In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies aroun...(展开全部)

An understanding of the importance of team-building will always be a major factor in the successful growth and development of businesses. Management Teams is one of the most widely-read, imaginative and influential books in this vital area of management research. Over the past decade, the team roles which Dr Belbin identifies in the book have become part of everyday language ...(展开全部)

坦特教授是可持续发展研究的先行者，可持续国际的创会会员,曾任新墨西哥大学人类学教授。远在“可持续发展”一词未为人知时，坦特教授已经开展了这方面的研究。早在二十年前，即出版了其成名著《复杂社会的崩溃》，该书运用网络理论、能量经济和复杂性理论对玛雅文明和罗马帝国的崩溃进行了研究。

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tain...(展开全部)

坦特教授是可持续发展研究的先行者，可持续国际的创会会员,曾任新墨西哥大学人类学教授。远在“可持续发展”一词未为人知时，坦特教授已经开展了这方面的研究。早在二十年前，即出版了其成名著《复杂社会的崩溃》，该书运用网络理论、能量经济和复杂性理论对玛雅文明和罗马帝国的崩溃进行了研究。

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tain...(展开全部)

John Holt's first classic book on how children learn - and why they fail - based on his observations of children in the classroom. When this book was first published in 1964, it initiated an international debate on educational reform. The book sold over a million copies and established itself as a classic in its field. Despite the years which have gone by since its original pub...(展开全部)

In this accessible, prescriptive, and widely applicable manual, Google’s first engineering director and current Innovation Agitator Emeritus provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed. Millions of people around...(展开全部)

In this accessible, prescriptive, and widely applicable manual, Google’s first engineering director and current Innovation Agitator Emeritus provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed. Millions of people around...(展开全部)

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the current...(展开全部)