Thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in, neither in her family nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are cryst...(展开全部)

Thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in, neither in her family nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are cryst...(展开全部)

In this brisk, engaging chronicle of one of the most stunning success stories in American business history, Adam Cohen takes us inside eBay the corporation--where all the important players, including eBay's founder Pierre Omidyar and CEO Meg Whitman, demystify their roles and tell the story straight--as well as inside the community of eBay's passionate users, who buy and sell e...(展开全部)

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted former shopkeeper who devoted his wan...(展开全部)

Praise for America's Corner Store "Who would have thought the story of a drugstore chain could encompass so much vital and fascinating American history? With superb storytelling skills, John Bacon gives us a vivid and insightful chronicle of matters both large and small, from the birth of the milkshake to the rise of America's consumer culture. America's Corner Store is a genu...(展开全部)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at...(展开全部)

《iOS开发实战：从零基础到App Store上架》一书由一线软件工程师结合实际应用编写而成，由浅入深系统地介绍了iOS应用从开发、调试到打包、上架的完整过程。本书主体由各个基础模块组成，由实战项目连接，在帮助读者掌握原理的同时轻松上手开发出自己的应用。为方便读者学习，作者还为本书精心录制了“7天玩转iOS UI开发视频教程”，本视频教程包括基础篇、中级篇、高级篇、进阶篇、扩展篇5部分，总计36堂课，播放时长超过13小时。此外，本书还提供iOS UI开发视频教程源代码以及本书实例源代码。本书的特色是通俗易学，突出实战，提供了大量开发案例，适合于刚入职或新手iOS开发人员和爱好者、大中专院校学生及iOS培训班学员，尤其适合有一定语言基础想要开发App产品的开发者。

本书站在开发者的视角，以iOS 10+Xcode 8和Objective-C+Swift 3双语言代码示例，完整地介绍了iOS应用程序从开发到上架的全过程，包含iOS应用开发的各种热点技术和编者多年的开发经验分享。全书共11章，包括：开发环境搭建、界面开发、传感器技术、布局与动画技术、网络和数据技术、打包与上传发布流程等，基本上每一章都配备了实战范例，使读者可以在编写代码中学习编程，在应用开发中提高开发技能。 本书技术先进，注重实战，示例丰富，适合iOS开发新手使用，也很适合作为iOS培训机构的教材或大专院校软件开发课程的教学参考书。