"The Wave" is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through di...(展开全部)

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and s...(展开全部)

In the tradition of international bestsellers, "Future Shock" and "Megatrends," Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings "The Mobile Wave," a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence--the fifth wave of computer technology. "The Mobile Wave "argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it's impossible for us to s...(展开全部)

迈克尔·塞勒，（Michael Saylor）是上市公司美国微战略公司的董事长兼首席执行官。他在麻省理工学院获得航空航天工程学位，以及自然科学，科技和社会学学位。迈克尔?塞勒是一位科学历史学家，也是一位令人敬畏的知识分子，Slate称他“令人着迷”。他不仅是一位高科技企业家，还是一位严肃的学者，他的商业成就来源于他自大学起---甚至从童年开始---就对托马斯.库恩所称之为“科学革命的结构”的痴迷。他曾经接受CBS电视节目“60 Minutes”的访问，PBS“Charlie Rose”访谈节目的采访，并作为专访人物出现在Newsweek，Time，Slate，The New Yorker，和The Washington Post等报刊杂志上。

From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamored with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their de...(展开全部)

在這本沒有文字的繪本書裡，國際知名的藝術家suze lee說了一個簡單的故事，講述一個小女孩在沙灘上的一天。在十分簡單的小故事中，李的繪圖以活潑的水彩畫面呈現，創造出一個充滿歡樂和笑聲的生動故事。

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as...(展开全部)

在這本沒有文字的繪本書裡，國際知名的藝術家suze lee說了一個簡單的故事，講述一個小女孩在沙灘上的一天。在十分簡單的小故事中，李的繪圖以活潑的水彩畫面呈現，創造出一個充滿歡樂和笑聲的生動故事。

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as...(展开全部)

"The Wave" is based on a true incident that occurred when a teacher conductedan experiment dealing with group pressure in his classes.