New Releases by Chris Anderson

I både USA og Europa er det blevet stadig sværere at opretholde produktionen, fordi hele industrier, fra tøj til elektronik, har flyttet deres fabrikker til Asien og andre regioner med lave omkostninger. Men ethvert land, som vil bevare en økonomisk råstyrke, er nødt til at fremstille fysiske produkter, hvis det ikke vil ende som en nation af burgervendere og kassemedarbejdere. I MAKERS kan Chris Anderson afsløre, at der er en ny industriel revolution på vej, som kan være med til at vende udviklingen. Moderne iværksættere benytter sig via internettet af open source-design og 3D-udskrivning og anvender mikroproduktionsteknikker til at skabe en tsunami af produkter i små partier, som ofte er skræddersyet til bestemte kunder og sælges med større avancer. Disse utallige mikroproducenter, som Chris Anderson kalder Makers, vil i de kommende ti år være med til at sætte den næste store bevægelse i den globale økonomi i gang. Alle, som har en idé, kan nu sætte hele samlebånd i gang ved hjælp af et enkelt tryk på en tast – og denne "desktopbaserede" produktionsrevolution vil ifølge Chris Anderson forandre verden i lige så høj grad som den personlige computer har gjort.

Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.

Chris Anderson en David Sally prikken in Corners moet je kort nemen een aantal vastgeroeste mythen door en ze laten zien welke cijfers echt belangrijk zijn. Met statistieken bewijzen ze bijvoorbeeld waarom het veel belangrijker is om een goal te voorkomen dan er een te scoren en dat je veel beter je slechtste speler kunt verbeteren dan een dure superster kopen.

Son presents a very personal body of work from Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, who has earned international acclaim for his documentary work from conflict zones all over the world. Following the birth of his son he stepped away from war photography and his work turned towards an intimate reflection: ''These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. They are a record of love and a reflection on the seasonal nature of life'' - Christopher Anderson

Negli ultimi dieci anni abbiamo scoperto nuovi modi per creare, inventare e lavorare insieme sul web. Nei prossimi dieci anni ciò che abbiamo imparato verrà applicato al mondo reale. Questo libro parla dei prossimi dieci anni. In Makers, Chris Anderson ci fa intravedere un futuro “fai da te”, dove se puoi immaginare qualcosa puoi anche realizzarla. Dan Heath, autore di Switch “Chi non condivide i propri progetti sbaglia”. Punto. È anche questa la cultura digitale a cui fa riferimento Anderson: la condivisione e la partecipazione applicata alla produzione di oggetti. E se vi sembra una cultura di nicchia, sappiate che sta dilagando. Riccardo Luna, la Repubblica

3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers” using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent--creating “the long tail of things”.

Silverlight 5 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform on which to build business applications. It’s a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it’s moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread popularity. This book guides you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 5 and C#. You''ll learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications—from getting started to deployment, and everything in between. In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications. It will introduce the patterns you''ll use, the issues you’ll face, and how to resolve them. Author Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his expertise through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoiding them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book. With this book in hand, you will: Create a fully-functional business application in Silverlight Discover how to satisfy the general requirements that most business applications need Develop a business application framework

Discover your roots! This guide provides proven strategies for tracing your family history, whether it originates in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Alsace Lorraine, or other Germanic regions. From maps and translations to pedigree charts, inside you''ll find the information you need, featuring basic instruction for gathering, verifying, recording and organizing your findings.Inside you''ll find: • a brief history of Germany and Germanic emigration • methods of tracking down information here and abroad • techniques and translations for reading Germanic records • German word lists including occupations, relationships and surnames • listings of German genealogical societies and archives

A cult figure among loyalists, despised and feared by nationalists, Billy ''King Rat'' Wright is reputed to have been involved in a number of sectarian murders before he himself was shot dead by republican gunmen inside the Maze Prison in 1997. Wright became involved with loyalist paramilitaries at the age of 16, and in the early 1990s he emerged as the UVF commander in the Mid-Ulster area. The Billy Boy documents Wright''s role in the Drumcree dispute of 1995-96 and his split from the UVF, recounting how he ignored both a death threat and an order to leave Northern Ireland, only to remain in Portadown and form the Loyalist Volunteer Force. It covers Wright''s trial and subsequent imprisonment for a crime it has been claimed was set up by the State; recounts the circumstances of his killing inside a top-security prison; and investigates the allegations of State collusion in Wright''s death. Terrifically gripping and often disturbing, The Billy Boy is an exhaustive account of a notorious figure of the Troubles, whose life and death were surrounded by controversy and political debate.

Chińskie podróbki markowych ubrań poprawiają wyniki sprzedaży w salonach Diora. To, że ludzie ściągają z sieci pirackie pliki MP3, nie szkodzi muzykom, ale jest dla nich jak najbardziej korzystne. Udostępnienie za darmo w internecie książki bestsellerowego autora zwiększyło jej sprzedaż w księgarniach. Jak to jest możliwe, wyjaśnia Chris Anderson, autor bestsellerowego "Długiego ogona". Nie tylko wyjaśnia - wprost radzi, jak zarobić na darmowych produktach, podpowiadając między innymi 50 konkretnych modeli biznesowych opartych na „za darmo”. Gdy w 2007 roku grupa Radiohead opublikowała za darmo w internecie swój album In Rainbows, uznano to wydarzenie za punkt zwrotny w dziejach nie tylko kultury, ale przede wszystkim biznesu. Muzycy zrobili to samo co King Gillette, który zbudował przemysłowe imperium, rozdając za darmo maszynki do golenia z wymiennymi ostrzami. Dziś Google daje zaś swoim użytkownikom za darmo wszystko, a firma i tak zarabia krocie. "Za darmo" to zaskakujący i prowokujący podręcznik nowego modelu biznesu i marketingu. "Za darmo" to lektura obowiązkowa dla wszystkich, którzy chcą zrozumieć, jak działa biznes w epoce internetu.

Based on the The NY Times bestseller and Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award (Best Business Book of the Year), The Long Tail from SmarterComics is the Graphic version of the most important business book since The Tipping Point. Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn''t in the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses the endlessly long tail of that same curve."

Poetry. In a voice both down-to-earth and elusive, narrative and leaping by turns, these poems seek out the hidden connections beneath randomness and loss, from merit badges to galaxies, border collies to gravesides. In their irony and their playfulness, in what they say and what they don''t, they help us to experience for ourselves the mystery that keeps interrupting our lives, a mystery finally deeper than words. This collection brims with the mysteries, the epiphanies of startling, compelling juxtaposition and coexistence. Minor key, major key, dissonance, harmony: in these pages, we hear the odd, audible question; we''re blessed with the longed-for answer. Chris Anderson''s poems open their arms in an embrace so wide they astonish and buoy us. His is a world in which anything could really happen, and does. No matter how quirky, how unexpected, the next thing--and the next and next--always does belong in the luminous life of his remarkable work.--Paulann Petersen Odd, thoughtful, darting, swirling, funny, poignant, startling--this is the most unusual book of poemstories and singingdreams you will ever read, period. Wrestlers and ukuleles, angels and spiders, the precision of rain, Mister Rogers and Abe Lincoln in heaven together ... I mean, wow, and whoa, and for heaven''s sake shell out the fifteen bucks and go sit in the sun and read this straight through, marveling. You''ll smile and pray. Trust me.--Brian Doyle Chris Anderson asks the big questions in The Next Thing Always Belongs, and answers them the way only poetry can: with the ineffable incense of confession, and wild leaps of juxtaposition. These poems are parables, told in the impossible logic of dreams. The result is a collection that circles the incomprehensible, and manages a grasp both fleeting and everlasting--a collection that demands to be read and reread over the course of a lifetime.--Tim Green These poems are written with the confidence of a writer who can explore the capacity of language without fear. The title, taken from Richard Hugo, tells us something about Chris Anderson''s approach: let the poem find its way through the complications and confusions of translating experience into verse; believe that each seemingly reckless transition is in fact a leap of faith in the oldest, most profound sense. And it works. This is the direct indirection of enduring poetry.--Richard Wakefield

Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform in which to build business applications. It’s a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it’s moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread adoption. This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between. In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and introduce the patterns to use, the issues that you’ll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoid them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book. With this book in hand, you will Create a fully functional business application in Silverlight Discover how to satisfy all of the general requirements that most business applications need Develop a business application framework

In Professional Visual Studio 2010, developers will find a fast route to IDE programming success. The authors zero in on advanced topics and demonstrate the new features of the IDE, including code snippets, refactoring, and patterns. Covering the latest .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 with a unique IDE-centric approach, the book has been revised to include a discussion of Visual Studio''s recent major overhaul. The illustrative examples included will help bring both novice and experienced developers up to speed quickly.

Three of CouchDB''s creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that''s reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly. CouchDB works with self-contained data that has loose or ad-hoc connections. It''s a model that fits many real-world items, such as contacts, invoices, and receipts, but you''ll discover that this database can easily handle data of any kind. With this book, you''ll learn how to work with CouchDB through its RESTful web interface, and become familiar with key features such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, deployment tuning, and more. Understand the basics of document-oriented storage and manipulation Interact with CouchDB entirely though HTTP using its RESTful interface Model data as self-contained JSON documents Handle evolving data schemas naturally Query and aggregate data in CouchDB using MapReduce views Replicate data between nodes Tune CouchDB for increased performance and reliability

【書籍簡介】 線上經濟持續成長，它的相關成本逐漸快速趨向於零。史上從來沒有哪個產業經濟的價格下跌如此迅速，跌勢如此之久。傳統經濟學的稀有性已不適用於頻寬、電腦處理能力，和硬碟儲存空間。 在數位的市場裡，最具效益的價格就是毫無價格可言，這是《長尾理論》作者安德森的主張。他說明了精打細算的企業如何對這個價格模式見縫插針，從產品到營收都是可以利用的間接途徑，像是： ♦ 交叉補貼（cross subsidy，例如訂購有線電視服務即可獲贈一台數位錄影機） ♦ 免費增值（freemium，例如Flickr讓一般用戶免費使用，而重度使用者可選擇購買FlickrPro） 新媒體模式的成功例子不勝枚舉，包括： ♦ 歐巴馬在電玩遊戲Xbox Live置入競選廣告 ♦ 虛擬寵物Webkinz玩偶 ♦ 電台司令樂團的《彩虹裡》專輯採取「由你定價」試驗 整個世代和全球趨勢都捲入這個現象——三十歲以下的世代不再付費取得資訊，因為他們有辦法以免費方式取得；在經濟走弱的當下，免費所帶來的心理與經濟效應可望持續走強，特別是數位世界的邊際成本每年持續滑落50%，因此免費對消費者心理的影響力會更具決定性。 本書延續作者對網路世界的觀察與研究，安德森認為，「免費」二字誰都難以拒絕，也可以是一筆好生意，不過當前的免費增值模式已轉為免費產品必須占99%，才能出售1%的產品獲利。今天的業者不只要推出受歡迎的產品，其中更要有部分是消費者願意付出代價購買的。免費或許是很吸引人的價格，但絕對不是唯一的價格。

Vieles gibt es im Internet völlig kostenlos. Dies verändert grundlegend Kaufverhalten und Mentalität der Konsumenten: Warum zahlen, wenn man Produkte auch umsonst kriegen kann? Unternehmen können von dieser "Free"-Mentalität aber letztlich auch profitieren. Ein Beispiel ist IBM, die Software verschenken und die dafür nötige Hardware verkaufen. Der Reiz und letztlich das Profitable am "Konzept Kostenlos" ist also: Unternehmen machen sich bekannt und werben neue Kunden - kostenlose Produkte sind letztlich ein ideales Marketinginstrument. Anderson zeigt anhand von vier konkreten Geschäftsmodellen, wie es Unternehmen gelingen kann, sich "Free" zunutze zu machen und damit erfolgreich zu werden. Andersons These: Gerade wenn etwas digital ist, wird es früher oder später sowieso kostenlos sein. Man kann "Free" nicht aufhalten. Und: "Free" lohnt sich!

Con la llegada de Internet, un nuevo fen&ómeno invade el mercado, la industria y la sociedad. Se trata de la "larga cola", t&érmino acu&ñado por Chris Anderson y que resuena ya en los medios de comunicaci&ón de todo el mundo. La "larga cola" es la tendencia por la cual, gracias a la tecnolog&ía, el mercado de masas se est&á conviertiendo en un mercado de nichos: por primera vez en la sociedad de consumo, la venta de peque&ñas cantidades es rentable. Y para el autor de este libro, esta novedad marcar&á la industria en un futuro muy pr&óximo: en el siglo XXI, dominar&á el mercado quien sea capaz de acaparar las ventas minoritarias, esa larga cola que se extiende detr&ás de los hits casi hasta el infinito. El analista Chris Anderson nos ofrece el estudio m&ás completo de una realidad que ya est&á aqu&í gracias a empresas como Google, Amazon o Rhapsody. Una obra de rabiosa actualidad esencial para empresarios, economistas y para todo aquel que quiera comprender el alcance de este fen&ómeno y sus implicaciones.

What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers?In t

Chiefly illustrated edition comprising the photographs taken in Venezuela from 2004 to 2006 by New York documentary photographer Christopher Anderson and that represent his cinematic journey through the upheavals of contemporary Caracas, Venezuela, in the tradition of such earlier projects as William Klein''s "New York" (1954-55) and Robert Frank''s "The Americans" (1958). A poetic and politicized vision of a city where the violent and the sensual intermingle chaotically. "I sometimes imagine Caracas as a living breathing animal. Obscured by the darkness it appears both violent and sensual, but perhaps it''s true nature will only be revealed at the moment it devours me."-- Christopher Anderson web page.

In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn''t in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses--the endlessly long tail of that same curve.

既存のインフラストラクチャによるクライアントアプリケーション開発手法から脱却し、Win32とWebのよいところを組み合わせた“統合プラットフォーム”での開発へと移行するための全知識を集約。

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) replaces Microsoft’s diverse presentation technologies with a unified, state-of-the-art platform for building rich applications. WPF combines the best of Windows and the Web; fully integrates user interfaces, documents, and media; and leverages the full power of XML-based declarative programming. In Essential Windows Presentation Foundation, former WPF architect Chris Anderson systematically introduces this breakthrough platform, focusing on the concepts and techniques working developers need in order to build robust applications for real users. Drawing on his unique experience as an architect on the team, Anderson thoroughly illuminates the crucial new concepts underlying WPF and reveals how its APIs work together to offer developers unprecedented value. Through working sample code, you’ll discover how WPF draws on the Web’s simple models for markup and deployment, common frame for applications, and rich server connectivity, and on Windows’ rich client model, simple programming model, strong control over look-and-feel, and rich networking. Topics explored in depth include WPF components and architecture Key WPF design decisions–and why they matter XAML markup language Controls Layouts Visuals and media, including 2D, 3D, video, and animation Data integration Actions Styles WPF Base Services

Wie das Internet die Wirtschaft verändert und wie mit neuen Geschäftsmodellen diese Chancen genutzt werden können.