What the Best College Students Do

Ken Bain
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The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college―and every other educational enterprise, too.

The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book―college graduates who went on to change the world we live in―aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.

Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.

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不安於「是」：西洋女性文學十二家

李根芳 著
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以西洋文學中的女性主體和建構為主題，探討女性文學的六大議題：族群與歷史、成長與背叛、婚姻與獨立、纖弱與堅強、驚悚與奇詭、欲望與身體。每一主題以兩個經典文學作品為例，透過說故事的方式，細膩分析女性作者如何把這些議題寫入作品之中，使其發光、發熱，昇華為散發美感的經典作品。

淺顯流暢的文字，引領讀者一窺女性書寫的歷史，探索西方女性主義關切的重點議題，表現女性安穩的「是」或不安於「是」。選題精要並具新意，作者除推薦相關作品的中譯版本，更在導讀中翻譯作品精華片段，堪稱近年來最佳的西洋女性文學導讀。

※精選十二位重量級的西洋女作家，介紹其生平故事及膾炙人口的作品，包括湯亭亭、吳爾芙、奧斯汀、莫里森等。

※書中討論了十八世紀至二十世紀的經典女性書寫，文類涵蓋了詩、小說、戲劇等，論述之間不掉書袋，輕鬆中帶有一定深度，另附延伸閱讀書單，最適合剛對文學萌生興趣的讀者。

※翻譯名家李根芳教授以淺顯易讀的文字，搭配說書般的敘事口吻，與讀者分享每一篇經典作品的精妙之處。

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Martin Ford
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Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

A New York Times Bestseller
Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes
One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making “good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries—education and health care—that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.

In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren’t going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects—not to mention those of their children—as well as for society as a whole.

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長鏡頭下的張愛玲：影像、書信、出版

蘇偉貞 著
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遊牧者上路，靠的正是記憶。一九五二年張愛玲離開上海後就未曾回去，赴美後的創作於今看內容不脫重寫、自傳、自白，說明了這些作品如同記憶結晶，不斷折射著她的回返路線。

作者以同時為小說家又為評論家的視角，洞察創作與人生的織理；以影像、哲學、精神分析、創作美學等不同角度與分析脈絡，依據全新出土之書信與著作，重啟張愛玲研究。更以曾為媒體編輯身分與作家張愛玲往返寫信的親身體驗，從張愛玲的小說、劇本、筆記、書信、未完成與散佚稿件……勾勒出一幅比張任何一部作品都更驚人的層層疊疊建構：或者，一切都是小說家的虛構，便虛構地完成了小說家的人生。

　　繼《孤島張愛玲》後，
　　小說家學者蘇偉貞又一次對張愛玲的析論與細說
　　全書以影像、書信、出版三大面向綜論張愛玲的創作意象與內涵
　　是極具新意與創意的「看張」論述

本書以張愛玲與電影的淵源開始進行析論，曾經參與編劇的〈傾城之戀〉〈太太萬歲〉乃至〈不了情〉，張愛玲究竟欲傳遞何種訊息，以及這些影像作品與其創作，乃至真實生活中的關係，作者皆有深入的論述。

在〈生成－書信：張愛玲的創作－演出〉中，作者有意證明如果釐清張愛玲書信中重要事件之經緯，就能找到張愛玲小說－書信－人生相關的詰問與答案。作者另附記了他任職報社編輯時，與張愛玲的書信往返十數封，寫就〈張愛玲的書信演出──自誇與自鄙〉，其中細膩的析論，可為張愛玲本人性格提供註解。

在〈連環套：張愛玲的出版美學〉，作者援引了二○○九年出版的「自白體」長篇小說《小團圓》作為評說的主體，往復呼應張愛玲與胡蘭成間的情事，乃至其創作與人生，堪為讀者留下一格「張－看」「看－張」的窗。

〈重回前方，台灣行〉收錄張愛玲訪台唯一新聞報導，〈鴉片床與診療椅的心理治療檔案〉從精神分析學角度切入〈金鎖記〉的人物心理及人生悲劇，深刻反射張愛玲孤絕性格。

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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

Shelley Carson
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Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity

Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson's provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states.

•Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation
•Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity

Your Creative Brain, called by critics a new classic in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one's personal and professional life.

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批判性思維 (Thinking Critically)

約翰.查菲 (John Chaffee) 著
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本書綜合了邏輯學、心理學、語言學、哲學等方面的現代知識，對思維的作用、產生、發展及其表達方法作了由淺入深的論述。本書立論新穎、構思嚴謹、例証豐富、筆調流暢，在練習的設計和安排上獨具匠心，在理論聯關係實際的問題上有特色，是當代邏輯思維學和語言學一部難得的論著，其理論和方法受到了西方教育界的普遍重視。