The fatherandson story of the building of IBM offers a frank portrait of the love and bitterness underlying the relationship between IBM founder Thomas J. Watson and his son. Reprint.

Product Description: Peace-Maintenance explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. Jarat Chopra, the architect of peace-maintenance, outlines the limitations of traditional peacekeeping principles reliant on the increasingly questionable consent of belligerents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Divided into four sections, these symposium papers cover: the keynote address - perspectives in perception and electronic imaging; psychophysical models for electronic imaging; perceptual image quality models; and video image quality.

Product Description: When Thomas J. Watson, Jr. retired as chief executive officer of IBM in 1971, he began to pursue sailing, flying and exploring adventures he had dreamed about during his successful decades in business. One of the sailing and exploring adventures was a Panamato-Fiji passage through the South Pacific, and in this book he writes a charming, candid, erudite account of that sojourn in a part of the world we all dream about...read more

Product Description: In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom...read more