Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)

How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ideology shapes perception. He does not delineate the content of particular ideologies, but rather the degree of difference among them. Degree of ideological difference is, he believes, the crucial factor as leaders decide which nati...(展开全部)

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideologi...(展开全部)

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideologi...(展开全部)

Shazam's incredible origin story is retold here in this new edition of Shazam!, just in time for the upcoming blockbuster movie starring Zachary Levi! Featuring a photo cover! Young orphan Billy Batson has bounced from foster home to foster home, but he's far from the ideal child. Brash and rude, Billy is a troubled teen who just can't seem to find a calling. But after a fatefu...(展开全部)

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years. The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries,” each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world...(展开全部)

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries,” each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world-economic space. Examining the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, ...(展开全部)

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years. The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuries,” each of which produced a new world power that secured control over an expanding world...(展开全部)

本书是Power Query领域的经典之作，旨在让读者用正确而高效的方法精通Power Query。本书是两位作者多年积累的业务和IT工作经验总结，同时也是全球Power Query顶级社群的大咖经验提炼。本书从业务背景出发，在业务和IT之间做到了良好的平衡，系统化地给出了Power Query的思维框架和模式，同时按照多个企业级业务场景一一展示其实用性。 无论你是Power Query的新手还是经验丰富的ETL专家，都可以从各自的角度领略Power Query 和M语言的魅力。对于业务用户，本书给出了日常办公所涉及的大量复杂数据问题解法的直接参考，并提供了大量案例，可以直接应用。对于专业用户，本书给出了搭建大型专业数据项目的框架性流程指导及优化建议，并提供了相关案例，也可以直接复用。 【专业书评】 作为PQ、PP和Power BI的忠实用户，我由衷...(展开全部)