A Barronâ‘’s best-seller for more than four decades, the brand-new sixth edition of 1100 Words You Need to Know has been expanded and updated with more-- Word lists and definitions Analogy exercises Words-in-context exercises All new words for students to learn are placed in the context of sentences that have been selected from well-known novels, plays, poems, newspaper editori...(展开全部)

This brand-new edition of 1100 Words You Need to Know has been expanded and updated, and includes: Word lists and definitions Analogy exercises Words-in-context exercises Idiom indexes An updated Pronunciation Guide All new words for students to learn are placed in the context of sentences that have been selected from well-known novels, plays, poems, newspaper editorials, and T...(展开全部)

Updated to meet the needs of students preparing for the latest versions of the SAT and ACT college entrance tests, the new edition of this helpful, longtime best-selling book features word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, word games, and words-in-context exercises. A special feature is the authors’ Panorama of Words, in which each of the book’s 1110 words is presente...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Drawing on a wide body of research, including extensive in-depth interviews, "The One Thing You Need To Know" reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing, Great Leadership and Great Careers. Buckingham uses a wealth of relevant examples to reveal that at the heart of each insight lies a controlling insight. Lose sight of this ...(展开全部)

Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers such as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens and ...(展开全部)

In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise incurable diseases. But these advances are also generating controversy, particularly surrounding issues such as cloning and designer babies. In "50 Genetics Ideas," Mark Henderson distils the...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·巴纳特（Christopher Barnatt），生于1967年。英国百年名校诺丁汉大学教授，20多年职业未来学家，*3D打印评论家。世界未来学会（World Future Society）会员，美国探索频道（Discovery Channel）Helium3Game.com网站制作顾问，时常出现在美国ABC新闻、英国天空新闻（Sky News）及众多其他BBC当地电台,投身英国Clore领袖培训计划（Clore Leadership Programme）多年。 从1995年出版《网络商业》（Cyber Business）率先预测互联网购物，到2013年《3D打印：下一次工业革命》（3D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution）全球畅销发行，被翻译成了中文、日文和韩文等多国语言，克里斯托弗·巴纳特...(展开全部)

From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren’t enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical,...(展开全部)

●[美]莱昂纳德·萨斯坎德(Leonard Susskind) 世界知名理论物理学家，斯坦福大学教授。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术与科学院院士。弦论的创始人之一，他和其所领导的研究小组进行了多年的研究，最终提出了一个震惊世界的观点：宇宙的发展需要外在的力量参与而非自身发展。 ●[美]乔治·拉保夫斯基(George Hrabovsky) 物理爱好者，科普作家。在对物理学的研究中，拉保夫斯基形成了一种对物理学观点进行解释的独特的方法，所以在他的笔下，晦涩的理论之间产生了有逻辑的连接，艰涩的公式变得更易于理解。由于阐述物理学理论的深入浅出的能力，拉保夫斯基受到了斯坦福大学等众多名校学生的喜爱。