Monday, March 17, 2014

上海的美麗時光

陳子善 著
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作者陳子善為上海人,對昔日的「遠東第一大都市」懷有深厚的感情,本書正是他梳理和解讀現代上海、文學上海文字的結集,分「上海羅生門」和「文化上海」兩輯。從徐志摩到邵洵美、從郭建英到木心、從張愛玲到東方蝃蝀,還有上海的咖啡館、上海的名人故居、上海的舊書店……,上個世紀三、四十年代的「春申舊事」奔流作者筆端,歷史的、摩登的、多元的上海透過本書重新走近我們。

 (摘錄自博客來網路書店)








Monday, March 10, 2014

China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History

Tom Miller 
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By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like?

Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities.

Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.

 (Excerpt from amazon.com)


中國古典文學之美

艾華
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「弱水三千,我獨取一瓢飲。」本書即取其韻文部仿,分詩經、楚辭、漢賦、詩歌、詞曲戲劇各篇。 

將其淵源、名稱、演變,作有系統之介紹說明。有難解之處,加以注音並解釋。 凡作品具有文學價值、可讀性甚高,不論真偽如何,一概予以保留,作為欣賞。 

對於一個初入門者,本書不啻是最好的敲門磚,因為所有的問題,均為你釐清,整理有序,一目了然,可以直接鑽研專書,節省不少摸索的工夫。尤其是喜歡中國文學,又不得其門而入者,譬如唐詩在中國文學佔一重要地位,而唐詩三百首又是大家耳熟能詳,但何謂古體?樂府?近體?律絕? 

在本書內,均有詳細的說明,一解心中疑惑,增加對詩歌的瞭解。

(摘錄自三民網路書店)



Monday, March 3, 2014

Media in Hong Kong : Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005

Carol P. Lai
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This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule.

Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews and specific case-studies, it provides an illuminating analysis of the dynamics of political power and its relationship with media censorship.

Overall, this book is an impressive discussion of the evolving face of the Hong Kong media, and is an important contribution to theoretical debates on the relationship between political power, economics, identity and journalism.

 (Excerpt from amazon.com)


道德的人與不道德的社會 (Moral Man and Immoral Society)

萊茵霍爾德.尼布爾 (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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《道德的人與不道德的社會》名著譯叢作者R.尼布爾,美國當代最著名的基督教哲學家,一生著述甚豐,本書是他的代表作之一,系統闡述了他的倫理學和政治學觀點。作者認為,在不可避免的人類分裂及沖突面前,集團主義的殘酷,理性主義者和社會科學者的無能都加劇了人類經濟鬥爭和政治鬥爭帶來的悲劇,道德的人在這不道德的社會中能否生存下,成了我們當代面臨的最大問題。

 《道德的人與不道德的社會》集中地體現了作者應用基督教倫理思想對現實社會的分析和研究。

 在《道德的人與不道德的社會》中,作者首次提出了必須在個人的社會道德行為與社會群體(包括國家的、種族的、經濟的社會群體)的社會道德行為之間作出嚴格的區別,並根據這一區別說明那些總是讓純粹個人道德觀念感到困惑難堪的政治策略的必要性和存在的理由。

 (摘錄自博客來網路書店)



Monday, February 24, 2014

Academic Writing: A Guide for Management Students and Researchers

Mathukutty M. Monippally and Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar
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This book addresses key features of the methodology involved in business and management academic writing. Characterizing academic writing as part of research, science and the knowledge generation process, it focuses on its three main aspects: understanding existing research, documenting and sharing the results of the acquired knowledge, and acknowledging the use of other people's ideas and works in the documentation. Written in lucid language, the authors use various examples of good as well as defective writing to help students understand the concepts. They describe in detail the structure and contents of academic papers, especially conceptual and empirical research papers for journals. This book will be a rich reference resource for researchers working in the fields of management, behavioral sciences, and communications and also graduate students engaged in academic writing and research documentation.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)