The Craft of Research (Fifth Edition)

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald
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A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.

With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and government. 

Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to choose significant topics, pose genuine and productive questions, find and evaluate sources, build sound and compelling arguments, and convey those arguments effectively to others.

While preserving the book’s proven approach to the research process, as well as its general structure and accessible voice, this new edition acknowledges the many ways research is conducted and communicated today. Thoroughly revised by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, it recognizes that research may lead to a product other than a paper—or no product at all—and includes a new chapter about effective presentations. It features fresh examples from a variety of fields that will appeal to today’s students and other readers. It also accounts for new technologies used in research and offers basic guidelines for the appropriate use of generative AI. And it ends with an expanded chapter on ethics that addresses researchers’ broader obligations to their research communities and audiences as well as systemic questions about ethical research practices.

This new edition will be welcomed by a new and more diverse generation of researchers.

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GCEO思考圖譜

香港城市大學城商系列編輯委員會
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過去十年，全球經歷了新冠疫情，各地的政治、社會和經濟環境發生了重大變化。作為企業的CEO，一方面要面對外部的挑戰，包括日益緊張的地緣政治局勢、AI技術的普及、可持續發展等議題；另一方面還要應對內部挑戰，如提升員工技能、混合工作模式、新世代的新工作思維。故此CEO必須具備一些重要的特質和條件，以應對未來的環境變遷，例如卓越的分析思維、靈活及彈性的應變技巧、創新的視野、掌握AI和大數據的能力等，方可在高速變化的環境下突出重圍，讓企業能夠可持續發展，在全球化下的營商環境佔一席位。

香港城市大學商學院是全球頂尖的商學院，為了讓學生能夠開拓視野，準備未來的職業生涯，於2024年起開辦了CB3020 Advanced Business Seminar，邀請多位國際著名企業的領袖分享營商及管理經驗。有見及此，香港城市大學出版社特別策劃了「城商系列」(Global CEO Series)，深度回訪了這些獨當一面的成功領袖，期望通過文字，讓更多讀者尤其是Z世代能藉着他們的故事有所啟發，鼓勵他們在職業生涯上勇敢面對挑戰。

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Abundance

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive.” —Fareed Zakaria

“Spectacular…Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward…Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

“A raging political fad has taken over the Democratic Party….The Abundance movement cuts across the party’s ideological fissures….Democratic politicians are rushing to embrace the new mantra.” —The Wall Street Journal

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.

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讀建築的故事：建築詩人黎辛斯基探索人類史上百座經典建築的理念、技法與歷史 (The Story of Architecture)

黎辛斯基 (Witold Rybczynski)
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帶你走過建築的故事，探索人類歷史上最巨大、實用且傳世久遠的藝術品
◎英語世界最優秀的建築作家、國際建築大獎「文森斯庫里獎」得主
◎繼《讀建築》後時隔10年又一力作
◎跨越建築專業與大眾閱讀的最佳建築入門讀物

本書對廣大讀者來說易於理解，對在職建築師來說則充滿智慧。
——William Rawn 建築師事務所創始合夥人

建築物與人有著密切的連繫，唯有建築物中有人，建築物才能合理存在。
——黎辛斯基

建築是你我生活的一部分，每座建築都反映其時代的美學與技術，是建築理念與工法相互配合與角力的結果。建築詩人黎辛斯基以七十九歲高齡精選了影響深遠且現在還能看得見的經典建築，探索建築理念如何受到社會、技術、經濟和品味變化的影響，且反映人類對於美與秩序的追求，以及最重要的是，建築能持續供人使用的價值。

7000年來最具代表性的百大建築奇蹟
本書精選西元前5世紀到21世紀百大建築，包括你我耳熟能詳的萬神殿、聖母百花大教堂、桂離宮、阿爾罕布拉宮、林肯紀念堂、雪梨歌劇院等。從建造背景和技術知識帶領我們探索這些建築的形式結構及其轉變，比如：古希臘與古埃及的柱子、羅馬人發明的拱門、中世紀哥德式建築的創新、伊斯蘭建築的拼貼裝飾，以及文藝復興對古代建築的模仿。

建築是集合眾人之力的時代縮影，且影響久遠
這些乘載人類美感與文化的建築，是建築師、工匠、投資者等人合作與妥協的成果，其高昂的造價與巨大的勞動力需求，促進了社會的經濟發展。此外，這些偉大建築不只供人欣賞，建造於8世紀的大馬士革清真寺裡今日仍舊有人做禮拜、每年有無數人到羅浮宮參觀藝術品，紐約公共圖書裡依舊有人在閱讀研究。因為有使用者置身其中、親身體驗，建築的形式與細節得以持續為人欣賞，並在不同時代以復古之姿重生。同樣地，建築也保留足以見證的歷史痕跡，各時代的文化美學技術都以各種形式記錄在我們眼前的建築上。在本書中，讀者將能與作者一同暢遊、思索這些跨世紀、跨文化的建築為何能保存至今且影響著一代代的人。

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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

Adam Aleksic
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways.

“Packed with fascinating facts, of-the-moment observations, and a sparkling voice, Algospeak is a gift to any word nerd. Deftly covering everything from emoji etymologies and trendbait to Taylor Swift fanilects... Adam Aleksic is the wise, yet accessible internet linguistics oracle we need.”—Amanda Montell, author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Cultish

From “brainrot” memes and incel slang to the trend of adding “-core” to different influencer aesthetics, the internet has ushered in an unprecedented linguistic upheaval. We’re entering an entirely new era of etymology, heralded by the invisible forces driving social media algorithms. Thankfully, Algospeak is here to explain. As a professional linguist, Adam Aleksic understands the gravity of language and the way we use it: he knows the ways it has morphed and changed, how it reflects society, and how, in its everyday usage, we carry centuries of human history on our tongues. As a social media influencer, Aleksic is also intimately familiar with the internet’s reach and how social media impacts the way we engage with one another. New slang emerges and goes viral overnight. Accents are shaped or erased on YouTube. Grammatical rules, loopholes, and patterns surface and transform language as we know it. Our interactions, social norms, and habits—both online and in person—shift into something completely different.

As Aleksic uses original surveys, data, and internet archival research to usher us through this new linguistic landscape, he also illuminates how communication is changing in both familiar and unexpected ways. From our use of emojis to sentence structure to the ways younger generations talk about sex and death (see unalive in English and desvivirse in Spanish), we are in a brand-new world, one shaped by algorithms and technology. Algospeak is an energetic, astonishing journey into language, the internet, and what this intersection means for all of us.

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黃仁勳傳：輝達創辦人如何打造全球最搶手的晶片 (The Thinking Machine)

Stephen Witt (史帝芬．維特)
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★ 全球第一本黃仁勳授權採訪傳記
★ 搶先英文版上市，收錄全球獨家繁中版作者序

台灣出生、最受推崇的矽谷科技公司執行長
1993年，黃仁勳與友人在矽谷一間連鎖餐廳創立輝達，擔任執行長；三十多年後，輝達躋身全球市值最高的公司之一，與蘋果匹敵，黃仁勳成為科技業任期最長的執行長，還曾是張忠謀欽點的台積電接班人選之一。

引爆新工業革命的AI先驅
輝達一鳴驚人的關鍵就在執行長黃仁勳的遠見卓識。十多年前，他看到一些科技研發結果的潛力，放膽把整間公司押注在AI上。本書作者獲得前所未有的機會，貼身採訪黃仁勳，以及輝達的共同創辦人、高階主管、投資人、現任與前任員工、黃仁勳的友人與競爭對手，詳實記錄這間公司崛起的經過，並描繪黃仁勳的專注、執著、強大的感召力，以及強悍的領導風格。如今，黃仁勳已是矽谷最有影響力的人。沒有黃仁勳，輝達無法達到如今的地位；沒有黃仁勳，AI的發展將延遲十年。

《黃仁勳傳》細數輝達如何從一間生產電路板配件的公司，成為價值數億美元超級電腦的供應商，站上科技霸主地位。本書描述固執的企業家不顧華爾街的質疑，堅持提升運算能力，終於登上全球富豪榜的故事。這也是電腦架構改革的故事，描述一小撮叛逆的工程師如何發動這場變革。更重要的是，這也是關於AI未來的故事，也就是黃仁勳所說的「下一次工業革命」──創新晶片技術將帶來超擬真的虛擬化身、自主移動機器人、自駕車，以及隨需生成的新型電影、藝術與書籍。

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