Amazon.com Review One can only imagine the amazement felt by L.J.M. Daguerre, when, in the summer of 1839, he gazed upon the first photograph ever made. An image of the view from his Paris apartment of the bustling Boulevard du Temple, it was remarkably detailed yet mysteriously vacant, save for a single man in the distance who appeared to be having his boots polished; the rest...(展开全部)

彼得·德鲁克（Peter F. Drucker）：现代管理大师，对世人贡献卓越，影响深远，被尊为“大师中的大师”、“现代管理之父”。2002年6月20日，美国总统乔治·W·布什宣布彼得·德鲁克成为当年的“总统自由勋章”的获得者，这是美国公民所能获得的最高荣誉。 彼得·德鲁克于1909年生于奥匈帝国的维也纳，祖籍为荷兰人。其家族在十七世纪时从事书籍出版工作（Drucker原意为“印刷者”）。德鲁克在哈佛商业评论发表文章已超过30篇，著作多达50余本，传播及130多个国家，甚至在前苏联、波兰、南斯拉夫、捷克等国也极为畅销。其中最受推崇的是他的原则概念及发明，包括：“将管理学开创成为一门学科、目标管理与自我控制是管理哲学、组织的目的是为了创造和满足顾客、企业的基本功能是行销与创新、高层管理者在企业策略中的角色、成效比效率更重要、分权化、民营化、知识工作者的...(展开全部)

Here at last is a concise critical history of photography which explains by what criteria we can judge one photograph to be better than another, what is special about the photographic recording of images, what in fact is the essence of photography both in itself and in relation to other visual art forms. This brilliant study provides a unique guide to the critical issues throug...(展开全部)

Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American society--and, indeed, in world economics and culture--that it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enor...(展开全部)

This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in th...(展开全部)

Ambitious in scope, democratic in nature, Magnum Streetwise is an unmissable tour through the photographs and practices that have helped define what street photography is and can be. Magnum photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered ‘modern’ concepts of street photography before the term was even coined. But their influence is far from historic. A rich seam of street...(展开全部)

In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare-earth metals is a precon...(展开全部)