The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year.Paying with Plastic is the definitive source on an industry that has revolutionized the way we borrow and spend. More than a h...(展开全部)

The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year. Paying with Plastic is the definitive source on an industry that has revolutionized the way we borrow and spend. More than ...(展开全部)

阿兰•柯林斯(Allan Collins)是美国西北大学的教育和社会政策学荣誉退休教授，是美国教育科学院院士、美国人工智能学会会员、认知科学学会成员、美国教育研究学会会员、美国科学促进会会员。他是《认知科学》期刊的创始人之一，认知科学协会第一任主席。他研究教学和学习超过30年，在相关领域著述颇丰。他在心理学领域的成就包括人类如何回答问题，在人工智能领域包括推理和智能导师系统，在教育方面包括情境学习、探究教学、设计研究和认知学徒制。1991年至1994年曾任美国教育部教育技术中心合作主任。最近，他被法国心理学界选为健在的对心理学领域产生过重大影响的37位学者之一。 理查德•哈尔弗森(Richard Halverson)获西北大学博士学位，现为威斯康辛·麦迪逊大学的教育领导和政策分析专业的副教授。Halverson因为其在证实教学领导专长方面的研究而...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life. In The Culture of AI,...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated meth...(展开全部)

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to criti...(展开全部)

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resourc...(展开全部)