Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury are the leading international exponents of sustainable planting design. They are also nurserymen with decades worth of knowledge about plants and their habits. This book offers keen gardeners, garden designers and landscape architects a unique insight into how they combine these areas of expertise to create some of the world's most memorable parks...(展开全部)

This fully revised and updated text is a comprehensive introduction to astronomical objects and phenomena. By applying some basic physical principles to a variety of situations, students will learn how to relate everyday physics to the astronomical world. Starting with the simplest objects, the text contains explanations of how and why astronomical phenomena occur, and how astr...(展开全部)

Plants, more than any other design element, can determine the visual characteristics of a designed site. This book helps readers balance technical site requirements with the aesthetics of a site, providing comprehensive coverage of planting design for large-and small-scale projects as well as for residential and commercial sites.

A farmer and her son carefully plant seeds in their garden. In the wild garden, many seeds are planted too, but not by farmers' hands. Different kinds of animals transport seeds, often without knowing it. Sometimes rain washes seeds away to a new location. And sometimes something extraordinary occurs, like when the pods of Scotch broom burst open explosively in the summer heat,...(展开全部)

Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data. This textbook offers a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning, a unified, probabilistic a...(展开全部)

This book explains the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and shows the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book's concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses on the key concep...(展开全部)

伦恩·拜斯（Len Bass） 澳大利亚NICTA的高级首席研究员。他曾在卡内基梅隆大学软件工程研究所工作25年，有超过50年的软件开发和研究经验。他是两本软件架构方面获奖图书的合作者（《Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition》和《Documenting Software Architectures：Views and Beyond，Second Edition》），他还与人合作出版或发表了数篇计算机科学与软件工程领域的其他书籍和论文。 英戈·韦伯（Ingo Weber） 澳大利亚NICTA软件系统研究组的高级研究员，也是新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程系的兼职高级讲师。他的研究领域包括云计算、DevOps、业务过程管理以及人工智能。 朱黎明（Liming Zhu）　澳大利亚NICTA一个研究小...(展开全部)

Randal E.Bryant　1973年于密歇根大学（University of Michigan）获得学士学位，随即就读于麻省理工学院的研究生院，并在1981年获计算机博士学位。他在加州理工学院（California Institute of Technology）做了三年助教，从1984年至今一直是卡内基-梅隆大学的教师。他现在是计算机科学的大学教授和计算机科学学院的院长。他同时还受邀于电子和计算机工程系。 他从事本科生和研究生计算机系统方面课程的教学超过30年。在讲授计算机体系结构课程多年后，他开始把关注点从如何设计计算机转移到程序员如何在更好的了解系统的情况下编写出更有效和更可靠的程序。他和O’Hallaron教授一起在卡内基梅隆大学开设了15-213“计算机系统导论”课程，那便是此书的基础。他还教授一些有关算法、编程、计算机网络和VLSI...(展开全部)

This book explains the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and shows the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book's concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses on the key concep...(展开全部)

Randal E. Bryant received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1973 and then attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his PhD degree in computer science in 1981. He spent three years as an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1984. For five ...(展开全部)