Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to u...(展开全部)

Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals,...(展开全部)

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a co...(展开全部)

"The Laws," Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the "practical" consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian "Republic." In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, not only do we see reflected, in Plato's own thought, eternal questi...(展开全部)

A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It i...(展开全部)

《滚雪球: 沃伦·巴菲特和他的财富人生》这本巴菲特生平唯一授权的官方传记，以从未有过的视角，揭开了巴菲特的真实人牛。许多年来聚光灯下高大的“股神”终 于走下神坛，以他最平实的语言、最真诚的心，娓娓道来，讲述了他78午人生巾最触动人心的故事，分享了他60多年商业和投资生涯中最宝贵的经验。 1939午的冬天，9岁的巴菲特在院子里玩雪。他把少量的积雪铲到一块，揉成一个雪球，然后把它放在地上慢慢滚动，雪球越滚越大…… 从此，巴菲特再也没有停下脚步，目光投向白雪皑皑的整个世界…… 沃伦·巴菲特，我们这个时代硕果仪存的商业领袖和投资大师，甚至在死后还会影响后世50年的伟大人物，终于向我们敞开了他的心扉。 Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected ...(展开全部)

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the p...(展开全部)