A Distillation of The Most Important Business Thinking of Our Time Michael Porter's groundbreaking ideas on competition and strategy have unfolded over three decades and are spread across a dauntingly long list of publications. Every manager can name individual pieces of his work-competitive advantage, the value chain, five forces-but no one, not even Porter himself, ...(展开全部)

This is a book-length executive summary of Porter's core concepts. Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter's frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business knows Porter's name, his writing can be daunting...(展开全部)

Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works in a range of media—film, installation, video, painting, sculpture, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music—address the fun...(展开全部)

这是一部描写在日常生活中猫与人类之间相互关系的幽默故事， 我们的主人公麦克，毫无疑问是只猫， 但故事同样也反映了人类的态度。 在故事中，猫似乎成了反映人类着“超级物种”的一面镜子。 一天，麦克出现在漫画家小林的家中。 即使从那一天起，小林和他的妻子便开始尽力与麦克相处， 猫想上他自己的事情，而人类则时时要改变它，这便是故事矛盾的主线。 麦克仅是一只不同的猫。 自由，冷漠而懒散，身边围绕着那些来去匆匆的人类。 而作为猫，他也有自己的事情要处理，与凶猛的母猫猫斯拉相处就是一个例子。 猫斯拉甚至连狗都惧怕她三分，更不要说麦克了。 但麦克还有他惟恐避之不及的事情，那就是孩子的玩弄。 故事当中有很多情节都将猫拟人化，例如，我们经常可以看到他们在一起开会或踢球等等……

What is striking about the paintings by Michaël Borremans (*1963 in Geraardsbergen) is a technique that is almost like that of an Old Master. The Belgian artist is a virtuoso in his use of a reduced, melancholic palette of beiges, browns, and grays. As seductive as the aesthetics of the works may be, their contents are nonetheless disturbing and difficult to decipher. His paint...(展开全部)

This best-selling introductory nutrition text is praised for its approachable narrative, engaging presentation, and careful explanations. The new Twelfth Edition of Whitney and Rolfes' UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION takes the study of nutrition to a new level with an emphasis on active learning, assignable content, and integrated resources. From its beautiful and carefully developed a...(展开全部)

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthe...(展开全部)

From Amazon: Nils J. Nilsson, Kumagai Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1958. He spent twenty-three years at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International working on statistical and neural-network approaches to pattern recognition, co-inve...(展开全部)

This accessible introduction to the comprehensive work of the influential French thinker Gilles Deleuze explains key Deleuzian concepts and illustrates the political, stylistic, and theoretical complexities of each. A glossary of key Deleuzean terms and a description of the impact of Deleuze are provided.

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the f...(展开全部)