The challenges of problems from international programming competitions are an effective way to improve your algorithmic and coding skills and understanding. This volume uses international programming competition-type problems to motivate the study of algorithms, programming, and other topics in computer science. The book includes more than 100 programming challenges, as well as...(展开全部)

The challenges of problems from international programming competitions are an effective way to improve your algorithmic and coding skills and understanding. This volume uses international programming competition-type problems to motivate the study of algorithms, programming, and other topics in computer science. The book includes more than 100 programming challenges, as well as...(展开全部)

Photography's great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary - the most important questions about photography are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine prevailing beliefs about the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photogra...(展开全部)

Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established modern states in the mid-20th century, they have been locked in a complex rivalry ranging across the South Asian region. Garver offers a scrupulous examination of the two countries' actions and policy decisions over the past fifty years. He has interviewed many of the key figures who have shaped their diplomatic ...(展开全部)

The New Geography of Innovation tells the story of the rise of new technology companies from across the world through remarkable case-studies from different countries. Its focus is on innovation and breakthroughs: where and why places experience sudden technological advancement and how this is now a global game. For fifty years, Silicon Valley has been spinning out new technolo...(展开全部)

迈克尔•赫兹菲尔德，美国当代著名人类学家，曾担任American Ethnologist的主编，也是数十种学术期刊的编委会成员，其中包括American Anthropologist 和 Anthropological Quarterly。赫兹菲尔德的主要研究领域为人类学理论、都市人类学、批判性遗产保护、视觉人类学等，他以意大利、希腊、泰国等地的田野研为基础，共出版过11部人类学专著，他所构建的“文化亲昵性”（cultural intimacy），“全球价值级差”（global hierarchy of values）等概念，在人类学的诸多研究中被反复引用和讨论。近年来他的研究主要关注历史遗产保护的政治与社会维度，并延伸到对于士绅化、科层制以及手工艺人与知识分子的知识民族志研究。 赵德义，曾参与国家社科基金中华学术外译项目《中国少数民族人类起源神话研...(展开全部)

"The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed in a Greece fighting to escape foreign domination. T...(展开全部)

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Por...(展开全部)

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Po...(展开全部)

羅傑．克勞利 英國著名歷史學家，其父親是海軍軍官，曾駐防於地中海各地，故作者在年輕時就跟隨父親在地中海各處度過很長的歲月，因而對地中海世界的歷史文化產生濃厚興趣。作者在劍橋完成學業後，曾赴伊斯坦堡任教，花了很多時間考察該座城市，也曾徒步遊覽土耳其西部。前述經歷使得作者擁有淵博的地中海歷史與地理知識，著作有「地中海史詩三部曲」：《海洋帝國》、《一四五三》、《財富之城》，以及《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》、《1291阿卡圍城戰》（以上繁中版均由馬可孛羅出版）等書。 相關著作：《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》《海洋帝國：伊斯蘭與基督教勢力邊界爭霸的時代》《財富之城：海洋霸權威尼斯共和國》《1291阿卡圍城戰：十字軍保衛聖地的最後一戰》《征服者：葡萄牙帝國的崛起》《財富之城：威尼斯共和國的海洋霸權》《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》《海洋...(展开全部)