Entrepreneurs drive the future, and the last several decades have been a thrilling ride of astounding, far-reaching innovation. Behind this transformative progress are also the venture capitalists—who are at once the investors, coaches and allies of the entrepreneurs. William H. Draper III knows this story first-hand, because as a venture capitalist, he helped write it. For m...(展开全部)

Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven’t engineered a better way to start. …Until now.What if you could skip the startup phase and generate profitable revenue on day one?In Buy Then Build, acquisition entrepreneur Walker Deibel shows you how to begin wi...(展开全部)

Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker. What will they do together? The vampire you'd hate to love, sinister and debonair, sinks those eye teeth into Bonnie's succulent throat.' Is this the beginning of a sadistic relationship or simply an extract from a psychopath's diary? Either way it marks the beginning of a dangerous game that is destined to end in chilling terror and bloody mu...(展开全部)

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Ro...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莱斯•弗莫尔（Patrick Leigh Fermor，1915—2011），爱尔兰裔，出生于一个英格兰上流社会家庭，他的父亲是知名的地质学家。弗莫尔是一位勇敢的旅行者，也被誉为是二十世纪英国最优秀的旅行作家之一。弗莫尔在结束自己的学校生涯后，于18岁那年只身出走，逃离了他所处的上流社会以及循规蹈矩的生活。他徒步穿越了欧洲，在欧洲各地游历和生活。在第二次世界大战期间，他应征入伍加入了爱尔兰卫队，在阿尔巴尼亚战斗；他还参与了英国特别行动处（SOE）突袭德占克里特岛的行动，俘虏了德军驻克里特岛的指挥官海因里希•克莱佩将军。他因此被授予了“优质服务勋章”（DSO）和大英帝国官佐勋章（OBE）。战后，他与他未来的妻子琼•蒙赛尔周游巴尔干和希腊，并定居希腊开始写作。2011年，弗莫尔与世长辞。

帕特里克•莱斯•弗莫尔（Patrick Leigh Fermor，1915—2011），爱尔兰裔，出生于一个英格兰上流社会家庭，他的父亲是知名的地质学家。弗莫尔是一位勇敢的旅行者，也被誉为是二十世纪英国最优秀的旅行作家之一。弗莫尔在结束自己的学校生涯后，于18岁那年只身出走，逃离了他所处的上流社会以及循规蹈矩的生活。他徒步穿越了欧洲，在欧洲各地游历和生活。在第二次世界大战期间，他应征入伍加入了爱尔兰卫队，在阿尔巴尼亚战斗；他还参与了英国特别行动处（SOE）突袭德占克里特岛的行动，俘虏了德军驻克里特岛的指挥官海因里希•克莱佩将军。他因此被授予了“优质服务勋章”（DSO）和大英帝国官佐勋章（OBE）。战后，他与他未来的妻子琼•蒙赛尔周游巴尔干和希腊，并定居希腊开始写作。2011年，弗莫尔与世长辞。

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Ro...(展开全部)

爱德华·阿什福德·李，现任伯克利工业CPS研究中心主任，曾任加州大学伯克利分校电子工程与计算机科学系主任，现为该系Robert S.Pepper特聘教授。主要研究方向是嵌入式与实时计算系统的设计、建模和模拟。他是嵌入式系统领域的知名学者，也是CPS研究的倡导者和引领者之一。Lee教授分别于耶鲁大学、MIT及UC Berkeley获得本科、硕士及博士学位。他共有《嵌入式系统：CPS方法》等专著8部。他是IEEE Fellow，获IEEE杰出技术成就与领导奖、美国NSF总统青年科学家称号以及弗雷德里克·特曼工程教育奖。