Until the recent unauthorized release of thousands of classified State Department cables, public attention was rarely drawn to the frequently outstanding political analysis done by American diplomats abroad. The existing literature on diplomacy has heretofore been limited to memoirs of former diplomats and analyses of international affairs by diplomats, academics, and think tan...(展开全部)

戴维·伊斯顿，美国政治科学家、后行为主义政治学的倡导人、政治系统论的创立者。译者：王浦劬，北京大学政府管理学院教授。

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided ...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modelling or ex...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·M. 威廉姆斯(Joseph M. Williams) 芝加哥大学英语语言文学教授，先锋写作项目创始人。代表作《风格：写作的清晰与优雅》（Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace）广受欢迎。 格雷戈里·G. 科洛姆(Gregory G. Colomb) 弗吉尼亚大学英语语言文学教授。 他们和韦恩 C. 布斯（Wayne C. Booth）曾在芝加哥大学联合讲授高级写作课程，并一同出版了《研究是一门艺术；撰写学术论文、调查报告、研究著作的权威指南》 （The Craft of Research），销量近百万册。 译者简介： 闾佳，资深翻译工作者，主攻通俗经济学、社会心理学、经济管理及科普方向的非虚构类作品，现已出版多部广受好评的翻译作品。并曾在各类涉外会议中担任现场/陪同翻译。

The Craft of Argument is designed to help integrate the skills of writing, critical thinking, and arguing for the purpose of enabling the writer to write arguments that are clear, sound, and persuasive.

With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second edit...(展开全部)

韦恩·C.布斯（Wayne C.Booth），芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授。 格雷戈里·G.卡洛姆（Gregory G.Colomb），弗吉尼亚大学英语语言文学教授。 约瑟夫·M.威廉姆斯（Joseph M.Williams），芝加哥大学英语语言文学荣誉退休教授。 他们三位曾在芝加哥大学联合讲授高级写作课程。在经过认真讨论确立本书的大纲及计划后，他们分工撰写各章，然后互换，每人对其他两人的部分进行修改，几轮过后才形成定稿。本书因此达到了很高的水平而成为一部经典。他们的合作也成为团队研究的成功标本。

Hacking your program is no substitute for understanding your problem. Prolog is different, but not that different. Elegance is not optional. These are the themes that unify Richard O'Keefe's very personal statement on how Prolog programs should be written. The emphasis in The Craft of Prolog is on using Prolog effectively. It presents a loose collection of topics that build on ...(展开全部)