Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communicati...(展开全部)

In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

Humorous and undeniably original, this witty satire of religion and morality centers around a small town in Colombia that boasts two especially interesting residents: the idiot sons of the town priest's illegitimate daughter, Marcianita, who have been blessed with super sexual potency. Their ability to "cure" the ailing brings pilgrims to the town—as well as the media and sever...(展开全部)

Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the parts you can't see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in data. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web shows readers how to use the same techniques employed by household names like Google Ad Sense, Ne...(展开全部)

Web 2.0 applications provide a rich user experience, but the parts you can't see are just as important-and impressive. They use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in data. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web shows readers how to use the same techniques employed by household names like Google Ad Sense, Ne...(展开全部)

作者：內爾·諾丁斯（Nel Noddings）是史丹佛大學教育學專業的傑克（Lee L. Jacks）紀念教授。她的作品包括《關心：倫理和道德教育的女性主義路徑》、《女性與惡》、《喚醒內在的眼睛：直覺與教育》（與保羅·薛恩合著）、《學會關心：教育的另一種模式》以及一百餘篇論文，涉及到從關懷倫理到數學問題解答的廣泛議題。 譯者：劉幸，日本廣島大學教育學博士生，北京師範大學文學學士、教育學碩士。有譯著《杜威家書》（杜威夫婦著）、《課程》（博比特著）等出版。在中、美、日、韓等國的學術期刊上發表有專業論文。 尹芳，北京師範大學第二附屬中學教師，北京師範大學文學學士、教育學碩士。先後承擔各級公開課，并榮獲“優秀班主任”稱號。參與編寫了《民國經典國文課》、《中學經典古文課》等讀本。

"Philosophy--the 'love of wisdom'--can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is ...(展开全部)

Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION) is the combination of learning from data and optimization applied to solve complex and dynamic problems. The LION way is about increasing the automation level and connecting data directly to decisions and actions. More power is directly in the hands of decision makers in a self-service manner, without resorting to intermediate layers...(展开全部)