"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)

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic...(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。

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。

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)

The digital revolution is in full force, yet its ramifications for government, business, and society remain unclear. Many public and private sector leaders are not sure how to achieve the full potential of digital technologies. In The Next Wave, Darrell West focuses on the next wave of technologies and how they can further U.S. social and political innovation. There are many p...(展开全部)