From the 11th through the 17th centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses, their publications were destined for the retail book market. These publishers survived by responding to consumer demands for dictionaries, histories, geographies, medical texts, en...(展开全部)

A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years.Meanwhile, corporations continue to amasswealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklesslypursuingprofitwhile leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law pr...(展开全部)

Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department and the Political Science Department, a Member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She is the founder and Coordina...(展开全部)

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has ...(展开全部)

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has ...(展开全部)

费夫贺，1878年生於法国南锡，1956年辞世。他与布洛克（Marc Bloch）共同创办了年监学派的核心刊物，也就是后来的「年监：经济、社会与文明」。今天，费夫贺已是公认的二十世纪史学大师，其法文作品还包括1911年的《菲立浦二世和弗朗什孔泰》、1922年的《土地与人类演进》、1928年的《命运：马丁路德传》、1940年的《全观历史》、1942年的《拉伯雷与十六世纪的不信神问题》，与1953年的《为历史而战》。英文着作部分，则有1950年的《地理观的历史导论》，以及1973年柏克（Peter Burke）选编的《历史新种类：费夫贺选集》。

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociol...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·布洛克，享誉世界的美国侦探小说大师，当代硬汉派侦探小说最杰出的代表。他的小说不仅在美国备受青睐，而且跨越了大西洋，完全征服了自诩为侦探小说故乡的欧洲。 侦探小说界最重要的两个奖项，爱伦·坡奖的终身成就奖和钻石匕首奖均肯定了劳伦斯的大师地位。此外，他曾三次获爱伦·坡奖，两获马耳他之鹰奖，四获夏姆奖（后两个奖项都是重要的硬汉派侦探小说奖项）。 劳伦斯被称为“纽约犯罪风景的行吟诗人”，其作品主要包括以下四个系列： 马修·斯卡德系列：以一名戒酒无执照的私人侦探为主角； 雅贼系列：以一名中年小偷兼二手书店老板伯尼·罗登巴尔为主角； 伊凡·谭纳系列：以一名朝鲜战争期间遭炮击从此睡不着觉的侦探为主角； 奇波·哈里森系列：以一名肥胖、不离开办公室的、自我陶醉的私人侦探为主角。 此外，布洛克还著有杀手约翰·保罗·凯勒系列。 劳伦斯·布洛克生于纽约布法罗，现居纽...(展开全部)

Can a $10,000 investment yield $1,000,000 in a year? In five years? If so, what is the risk involved? These are the kinds of questions to which this work is addressed. Such fantastic results are possible in the stock market. Individual issues fluctuate widely enough and often enough to permit this and more. Techniques are presented here that put an average yield on invested...(展开全部)

I wanted a text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on. In this text I've tried to provide a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. To me, that means two things: introducing the key concepts that you will need in order to ha...(展开全部)