This book examines the major contributing factors which catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant service industry in less than two decades. It focuses on KFC China s competitive differentiators, and how they jelled in support of a coherent business strategy, and of each other. The successful execution of KFC China s business strategy has since been rewarded with an u...(展开全部)

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a case and apply clear pre-existing legal rules to them, Posner argues, they do so straightforwar...(展开全部)

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a case and apply clear pre-existing legal rules to them, Posner argues, they do so straightforwar...(展开全部)

Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory o...(展开全部)

作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

In 1977, photographers Larry Sultan (1946–2009) and Mike Mandel (born 1950) published a book that would radically transform both photography and the photobook canon―a book described by Martin Parr, in The Photobook: A History, as "one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks." Sultan and Mandel sifted through thousands o...(展开全部)

Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the Supreme Court has the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular? What must the Court do to maintain the public’s faith? How can it help make our democr...(展开全部)