This book celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems." The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of Mike's achievements in advancing modern database systems over more than forty ...(展开全部)

This book celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems." The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of Mike's achievements in advancing modern database systems over more than forty ...(展开全部)

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses 19 of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, Lives of the Artis...(展开全部)

汉斯•乌尔里希•奥布里斯特（Hans Ulrich Obrist），1968年生于瑞士苏黎世，伦敦蛇形画廊联合总监，是活跃于当代艺术界的著名策展人和批评家。奥布里斯特迄今曾参与策划和发起了150 多个展览与项目，编撰有70 多本学术著作。著有《策展之道》《关于策展的一切》《策展简史》《做》等。

作者簡介 大衛．哥德布拉特David Goldblatt 大衛．哥德布拉特（David Goldblatt），一九六五年生於倫敦，現居布里斯托，對托特納姆熱刺隊（Tottenham Hotspur）和布里斯托流浪者隊（Bristol Rovers）的愛不分上下。 哥德布拉特是知名的運動作家、廣播主持人、運動社會學家、大學講師與專欄記者。他為 BBC 廣播製作足球紀錄節目，也是《衛報》、《觀察家報》、《泰晤士報文學增刊》、《金融時報》、《新左派評論》、《新政治家》、《展望》等報章雜誌的專欄記者，擔任《世界足球年鑑》（World Football Yearbook）的編輯，並在布里斯托大學（University of Bristol）、德蒙福特大學運動史與運動文化跨國研究中心（International Centre for Sports History...(展开全部)

In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long boom and subsequent bust.

Skousen, author, editor, and academic, tells the story of the development of economic thought, describing his approach as " . . . a candid, irreverent, passionate, sometimes humorous and often highly opinionated account of the lives and theories of famous economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman." The author's unique view compares the ...(展开全部)

From the ""master of historical narrative"" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization--an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and crea...(展开全部)

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-centu...(展开全部)

From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work―the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural globalization―an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought...(展开全部)