本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

作者：比尔·尼科尔斯（Bill Nichols） 美国旧金山州立大学荣休教授，被广泛认为是当代西方最具影响力的纪录片理论家。他的相关著述，如《表现现实》（Representing Reality，1991）等，极大地影响了当代西方纪录片理论的历史进程。 译者：王迟 英国林肯大学博士、美国俄亥俄大学硕士、中国传媒大学硕士，研究方向为纪录片理论，曾长期任教于中国传媒大学。在《电影艺术》《当代电影》《世界电影》《21世纪》（香港）等期刊发表论文多篇，出版著作（The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, 2017），出版译著《纪录片：历史与理论》（2015），主编“纪录与方法”丛书第一辑《纪实之后：纪录片创作新趋向》（2017）、第二辑《直接电影：反思与批判》（2017）。

This new edition of Bill Nichols's bestselling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduction to Documentary identifies the distinguishing qualities of documentary and teaches the viewer how to read documentary...(展开全部)

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in d...(展开全部)

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python. It is also light-weight to deploy, fun to write for, and incredibly powerful. Tornado was written with performance in mind, aiming to solve the C10k problem, so by design it's an extremely high-performance framework. It's also packed with handy tools for dealing with social networks,...(展开全部)

This classic undergraduate treatment examines the deductive method in its first part and explores applications of logic and methodology in constructing mathematical theories in its second part. Exercises appear throughout.

An intuitive, yet precise introduction to probability theory, stochastic processes, and probabilistic models used in science, engineering, economics, and related fields. The 2nd edition is a substantial revision of the 1st edition, involving a reorganization of old material and the addition of new material. The length of the book has increased by about 25 percent. The main new ...(展开全部)

The word "permaculture" was coined and popularized in the mid 70's by David Holmgren, a young Australian ecologist, and his associate / professor, Bill Mollison. It is a contraction of "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture." Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and food production systems. It is a land use and community building movement which striv...(展开全部)

The book that started it all, this revised edition of a classic weaves together philosophies of land-use, hands-on techniques of soil, agricultural, and livestock management, earth-friendly irrigation, and more, to form a very clear and inspiring picture of how sustainable agriculture not only can but must be made to work. Simple line illustrations throughout.