Monday, September 10, 2018

Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary

by Steve Hart
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Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing.

Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Deep Work深度工作力 : 淺薄時代,個人成功的關鍵能力

卡爾‧紐波特 (Cal Newport)
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★ AMAZON 2016年度最佳商業/領導書

在這個淺薄時代,人們紛紛擁抱分心,每天將大把時間浪擲於紛亂的電子郵件和社群媒體上,失去了深度思考、深度工作的能力,不知道自己其實能以更好的方式生活。
也因此,一種極有價值的技術變得越來越稀有、甚至成為當今最具價值的能力之一,正是——
DEEP WORK深度工作力!

卡爾.紐波特教授在本書中暢談連線時代的種種影響,從自身經驗告訴所有人:
專注力和生產力,是可以有系統地解決的科學問題!
擁有深度工作力,是擁有美好深度生活的必要條件!

「深度工作力」是專注於高認知需求任務而不分心的能力,它能讓你快速學習,以更少的時間創造更好的成果。本書融合理論根據與實踐技巧,協助所有想在專業領域中成功的人,學會高效工作,成為新經濟中的贏家。

別再以為忙碌代表生產力,區別深度工作與淺薄工作,聰明的規畫深度工作的時間,培養專注的習慣與能力,你將能改變習於淺薄、容易分心、無法忍受無聊的心智。培養深度工作力,才是達成生活與工作平衡,並維持高品質的最好方法。

培養深度工作力,用最少時間創造最高價值的18個策略:
  1 確立你的工作哲學
  2 建立深度工作的儀式
  3 大動作投入深度工作
  4 別獨自工作
  5 像經營企業般執行
  6 要懶惰
  7 別逃避分心,要逃避專注
  8 學老羅斯福那樣工作
  9 練習生產性冥想
  10 練習記憶一副牌
  11 根據「重要少數法則」選擇網路工具
  12 利用「斷線實驗」篩選社群媒體
  13 別用網際網路來娛樂自己
  14 安排工作日的每一分鐘
  15 量化每一種活動的深度
  16 確認淺薄工作的時間比率
  17 在五點半前結束你的工作
  18 讓自己難以連絡

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, September 3, 2018

The Novel Cure : An A-Z of Literary Remedies

by Susan Elderkin & Ella Berthoud
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Are you weary in Brain and Body?
Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism?
Do you require Bronte to re-boot your Broken Heart?
Do you despair of your Nose?
Can Fielding open your Flood Gates?
Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia?
May we administer Austen to curb your Arrogance?
Hemingway for your Headache?
An injection of du Maurier for your low Self-Esteem?
Are you Shy, Single, Stressed or Sixty?
Are your Vital Statistics in need of some Spark?
May we massage you with Murakami?
Ease your pain with Woolf or Wodehouse?
Do you require the Very Book to lessen your Loneliness?

The Novel Cure is a medical handbook, with a difference. Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues, within these pages you'll find a cure in the form of a novel to help ease your pain. You'll also find advice on how to tackle common reading ailments - such as what to do when you feel overwhelmed by the number of books in the world, or you have a tendency to give up halfway through. When read at the right moment, a novel can change your life, and The Novel Cure is an enchanting reminder of that power.

(Excerpt from thenovelcure.com)

為什麼讀書?偉大讀者的必然與非必然 ( Pourquoi Lire?)

夏爾.丹齊格 (Charles Dantzig)
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法國重量級作家丹齊格說:「讀書毫無用處,正因為如此,它才是一件偉大的事情。」

為什麼不讀書?為了思考;閱讀維繫了我們超然於現實的姿態,有利於思考。如何讀書?熱情是最合情合理的方法。當世界從虛榮虛假到虛無虛脫,當我們對信用信心與信念信息混淆不清時,讀書,不需要理由,再充實不過了。

【閱讀的理由】書中七十多篇,總有一篇屬於你的閱讀的理由。
● 因愛而讀書 ● 為書名而讀書 ● 為了自我反駁而讀書 ● 為了學習而讀書
● 為了自我安慰而讀書 ● 為了健康而讀書啊啊 ● 為了享樂而讀書
● 為了孤立自我而讀書 ● 為了知道閱讀並不能改善什麼而讀書
● 為了已經讀過而讀書 ● 為了不逃避而讀書

■ 在功利主義的世界裡,人們為維繫著獨立思考的超然姿態而讀書。
讀書是人類與時間和死神對抗的終極途徑,我們在閱讀中令沉睡的思想重生,而圖書館是墳墓的唯一競爭對手。

文學是摻雜了感性的文字,儘管如此,我們仍對它寄予信任。在這種反理性的信任之下,是讀者未泯的童心。正是這樣的讀者締造了文學魅力。作者將他們引為知己,對他們傾訴衷腸。如果你曾在閱讀中遇見那個孤僻冷傲、貪婪自私、吹毛求疵而又欲罷不能的自己,那麼你將樂於讀到這本書,你會在其中得到最深刻的諒解、安慰和共鳴。

《為什麼讀書》作者夏爾.丹齊格分享了他精闢獨到而又體貼入微的閱讀心得,其中有切實的建議、甜蜜的讚美、尖刻的諷刺,還有新鮮的閱讀觀念:閱讀是文學的姊妹,讀者借助他們展開與死亡和時間的拉鋸戰。

作者精英主義立場鮮明,語多機鋒,善以金句箴言道出各種微妙的閱讀智慧。幽默的文字透露親切與率直,卻並不流於浮泛,文字密緻,耐人回味。對閱讀的思考充滿機鋒與創意,獨到的見解讀來令人興奮、暢快。帶給我們一種令人嘆服傾倒、大呼過癮的閱讀哲學,也有對作家作品精彩絕妙的討論、不留情面的諷刺和令人發噱的比擬。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, August 27, 2018

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff
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The international bestseller―don't compete without it!

A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

拖延心理學:為什麼我老是愛拖延?是與生俱來的壞習慣,還是身不由己?(Procrastination Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now)

珍‧博克 (Jane B. Burka) , 萊諾拉‧袁 (Lenora M. Yuen)
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診斷你的拖延類型,根治你的拖延毛病
35年讀者口碑 ╳ 拖延症自助經典
關於拖延症最全面的心理解析、最精準而持續的12種克服技巧

從學生到科學家,從祕書到總裁,從家庭主婦到業務員,
拖延問題幾乎影響了每個人。

本書由兩位傑出心理學家以他們備受好評與創新的拖延治療課程為基礎,擷取他們豐富的諮詢經驗,以詳盡且幽默的方式, 深入檢視與探索拖延的心理,並找出讓我們擱著事情不做的真正原因, 像是對失敗、成功、控制、疏遠、依附的恐懼, 以及我們的時間觀念和大腦神經科學等因素, 教我們了解拖延的衝動,以及如何以全新的方式採取行動。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)