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本書是 Spivak 對「亞洲」概念所提出的重要反思，她拒絕將亞洲視為單一、可概括的對象，而是強調其內在的差異性與歷史層次。書中收錄多篇關鍵文章，從原住民、性別、都市化到離散經驗，交織政治現實與人文教育的責任，並反省理論在不同地理與社會脈絡中的侷限。Spivak 以細膩而嚴謹的筆法，提醒讀者必須在全球化語境中，重新思考知識、生產與倫理的關係。本書不僅是後殖民研究的重要文本，對關心後殖民思想、亞洲研究與文化政治的讀者而言，本書提供了不可取代的思考路徑。In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.Major work from one of the world’s most distinguished literary and cultural theorists Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia Featured essays include “Foucault and Najibullah,” “Moving Devi,” “Responsibility,” and “Megacity” Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the Caucasus Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak’s writing

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人才是企業最重要的資源，「唯才是用」是企業用才不二法門，面對3C：競爭激烈（Competition）、急遽變化（Change）、高度複雜（Complexity）的內外在環境，在強調IQ、EQ的同時，越來越多的企業更加重視員工的TQ（Techficiency Quotient），以迎接任何艱難的挑戰。根據本會針對企業調查顯示，絕大多數企業認為員工高水準的TQ是企業能否成功跨入二十一世紀的致勝關鍵，而電腦技能（Computer Skills）和資訊技術（Information Technology）則是關鍵因素中的主流。本會依此一需求所推出的「企業人才技能認證」（Techficiency Quotient Certification，簡稱TQC），採精進學習、考用合一的精神作為認證主軸，並經產、官、學各界專家設計而成，加上本會執行對於施測的嚴謹管控，多年來已建立高度的公信力。TQC企業人才技能認證之設計，不僅能準確地評測出員工電腦技能和資訊技術的應用水準，更能幫助員工在預備的過程中迅速找出學習盲點，大幅提升資訊應用能力，並帶動企業整體的學習熱潮，為企業e化樹立穩固的根基。TQC企業人才技能認證自1998年推出以來即獲得人才培訓單位以及企業用才單位之好評，在104人力銀行針對企業用才單位之證照採用調查報告中，更連續多年榮獲全國資訊類認證知名度第一名，調查報告中同時顯示就業職場各類專門職務取得TQC證照之普及度也是第一名，顯見TQC證照之採認已融入各行各業，並成為職場所必備的資訊能力證明。資訊技術發展的速度一日千里，因應網際網路時代的來臨，新一代的作業系統及應用軟體均有嶄新的應用。「TQC 2021企業用才電腦實力評核－辦公軟體應用篇」乙書是搭配TQC 2021技能認證所出版的系列書籍之一，本書對於認證科目、認證方式、認證題庫、系統操作等，均有詳細的介紹。本書並提供獨步全球之術科電腦評分系統，可以幫助您隨時掌握學習盲點，透過本書的指引，您定能集各方功力於一身，在e時代中出類拔萃、崢嶸頭角！ 根據104人力銀行調查指出，八成企業認為擁有電腦證照之求職者具有優勢，其中有七成企業認為擁有電腦證照之求職者具有「優先面試機會」，並且五成企業在公開應徵訊息時，會加入證照條件。在大家機會均等的新時代，當您擁有肯定自我、展現自我的專業證照，您就向成功的目標再邁進一大步了。所謂「人

◤企業搶購、狂賣 16 刷《穀倉效應》作者最新續作◢ Google、微軟、雀巢、Facebook、亞馬遜的全新策略 ──── 從人類學視角帶出未來思考！ 無論企業、執政者或個人，大多仰賴科技、大數據及過往經驗來制定策略， 然而，在這個高易變性（Volatility）、不確定性（Uncertainty）、複雜性（Complexity）、模糊性（Ambiguity）的 VUCA 時代， 大數據只能統計出表層問題，無法真正顯現目標群體的訴求和文化，幫助領導者看見更深層的肇因。 而個人專業知識反成穀倉，形成狹隘的隧道視野，最終導致誤判風險、錯失先機。 破除框架、掌握文化，才能直擊 VUCA 時代最難掌握的───人心！ ✖ 未能掌握人心的例子 ▌嘉寶嬰兒食品公司： 不熟悉各地產品成分標示習慣，在西非鬧出「美國人愛吃嬰兒肉」的恐怖笑話。 ▌西方執政者： 輕視非洲各地對抗伊波拉的慘痛經驗，錯失 COVID-19 防疫先機。 ▌金融人士： 用專業術語打造銀行業穀倉，缺乏外部觀點，引發 2008 年全球金融海嘯。 ▌歐寶汽車： 為求振興尋求品牌合作，卻因三方對「會議」的認知不同而破局。 ✔ 因掌握人心而獲益的例子 ▌食品：雀巢 KitKat 巧克力 從商品的日文諧音切入，賦予「必勝」含意，讓巧克力成為應考幸運符， 成功與消費者文化同步，轉型為日本青少年最愛的零食。 ▌科技：英特爾 掌握東方家長的控制文化，打造出無隱私、資訊透明的學習裝置， 拓展市場規模，在第三世界大受歡迎。 ▌製造：通用汽車 推動跨階層賦權文化，彌補管理者由上而下的視野斷層， 消除勞工人人自保的怪罪習性，提高生產力，降低消費者投訴率。 ▌教育：報春花教育集團 深入家庭進行田野調查，了解當代父母的同儕文化， 以儀式及參與感取代權威教育，大幅提升註冊率。 《穀倉效應》告訴我們，如何避免讓分工成為阻礙； 本書則進一步揭示破除現代穀倉的工具，消除團隊與個人盲點，擴展人生、事業新格局。 ▶ 化陌生為熟悉： 接納陌生感、突破文化差異，掌握目標族群的習性與意義網。 ▶ 化熟悉為陌生： 跳脫慣性隧道視野，採橫向視角更客觀地檢視自身，覺察風險與機會。 ▶ 傾聽社會沉默： VUCA 時代裡許多隱而不顯得問題，都能從文化角度切入，得出解方。 【本書特色】 1. 從企業、政治到個人，「穀倉效應」理論在本書臻至完整！ 2. 透過各界人士的案例

內容簡介在VUCA（Volatility, Uncertainly, Complexity, and Ambiguity）時代，學校的工作挑戰愈來愈嚴峻，疫情之下的學校領導，更考驗校長的領導力。學校領導研究涉及領導、心輔、社會、哲學、管理、行政、政策、評鑑、課程、教學與評量、教師專業發展、工程、公共衛生等領域的知識，內涵複雜且多樣化，本書嘗試描繪多元複雜的學校領導圖像，至少有幾個「不一樣」，第一，學校背景脈絡包括國小、國中、特許學校、理念學校和華德福學校，第二，領導模式涵括成功的校長領導、教師領導、三元組織領導（行政領導、教師領導及家長領導）、課程領導、信任領導、分布式領導、校長共治模式、凝聚力領導等模式，第三，在不同類型的學校，領導者與成員展現不同的特質與特性，第四，以最佳實踐的個案或經驗分析，探究領導實踐的典範，以及相同卻又不同的領導成效，第五，運用質性方法及不同的分析架構，建構深度的跨領域領導洞見與實踐智慧，第六，每章均列舉許多實用的名言，提供領導沙龍的問題討論，並精心安排COVID-19防疫作為、教育相關影片、演講或紀錄片，作為延伸學習的內容。

The twin themes of computational complexity and information pervade this 1998 book. It starts with an introduction to the computational complexity of continuous mathematical models, that is, information-based complexity. This is then used to illustrate a variety of topics, including breaking the curse of dimensionality, complexity of path integration, solvability of ill-posed problems, the value of information in computation, assigning values to mathematical hypotheses, and new, improved methods for mathematical finance. The style is informal, and the goals are exposition, insight and motivation. A comprehensive bibliography is provided, to which readers are referred for precise statements of results and their proofs. As the first introductory book on the subject it will be invaluable as a guide to the area for the many students and researchers whose disciplines, ranging from physics to finance, are influenced by the computational complexity of continuous problems.

Communication Complexity describes a new intuitive model for studying circuit networks that captures the essence of circuit depth. Although the complexity of boolean functions has been studied for alm

This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of postmodifier(s). The study is methodologically unique in that it combines univariate and multivariate analyses in an investigation of four different syntactic variables. Drawing on more than three billion words of British and American data, Eva Berlage shows that the length and the structure of the NPs, along with language-external factors such as the regional variety of English, work as powerful determinants of the variation. On a theoretical level, the book reveals that the structural complexity of NPs cannot be sufficiently captured by (phrasal) node counts but that we need to incorporate the degree to which NPs are sentential. The book is designed for researchers and students interested in syntax, language variation, sociolinguistics, structural complexity and the history of English.

Computational Complexity of Counting and Sampling provides readers with comprehensive and detailed coverage of the subject of computational complexity. It is primarily geared for researchers in enumer

Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context—through an eye-opening exploration of complexity science. Whether you’re an intermediate-le

"Small Dynamic Complexity Classes" was awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2016 for outstanding dissertations in the fields of logic, language, and information. The thesis studies the foundations

Today’s leaders and managers have to operate in an environment characterised by complexity. What does coping with this ever- and faster-increasing degree of complexity require of them? It means that i

If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the co

Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts fo

Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/soc

One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this vo

This book presents the results of several years’ research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling. The 52 complexity metrics that are

In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of un

The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability,

Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.

This book treats bounded arithmetic and propositional proof complexity from the point of view of computational complexity. The first seven chapters include the necessary logical background for the material and are suitable for a graduate course. Associated with each of many complexity classes are both a two-sorted predicate calculus theory, with induction restricted to concepts in the class, and a propositional proof system. The complexity classes range from AC0 for the weakest theory up to the polynomial hierarchy. Each bounded theorem in a theory translates into a family of (quantified) propositional tautologies with polynomial size proofs in the corresponding proof system. The theory proves the soundness of the associated proof system. The result is a uniform treatment of many systems in the literature, including Buss's theories for the polynomial hierarchy and many disparate systems for complexity classes such as AC0, AC0(m), TC0, NC1, L, NL, NC, and P.

Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas ofEconomic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity,"a measure of a society's productive knowledge.

Complexity science is the study of systems with many interdependent components. Such systems - and the self-organization and emergent phenomena they manifest - lie at the heart of many challenges of global importance. This book is a coherent introduction to the mathematical methods used to understand complexity, with plenty of examples and real-world applications. It starts with the crucial concepts of self-organization and emergence, then tackles complexity in dynamical systems using differential equations and chaos theory. Several classes of models of interacting particle systems are studied with techniques from stochastic analysis, followed by a treatment of the statistical mechanics of complex systems. Further topics include numerical analysis of PDEs, and applications of stochastic methods in economics and finance. The book concludes with introductions to space-time phases and selfish routing. The exposition is suitable for researchers, practitioners and students in complexity sci

For the past two decades, ‘complexity’ has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of

The means and ends of information theory and computational complexity have grown significantly closer over the past decade. Common analytic tools, such as combinatorial mathematics and information flo

In this volume, which was originally published in 1996, noisy information is studied in the context of computational complexity; in other words the text deals with the computational complexity of mathematical problems for which information is partial, noisy and priced. The author develops a general theory of computational complexity of continuous problems with noisy information and gives a number of applications; deterministic as well as stochastic noise is considered. He presents optimal algorithms, optimal information, and complexity bounds in different settings: worst case, average case, mixed worst-average and average-worst, and asymptotic. The book integrates the work of researchers in such areas as computational complexity, approximation theory and statistics, and includes many fresh results as well. About two hundred exercises are supplied with a view to increasing the reader's understanding of the subject. The text will be of interest to professional computer scientists, statis

This is the second volume of a two volume collection on Structural Complexity. This volume assumes as a prerequisite knowledge about the topics treated in Volume I, but the present volume itself is ne