Aimed at professionals and beginners alike: the first systematic attempt to find out how photographers of world stature approach their work, and what it is that makes them succeed. This essential new guide to photography draws upon in-depth interviews with established photographers from the fields of fashion, art, portraiture, documentary photography, and advertising as well ...(展开全部)

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communic...(展开全部)

Much as we hate to admit it, most prototyping practice lacks a sophisticated understanding of the broad concepts of prototypingand its strategic position within the development process. Often we overwhelm with a high fidelity prototype that designs us into a corner. Or, we can underwhelm with a prototype with too much ambiguity and flexibility to be of much use in the software ...(展开全部)

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is abou...(展开全部)

Bridge the gap between business and data science by learning how to interpret machine learning and AI models, manage data teams, and achieve impactful results Key Features Master the concepts of statistics and ML to interpret models and guide decisions Identify valuable AI use cases and manage data science projects from start to finish Empower top data science teams to solve complex problems and build AI products Purchase of the print Kindle

你何時開始對攝影有興趣？當你在構圖拍攝的當下，心裡在想什麼？ 你如何獲得靈感？你認為觀看的方法可以經由學習得來嗎？ 你攝影生涯的第一個重大突破是怎麼發生的？ 作者Anne-Celine Jaeger透過與世界頂尖攝影師、知名策展人、圖像編輯、攝影經紀公司總監、藝術書出版人及攝影部落客的對談，引領讀者進入當代攝影美麗奧妙的影像世界，除了可一窺攝影大師們的創作思維與工作方法外，同時也對攝影這個能探索事物本質、捕捉奇妙瞬間的媒介有更深入的認識。 每一張照片的背後都有耐人尋味的有趣源起和執行過程。就如Mario Sorrenti是如何拍出那張Calvin Klein的經典廣告──裸身躺在沙發上的凱特摩絲、Anton Corbijn如何以仿狗仔的方式，拍下丹麥導演拉斯馮提爾裸體在花園推著手推車，以及Fabrice Dall’Anese如何將飯店廁所變成攝影棚來...(展开全部)

Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces—both material and immaterial—that supported Japan’s ric...(展开全部)

It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk—the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon. Because this musical instrument is significant to so many—in ways that are emotional, cultural, and economic—guitar making has expe...(展开全部)

Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history—of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate cults that turn some new products into cultural phenomena. Even the most brilliant ideas wither in ...(展开全部)

In this classic, originally published 25 years ago and now reprinted with a new Afterword by the author on how he came to write the book, Judson tells the story of the birth and early development of molecular biology, in the US, the UK and France. In particular, the fascinating account of the remarkable golden period from the revelation of the double helix structure of DNA thro...(展开全部)