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In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to the Western trading community in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, a

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of theirdaughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and

紐約不再是記憶中的模樣，一股疏離感使奶奶不禁抱怨連連。跟著祖孫倆的腳步橫跨紐約尋找晚餐食材，隨著場景變換，拼湊奶奶的回憶，一瞥她的童年與隱於城市中的成長點滴。跨越世代的圖像小說，透過孫子眼睛看到奶奶曾經擁有青澀過往。This first graphic novel from Cicada follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Bubbe's relationship with the city is complex - nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and angry at the world around her. Benji, on the other hand, looks at the world, and his grandmother, with clear-eyed acceptance.As they wander the city, we catch glimpses of Bubbe's childhood in Germany, her young adulthood in 1950s Brooklyn, and her relationships; first with a baker called Gershon, and later with successful Joe, Benji's grandfather. Gradually we piece together snippets of Bubbe's life, gaining an insight to some of the things that have formed her cantankerous personality. The journey culminates on the Lower East Side in a moving reunion between Rosa and Gersh

Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in African American music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this dazzling anthology of visualized funk and soul.Gathering both classic and rare covers, the collection celebrates each artwork's ability to capture not only a buyer's interest, but an entire musical mood. Browse through and discover the brilliant, the bold, the outlandish and the sheer beautiful designs that fans rushed to get their hands on as the likes of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed the world with their unique and unforgettable sounds.Featuring interviews with key industry figures, Funk & Soul Covers also provides cultural context and design analysis for many of the chosen record covers.

校長Mr Featherstone 把學校從港島搬到九龍（日後的加多利山），當然不是他一個人的想法（是當年校董會的決定）。主樓後門牆頂有Diocesan School 1924-1929， 那些年， 籌款建校舍，哪有今天的容易。主樓前門可見竹林、操場、小學。從後門走出來，則可見IB Complex, St Augustine’s Chapel，宿舍大樓、室內運動場、游泳池，往右邊走過去，是音樂廳。

From the very beginnings of sound recording, engineers have strived to reproduce the original sound as purely as possible and overcome the noise that technology leaves in recordings. However, this desire denies the fact that technologically mediated sound is always shaped and filtered by the many channels it travels through as it is recorded and reproduced. The noise that each medium inscribes on recorded sound is not just inescapable--it is fundamental to the sonic contours that characterize recorded music. But how exactly do media technologies shape sound and music? And how have they changed what we listen for in music over time? In The Logic of Filtering, author Melle Jan Kromhout develops an extensive media archaeological analysis of the 'noise of sound media' that covers all the disturbances, distortions, and interferences that media add to the sounds they reproduce. Combining theoretical, historical, and technical perspectives on sound media, Kromhout sketches a broad history of

“Red and blue appear in stark contrast with one another on the map of America. But the even more profound divide is the alienation in our hearts.”This work is a striking analysis of the struggles face

★ 改變一個世代的經典之作，反品牌運動聖經★ 拆解廣告、品牌與資本主義的真實運作★ 當「反叛」也被販售，我們還剩下什麼？★ 10週年全新修訂，洞察當代消費文化《No Logo》深入剖析品牌與廣告如何影響現代社會與青年文化，揭露企業如何將反叛與創新轉化為商品。作者以犀利筆觸描繪消費資本主義的運作與影響，並記錄新世代對此的反思與對抗。內容兼具新聞調查與思想深度，是理解當代品牌文化與全球化的重要經典著作。Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. When No Logo was first published, it became an instant bestseller and international phenomenon. Its riveting exposé of the branded and corporate world in which we live became a rallying cry for rebellion and self-determination.Engaging, humanising and inspiring, No Logo is a book that defined both a generation and its language of protest. Its analysis is as timely and powerful as ever.

“我們與他人的互動，其實只是我們在玩的各種遊戲”推動精神醫學前進的巨輪艾瑞克．伯恩從人際交往中，洞察自我與他人的性格與心理狀態，提出一種有系統且相當有效的心理治療方法──溝通分析（Transactional Analysis，簡稱TA）「你渴望做出什麼樣的改變？」本書將提供你一些線索，幫助你理解現在的處境，跳脫遊戲，寫自己未來的人生腳本。◆◇ ──────────── ◇◆ 精神科醫師艾瑞克．伯

A dazzling collection of short fiction from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing TimeZadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. Nothing is off limits, and everything—when captured by Smith’s brilliant gaze—feel

DescriptionThe sixth edition of Design of Machinery is an evolutionary improvement over the fifth and earlier editions. The balanced coverage of analysis and design and outstanding use of realistic engineering examples makes this the most comprehensive, yet practical , instruction in the design of machinery.NEW TO THE SIXTH EDITION188 videos are referenced throughout the text to aid in student comprehension.Over 50 new problem assignments have been added.The author-written programs have been updated to improve their interface and usability.Working Model files, MATLAB models, two virtual laboratories, lecture videos, and demonstration videos are now available online!

The scale of China's innovation ambitions inspires worldwide commentary, much of it poorly informed. Focusing on electricity, telecommunication and semiconductors, this book offers a richly detailed account of China's innovation efforts. Massive application of human, policy and financial resources shows great promise, but institutional obstacles, conflicting objectives, ill-advised policies and Soviet-era legacies inject inefficiencies, resulting in a complex mosaic of success and failure in both technical and commercial dimensions. State Grid leads the world in high-voltage power transmission, while domestic semiconductors lag behind the international frontier. Electricity and telecom providers record impressive technical advances, but overinvestment and inefficient operation contribute to high costs and prices. Nuclear power combines technical excellence with commercial weakness. Cost reduction rather than new technology underpins commercial success in solar materials. The book's gra

Tinker, make, and engineer to learn through play! With TinkerActive Workbooks, learning leaps off the page and into the real world. Start with interactive and entertaining exercises that cover the ess

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O’Neil所著《高等工程數學》第八版包括下列幾個特點，旨在使學生更容易接近數學以及對數學產生興趣： 一、新增「數往知來」（Math in Context），是由工程師為工程學生編寫的短文，從他們的角度提供洞察力，了解數學如何在各種現實世界的工程項目和設置中出現。 二、本書的組織已重新設計，以便更有效地關注特定主題。例如，增加了史特姆―李奧維里問題、波動和熱方程式的解法包括處理驅動函數的技術，以及

The 80 books in this series (20 per level) cover the full range of phonics skills---from short vowels (Level A), to short vowels with blends and digraphs (Level B), to long vowels and diphthongs (Leverl C), to complex vowels and multisyllabic words (Level D).These books provide highly-controlled phonics practice and offer a complete basic course in decoding. They can also serve as supplemental reading texts when using other programs such as Phonics Readers as the scope and sequence of each series correlates.Level B features+ Short Vowels+ Consonant Vowel Consonant+ Digraphs+ Blends* Introduces intermediate vowels and consonants.* Help children understand letter-pairing and how sounds can be blended to form words.* Repetitive sentence pattern provides extensive practices.

★ 前華爾街量化分析師揭露：演算法如何操控你的未來★ 大數據黑暗面全面曝光：看不見的歧視與不公平我們以為世界正變得更公平——由機器取代人類做決策，似乎能消除偏見。但真相，可能正好相反。在這個「演算法主宰」的時代，你能否錄取學校、拿到工作、申請貸款，甚至保險費率高低，都悄悄被一套看不見的數學模型決定。這些系統看似客觀，卻無法被檢驗，也無從質疑，一旦出錯，影響卻會層層放大。數學家暨資料科學家凱西．歐尼爾，以親身經驗揭開大數據的陰暗面：這些模型不只沒有消除不平等，反而強化既有的階級與歧視，讓弱勢更難翻身。本書如同一場警醒之旅，帶你看見科技背後不為人知的權力運作。NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial TimesNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • Wired • Fortune • Kirkus Reviews • The Guardian • Nature • On PointWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead t

●一本學通！當代量化研究的主要統計方法學典範：結構方程模型（SEM）。●扎實的統計方法說明，並提供不同情境的實證分析範例。●圖片詳解操作流程，無痛學習地表最強統計軟體──Stata。●本書範例檔案建議使用Stata 13或更新版本執行。◎隨書附贈資料檔光碟 結構方程模型（structural equation modeling, SEM）是一種結合路徑分析（path analysis

本書是產程照護領域極具影響力的實務手冊，專注於預防與處理產程遲滯（dystocia）的非侵入性方法。作者群結合助產、導樂與臨床教育經驗，從正常產程的生理與心理狀態談起，逐步說明如何評估產程進展，並依不同成因選擇合適的姿勢、動作與舒緩措施。第四版全面更新，新增硬膜外麻醉下的產程管理、創傷知情照護與新生兒微生物健康等內容。全書插圖豐富、指引清楚，適合第一線醫護人員，也能作為教學與進修的重要參考。Praise for the previous edition:‘This is a concise and valuable handbook…The Labor Progress Handbook belongs in every lab coat pocket, in every birth room, and at all of our fingertips as we help women to labor as normally as possible.’ – Journal of Midwifery and Women’s HealthThe Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia is an unparalleled resource on simple, non-invasive interventions to prevent or treat difficult or prolonged labor. Thoroughly updated and highly illustrated, the book shows how to tailor one’s care to the suspected etiology of the problem, using the least complex interventions first, followed by more complex interventions if necessary.This new edition now includes a new chapter on reducing dystocia in labors with epidurals, new material on t

安康*的《中國農產品蔬菜批發市場的性質與變遷研究--基於CAS和主觀博弈契合》嘗試性地首次提出了複雜適應性系統(Complex Adaptive System，簡稱CAS)和主觀博弈契合的理論框架，從宏觀和微觀兩個層次上對市場的性質進行新釋義，進而從整體和個體兩個層次上對我國農產品蔬菜批發市場的性質和變遷進行了理論透視，並選用我國東部和西部兩個有著一定代表意義的案例對理論進行檢驗。本書通過對本質的

Veterinarians often come into contact with the law in cases of animal cruelty, domestic animal and wildlife crimes, and human crimes with an animal element. This book provides practical information and training on how to operate within a crime scene and the tests that may need to be performed, including collecting evidence, preparing reports and giving evidence in court as an expert witness.The book concentrates on the basic principles and background knowledge needed, including hair, DNA, blood and bite mark analysis as well as an overview of firearms injury. It explores wider concepts such as the human-animal bond and one health, going on to give practical guidance and numerous case studies which bring the book to life and into the real world of the busy crime scene.

本書是由兩度榮獲普立茲獎的歷史學家 David McCullough 所撰寫的權威傳記，完整呈現美國第三十三任總統 Harry S. Truman 的一生。從密蘇里州邊疆成長，到第一次世界大戰、1948 年競選，再到原子彈投放、冷戰開端與韓戰爆發，作者以大量新發掘檔案與深度訪談，刻畫一位外表平凡卻在關鍵時刻展現非凡決斷力的領導者。本書不僅描寫 Truman 本人，也細緻呈現 Roosevelt、Churchill、Stalin 等歷史人物交織而成的時代風景，是理解二十世紀美國政治與全球局勢的重要讀物。The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian—now available from Encore for a great value!The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet

"Resident Evil is a multidimensional, multimedia universe. The essays written for this volume will focus on this particular zombie manifestation and its significance in popular culture, cover a wide r

Valuation and Risk Management in Energy Markets surveys the mechanics of energy markets and the valuation of structures commonly arising in practice. The presentation balances quantitative issues and practicalities facing portfolio managers, with substantial attention paid to the ways in which common methods fail in practice and to alternative methods when they exist. The material spans basic fundamentals of markets, statistical analysis of price dynamics, and a sequence of increasingly challenging structures, concluding with issues arising at the enterprise level. In totality, the material has been selected to provide readers with the analytical foundation required to function in modern energy trading and risk management groups.

Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as they analyse human speech in terms of its grammatical structure? Questions like these have been at the forefront of moral psychology ever since John Mikhail revived them in his influential work on the linguistic analogy and its implications for jurisprudence and moral theory. In this seminal book, Mikhail offers a careful and sustained analysis of the moral grammar hypothesis, showing how some of John Rawls' original ideas about the linguistic analogy, together with famous thought experiments like the trolley problem, can be used to improve our understanding of moral and legal judgement.

近十幾年來，SAS軟體系統的發展見證了學術與商業這兩個領域發展與變化。從開始的統計分析系統到現在無所不包的企業資料分析決策系統，SAS（賽仕）從原先的統計分析系統（Statistical Analysis System），演化到現在被賦予一個廣泛的意義—「The Power to Know（創造、提供知識的力量）」，以協助做正確的決策。科學研究講究的是證據，而計量（metrics）則是證據、科學研

Niche is an eye-opening analysis of why big business has failed to sell to the mainstream, in the tradition of Chris Anderson's The Long Tail As high street and main street businesses continue to suf

When Artemis commits his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy, it seems that goodness has taken hold of the world's greatest teenage c

Vortextells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.Vortexis thrilling and complex science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson.

'Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity'. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering: An Introduction is designed to enable the student to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved by focusing on mass and energy balances in liquid-phase processes. Problems explored include the design of a feedback level controller, membrane separation, hemodialysis, optimal design of a process with chemical reaction and separation, washout in a bioreactor, kinetic and mass transfer limits in a two-phase reactor, and the use of the membrane reactor to overcome equilibrium limits on conversion. Mathematics is employed as a language at the most elementary level. Professor Morton M. Denn incorporates design meaningfully; the design and analysis problems are realistic in format and scope.

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book.A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance.It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES

′Though this be madness, yet there is method in′t.′Considered one of Shakespeare′s most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius is both powerful and complex. As Hamlet tries to find out the truth of the situation, his troubled relationship with his mother comes to the fore, as do the paradoxes in his personality. A play of carefully crafted conflict and tragedy, Shakespeare′s intricate dialogue continues to fascinate audiences to this day.

國際上統計分析所使用之電腦套裝軟體以SAS（Statistical Analysis System）及SPS（Statistical Productand Service Solutions）最為知名，其在各行業之應用也最為普遍。 在國際學術界有個共識，凡是用SAS與SPSS統計分析結果，在學術交流中可以不必說明計算法，由此可見其權威性與信譽度。可是光學會電腦套裝軟體操作，而沒有辨別使用正確統計

GET THE TOOLS AND KNOW-HOW THAT MAKE ROI MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER"Ron does such a great job answering the question that has baffl ed many learning professionals for years: How do we measure and demonstrate the value of training. Applying his methodology of ROI is inspiring in that the exercise helps to translate training activities into improved performance and, ultimately, tangible business outcomes, rather than mere calculation of numbers."— JUDY FENG, Director, Talent Management, Baxter Asia Pacific"Those who have criticized ROI will be pleased with Stone’s ROI Quality Analysis (RQA). HR directors and training managers will benefit from implementing this credible technique, and Stone's 'secret sauce ingredients' allow instructional designers to serve up a five-star training program."— STEPHANIE MOOSHEGIAN, Ph.D., Chair, Saint Louis University's Organizational Studies Program"Loaded with robust and practical methodologies, templates, and proven tools, The Real Value of Training master

「材料破損分析」（Failure Analysis）相當於「材料診斷學」，也就是當材料發生破損時，利用各種儀器及方法，從破損的形貌觀察及破損成份分析，推斷破損的機制，並藉此尋求破損原因，以便對症下藥，或者避免重蹈覆轍。 材料破損形式可歸納為機械力破損、腐蝕性（化學力）破損及高溫（熱力）破損。機械力破損主要涵蓋恆力破損、疲勞破損及磨耗；腐蝕性破損則包括均勻腐蝕、粒間腐蝕、孔蝕、隙縫腐蝕、伽凡尼腐

◆市場互動分析大師約翰‧墨菲（John Murphy）又來了！他於1990年首創先河，發表《市場互動技術分析》 （Intermarket Technical Analysis；寰宇技術分析60）一書以來十年，市場互動分析已有長足的進步。雖然全球市場彼此互動的觀念，曾經遭人懷疑，現在市場互動分析卻被視為最重要的技術分析學門之一。今天，市場觀察家經常回顧歷史，鑑往知來，藉以預測未來的市場表現。◆墨菲把

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it. It is designed to enable the kind of critical reading of a substantial literature that leads to a balanced and detailed knowledge of the field. Chapter by chapter, the book builds, through description, analysis, examples, and discussion, a detailed picture of modern CALL.In this book, the label “CALL” is interpreted broadly to include technology-enhanced language learning, Web-enhanced language learning, and information and communication technologies for language learning. The work is distinguished by its attention to a range of languages rather than just English.The authors first set the scene and introduce major areas of interest and growth in CALL, and then look in depth at seven important dimensions: design, evaluation, computer-mediated communication, th

Patrick McDonnell possesses an elegance of line and narrative that both transcends and defines his medium. His artistry is in his Zen-like clarity, his simple direct address, and his unique understanding of the essential animal-human continuum. When one experiences MUTTS, one experiences genius." -Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"Dog-Eared"is exactly what this latest collection from cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is destined to become. The brilliant assortment of simple-yet-complex strips will have readers turning its pages again and again, eager to revisit the charm, truth, and humor found within.McDonnell's strip, highlights the adventures of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat, best buddies who regularly come in contact with Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby-as well as an assortment of whimsically rendered humans. This cast is capable of endless antics, interspersed with poignant views on both the animal and human condition. And whether they're raiding garbage cans o

本書以系統化方式介紹資料包絡分析法（Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA），強調理論與應用，適合對績效評估與管理有興趣的讀者閱讀。本書深入淺出介紹DEA基本理論與最新發展模式，並採個案方式，為讀者說明DEA在管理實務上之應用。本書共二篇，理論篇與應用篇