本书体例上采用以史为主、史论结合的写法，力图多角度、多侧面将近代上海公园的丰富内涵与生动形象展示给大家。上海是近代中国最早出现公园的城市，也是近代中国公园最多的城市，希望本书能够帮助大家了解近代上海公园的往昔，了解近代上海公园的功能与这座城市的互动关系，为公园城市建设提供有益借鉴。

揭開潛艦的神祕面紗，
解開在水底下航行的祕密！
保護海上安全、建立海底防線的潛艦，是守衛海域的重要角色！
但提起潛艦，你會不會有以下的困惑？
▶戰術角度◀
◎潛艦為什麼重要？如何影響戰局？
◎在深海中，要如何操縱潛艦？
◎要如何透過雷達等資訊，準確攻擊敵人？
▶科學角度◀
◎要如何抵抗大海的浮力，下潛到海中？
◎深潛海中的潛艦，又要如何浮出水面？
◎潛艦的動力使用又是如何從柴油、電池轉變到核能？
此次完整介紹潛艦的歷史、構造、運行原理、作戰武器、救援等，以及鮮少為外人所知的潛艦艦員的水底生活。透過詳細的圖說及照片，讓你一窺潛艦的內部構造及潛艦人員的工作內容，輕鬆讀懂潛艦的奧祕！
本書特色
◎詳細豐富的圖文解析，初對潛艦感興趣的讀者們也能輕鬆入門！
◎珍貴的現場照片，一窺潛艦的內部構造及潛艦人員的工作內容！
◎全方面剖析潛艦技術，不論構造、航行還是作戰，都有相當完整的解說，資深愛好者必收藏的書籍！

／／／蘇聯誕生100年／／／
一窺蘇聯帝國建立和毀滅的故事，
及其灰燼中出現的新勢力。
※1980年代布里茲涅夫當政之際，當時的蘇聯終於達到一個空前穩定的境界，西方國家也理解到蘇聯這個社會主義國家不可能自行崩潰——然而，就在十年之後，幾乎是在各種歷史的偶然之下，蘇聯自動解體，全世界為之瞠目結舌。這中間到底發生了什麼事？
精彩的簡史，向讀者呈現蘇聯的複雜故事，
使人更深入地了解這個重要的國家。
◎作者菲茨派翠克（Sheila Fitzpatrick）是蘇聯史的權威，她以清晰的筆觸和深刻的見解，將蘇聯複雜的故事呈現給讀者。內容涵蓋了蘇聯的整個歷史（1922-1991），包括蘇聯的重要時刻，如1917年的十月革命、列寧和史達林的統治、第二次世界大戰、冷戰時期，以及最終的解體。
◎菲茨派翠克以易於理解的方式介紹了蘇聯的政治、經濟、文化和社會發展，並評估了這個國家在20世紀的全球格局中所扮演的角色。儘管本書為簡史，但提供了對於蘇聯的深刻理解，使讀者能夠更好地認識這個重要的歷史時期，敘述中也經常帶有一些黑色幽默。不論是對蘇聯歷史感興趣的學生、還是普通讀者，這本書都有助於掌握蘇聯的關鍵要點和演變過程。
◎書中特別收錄：45張珍貴的歷史照片，以及六幅地圖，包括「帝俄全圖」、「1922年的蘇聯（這幅地圖顯示出所有加盟共和國和部分自治區）」、「第一個五年計畫（1928-1932）的工業區工地」、「第二次世界大戰期間德國在蘇聯占領的地區」、「1945年的蘇聯與東歐」、「俄羅斯聯邦和四鄰國家（2014）」，讓讀者能更完整掌握整段歷史。
蘇聯意外降臨地，又意外地消失。
十月革命一百多年後，蘇聯動蕩的歷史繼續讓我們著迷並持續影響全球政治。這是一段不可抗拒的歷史入口。從十月革命和列寧到史達林的恐怖統治，從第二次世界大戰到戈巴契夫的改革政策，本書是對這七十五年來共產主義統治和帝國崩潰解析的權威之作，歷史學家菲茨派翠克生動地描繪蘇聯時期的關鍵人物，並追溯該政權意外垮台的後果──並導致普欽崛起，以及為何普欽政權是蘇聯系統的產物，而非蘇聯式的借屍還魂，更甚者，中共如何從蘇聯解體中汲取教訓。

From the Author
If you like this book, you may well enjoy applying your Critical Thinking skills to the big debates in contemporary science (which my book Paradigm Shift is about) - or to those evergreen problems of philosophy which my two '101' books present. These books present problems in very short passages - ideal for group brainstorming!
From the Back Cover
Learn to:
Identify other people's arguments and conclusions
Interpret and produce your argument more effectively
Read between the lines, see behind surfaces and identify false assumptions
Apply critical thinking to assignments
Analyse, evaluate and apply information to create cohesive arguments
Have you ever received feedback suggesting you need to be more critical in your assignments? Written specifically for students, this friendly guide takes the intimidation out of the topic and provides hands-on, active instruction and exercises to help you apply critical thinking in your academic work to achieve higher grades.
Have a think — grasp the science and sociology behind thinking and find out how to assess your thinking sills
Put the pieces together — find out how critical thinking is like solving puzzles
Your critical thinking toolbox — use mind maps, concept flow charts, dump lists, meta-thinking, virtues and vices and triangulation
Put it to practice — apply critical thinking to reading, writing, speaking and listening
Smoke and mirrors — separate fact from opinion, know a writer's (or speaker's) position and utilise sound source checking
Open the book and find:
The who, where and when of thinking
How to know your 'thinking habits'
Why you should beware of being too critical
The logic of real arguments
How to be a rational animal
Unsound argument tactics to avoid
Lots of exercises to help you master your skills
About the Author
Martin Cohen is a philosopher, editor and reviewer. His first book, 101 Philosophy Problems, has been published in a dozen languages and is now in its fourth edition.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly—or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the bomb, with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers—Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann—stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a narrative tour de force and a document with literary power commensurate with its subject.

日本語教育のベストセラー辞典が25年ぶりに改訂。社会の変化、人々のものの考え方の変化などを反映し、用例を刷新。また、「~に~がある」などの初級文型や、「いちおう」「なかなか」といった副詞の類、「こうして」「かといって」といった接続表現の類なども追加。項目が増えて、より充実した内容に。

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told.
Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and - of course - indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we have been for eight hundred years.

二十一世紀亞洲的價值路線之爭！
中國的對照組，民主印度如何走自己的路？
「印度歷史的卓越記錄者」古哈，嘔心瀝血十年，煉成長篇鉅作。
完整呈現獨立印度的歷史，釐清印度霧裡看花的民主狀態。
《印度：最大民主國家的榮耀與掙扎》全面性地說明了印度自1947年獨立以來至21世紀初期的歷史，側重於政治與社會，尤其是與內部宗教問題及國際關係有關的政治變遷，以及現代化都市與原始部落地區的磨合衝突。
民主印度誕生於1947年，共產中國誕生於1949年，這兩個不同政體的相鄰國家，同樣在二十世紀經歷了從赤貧到富裕的發展歷程，其歷程的內涵卻截然不同。
印度與中國之間有著極為漫長的邊境線，因此，印度涉及的國際事務幾乎都與中國脫不了關係，在了解印度的國際政治策略的同時，也可以看到中國的南亞國際策略。古哈主張，中印邊界戰爭也促成了民主印度建國以來最重大的國策轉向。
進入21世紀之後，這兩個膨脹中的亞洲大國無可避免地將要發生碰撞。印度的人口（勞動力）即將超越中國，其基於民主政體的經濟發展也正在加速追趕，有許多分析家預言，即使中國可以在2040年之前維持亞洲第一，但21世紀的後半段絕對是屬於印度的。兩個超級大國正面交鋒，這是未來數十年內極度重要的世界性事件。

一位中国学者，在印度知名私立大学做了七年的教授，以通俗的语言、严谨的观察视角，记录了她进入印度工作、生活的三十段经历。这三十个故事如三十张切片，从不同的侧面打破迷雾、拨云见日，呈现其 “印度印象”，体会其文化纠结，挖掘我们不曾了解的、这个复杂国家的内在文化“宝藏”，勾勒出立体而有深度的印度社会轮廓。亲历印度后再看世界，感悟印度后再体悟自身，对照自己后再反观他人，也许这是本书所带给我们的难得体验。

粉紅色的瓷器用具、色彩繽紛的建築風格、華麗印度風的可巴雅和巴迪衫、
融入日常生活的香草、以椰子和鳳梨製作的酸酸甜甜娘惹菜……
 
融合中國及東南亞傳統的移民「峇峇娘惹」，
為什麼他們的文化會這麼可愛？
 
日本最重要的國際新聞獎得主，深入東南亞各地如檳城、曼谷、新加坡，
探索峇峇娘惹不為人知的前世今生、歷史傳承與文化創新！
 
　　神祕而充滿魅力的「峇峇娘惹」（亦稱為「土生華人」），是當代東南亞一個極具特色的族群。他們的祖先是來自中國南方的華人移民，這些移民與東南亞的當地人通婚，自十五世紀以來持續繁衍生息，雖然他們還保有中國傳統及習俗，但在語言及生活習慣上，也融入當地文化，成為東南亞的一部分。
 
　　作為跨海移民後裔的峇峇娘惹，數百年來是西方與東方貿易及文化交流的橋梁，因而有「商業貴族」的美名。自十六世紀的地理大發現時代開始，善於經商且擁有多語言天賦的峇峇娘惹，成為歐洲貿易勢力的代理人，通過香料貿易、錫礦和橡膠種植等商業活動積累了巨額財富，展現出他們作為商業貴族的雄心和智慧。
 
　　峇峇娘惹的影響力不僅限於商業領域，融合中國傳統及東南亞文化的他們，更具有獨特的美感及創新意識。不論是著名的「娘惹料理」、傳統服飾「可巴雅」，以及各種生活用品及家園建築，峇峇娘惹擅長吸納各種不同文化的優點，再創造出屬於自身、帶有鮮豔色彩的產品。
 
　　如同本書指出，「峇峇娘惹創造新經濟價值的『創新』，並非來自供應端的先進技術，而是以消費端所產生的能量作為驅動引擎。」
 
　　本書作者是日本知名國際記者太田泰彥，他於2015年派駐新加坡，當時新加坡政府致力推廣的峇峇娘惹文化，讓他產生高度好奇心，被稱為商業貴族的峇峇娘惹，其獨特的文化魅力從何而來？他們又如何推動東南亞的發展，進而奠定新加坡的繁榮基礎？
 
　　為了回答這個問題，太田尋訪東南亞各地的峇峇娘惹人士，深入調查此族群的神祕身世，挖掘出許多不為人知的精彩故事。
 
　　★為何李光耀拒絕承認自己是峇峇娘惹？又為何李顯龍推動峇峇娘惹文化的復興？
　　★從花磚瓷器、到服裝首飾，為何峇峇娘惹的日用品總是呈現可愛的粉色系風格？
　　★新加坡米其林餐廳的主廚，如何將峇峇娘惹的家常菜，昇華為料理藝術？
　　★馬來西亞及印尼的峇峇娘惹，如何在保有中國傳統習俗的同時，積極融入在地文化？
 
　　今天峇峇娘惹的影響力不限於商業領域，融合中國、東南亞乃至於西方等多種文化的族群特色，更令他們深具魅力。比如結合華人烹煮傳統及南洋食材的「娘惹料理」，或是色彩鮮明、具有獨特美感的粉色瓷器，還有融合中國及印度宗教傳統的服飾建築。峇峇娘惹多采多姿的文化魅力，不只是東南亞文化，更是全球化的完美體現。
 
本書特色
 
　　★本書是快速了解峇峇娘惹族群以及東南亞移民文化的絕佳人文作品。從十五世紀鄭和下西洋時代的篳路藍縷，到十九世紀殖民時期的商業貴族，作者深入歷史脈絡，一一解答許多不為人知的歷史真相。
 
　　★作者是日本知名記者，長期從事專欄寫作，擅長以精準的眼光剖析文化趨勢及國際議題的關聯性，再加以書寫成精彩的故事。
 
　　★本書挖掘峇峇娘惹許多不為人知的故事，包括最具代表性的李光耀家族史。本書從作者多次採訪李光耀及李顯龍的經驗，揭露善於經商的峇峇娘惹，對近代東南亞發展的重要影響。
 
　　★本書不只是峇峇娘惹數百年發展史的回顧，更是當代峇峇娘惹文化傳承的見證。作者採訪多位峇峇娘惹人士，包括泰國工程師、馬來西亞及印尼的企業家、新加坡米其林餐廳主廚及精品酒店企業家，勾勒出峇峇娘惹族群多元豐富的文化特色。
 
專文推薦
 
　　林開忠／暨南國際大學東南亞學系副教授
　　區肇威（查理）／燎原出版社主編、馬來西亞華人
 
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19世纪末至20世纪初，成千上万分布在印度西北部地区的锡克人，浩浩荡荡地从位于南亚西北角的旁遮普出发，前往新加坡、中国香港、中国上海等由英国管辖或由英国人担任主要管理者的租借地。
其中有些人被雇用为警察，成为各地打击犯罪、维持社会治安的重要武装力量。他们如同维持身体正常运作的血液一般，成为大英帝国全球历史中不可或缺的部分。
《锡克警察》采用了全球史的观察视野，通过多层次、多类别的史料运用，讲述了锡克警察在上海历史舞台中从出现到淡出的过程，探讨他们在中国近代历史中发挥的作用，阐释这一群体在全球的流动趋向，以及如何成为摧毁英帝国体系的重要力量。

美国社会学学会巴灵顿•摩尔著作奖获奖作品
历史研究与社会科学理论的深度结合之作
深入比较中英日三国财政制度转型的历史进程，回应大分流问题
本书从财政制度发展的角度切入“大分流”这一重大问题，选取英国内战后的十年、日本的明治维新，以及中国的太平天国时期三个关键时段进行深度的比较历史分析，借助历史制度主义的框架，探讨三个国家如何借助克服财政危机，从而实现了（或未能实现）财政制度的转型。全书融合了西方社会科学的前沿理论、丰富的一手史料和史学研究的前沿成果，对政治学、近代史和日本史研究都具有启发性。
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现代财政国家的出现给政治经济领域带来了革命性的变化。政府集中管理税收，将其作为资本从市场调动长期金融资源，极大增强了国家能力，显著提高了政府管理经济的效率。
本书聚焦现代财政国家的制度建设路径，细致比较、分析中英日三个国家在制度发展关键期（光荣革命前后的英国、明治维新时的日本和太平天国运动时期的中国）的具体历史过程。各国当政者面对既有公共财政系统的崩溃，积极找寻解决财政亏损问题的方案，并在税收办法、信用体系等方面展开多种尝试。最终，英国和日本从其成败得失中汲取经验，成功开发出公共财政工具，确立了现代财政国家制度，为成为世界强国奠定了基础；而清政府统治下的中国却未能成功。作者以宏阔的视野、新颖的框架、扎实的史料回应了“大分流”的问题，对清政府未能实现财政转型的解释极富洞察力。

Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.
THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in the awakening of China, then covers relations between the two countries during the period when an aroused China did indeed shake the world. Lawrence James also follows the parallel trajectories of four competitive empires - the British, the Chinese, the Russian and the Japanese - during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and then the fortunes of a fifth imperial power, the United States.
Successive British governments saw China as a source of wealth which needed to be protected. Local objections were seen off by force (the 'Opium' wars of 1839-42, 1856-7 and 1859-60) whose results proved that the Qing emperors could not protect their country. Indian troops were deployed in each campaign and manned Britain's small garrisons in Hong Kong, Shanghai and other Treaty ports. Yet Britain never sought to make China into another India. Rather it allowed the emperors and their officials to govern, so long as they were docile and amenable to British needs. Paramount were the internal stability and fiscal responsibility that were the lubricants of trade.
A unified nation with economic and military muscle, and aware of its distant past as one of the great nations of the world, has been intent on reversing her recent history. Lawrence James vividly chronicles a time when this huge nation's divisions encouraged foreigners to treat her as a treasure-house to be plundered at will. This warning from history explains why China's present rulers brook neither dissent nor popular unrest.

「散步真的可以學嗎？」
「如果我想自行設計散步路線，有沒有竅門？」
「在街道上要怎樣看，才看得出一個所以然？」
當疫情限制流動，很多人懷疑人生的時候，開始在生活的城市尋找新的樂趣，散步漸漸成為一股潮流。然後，有人問，散步時應該看什麼？
一座外型獨特的建築，一條清幽淡雅的小徑，一個讓人自由活動的空間，這些展現城市美麗的地方，往往被眾人追捧。但是，我們日常散步時，更多會遇上的是平凡的城市組件。
當我們細心觀察，就能透過習以為常的組件，認識不曾留意的城市面貌，甚至能閱讀被置在城市的各項細節，如見證時代的物件，如招牌、電話亭；被傳播的信息，如廣告、塗鴉；更能發現城市中的自然，不只是郊野公園，還包括常常遇見的石牆樹、店舖貓。
在城市散步，看見的比我們想像的更豐富，有更多的趣味。城市研究者黃宇軒以香港作為起點，以建築、路徑、空間、物件、信息與自然為切入點，帶領我們如何在日常中觀察，透過深入認識，繼而喜歡一座城市。
「獻給所有渡過了這場疫症，身在世上不同地方的人，一起走下去，從城市散步得到趣味、思考城市的本質，並跟地方建立深刻的關係。」

「散步」兩個字很平常，在「香港散步」就很不平常，對於每天近乎用跑的速度來上下班的香港市民而言，「香港散步學」真的需要「學」嗎？城市研究者Sampson Wong將會用一本書、十條路線、過百張照片將這門獨家學問傳授給你。

帶上這本書來一次香港散步

沿途中，你會發現「香港真係好靚」散步結束時，你或許會感嘆「我真係好_鍾意香港」

美孚石油公司曾是世界第一家托拉斯企业，在近代世界上有着举足轻重的影响，自晚清进入中国以来，被梁启超称为“巨灵”。
但是大有大的难处。作为一家企业，美孚石油虽然保有相当高的自主性，但不仅常常受到美国政府的掣肘，还要受到贸易进口国、投资东道国政府的节制。在国际政治风云变幻以及中国形势不断变化的背景下，美孚石油公司在中国的经营需要考量自身全球业务战略，也需要处理与美国和中国政府乃至地方政府等各方面的关系，很多决策是牵一发而动全身的。多种合力的作用下，这家巨头在中国的经营，以煤油的普及开始，以对华石油禁运告终。
本书围绕美孚与近代中国政府之间的主要事件，展现美孚与中国政府在各个历史时期的利益交涉、相互认知及外在影响，揭示以资本主义私人企业为本质的美孚石油公司与中国政府、美国政府之间广泛、复杂而独特的关系。在一些重要历史时刻，上述关系既反映了美孚石油公司在美国对华政策转换下的角色定位，也在一定程度上影响了中国政府的石油工业观念和行动，因此，理解美孚石油公司在中国近代的发展历史对当代政治经济也具有一定的借鉴意义。本书以丰富的史料，提供了强大的美国跨国企业与近代中国政府互动的生动实例。

German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.
Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what both Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a 700-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and launching point for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege in 1945, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin's Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes.
German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during the decade of the Second World War. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.<br /><br />Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li “one of a tiny group of scientists―a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table―who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.”<br /><br />Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China’s middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made all the harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother, who was working tirelessly to help them all gain a foothold in their new land.<br /><br />Fei-Fei’s adolescent knack for physics endured, however, and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation. Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities―and the extraordinary dangers―of the technology she loves.<br /><br />The Worlds I See is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century’s defining moments from the inside. It provides a riveting story of a scientist at work and a thrillingly clear explanation of what artificial intelligence actually is―and how it came to be. Emotionally raw and intellectually uncompromising, this book is a testament not only to the passion required for even the most technical scholarship but also to the curiosity forever at its heart.

Who should hold political power?

Are there any justified limits to people's liberty?

What is democracy? Is it really that attractive?

An Introduction to Political Philosophy is the beginner's ideal introduction to the field, combining clarity and a conversational style with a thought-provoking account of the central questions in political philosophy.

Wolff explores a series of enduring and timeless questions, spanning centuries and millennia to consider a diverse range of thinkers and their responses to those questions, and to demonstrate how political philosophy helps us understand contemporary issues.

Digital formats and resources

An Introduction to Political Philosophy is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats.

The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with tutorial style videos by the renowned political philosopher, Jo Wolff, to help you get to grips with the central questions in political philosophy, and learn at your own pace.

Computers are everywhere. Some are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons. We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak personal data about us. Governments and companies increasingly use computers to monitor what we do. Social networks and advertisers know more about us than we should be comfortable with. Criminals have all-too-easy access to our data. Do we truly understand the power of computers in our world?
In this updated edition of Understanding the Digital World, Brian Kernighan explains how computer hardware, software, and networks work. Topics include how computers are built and how they compute; what programming is; how the Internet and web operate; and how all of these affect security, privacy, property, and other important social, political, and economic issues. Kernighan touches on fundamental ideas from computer science and some of the inherent limitations of computers, and new sections in the book explore Python programming, big data, machine learning, and much more. Numerous color illustrations, notes on sources for further exploration, and a glossary explaining technical terms and buzzwords are included.
Understanding the Digital World is a must-read for readers of all backgrounds who want to know more about computers and communications.