J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
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本書教授實用的英語簡報要領、實用語句及臨場實戰技巧，讓你迅速提升英文口說能力並成為英語簡報達人！ 本書特色：1. 本書以簡報技巧為主軸規畫九大課程，包含成功簡報之介紹、簡報準備、簡報語言呈現、簡報輔助工具、報告式簡報、展演式簡報、知識性簡報、啟發式簡報、說服式簡報等九項。2. 每單元包含暖身活動、簡報影音範例、簡報技巧、簡報實用語句、口說策略、步驟型實戰練習等，提供完整的簡報課程與架構。3. 本書編寫以英語口說能力為基礎，適合準備各項口說檢測之學習者使用，幫助學習者於短期內提升口說溝通能力。 各單元架構：‧Warm-up 暖身活動設計與每課簡報內容相關的小活動，讓學習者藉此認識單元主題。 ‧Presentation Model 簡報範例由專業外師展示簡報影音範例，提供觀摩與學習的機會。 ‧Presentation Skills 簡報技巧傳授各種簡報秘技，有助學習者快速掌握演說要領與秘訣。 ‧Useful Language 實用語句條列各種情境適用的句型，讓你表達無礙，簡報不卡卡！ ‧Speaking Strategies 口說策略說明有效的口說策略，讓你像專業人士般施展講台魅力。 ‧Put It into Practice 實戰演練透過練習，精熟各式簡報。9堂課就能成為簡報達人！
This edited volume is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the collaborative intellectual enterprise that the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) network has built up over the past two decades. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ABS, we invited ABS partners to contribute their intellectual findings to this edited volume. Except for the introduction, this volume consists of twenty-seven chapters divided into two sections. The first part of the book contains eleven chapters that are based on previously published studies and are updated based on the latest ABS data. The second part of the book focuses on issues specific to each country or autonomous territory and consists of sixteen chapters. Among the topics discussed are potential threats to third-wave democracies, evolving ideology in one-party states, cases of denied democracy, and peculiar challenges faced by long-term democracies. The contributors are the indispensable partners that have made the ABS possible over the
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