Monday, May 11, 2015

魯平口述香港回歸

魯平 口述; 錢亦蕉 整理
online access from SuperStar Digital Library
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詳細地敘述了香港回歸過程中的林林總總,中央政府與英國政府的談判、“一國兩制”的提出、國務院港澳辦在香港所做的工作、對歷屆港督及第一屆特首的評價、回歸慶典的經過等等。

由前國務院港澳辦公室主任,前香港基本法起草委員會副秘書長魯平口述,便於讀者了解當時一些鮮為人知的內幕,了解中央政府在解決香港問題上的良苦用心。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)


Monday, May 4, 2015

The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

Marcia Reynolds 
online access from EBSCOhost Audiobook Collection
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You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth. Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone—the moment when the mind is most open to learning—to prompt people to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limitations.

Drawing on recent discoveries in the neuroscience of learning, Reynolds shows how to ask the kinds of questions that short-circuit the brain’s defense mechanisms and habitual thought patterns. Then, instead of being told, people see for themselves the insightful and often profound solutions to what is stopping their progress. The exercises and case studies will help you use discomfort in your conversations to create lasting changes and an enlivened workforce.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人性能達到的境界 (The Farther Reaches of Human Nature)

馬斯洛 (Abraham H. Maslow)
online access from Apabi - China digital library
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馬斯洛在探討人性能夠達到多高境界的新問題時,他深深意識到傳統科學否認人的價值的極其危險性和全部科學非道德技術化的嚴重後果。他發現傳統科學具有太多的懷疑論、太冷酷、非人性。他認為傳統科學一直宣稱它只關注事實的認識,而不是“一種意識形態,或一種倫理或一種價值體系,它不能幫助人們在善惡之間作出選擇”。當涉及到人性對事實的認識時,科學常常表現出一種對潛能、對理想可能性的盲目性。馬斯洛要求科學不能排斥價值,要從人性事實的研究中給人們提供生命的意義和理想。

本書共分四章:
第一章 探索生命的需要
第二章 創造人性的境界
第三章 實現自我的價值
第四章 體驗人生的幸福

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Monday, April 27, 2015

Young People and Housing: Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures

Edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai Ming Yip 
online access from ProQuest Ebook Central
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Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of groundbreaking work from leading scholars in housing policy.

Younger generations across a wide range of societies face increasing difficulties in gaining access to housing. Housing occupies a pivotal position in the transition from parental dependence to adult independence. Delayed independence has significant implications for marriage and family formation, fertility, inter and intra generational tensions, social mobility and social inequalities.

The social and cultural dimensions are, of course, enormously varied with strong contrasts between Asian and Western societies in terms of intergenerational norms and practices in relation to housing. Nevertheless, younger households in China (including Hong Kong), Japan, the USA, Australasia and Europe face very similar challenges in the housing sphere. Moreover, concerns about the housing future for younger generations are gaining greater policy and popular prominence in many countries.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

成功可以走直線 (Strategic Acceleration)

托尼.杰瑞 (Tony Jeary)
online access from Apabi - China digital library
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本書內容包括:想成功走直線第1步:清晰目標;清晰的目標對於成功至關重要;如何使目標更清晰;提高專注力,讓成功走直線等。

無論你是一名銷售人員,還是一家大公司的CEO,本書都將幫助你感受到杰瑞的魔力。
——馬克·漢森,《心靈雞湯》作者,《紐約時報》暢銷書作家

本書將為你提供一套切實有用的工具,幫助你改變自己的思想和行為,進而幫助你以更快的速度得到你想要的結果。
——博恩·崔西,《時間力》作者,《紐約時報》暢銷書作家

加速成功法將幫助你看清自己的人生目標,保持專注,盡快實現自己的目標。
——史蒂芬·柯維,《高效能人士的七個習慣》作者,《紐約時報》暢銷書作家  

(摘錄自http://www.baike.com/)

Monday, April 20, 2015

The Digital Mystique: How the Culture of Connectivity Can Empower Your Life—Online and Off

Sarah Granger 
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In The Digital Mystique, Sarah Granger—a nationally recognized expert on online culture and social technology—shows us how digital media is shaping our lives in real time. Whether it's how we raise our children, communicate in love and partnerships, support causes, or establish friendships and trust, Granger pinpoints the best ways to seize digital opportunities to make our lives richer and fuller.

While the Internet era is one that is frequently criticized as undermining our health, privacy, concentration, and ability to sustain real-world relationships, Granger takes a more optimistic and empowering view. She shares real-life stories and surprising facts about our lives—both online and off—to shed new and fascinating light on the positive effects of the digital media revolution, showing us how we can personally learn, grow, and thrive by engaging in our digitized world.

The Digital Mystique includes the following chapters:

Connecting Is Just the Beginning
.YOU
Friending Is Trending
Love in the Time of Messaging
The Kids Are Online
The Senior Moment
The Passion of the Web
There’s No Business Like E-Business
Community Is the Key
The Difference a Tweet Makes
What We Leave Behind
A Stitch in Digital Time

(Excerpt from amazon.com)