Designing scalable software in C++ requires more than just a sound understanding of logical design. Senior developers, architects, and project leaders need a grasp of high-level physical design concepts that even many software experts have never explored. In Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture, John Lakos takes a practitioner's view of modern large-scale software...(展开全部)

This textbook provides graduate students with a thorough and up-to-date introduction to inflationary cosmology. Enormous progress has been made in this area in the last few years and this book is the first to provide a modern and unified overview. It covers all aspects of inflationary cosmology and carefully compares predictions with the latest observations, including those of ...(展开全部)

Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young wr...(展开全部)

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites t...(展开全部)

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text. FLEMING...(展开全部)

REM KOOLHAAS is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S,M,L,XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Del...(展开全部)

石上纯也的《建筑的新尺度》是建筑学领域最新成果，它不是对至今为止存在的构筑建筑的方法的质疑而是拓宽。 在建筑学的领域，我们所认识到的自然是简单的，远没有找到与自然的复杂性相对应的方式，石上的研究引导我们去思考不同的鸟类所飞行的高度，树和林的关系，恐龙的足迹，蝴蝶飞行的路线，以及人在特定空间里的流线等等，建筑学已经不是什么禅意，建构，空间，材料那些技术和玄学的词汇所能涵盖的世界。石上是从完全新的角度，拓宽了我们对建筑的认知。 日本两位最受瞩目的年轻建筑师，石上和藤本，石上先验者，藤本实验者。

Review From the reviews: "The book … is a reprinted version of the original English translation of the first volume of B. L. van der Waerden’s ‘Algebra’, without any alterations. However, it is the first softcover printing, worth the price and particularly handy. It is very gratifying to have such an edition … so that further generations of students can both afford it and use i...(展开全部)