高德拉特博士是以色列物理学家及企业管理大师，TOC制约法的创造者。他的第一部作品《目标》大胆借用小说的笔法，说明如何通过近乎常识的逻辑推理，解决复杂的管理问题，结果一炮走红。 高德拉特20岁时就立志要教导别人思考的方法，他对于传播观念抱有极大的狂热，可以一天只睡三个小时，奔波于世界各地发表演说。他还创立了“高德拉特机构”，并在全球广设分部，以此来训练TOC人才，推广TOC制约法，辅导对象包括通用汽车、波音飞机在内的诸多知名企业，以及包括教师、美国空军将领在内的各行业人士。 继《目标》之后，高德拉特相继出版了《绝不是靠运气》、《关键链》和《仍然不足够》三本企业管理小说以及数本TOC制约法理论专著，在全球各地引起了强烈反响。

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional w...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this t...(展开全部)

Eli Maor 知名科普作家，以色列理工学院博士，曾在芝加哥洛约拉大学教授数学史课程。著有畅销书《三角之美：边边角角的趣事》、《勾股定理：悠悠4000年的故事》、《无穷之旅：关于无穷大的文化史》等。在各国期刊上发表过大量论文，涉及应用数学、数学史和数学教育等领域。

Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, this video adaptation of the extraordinary book by acclaimed a...(展开全部)

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest background in mat...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)