Eric: 6009 books

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back...

Every year, datacenter managers must deliver more services faster, with greater flexibility. They must efficiently handle soaring amounts of data, and unprecedented levels of complexity. And they must do all this with lower budgets and fewer resources. Datacenter virtualization with VMware’s vSphere®...

“ A Developer’s Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server explains the concepts and practice of data modeling with a clarity that makes the technology accessible to anyone building databases and data-driven applications. “Eric Johnson and Joshua Jones combine a deep understanding of the science of...

Eric Edson has developed a new tool for bringing depth and passion to any screenplay - the "23 Steps All Great Heroes Must Take." It's an easy to understand paradigm that provides writers and filmmakers the interconnecting, powerful storytelling elements they need. With true insight, a master teacher...

The Modern Salon is a picture book full of inspiration for those thinking of opening a new salon, for existing owners who are looking for ideas to infuse into their facility and reword their existing brand, and for those who just love salons! It has over a hundred photos of salon interiors grouped...

A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise expertly covers the business, organizational, process, compliance, security, and technology facets of SOA and IT...

In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted drug therapies and biotechnology...

In the Fifth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Eugene Bardach and new co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling...

K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology-the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of...

「如果養育一個孩子需要全村合力協助，那麼孕育一個天才就需要傾注整個城市的力量。」非洲古諺。你以為天才，是指智商140以上嗎？你有沒有想過，天才可能是「天時地利人和」？天才，不是個人成就，而是善用城市資源的結果？此生，你就算去不了，也一定要拜讀的七座城市文化巡禮，超過30位天才靈光乍現的故事，他們不經意的創新，卻開啟了人們嶄新的未來！●雅典的陽光是什麼神奇的光，可以照耀出影響世人思維的三大哲學家？●杭州的茶該怎麼喝，才能喝出蘇東坡的才情與智慧？●充斥血汗工廠的佛羅倫斯，如何培育出源源不絕的藝術家？●終年天氣陰冷、鳥不生蛋的愛丁堡，卻是誕生醫生的搖籃？●號稱「恐怖之城」的加爾各答，天才人數世界第一，只是運氣好？●是什麼樣神奇的矽谷小車庫，可以打造出下一個賈伯斯？英國有艾倫．狄波頓，美國有艾瑞克．魏納一趟結合文學、哲理、史地、經濟的天才探察研究，知識味爆發卻讓人讀來一如城市遊記般意猶未盡紐約時報暢銷書作者艾瑞克．魏納（Eric...

When the first edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind was published in 1998, it quickly became an ASCD best-seller, and it has gone on to inspire thousands of educators to apply brain research in their classroom teaching. Now, author Eric Jensen is back with a completely revised and updated edition...

Think your political opinions are the result of carefully reasoned thought? Think that everyone would agree with you if they just weren't so clueless? Think again! Big government vs small government, free market vs a regulated market, individual freedom vs group benefits, conservative vs liberal.......

Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases,...

It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these...