This is the first full-length history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10.The author recorded the history as it was taking place. He received updates and documents, attended the engineering meetings, witnessed the emer...(展开全部)

Jump-Start Your Reading Skills! Speed reading used to require months of training. Now you can rev up your reading in just a few minutes a day. With quizzes to determine your present reading level and exercises to introduce new skills quickly, 10 Days to Faster Reading will improve your reading comprehension and speed as it shows you how to: * Break the Bad Habits That Slow You ...(展开全部)

托马斯•沙兹（Thomas Schatz），美国德克萨斯大学传播学教授，主要研究领域为好莱坞电影和制片厂制度。作为知名电影评论人，著有：《旧好莱坞•新好莱坞：仪式、艺术与工业》《繁荣与衰败：1940年代的美国电影》《体系的特质：制片厂时代的好莱坞电影制作》《好莱坞电影类型》等。他还参与了多部电影及电视纪录片的创作，如美国公共电视台的纪录片系列《美国电影》等。

Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handboo...(展开全部)

How films are conceived,planned, and produced leaves a mark upon the films, directly and structurally. The relations between film style and mode of production are, according to the authors, reciprocal and mutually influencing. The authors trace such topics as style, economics, and technology over time, demonstrating how significant changes occurrred in Hollywood from the earlie...(展开全部)

"The 10th edition of the iconic Psychology Applied to Work is archivally flawless and inspirationally visionary for students as well as fledgling and seasoned teachers, researchers, consultants and practitioners toiling in the vineyards of employment psychology. Were there an award for such books, Psychology Applied to Work, industrial and organizational psychology’s gold stand...(展开全部)

安德鲁·莫顿（Andrew Morton） 知名传记作家。他撰写过多部名人传记，其中《戴安娜：她的真实故事》蝉联畅销书榜58周，被翻译为35种语言，并引发了电影、纪录片和王室评论的热潮。此后，莫顿继续撰写了麦当娜、贝克汉姆与维多利亚、汤姆·克鲁斯、安吉丽娜·朱莉等众多名人的传记，并荣登《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》上畅销书榜。