Systems Thinking, Systems Practice "Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology research for that decade." Hamish Rennie, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1992 Thirty years ago Peter Checkl...(展开全部)

In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities. With a practical orientation and yet a profound theoretical depth, the bo...(展开全部)

In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an...(展开全部)

[美] 德内拉•梅多斯  世界上最伟大的系统思考大师之一，师从系统动力学创始人杰伊•福瑞斯特，是知名的“世界模型Ⅲ”主创人员，也是 “学习型组织之父”、《第五项修炼》作者彼得•圣吉的老师。  1972年，作为畅销书《增长的极限》的第一作者，她引领了社会观念变革的先河，引发了全球对地球承载能力和人类选择的大辩论，另著有9本关于全球建模和可持续发展问题的著作，并于1996年创立了可持续性发展协会。  她始终处于环境与社会分析研究领域的最前沿，1991年被授予环境保护领域的“皮尤学者奖”，1994年又荣获“麦克阿瑟天才奖”。  从1972年直到2001年去世，她一直在达特茅斯学院环境研究项目任教，致力于在经济学、环境和社会变革等领域应用系统思考和组织学习的方法。

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book off...(展开全部)

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book off...(展开全部)

Operating Sytems: Principles and Practice is a textbook for a first course in undergraduate operating systems. In use at dozens of top tier universities, and written by two leading operating systems researchers with decades of experience successfully teaching complex topics to thousands of students, this textbook provides: A path for students to understand high level concepts a...(展开全部)

Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications? In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth explanation of REST and demonstrate how you can develop simple and elegant distrib...(展开全部)