Do you want to find the inspiration, passion and enthusiasm to become extraordinary? Robin Sharma, author of no.1 international bestseller The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, will excite, energize and elevate you to world class greatness with his remarkable insights and powerful tools. Are you ready to take your work and personal life to a whole new level of greatness? Part manife...(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)

Praise for Harold Bloom “The indispensable critic.” —The New York Review of Books “[Bloom] is, by any reckoning, one of the most stimulating literary presences of the last half-century.” —Sam Tanenhaus, The New York Times Book Review “A colossus among critics.” —Adam Begley, The New York Times Magazine “Bloom thinks in the sweep of millennia, of intellectual patterns that u...(展开全部)

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)

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)

Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated -- and nearly everything in-between -- our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Stanley and Lehman begin...(展开全部)

Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated -- and nearly everything in-between -- our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Stanley and Lehman begin...(展开全部)

Are you serious about network security? Then check out SSH, the Secure Shell, which provides key-based authentication and transparent encryption for your network connections. It's reliable, robust, and reasonably easy to use, and both free and commercial implementations are widely available for most operating systems. While it doesn't solve every privacy and security problem, ...(展开全部)

Many books attempt to teach the elements of good non-fiction writing, but only one does it in the gentle, humorous way of famous writing coach Paula LaRocque. LaRocque's new book is the result of a lifetime spent as a journalist and writing educator. This book contains 25 chapters in three sections. The first section spells out a dozen essential guidelines to good writing, from...(展开全部)

College is a whole new adventure, rife with challenges, opportunities, and cold-blooded killers. Fresh from unmasking an assassin on a posh island paradise, Ii-chan is finally an ultra-cool college student—jaded, sarcastic, and not exactly consumed by academic ambition. Now more interested in angst and anomie than in catching killers, Ii-chan figures that danger is a thing o...(展开全部)