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Decision Making and Operations Research Techniques for Construction Management challenges the traditional empirical approach to problem solving and provides construction practitioners with a seasoned account to resolving day-to-day complicated issues in construction project management. With over 150,000 workers at different levels working at dispersed project sites throughout the territory, construction managers have to look for optimal solutions to minimize the costs and to maximize the efficiencies. This book provides scientific tools for practitioners to resolve some practical problems which are administered empirically at present and may lead to inconsistent results and human errors. The modern decision-making tools introduced in this book include Multi-criteria Decision-making Models, Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms, Construction Simulation, Rough Set Theory and Advanced Statistical Techniques for construction. This book will serve as a useful companion for those m

ESL/EFL Cases: Contexts for Teacher Professional Discussions is designed to provoke conversations on language teaching from multiple perspectives. The format of the presentation of cases allows the reader to gain insights on teaching from the vantage point of the students’ proficiency, the teacher’s perspective, the writers’ questions and suggested answers and finally the critical commentary. Readers are treated as thinking professionals who are capable of analysing the acts of language teaching through the teaching excerpts and the dynamic lesson transcriptions. The questions and critical commentary encourage deeper and more critical processing rather than a superficial interpretation of the teaching act. The cases, derived from authentic teaching contexts, encourage readers to appreciate the rich tapestry of teaching with all its complexities. Designed to promote professional discussions and deeper reflective and more effective practice, this book is a must for the teacher education

A renowned biomedical engineering expert, H K Chang is also a champion of cross-cultural exchanges that enhance understanding and build links among nations and countries. Having studied the social and cultural developments of China and other countries for the past forty years, he narrates in twenty-one articles here his thoughts about world civilizations, culture and life, society, education as well as science and technology, and invites readers to join him on his intellectual and sentimental journey.

One of the momentous events of the world today is the emergence of China as an economic and political power. Unprecedented rates of economic growth have catapulted China into the forefront of the world arena. Malaysia took the bold step to establish diplomatic relations with China in 1974. This publication is a celebration of three decades of close ties between the two neighbours.

The primary purpose of this book is to examine the contributions of the Malaysian Chinese community in nation-building. Attention is focused principally on the post-independence period but with justified emphasis on the earlier era that constituted the formative stage of the country as a political state. The areas and extent of Chinese contributions are multi-faceted. The present study deals with the more crucial areas that determine the vigour and durability of the Malaysian nation-state. These are identified as the economic, political and cultural aspects of life that combine to make what it is today and that will have a profound influence on its future prospects. Volume one is divided into three parts, namely, introduction, historical background, and economic perspective. Volume two will deal with nation-building from the political and cultural perspective.

我們的品格教育已經出現大問題 要向下沉淪或向上提升 台北市22所中等學校的校長以親身體驗的故事現身說法，期望帶領大家重視並確實實踐品格迴流問題 學校剛完工的廁所門，馬上被破壞了； 英語老師發現學生背包裡有煙； A班段考才5分鐘就有人交卷； 公車司機罵：「怎麼不排隊就擠上車，連小學生都不如？」，大學生回應：「我們小時候也有排隊啊！」； 濃眉大眼男孩在電話那頭啜泣：「老師，我殺了人了，醫師說超音波上看出是個男嬰……」 品格迴流不單純只是教育問題 你可以冷眼旁觀也可以熱情參與其中 本書特色 為因應現在社會環境與教育、教養的問題，邀請22位中等學校校長，以親身體驗的故事和具體的推動成效，共同來為品格教育的推動，以及喚起大眾對品格教養的重視。

潔魯夏‧阿波特(Jerusha Abbot)是名十八歲的孤兒，大家都叫她茱蒂，就在她準備離開孤兒院獨自生活之際，意外出現一位善心的神秘贊助人，願意資助她上大學，唯一的條件是她每個月要寫一封信，報告她的生活。不料她充滿坦率、幽默與想像力的信，深深吸引了這位神秘的仰慕者。他到底是誰？從寫給長腿叔叔的76封信，告訴我們這個有趣故事。 Jerusha Abbot has spent all her 18 years in an orphanage. Just when they were about to send her out into the world on her own, a benev-olent Trustee offered to pay her way through college. The only con-dition was that she had to write regularly and report on her progress. Little did she know that her humor, honesty and wit have captivated a secret admirer. Who is he and who is the trustee whose name she doesn’t know? Her letters addressed to Daddy-Long-Legs tell the story.

「刺客」系列作者又一絕無冷場、劇力萬鈞的經典作品！ 活船，以巫木雕成，具有知覺與魔法力量的神奇船隻，將於繽城掀起一場瘋狂又殘酷的爭奪之戰！ 奇異商品的集散地，繽城，同時也是一群擁有活船的商人世家之根據地。 維司奇家族經過三代船主的死亡，終於使活船「薇瓦琪號」甦醒，他們寄望她為這凋零的舊商世家帶來財富，然而，伴隨而來的，卻是內部的繼承爭奪以及無情海盜的柯尼提掠奪的野心……。 【名家推薦】 ◎「我太驚訝了——這部作品甚至比『刺客』系列還要優秀。先前，我還認為這是不可能的。」 ——喬治‧馬汀（George R. R. Martin）《冰與火之歌》（A Game of Thrones）作者

「刺客」系列作者又一絕無冷場、劇力萬鈞的經典作品！ 活船，以巫木雕成，具有知覺與魔法力量的神奇船隻，將於繽城掀起一場瘋狂又殘酷的爭奪之戰！ 奇異商品的集散地，繽城，同時也是一群擁有活船的商人世家之根據地。 維司奇家族經過三代船主的死亡，終於使活船「薇瓦琪號」甦醒，他們寄望她為這凋零的舊商世家帶來財富，然而，伴隨而來的，卻是內部的繼承爭奪以及無情海盜的柯尼提掠奪的野心……。 【名家推薦】 ◎「我太驚訝了——這部作品甚至比『刺客』系列還要優秀。先前，我還認為這是不可能的。」 ——喬治‧馬汀（George R. R. Martin）《冰與火之歌》（A Game of Thrones）作者

This is a study of the structure and properties of compound verbs in Mandarin Chinese. By excluding separable structures such as Verb-Object phrases and resultative and directional constructions, we are able to establish that verbs, like nouns, are invariably right-headed, i.e. modifiers always precede what they modify; and also that compound verbs with relatively few exceptions are disyllabic...

Co-authored by Eugene Nida and JIN Di, On Translation was first published in 1984 by the China Translation and Publishing Corporation in Beijing. It is widely recognized as a classic in translation theory with a practical orientation. Following the theoretical framework Nida had developed over decades of work on translation and semiotics, the two authors offer an easily comprehensible analysis of the complex problems involved in translation. After a critical review of the historical development of translation theory in the light of modern information theory, they elucidate the most fundamental principles of translation in accordance with the concept of dynamic equivalence. The treatment is closely related to actual translation practice, and the principles elucidated are applicable to all types of translation, though most of the examples analyzed are taken from translations between Chinese and English. This new and expanded edition has two main parts. Part I is the complete text of th

머 리 말 “왜 어떤 민족은 부적을 붙이기보다 아스피린을 복용하는가? 왜 어떤 민족은 나이프와 포크가 아닌 젓가락으로 식사하는가? 그들로 하여금 그렇게 행동하게 한 결정인(決定因)은 무엇인가? 물론 그에 대한 대답은 명료하다. 사람들의 행동은 그들이 각기 접한 문화적 전통에 따라 결정된다.” 이것은 레슬리 화이트(Leslie A. White)가 『문화학』(The Science of Culture, 1969)의 서문에서 주장하는 글이다. 이에 대해 반대론자들은 그의 문화결정론(cultural determinism)이 숙명론적이고 ‘패배주의적’이라고 비판한다. 그들은 인간이 교육받은 것도 개인적인 것이지 (집단적 상징체계로서의) 문화가 아니라고 하여 개인의 교육과정을 강조한다. 그러나 이에 대해 화이트는 “교육도 따지고 보면, 문화가 한 세대나 사람으로부터 다른 데로 옮겨가는 과정에 붙여진 이름일 뿐”이라고 응수한다. 그 역시 인간이란 어떤 특정한 문화를 가지고 태어나는 것이 아니라 아무런 문화도 갖지 않은 채 태어나 성장하면서 특정한 문화를 익히며 행동한다고 생각하기 때문이다. 그러면서도 그는 “DNA가 우리를 어떤 종류의 인간으로 결정한다고 하여 그것이 운명론인가? 이런 사실을 아는 것이 패배주의인가?”라고 반문한다. 나아가 그는 우리를 둘러싸고 있는 것도 결정론들이라고까지 단정한다. 실제로 우리의 주변에는 신의(神意)에로 돌리는 의지결정론이나 천양무궁(天壤無窮)의 신칙론(神勅論)을 포함하여 맑스의 토대결정론처럼 인간에 의해 만들어진 결정론들이 수없이 많다. 물론 그것들을 무조건 패배주의적이라고 단정할 수는 없다. 그러나 화이트의 생각과는 달리 대개의 경우 그것들이 숙명론적임을 주장하기는 어렵지 않다. 예를 들어 수많은 일본인들이 일본문화와 사상의 특징을 가리켜 ‘아시아의 박물관’·‘문화적 종착역’·‘문화의 조립공장’·‘문화의 용광로’ 등으로 표현하는 의식의 이면에서, 즉 그들의 잠재의식 속에서 결정론적 숙명론을 발견하기란 어렵지 않기 때문이다. 이 책은 일본

這是一部理想化的寫實小說，可以說是一篇現代都市遷徙人群的眾生相，相關於這個世代的人們的流離。在這樣的世代裡，人們總有或多或少飄流的念頭，而本書作者聞人悅閱，從大學開始，在紐約待了十年，由於種種與成長有關的原因，對這個城市的感情可以用到依戀這兩個字，差一點點就落地生根。現在打算要離開一陣子，應該也希望會在將來再回到這個城市來。所以，對於她來說，小說寫到的一些關於這個城市的事，好比一本紐約備忘錄。 有一些不想忘記，所以記錄下來。紐約這個城市有很壯大的包容力，什麼樣的人都有，而且誰都能以此為家，小說寫到的人物也就都包含在這些人之中了：小九，本和「我」在紐約這個城市努力地穿梭，黃小艾則在另外一群人中間孤獨地生活，行走，但是她什麼時候出現，什麼時候消失，彷彿有辦法計畫的，一切像偶然，也是宿命，她的成長，或者也有一些我們的影子。不過既然是宿命，他們的道路遲早會在某處交叉。

人類究竟到幾歲算是「小孩」？到幾歲算是「成人」？如果從少年犯罪的世界著手調查，這個分界線相當曖昧不明。到幾歲犯下的「罪行」才能被赦免？年齡多大的嫌犯能夠被冠上「A」（未成年的嫌犯不得公佈姓名）呢？想必沒有人能夠真正劃分出明瞭的分界線吧？唯一清楚的是，引發少年們失控沉淪黑暗世界的契機，是來自於成人們所創造出來的扭曲社會。※ 重要提醒：本書為尖端出版重新製作，與華雲數位過去上架之內容相同，但解析度更高。故屬於不同商品。

Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 垃圾放對地方是資源 資源放錯地方是垃圾 換個思路靈活辦事，人要發揮自己的特質與專長，生命才能發光、發亮！ 只要你相信--人生的價值是可以自己創造！那現在就是採取行動的最佳時機！ 全球成功人士奉為圭臬的67道暢意人生增值計畫之實踐處方 本書介紹成功人士奉為圭臬的67道人生智慧，闡述換個思路的腦力激盪，讓問題更有效率獲得解決，生活也能更加暢快如意。

為了克服海外投資的風險，外資企業通常擁有經營資源優勢，因此在投資國當地的生產表現普遍優於本地企業。本研究利用隨機生產效率分析法，針對台灣電子零組件業進行觀察。實証結果發現在1986年至1996年間，隨著台灣國內市場加快開放步調，外資企業的生產效率之提升卻不及本國企業。若進一步觀察技術效率與TFP成長，本地企業的技術效率與TFP成長表現在期間內均優於外資企業。此一結果說明外資企業與本地企業之生產力差距已逐步縮減，台灣本地電子零組件產業的生產能力已能迎頭趕上外資企業。市場自由化措施顯然有助於國內企業加速技術提升，以因應市場的競爭壓力。

永遠的王妃——黛安娜——璀燦卻又悲劇性的一生。本書為所有介紹黛妃的著作中，唯一詳實記載黛妃受訪內容的一本傳記書籍黛安娜，一顆璀燦的威爾斯之星，她的風采與隕落，帶給世人多少的驚歎與欷歔。黛妃從1981年與英國王儲查理王子結縭，到1997年8月31日車禍身亡，十七年的時光?堙A她一直是世人目光的焦點。在黛妃的一生中，嫁入皇室是榮耀的開始，卻也是寂寞宿命的起始。本書主要描述三個主題：黛安娜的貪食症、自殺傾向以及查理王子跟卡蜜拉之間的關係，徹底揭露黛妃長期於虛偽的皇室中以及在媒體偷窺追逐的壓力下，如何尋找自信與追求自我價值的真實動人歷程，為作者安德魯‧莫頓最膾炙人口的一本著作。本書所有故事，皆出自於黛妃在白金漢宮的訪問錄音帶，這?堛瑤芵雰S有任何排練，也沒有任何重來的機會。她的話句句發自內心深處，透露出一個被全世界愛慕的女人的悲傷與孤單。讓我們重新認識她那不被世人所了解的一生，領會其獨一無二的風采與智慧。

為了歡迎貝貝的加入，村裡的大象們想幫貝貝辦一個驚喜派對，感謝她幫他們解決各種問題。大象們會為貝貝帶來怎麼樣的驚喜呢？

古今中外能成就偉業者，無不是深諳進退規則之人。他們善於洞悉別人的意圖、審視自己的處境、掌握進退的秘訣，所以能在淘汰中生存、競爭中勝出，贏得最後的桂冠！ 在世界歷史中，為了得到權勢、駕馭他人，無數人把玩著生存遊戲。他們深諳人性叢林的進退規則，洞悉他人的心靈弱點，進而能夠進退自如，將勝券牢牢握於掌中，一舉成功，無數偉大的人物尤其如此。 社會行走的傳世奇書，智者生存的成功兵法！「進退規則」是世界歷史中生存遊戲的典範，是為人處世、行走社會、圓融通達的最佳指南，更是葛拉西安生存策略的完美闡釋，讓你從故事中學到歷史人物的教訓，從道理中領悟生存的方略。熟讀本書，你將能在細微的差別中找到成功的方向、處世的錦囊、生存的秘密與永恆的定律。 作者簡介 拉西安 葛拉西安（Baltasar Gracian, 1601～1658），一六○一年出生於西班牙阿拉貢的貝爾蒙特村，十八歲時進入耶穌會見習修行，此後五十年歷任軍中神父、告解神父、宣教師、教授與行政人員（當過幾所耶穌會學院的院長或副院長）。在和平與戰爭期間，他長期細心觀察人類的行為，因此獲得寫作格言警句的靈感。葛拉西安著作頗豐，《智慧書》（The Art of The Worldly Wisdom）、《英雄寶鏡》（A pocket mirror for heroes）是其最著名的兩部作品。

The digital divide and the inequalities of the availability and deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) between developed and developing countries have long been a source of concern. Global institutions such as the United Nations, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Bank, as well as regional and national level agencies, have set up task forces to investigate how ICTs can be enacted most effectively in developing countries. How this shared vision should be put into practice is a complex undertaking, but it is already taking place. In this volume, we go beyond the theoretical, the polemical and the philosophical to consider practical issues as they are encountered by stakeholders in the developing country context. 15 author teams explore key issues organized into four sections: (1) Theoretical Background and Culture; (2) Telecentres; (3) Applications; and (4) Key Concepts with Country Specific Studies. Examples of these applications are

Evolution of language has evolved at multiple levels—from changes in the cognitive processes by which language is acquired in the individual, to language change by diffusion of acquired linguistic features across populations of individuals, to the emergence of linguistic features over phylogenetic time scales. Evolution of language at each of these levels interacts with that at each other level. This volume is a collection of essays by noted researchers from diverse fields that deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the study of language evolution. The principle topics addressed here include: the genetic and cognitive bases for the phylogenetic emergence of language; several distinct accounts of the underlying cognitive processes by which children learn to acquire language; a critique of the methods employed by historical linguists in the last century; the modeling of language evolution using mathematical and computational techniques; discussions on the complexity of language.

根據世界衛生組織的推估，到西元二○二○年時，憂鬱症將排名戕害人類十大疾病的第二位。身處一個人口爆炸、資訊爆炸、誘惑爆炸、焦慮爆炸的世紀，想避開煩躁的心病纏身，非懂得情緒管理、培養情緒智慧不可。 憂鬱不比一般肉身上的疾病，在傳統印象的制約下，憂鬱症病患常被視為EQ低、軟弱、無病呻吟、抗壓性差而遭輕忽或指責，終致加重病情或醞釀成悲劇。當大眾紛紛為報紙上一則則傷逝的訊息扼腕時，別忘了愛心、關心與理解才是真正的靈藥。陪憂鬱症人士嘔吐一回，傾聽他們的吶喊，然後就能理解藍色靈魂裡的寂寞指數。 本書由國內專業的精神科醫師與心理治療師為戰勝憂鬱的社會使命而共同執筆，以深入淺出的學理介紹、簡單易懂的治療方法、真實感人的案例分享、清晰明確的Q&A與最新的憂鬱症新知，引領在情緒惡海中浮沉的你我，闢出光明正面的人生之路。