Fifteen years ago, after, having completed a two-year research study, long-time Economist journalists and editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge published an explosive critique of management theory and its legions of evangelists and followers. Their work became a bestseller, widely praised by reviewers and devoured by readers confused by the buzzwords and concepts crea...(展开全部)

"Wonderful stories and in-depth information you will normally never find in books about trees." — Piet Oudolf, Landscape Designer and creator of the planting design for New York's High Line "Entwining fascinating facts about 100 trees with inspiring stories of their importance to ancient civilizations, trade, religious and pagan beliefs, wellbeing and medicinal uses over the ag...(展开全部)

#1 European bestseller: the indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly Have you ever... · Spent too long on a powerpoint presentation? · Lost sight of what makes you happy? · Failed to reach a long-term goal? · Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets? · Broken a promise you knew you'd keep? Si...(展开全部)

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making experts precisely because they receive feedback on their decisions in near real time. Following forecasters in their quest for truth...(展开全部)

Discover how the most trusted approach to statistics today is Simply Powerful with the latest market-leading text from respected authors Anderson/Sweeney/Williams. STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, 11e introduces sound statistical methodology within a strong applications setting. The authors clearly demonstrate how statistical results provide insights into business decisio...(展开全部)

詹姆斯麦克拉夫（James T. McClave） 统计学博士。曾在佛罗里达大学从事教学工作20年，教授过统计学的所有课程。后于1977年创建信息技术有限公司（Info Tech, Inc.），以应用统计学的理论来解决现实世界的问题。现任公司总裁兼首席执行官，佛罗里达大学统计学兼职教授。 易丹辉 中国人民大学统计学院教授，中国人民大学统计咨询研究中心主任。长期致力于统计学在各个领域的应用研究，主要面向经济、金融、保险、管理、医疗等领域，研究方向为预测与决策、风险管理与保险、生物医学统计。主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家社会科学基金项目、“十一五”国家科技支撑计划项目、教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目、企事业单位委托科研项目等。 李扬 中国人民大学统计学院副教授，中国人民大学统计咨询研究中心副主任，国际统计学会推选会员。主要致力于统计模型在生物医学...(展开全部)

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up--and remake the world for the better. How to Change the World tells the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals--many in the Unite...(展开全部)

In their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. Now, in the wake of the global financial crisis, the principles of wikinomics have become more powerful than ever. Many of the institutions that have served us we...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on ...(展开全部)