Well-received in its first edition, this candid and popular study provides an interesting, "readable" account of American military history from the late fifteenth-century British-French Wars in Colonial America to the recent Gulf War. Written in an easy-to-understand manner void of extraneous detail, the book integrates innovative and fascinating mini-biographies of key figures...(展开全部)

In the aptly titled "The Call and the Response", renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chretien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and i...(展开全部)

In the aptly titled "The Call and the Response", renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chretien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and i...(展开全部)

System administrators need to stay ahead of new security vulnerabilities that leave their networks exposed every day. A firewall and an intrusion detection systems (IDS) are two important weapons in that fight, enabling you to proactively deny access and monitor network traffic for signs of an attack. Linux Firewalls discusses the technical details of the iptables firewall and ...(展开全部)

馬克．高貝（Marc Gobe） 他是世界前十大品牌形象顧問公司之一，Desgrippes Gobe公司的共同創辦人、前董事長與執行長。曾負責可口可樂全球新識別形象與包裝設計，也是商業暢銷書《高感性品牌行銷》（Emotional Branding）與《公民品牌：感性行銷》（Citizen Brand）作者。過去他在Desgrippes Gobe公司時，曾為法國航空、美國線上、雅詩蘭黛、吉列、Godiva、IBM、星巴克、旅遊城 （Travelocity）及維多利亞的秘密等眾多國際知品牌，創造出情感導向的突破性品牌設計策略。高貝也是許多國際設計獎得主。目前他獨力創辦「情感品牌」（EmotionalBranding）顧問公司，協助企業進行更人性化的品牌策略及設計革新。

This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temp...(展开全部)