How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies. In Cyberboss, Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms r...(展开全部)

The new edition of this definitive market leader and authoritative educational reference continues to provide unmatched coverage and insightful comparisons that guide your students through the intricacies of quality management today. Built upon the strength and proven experience of well-known authors and examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige Award, this text presents the fundament...(展开全部)

The Science of Algorithmic Trading and Portfolio Management, with its emphasis on algorithmic trading processes and current trading models, sits apart from others of its kind. Robert Kissell, the first author to discuss algorithmic trading across the various asset classes, provides key insights into ways to develop, test, and build trading algorithms. Readers learn how to evalu...(展开全部)

中文版为《不宣而战》http://book.douban.com/subject/1115746/ 本书为英国王牌制片人大卫·普特南爵士的力作。在本书中，他将电影提高到了一个前所未有的高度，以WTO的谈判舞台作为开场，以电影史上的国际贸易战为主线，从经济与文化两方面论述了电影的巨大影响力。他旁征博引，同时还结合自己在大西洋两岸担任制片人的亲身经历和体会，为读者讲述了在电影这一20世纪最大众化而且最具影响力的媒体的领域内进行的争夺战。

Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years. Featured artists include: Matthew Barney, Maurizio Catte...(展开全部)

Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, e...(展开全部)

Libertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women’s rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Today, this movement founded on the principle of individual liberty finds itself divided by both progressive and reactionary elements vying to claim it as their own. The Individual...(展开全部)

Reviewers' comments on the first edition: 'Zygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis...an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate' - "British Journal of Sociology". 'It will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policy! [Bauman] provides a very force...(展开全部)

It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – and occasional skullduggery. In the definitive account of this landmark event, Caltech physicist and acclaimed science writer Sean Carroll reve...(展开全部)