Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only ...(展开全部)

Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only ...(展开全部)

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

《邪城箴言》主要内容包括：这本小说看似有着推理小说典型的小镇疑云架构，却巧妙地牵连出跨国犯罪集团，加上警察程序、精彩的逻辑推理和上乘动作桥段，很快引起国际出版界瞩目。英国出版社更大胆在封面宣称“和约翰•格里逊一样好看，否则退钱”。《邪城箴言》出版席卷英国《泰晤士报》畅销排行榜，在美国则勇夺安东尼奖和巴瑞奖最佳新人作品，同时入围麦卡维提奖和黛莉丝奖，可谓名利双收。

《邪城箴言》主要内容包括：这本小说看似有着推理小说典型的小镇疑云架构，却巧妙地牵连出跨国犯罪集团，加上警察程序、精彩的逻辑推理和上乘动作桥段，很快引起国际出版界瞩目。英国出版社更大胆在封面宣称“和约翰•格里逊一样好看，否则退钱”。《邪城箴言》出版席卷英国《泰晤士报》畅销排行榜，在美国则勇夺安东尼奖和巴瑞奖最佳新人作品，同时入围麦卡维提奖和黛莉丝奖，可谓名利双收。

“Welcome to the Sharemore Hotel,” said the porter. “You must be Mr Snore. Let me show you to your room...” Mr Snore checks into a hotel room, only to discover that the room is already occupied – by a mouse! So the porter moves Mr Snore up a floor to a new room. Alas, that room seems to be occupied by a fuzzy critter, too. Up thirteen floors, one floor at a time, Mr Snore gets m...(展开全部)

The architectural structuring principle of the chambered floor plan is as simple as it is economical, yet it allows for spatial and combinatorial freedom that can be interpreted in ever-new, ever-different ways. The resulting self-contained units or spatial sequences are suited for residential purposes as much as for office buildings, museums or schools, with the floor plans pr...(展开全部)

Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in time...(展开全部)

Karl Pillemer is a professor of human development at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. An internationally renowned gerontologist, his research examines how people develop and change throughout their lives. He has authored five books and over 100 scientific publications, and speaks throughout the world on aging-rela...(展开全部)

First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas, and Reynaldo began to fill it with his extended thoughts on not just electronic music itself but the culture and...(展开全部)