Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly port...(展开全部)

The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical ...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Thelin’s work has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account...(展开全部)

The Incas is a captivating exploration of the greatest civilization ever seen in the indigenous Americas. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, the book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors. This thoroughly updated ed...(展开全部)

阿伦·拉奥（Arun Rao），毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森工商管理学院，长期从事投资业务，曾先后在三家投资公司工作，其中两家在硅谷。拉奥早期曾为《经济学人》（The Economist）和《Seeking Alpha》等杂志撰写商业和金融方面的文章。 皮埃罗·斯加鲁菲（Piero Scarruffi ），毕业于意大利都灵大学数学系，1983年来到硅谷，在奥利维蒂公司任职工程师，长期从事人工智能研究和互联网设计。斯加鲁菲曾是斯坦福大学访问学者，还曾在加州大学伯克利分校讲学。20世纪90年代，他曾率先在互联网上开发自己的新闻网站，《纽约时报》曾经在2006年以《史上最伟大的网站》为题对其进行专题报道。斯加鲁菲现在是自由职业者，主要工作是为硅谷和欧洲的公司提供咨询以及在大学讲学。他兴趣广泛，在心智论、文学艺术、音乐史等领域多有...(展开全部)

阿伦·拉奥（Arun Rao），毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院和加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森工商管理学院，长期从事投资业务，曾先后在三家投资公司工作，其中两家在硅谷。拉奥早期曾为《经济学人》（The Economist）和《Seeking Alpha》等杂志撰写商业和金融方面的文章。 皮埃罗·斯加鲁菲（Piero Scarruffi ），毕业于意大利都灵大学数学系，1983年来到硅谷，在奥利维蒂公司任职工程师，长期从事人工智能研究和互联网设计。斯加鲁菲曾是斯坦福大学访问学者，还曾在加州大学伯克利分校讲学。20世纪90年代，他曾率先在互联网上开发自己的新闻网站，《纽约时报》曾经在2006年以《史上最伟大的网站》为题对其进行专题报道。斯加鲁菲现在是自由职业者，主要工作是为硅谷和欧洲的公司提供咨询以及在大学讲学。他兴趣广泛，在心智论、文学艺术、音乐史等领域多有...(展开全部)

The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, publ...(展开全部)

For one semester/quarter survey courses on African History. This comprehensive survey is the first to provide a view of African history in the wider context of World History. The text illustrates how Africans have influenced regions beyond the continent's borders, how they have been influenced from outside, and how internal African developments can be compared and contrasted to...(展开全部)

While other books merely show how to run existing exploits, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields...(展开全部)

Assembly is a low-level programming language that's one step above a computer's native machine language. Although assembly language is commonly used for writing device drivers, emulators, and video games, many programmers find its somewhat unfriendly syntax intimidating to learn and use. Since 1996, Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has provided a comprehensive, plain...(展开全部)