A comprehensive yet quick guide to the best approaches to designing data visualizations, with real examples and illustrative diagrams. Whatever the desired outcome ensure success by following this expert design process. This book is for anyone who has responsibility for, or is interested in trying to find innovative and effective ways to visually analyze and communicate data. There is no skill, no knowledge and no role-based pre-requisites or expectations of anyone reading this book.

高德拉特博士是以色列物理学家及企业管理大师，TOC制约法的创造者。他的第一部作品《目标》大胆借用小说的笔法，说明如何通过近乎常识的逻辑推理，解决复杂的管理问题，结果一炮走红。 高德拉特20岁时就立志要教导别人思考的方法，他对于传播观念抱有极大的狂热，可以一天只睡三个小时，奔波于世界各地发表演说。他还创立了“高德拉特机构”，并在全球广设分部，以此来训练TOC人才，推广TOC制约法，辅导对象包括通用汽车、波音飞机在内的诸多知名企业，以及包括教师、美国空军将领在内的各行业人士。 继《目标》之后，高德拉特相继出版了《绝不是靠运气》、《关键链》和《仍然不足够》三本企业管理小说以及数本TOC制约法理论专著，在全球各地引起了强烈反响。

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional w...(展开全部)

作者简介 威廉·J.基夫，美国匹兹堡大学政治科学系名誉教授，美国西北大学博士。代表作品有《美国的政党、政治和公共政策》、《美国立法过程：从国会到州议会》（与莫里斯·S.奥古尔合著）、《国会与美国民众》等。研究领域涉及美国政治、立法行为、政党与利益集团的关系等方面。 莫里斯·S.奥古尔，美国匹兹堡大学政治科学系教授，著有《国会对行政官僚的监督》。 译者简介 王保民，西安交通大学法学教授，立法与党内法规研究中心主任，第四届陕西省“优秀中青年法学家”，中国法学会立法学研究会常务理事，陕西省法学会立法学研究会会长、党内法规研究会副会长。美国加州大学伯克利法学院富布赖特项目高级研究学者，国家社科基金重大专项项目首席专家。 姚志奋，黄淮学院外国语学院外国语言文化研究所所长，讲师，国家二级翻译，博士研究生。

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself ...(展开全部)

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself ...(展开全部)

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design ...(展开全部)

作者介绍Flavio Junqueira 是微软研究院在英国剑桥大学的研究人员之一。他拥有美国加州大学圣地亚哥分校计算机科学博士学位。他的研究范围涉及分布式系统的各个方面，包括分布式算法、并发性和可扩展性。他是Apache项目如Apache ZooKeeper（PMC主席和提交者）和Apache BookKeeper（提交者）的积极贡献者。他一有空就喜欢睡觉。 Benjamin Reed 是一位负责Facebook中所有细节工作的软件工程师。他以前的职位包括雅虎研究院首席研究科学家（负责所有大的方向）和IBM Almaden Research的研究人员（负责所有事情，无论大小）。他拥有加州大学圣克鲁斯分校计算机科学博士学位。他从事的工作涉及分布式计算、大数据处理、分布式存储、系统管理和嵌入式框架等领域。他参加了各种开源项目，如Hadoop和Linux...(展开全部)

Process-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make strong inferences about how a cause (or set of causes) contributes to producing an outcome. In this extensively revised and updated edition, Derek Beach and Rasmus Brun Pedersen introduce a refined definition of process-tracing, differen...(展开全部)