"This [is a] staggeringly impressive, wonderfully well-designed book...it's a near-perfect overview of art history." --Sunday Times (Culture Magazine), 30th November 2008 The ultimate visual guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world From the earliest cave paintings to Damien Hirst bring a gallery of the world’s finest art into your home and learn everything you nee...(展开全部)

安德鲁·格雷厄姆-狄克逊（Andrew Graham Dixon）是英语国家艺术电视节目的首席评论家和推荐人。他为BBC广播公司提供了6套里程碑式的系列艺术片，包括备受瞩目的《英国艺术史》《文艺复兴时代》《永恒的艺术》以及有关艺术和艺术家的许多个性化文献。20多年来他主持出版多个艺术专栏周刊，起初是《独立报 》，现在是《星期日电讯报》。他还撰写了许多书籍，题材涉及中世纪绘画、雕塑以及当代艺术。

An UPDATED version of a previous DK book: Fashion Learn about the evolution of costume and dress in this lavishly illustrated guide. From the extravagance of Ancient Egypt, through the legendary houses of Chanel and Dior, to today's catwalk sensations, this gorgeous, carefully curated collection shows how fashion reflects people and places, and captures the times in which they ...(展开全部)

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you...(展开全部)

For too long, developers have worked on disorganized application projects, where every part seemed to have its own build system, and no common repository existed for information about the state of the project. Now there's help. The long-awaited official documentation to Maven is here. Written by Maven creator Jason Van Zyl and his team at Sonatype, Maven: The Definitive Guide c...(展开全部)

The rising popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on its ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes -- and that's why this distributed database has been chosen by organizations such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Rackspace. With this hands-on guide, you'll get all the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra's non-relational ...(展开全部)

Eben Hewitt 跨国公司应用架构总监，负责系统战略和设计工作。他是Apache Cassandra项目的一位文档贡献者，同时也是多本技术书籍的作者，其中包括Java SOA Cookbook（O’Reilly出版）。

It takes a book as versatile as its subject to cover Apache Tomcat. This book is a valuable reference for administrators and webmasters, a useful guide for programmers who want to use Tomcat as their web application server during development or in production, and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in Tomcat. The new edition offers complete information for installin...(展开全部)

This book introduces you to Apache CouchDB, a document-oriented database that offers a different way to model your data. CouchDB is a schema-free database, designed to work with applications that handle document-based information such as contacts, invoices, and receipts. In "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide", three of the core developers gently explain how to work with CouchDB, us...(展开全部)

Product Description Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently-including the "black arts" and "tricks of...(展开全部)