The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. "Break It Down "is Davis at her best. In the wo...(展开全部)

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperatur...(展开全部)

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-e...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific ass...(展开全部)

《IT治理:一流绩效企业的IT治理之道》现实中有太多公司的IT项目都以失败而告终，它们甚至达不到公司所期望的底线。在这本重量级的著作中，IT专家彼得?维尔和珍妮?W.罗斯向读者揭示了企业为什么以及怎样才能从IT投资中获取真正的价值。基于对世界范围内250家企业的研究，作者认为，IT的业务价值直接来源于有效的IT治理，即企业对IT决策权和责任的分配机制。他们的研究显示，在采用相同战略目标的情况下，具有良好IT治理的企业，其利润要比那些治理低下的企业高出20％。但是，只有38％的高级经理能够精确地描述他们的IT治理。那么，其他经理怎样才能为他们的企业制定有效的IT决策呢？在《IT治理:一流绩效企业的IT治理之道》中，作者向读者展示了如何通过设计和实施IT决策权系统，来处理三个关键的问题：需要制定哪些决策？应该由谁来制定这些决策？如何制定和监控这些决策？同...(展开全部)

On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. It's just proper enough for a straight-laced boy like him. And when he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his father says yes. Elliot should have realized that Dad probably thought he meant a stuffed penguin and not a real one . . . Clever illustrations and a wild surprise e...(展开全部)

托妮·布茨欧 托妮以前在学校图书馆工作过十六年，现为全职作家。有一次，她去访问一所小学，在教师办公室听到了一个男孩和他偷来的企鹅的趣闻，便一下子爱上了这个都市传奇，由此创作了这部作品。托妮有很多非常受欢迎的作品，包括《灯塔上的圣诞节》《安妮去幼儿园的大冒险》《安妮去工作的大冒险》《水手箱》《准备好了吗，闲逛的小鸭子》《小笨蛋和爸爸》等。 戴维·斯莫尔 戴维的作品《如果你想当总统……》获得了凯迪克金奖，《园丁》（文字作者是他的妻子和亲密的合作伙伴萨拉·斯图尔特）获得了凯迪克银奖，以图像小说形式创作的自传《缝不起来的童年》获得了美国国家图书奖提名。同时他也是儿童文学作品《妞妞的鹿角》的文字作者和插图作者。另一本书《特别的恐龙日》（文字作者是艾莉丝·布洛奇）荣获E.B.怀特插图奖。迄今为止，戴维已为四十多本书绘制了插图。

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)