How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing? Digitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic conversation today, calling into question how we work and how we know. In Digital Oil, Eric Monteiro uses the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry as a lens to investigate the effects of digitalizati...(展开全部)

The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran. The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Knowledge Unlatched. In the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The develo...(展开全部)

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar. Matthew Hindman argues ...(展开全部)

The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writing style to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communication for a one-semester course for graduate students. With the clarity and insight that have characterized his teaching and earlier textbooks, he develops a simple framework and then combines this with careful proofs to help the ...(展开全部)

The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writing style to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communication for a one-semester course for graduate students. With the clarity and insight that have characterized his teaching and earlier textbooks, he develops a simple framework and then combines this with careful proofs to help the ...(展开全部)

"I read a lot of books. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topic...of my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. Today I added another to that rather select group. It is Morgan Downey's "Oil 101" ...It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matter...(展开全部)

It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the re...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，1963年生于湖北，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都——在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）。 作者简介： 休·汤姆森（Hugh Thomson），英国探险家和旅行作家，英国皇家地理学会会员。他曾几次前往南美探寻印加遗迹。著有《白石》（The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland）、《胭脂红》（Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru）、《龙舌兰油：迷失墨西哥》等。作为纪录片制作人，他获得了许多奖项，作品包括与威廉·达尔林普合作的《印度之旅》（Indian Journey...(展开全部)