雲從哪裡來？為什麼它看起來是這個樣子？他們何以能抓住藝術家、詩人和每個孩子的想像力和眼光？身為設計師，卻熱愛觀看天空的Pretor-Pinney，詳述了雲的科學知識、歷史，以及它在藝術和大眾文化中的種種，並以攝影、素描讓讀者得以窺看雲朵的千姿百態。 推薦理由：Gavin Pretor-Pinney於二００四年創立了愛雲會（Cloud Appreciation Society），全球會員已有五千人。 相信每一個人都有望著藍天中的白雲出神的時候，捉不住的畫面與變換無窮的雲朵，讓整個天空變成了恣意揮灑的創意畫布。而這一次我們要介紹一這一本有關於天上雲朵的書籍，作者群是The Cloud Appreciation Society，是一個喜愛欣賞雲朵愛好者所組成的協會，他們的網站與創意甚至獲得2005年雅虎的創意網站。這本《The Cloudspotter's...(展开全部)

A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals everything there is to know about clouds, from history and science to art ...(展开全部)

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you...(展开全部)

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you...(展开全部)

Turin, a renowned scientist and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, are experts in the world of scent. They have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful - as well as some truly terrible - perfumes. In this authoritative, one of a kind book, they combine talents and experience to review over 1200 fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the awful....(展开全部)

This is a fully illustrated guide to the glorious riches of London's museums and galleries, drawing on the cream of the city's collections to create an easily navigable, narrative history of art. The guides unique approach allows you to locate your favourite artist or style of art in any museum and follow this throughout the museums of London. Do you like, say, the pre-Raphaeli...(展开全部)

The best guidebook for those who want to experience the finest art in New York. The first fully illustrated guide to the collections of New York's Museums and Galleries that actually works the way people like to see art. Rather than taking the old fashioned approach of listing the city's various museums and then describing highlights, this book focuses on the art. Arranged ch...(展开全部)

Rare is the style guide that a person--even a word person--would want to read cover to cover. But The Economist Style Guide, designed, as the book says, to promote good writing, is so witty and rigorous as to be irresistible. The book consists of three parts. The first is the Economist's style book, which acts as a position paper of sorts in favor of clear, concise, correct usa...(展开全部)

Product Description Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently-including the "black arts" and "tricks of...(展开全部)

Eben Hewitt 跨国公司应用架构总监，负责系统战略和设计工作。他是Apache Cassandra项目的一位文档贡献者，同时也是多本技术书籍的作者，其中包括Java SOA Cookbook（O’Reilly出版）。