Geoffrey Parker: 25 books

**　★中英文版同步上市 　　★《紐約時報》、《哈佛商業評論》《Forbes雜誌》等媒體推薦報導** 　　第一本完整解析網路平台運作邏輯與競爭規則， 　　揭開平台鮮為人知的成敗關鍵，看懂網路連結世界的秘密。 　　數位連結網絡大顛覆，平台模式是主導當代經濟成長的最重要力量， 　　翻轉企業運作核心、影響你我的工作與生活、改變創造財富的方程式，需要全新思維。 　　Airbnb創立不到10年就活躍於119個國家，挑戰全球旅館巨擘；Facebook、Instagram沒有原創內容，卻穩坐最強勢的媒體平台；搭上skillshare、Udemy，優秀專業人可以全球開課。 　　平台來勢洶洶，就是主導未來的新經濟模式，但大多數人卻不知道該如何因應平台模式的巨大威脅，更很少人真正了解平台經濟的邏輯，不明就裡複製別人的平台模式，最終是一場災難。...

This book surveys the development of geo-political thought in the twentieth century and relates it to international political developments, as well as examining how sound geopolitical theories are. It considers the work of Mackinder, Hartshorne, and Haushofer and his disciples in Germany who influenced the Nazis; and of more recent developments including Marxist geographical writing.

Using the examples of the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Austria, France and Germany, this book describes the principal geopolitical features of the expansionist state. It then presents a model of the operation of the expansionist process over space and time. It goes on to apply the geopolitical characteristics...

Von bekannten Branchenführern wie airbnb, Uber, PayPal und Co. lernen Strategie, Design, Launch, Monetarisierung, Governance, Metriken und Policy Geschrieben von renommierten Wirtschaftsexperten und Unternehmensberatern Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. Alle diese Unternehmen revolutionierten...

Las naciones occidentales –encabezadas por Estados Unidos– disfrutan en la actualidad de una considerable ventaja en casi todos los enfrentamientos militares. ¿Cómo ha llegado a alcanzar tal predominio la "práctica occidental de la guerra"? El presente libro, escrito por un equipo...

A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched. Today they are industry leaders. What’s the secret to their success? These cutting-edge...

In 1939, young English naval signalman Geoffrey Holder-Jones began his career by surviving a German mine attack in the Thames estuary. World War II took him as naval officer to Iceland, the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and the United States. Commissioned as a naval officer and given command of...

Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?

"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis­ cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of...