A Practical Education: Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees, Stross Randall
Автор: Stross,Charles Название: Fuller Memorandum B ISBN: 1841497703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841497709 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The third book in the `Laundry` series - the world`s only science fiction/ dark comedy/ Cold War/ IT/ Lovecraftian Horror/ spy novels!
Автор: Bannister, Andrew Название: Iron Gods ISBN: 0857503367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857503367 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Spin - an ancient artificial cluster of eighty-eight planets and twenty-one suns - is in decline. For millennia, the people of Three Quarter Circle Harbour have watched the stars from their world, hidden in a forgotten corner of the Spin.
Автор: Stross Charles Название: Jennifer Morgue ISBN: 0356502384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356502380 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The second volume in The Laundry Files - a series that combines spy fiction with the supernatural, where George Smiley and MI6 meet Lovecraft and Harry Dresden.
The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything--and nervous "fuzzy major" students, their even more nervous parents, college career center professionals, and prospective employers would do well to embrace liberal arts majors. Just look to Silicon Valley, of all places, to see that liberal arts majors can succeed not in spite of, but because of, their education.
A Practical Education investigates the real-world experiences of graduates with humanities majors, the majors that would seem the least employable in Silicon Valley's engineering-centric workplaces. Drawing on the experiences of Stanford University graduates and using the students' own accounts of their education, job searches, and first work experiences, Randall Stross provides heartening demonstrations of how multi-capable liberal arts graduates are. When given a first opportunity, these majors thrive in work roles that no one would have predicted.
Stross also weaves the students' stories with the history of Stanford, the rise of professional schools, the longstanding contention between engineering and the liberal arts, the birth of occupational testing, and the popularity of computer science education to trace the evolution in thinking about how to prepare students for professional futures. His unique blend of present and past produces a provocative exploration of how best to utilize the undergraduate years.
At a time when institutions of higher learning are increasingly called on to justify the tangible merits of the liberal arts, A Practical Education reminds readers that the most useful training for an unknowable future is the universal, time-tested preparation of a liberal education.
Автор: Gaiman, Neil Baxter, Stephen Stross, Charles Lovegrove, James Williams, Liz Brown, Eric Roberts, Adam Watson, Ian Langford, David Название: Fables from the fountain ISBN: 1910935743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910935743 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2941.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A volume written as homage to Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart, featuring original stories from many of today's top genre writers, including Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, James Lovegrove, Liz Williams, Adam Roberts, Eric Brown, Ian Watson, and David Langford.
The Fountain: a traditional London pub situated in Holborn, just off Chancery Lane, where Michael, the landlord, serves excellent real ales and dodgy ploughman's, ably assisted by barmaids Sally and Bogna.
The Fountain, in whose Paradise bar a group of friends - scientists, writers and genre fans - meet regularly on a Tuesday night to swap anecdotes, reveal wondrous events from their past, tell tall tales, talk of classified invention and, maybe, just maybe, save the world...
1. Introduction - Peter Weston 2. No Smoke without Fire - Ian Whates 3. Transients - Stephen Baxter 4. Forever Blowing Bubbles - Ian Watson 5. On the Messdecks of Madness - Paul Graham Raven 6. The Story Bug - James Lovegrove 7. "And Weep Like Alexander" - Neil Gaiman 8. The Ghost in the Machine - Colin Bruce 9. The Hidden Depths of Bogna - Liz Williams 10. A Bird in Hand - Charles Stross 11. In Pursuit of the Chuchunaa - Eric Brown 12. The Cyberseeds - Steve Longworth 13. Feathers of the Dinosaur - Henry Gee 14. Book Wurms - Andy West 15. The Pocklington Poltergeist - David Langford 16. The Last Man in Space - Andrew J Wilson 17. A Multiplicity of Phaedra Lament - Peter Crowther 18. The Girl With the White Ant Tattoo - Tom Hunter 19. The 9,000,000,001st Name of God - Adam Roberts 20. About the Authors
Автор: Stross,Charles Название: Saturns`s children ISBN: 1841495689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841495682 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A cutting edge space opera from the Hugo Award-winning author of Singularity Sky.
Автор: Charles Stross Название: Dark State ISBN: 1509823522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509823529 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A high-tech, inter-dimensional espionage thriller set in the world of The Merchant Princes series.
Автор: Stross Charles Название: The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel ISBN: 1250196094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250196095 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*
"Smart, literate, funny." --Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series
Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. It has also involved a wearying amount of paperwork and office politics, and his expense reports are still a mess.
Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organization has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a British government looking for public services to privatize.
Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.
Laundry Files 1. The Atrocity Archives 2. The Jennifer Morgue 3. The Fuller Memorandum 4. The Apocalypse Codex 5. The Rhesus Chart 6. The Annihilation Score 7. The Nightmare Stacks
Автор: Stross Charles Название: Atrocity Archives ISBN: 0356502392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356502397 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The explosive first volume in The Laundry Files - a series that combines spy fiction with the supernatural, where George Smiley and MI6 meet Lovecraft, Fringe and Harry Dresden.
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