Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be ab...(展开全部)

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be ab...(展开全部)

"Transactional Information Systems" is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for contro...(展开全部)

"Transactional Information Systems" is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for contro...(展开全部)

In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theo...(展开全部)

The process of technological change takes a wide variety of forms. Propositions that may be accurate when referring to the pharmaceutical industry may be totally inappropriate when applied to the aircraft industry or to computers or forest products. The central theme of Nathan Rosenberg's new book is the idea that technological changes are often 'path dependent', in the sense t...(展开全部)

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-eco...(展开全部)

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 弗兰克·M.斯诺登（Frank M. Snowden），耶鲁大学安德鲁·唐尼·奥里克历史与医学史荣休教授，专长领域为社会史、医学史，以及意大利近代史等。其著作包括《意大利南部的暴力和大庄园：1900—1922年的阿普利亚》（1984）、《1919—1922 年托斯卡纳的法西斯革命》（1989）、《霍乱时期的那不勒斯》（1995）、《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》（2006），以及《流行病与社会：从黑死病开始的瘟疫史》（2019）。《征服疟疾：1900—1962年的意大利》曾被美国历史协会授予“海伦与霍华德·R.马拉罗奖”，并荣获美国医学史协会颁发的韦尔奇奖章。 ◎ 译者简介 季珊珊，南京大学历史学院世界史硕士，曾赴台湾师范大学、剑桥大学交流访问，研究方向为近代英国医疗社会史，发表文章《欧洲最早的医学院——萨莱诺医学院的兴衰》，...(展开全部)