Finding cool languages, tools, or development techniques is easy-new ones are popping up every day. Convincing co-workers to adopt them is the hard part. The problem is political, and in political fights, logic doesn't win for logic's sake. Hard evidence of a superior solution is not enough. But that reality can be tough for programmers to overcome. In Driving Technical ...(展开全部)

克里斯•斯图尔特 移居西班牙农庄前，克里斯•斯图尔特的工作经历五花八门。离开创世纪乐团，其后加入一家马戏团，学过剪羊毛，在希腊游艇当过船员，为Rough Guides丛书远赴中国撰写旅游指南，在洛杉矶取得飞行执照，还曾参加过法国烹饪培训课程。《吉他羊奶天堂》一书出版后广受好评，极为畅销。而克里斯、安娜与女儿克洛艾一家三口的生活却一如既往——与狗、猫、鸡、羊以及一只鹦鹉，外加一把令安娜又爱又恨的崭新吉他，在他们的农庄里怡然自乐。 克里斯•斯图尔特与SORT OF BOOKS以此书荣获“年度最佳新人奖”。

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster sp...(展开全部)

The story of a life. The story of the year. 'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miria...(展开全部)

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France between 1976 and 1995. The lectures presented here offer a sustained intellectual engagement with themes of creativity in music by a widely influential cultural figure, who has long been central to th...(展开全部)

When a boy's path to his tuba teacher's house leads him through a forest, the boy delights in climbing trees and making music with rabbits, foxes, squirrels, and even a big, scary bear. This colorful and almost wordless story makes for a lesson all kids will want to take.

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian. "Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night..." In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek teacher at the blackboard. She tries t...(展开全部)