We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone; makers and hackers can 3D-print guns as well as tools; and supercomputers can short-circuit W...(展开全部)

You CAN Turn Around A Failing Project! Poor project results are all too common and result in dissatisfied customers, users, and project staff. How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control arms project managers with the tools and techniques needed to address these project challenges.

Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" ("The Atlantic Monthly"), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to "The Painted Word."

The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement as Wolfe debunks the European gods of modern and postmodern architecture and their American counterparts.

汤姆·沃尔夫（Tom Wolfe，1931— ），美国当代著名的记者、评论家、作家。先后就读于华盛顿大学和耶鲁大学。早年从事新闻报道工作，开创了新新闻写作模式，被称为“新新闻主义之父”。他的文风泼辣大胆，擅长捕捉当代人的心态，讽刺性地描写美国社会。主要作品有《水泵房》、《着色的世界》、《真材实料》、《从包豪斯到我们的豪斯》和《虚荣的篝火》等。曾获美国国家图书奖、哥伦比亚新闻奖、国家人文勋章、《芝加哥论坛报》文学终身成就奖、美国全国图书基金会美国文学杰出贡献奖。在美国新闻界和文学界具有举足轻重的地位。 译者简介： 关肇邺（1929— ），中国工程院院士，建筑学家，清华大学建筑学院教授。早年师承梁思成，在现代建筑和中西方古典建筑的历史和理论研究方面，具有很深的造诣。发表论文、译著等40余篇。2000年获首届“梁思成建筑奖”、“全国工程设计大师”称号，20...(展开全部)

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and assemble it in an exhilaratingly simple and systematic way." Indeed, since its original publication in 1977, this hugely popular book has become ...(展开全部)

Rocks are time machines and the keepers of our history. This guide is a geological field trip through Earth’s incredible rock formations and the stories they hold Like rings on a tree stump hold the history of the tree, the history of Earth is written in its rocks. How to Read a Rock: Our Planet’s Hidden Stories teaches readers to decipher the rocks all around us, from backyard...(展开全部)

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in the subject between what (s)he knows and ...(展开全部)

本书直击编程陈地，穿过了软件开发中日益增长的规范和技术藩篱，对核心过程进行了审视――即根据需求，创建用户乐于接受的、可工作和易维护的代码。本书包含的内容从个人责任到职业发展，直至保持代码灵活和易于改编重用的架构技术。从本书中将学到防止软件变质、消除复制知识的陷阱、编写灵活、动态和易适应的代码、避免出现相同的设计、用契约、断言和异常对代码进行防护等内容。

本书直击编程陈地，穿过了软件开发中日益增长的规范和技术藩篱，对核心过程进行了审视――即根据需求，创建用户乐于接受的、可工作和易维护的代码。本书包含的内容从个人责任到职业发展，直至保持代码灵活和易于改编重用的架构技术。从本书中将学到防止软件变质、消除复制知识的陷阱、编写灵活、动态和易适应的代码、避免出现相同的设计、用契约、断言和异常对代码进行防护等内容。