye Adler.
In the following field note excerpts, we depict two consecutive clinic consultations between a doctor, a pre-school patient (whose CKD had been managed by the MDT for several months but who had recently received a kidney transplant), and the child's mother.
(The I-can-prove-Maria-Callas-was-the-greatest-in-just-three-notes excerpt, it starts at 3 58).
(Include in your liner notes excerpts from the lyrics that illustrate this point).
He added, "The editing, with excellent notes, excerpts from Brecht's own views about poetry and Mr. Willett's concise introduction, is exemplary".
She seems to hide nothing, and in the piece includes her "dementia field notes," excerpts from a journal in which she monitors her "descent into the post-cerebral realm": "At La Frontera I was unable to interpret the beer stein the server put before me".
Arguably, these textbooks are worth that much or more if you consider the R&D costs, but new resources are available to nearly everyone and it is so easy for a professor to write his or her own book, made up of class notes, excerpts, and essays, that there is little reason to depend on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt or whatever they call themselves now.
The couple sent back some lovely notes, excerpted here.
