The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so...(展开全部)

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the...(展开全部)

"Computer: A History of the Information Machine "traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, ...(展开全部)

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the ...(展开全部)

"Computer: A History of the Information Machine "traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, ...(展开全部)

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the...(展开全部)

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the ...(展开全部)

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two mil...(展开全部)

大卫 ·戈德布拉特生于1965年，现在英格兰莱斯特的德蒙福特大学和美国洛杉矶的匹泽学院任教。 他出版了多本备受赞誉的足球书籍:《足球是圆的》（The Ball is Round,2006)，这是一部惊人的、雄心勃勃的足球全球史；《我们生活的游戏》（The Game of Our Lives,2014），讲述了英国足球的意义和源起，这本书获得了威廉·希尔年度体育图书大奖；《足球国度》（Futebol Nation,2014），这是一部巴西足球的历史。他还编辑过《世界足球年鉴》（The World Football Yearbook），制作了多部体育纪录片，时常给《卫报》和《纽约时报》供稿。

艾伦·梅恩（Alan Mayne），研究贫民窟历史的重要权威，英国莱斯特大学城市历史中心的客座教授，南澳大利亚大学兼职教授。他1993年出版的作品《想象中的贫民窟：三个城市新闻报道中的陈述（1870—1914）》（The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914）引起了世界范围内对贫民窟问题的广泛关注。