As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, it’s also changing the role of architects. In addition to making technical decisions, architects can help change the organization’s structure and processes to support this transition. To do that, architects need to take the express elevator from the engine room to the penthouse, where business strategy reside...(展开全部)

A transformational guide to the profession of software architecture. Whether a structure is built of bricks, steel, or computer code, the process begins with an architect and client. Together they arrive at a shared vision-a plan-that the architect guides through the bidding, construction, and implementation phases. The Parthenon and the Empire State Building were built accord...(展开全部)

In recent years, China leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realig...(展开全部)

Review "A highly cohesive, well-illustrated, penetrating series of essays that deserves to be added to every collection of books on the profession of architecture."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "One of those infrequent books that satisfies very well the disparate needs of the general reader, the student, and the serious scholar...a significant contribution to our under...(展开全部)

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tale...(展开全部)

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tale...(展开全部)

伦恩·拜斯（Len Bass） 澳大利亚NICTA的高级首席研究员。他曾在卡内基梅隆大学软件工程研究所工作25年，有超过50年的软件开发和研究经验。他是两本软件架构方面获奖图书的合作者（《Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition》和《Documenting Software Architectures：Views and Beyond，Second Edition》），他还与人合作出版或发表了数篇计算机科学与软件工程领域的其他书籍和论文。 英戈·韦伯（Ingo Weber） 澳大利亚NICTA软件系统研究组的高级研究员，也是新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程系的兼职高级讲师。他的研究领域包括云计算、DevOps、业务过程管理以及人工智能。 朱黎明（Liming Zhu）　澳大利亚NICTA一个研究小...(展开全部)

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched ...(展开全部)