Monday, April 3, 2017

Developing Effective Research Proposals

Keith F. Punch
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This is your step-by-step guide to success with your research proposal. This new edition covers every section of the proposal, telling you all you need to know on how to structure it, bring rigour to your methods section, impress your readers and get your proposal accepted.

With practical tips and advice throughout, new features include:
• Comprehensive explanation of method and methodology, and how to maximize this crucial section of your proposal
• A new section on mixed methods: an increasingly common approach in research
• A new chapter on how to get it right with ethics
• Fresh exercises and activities, now for each key chapter

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

質性訪談方法︰聆聽與提問的藝術 (Qualitative Interviewing)

赫伯特‧J.魯賓(Herbert J. Rubin) , 艾琳‧S.魯賓(Irene S. Rubin)
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本書主要討論了研究設計、訪談實施和數據分析三大部分,每一部分都提出了相應的工作目標和實施路徑,並在討論的過程中結合了大量的研究實例,詳細明確地提供了不同種類的研究展開操作的可行辦法。為了最大限度地利用本書,建議讀者在閱讀的過程中,帶著自己的研究興趣,根據書中提供的指導,具體思索並回答有關這一主題在各個階段應解決的問題。 本書是一部可讀性很強的研究指南,既適合質性研究的初學者作為入門的指導,也適合正在做研究的學者作為研究參考。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, March 27, 2017

Mind Gym : Achieve More by Thinking Differently

Sebastian Bailey, Octavius Black
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The international bestseller that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think.

Today, the pressure to achieve is intense. To be at our best, we need our minds working at peak potential. But unless you train it, your mind stays on autopilot, stuck in unhealthy thought patterns that lead to self-sabotaging habits and behaviors. As with your body, you have to exercise your mind to get the most out of it.

Sebastian Bailey and Octavius Black, founders of Mind Gym, help you change your mental default settings through a series of “workouts” that have been tested and experienced by more than one million people from around the world and from companies such as Google, NBCUniversal, Shell, Pfizer, and PepsiCo. This hands-on guide presents a fitness program for the mind that tackles the most common challenges at work and home:
  • How to adopt a positive mindset 
  • How to repair broken relationships 
  • How to resolve conflict successfully 
  • How to influence others 
  • How to minimize stress and gain energy 
  • How to be more creative 
Insightful, proven, and practical, Mind Gym is the essential mental workout that will wake up your mind and help you be your best in life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

點子都是偷來的 : 10 個沒人告訴過你的創意撇步 (Steal Like an Artist)

奧斯汀・克隆 (Austin Kleo)
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不是只有天才才能想出有創意的好點子,只要做你自己就可以了!這本書要告訴你:創意無所不在,人人都可以玩創意......

2011年,作者受邀到紐約一所藝術學院演講,跟年輕學子分享身為藝術家的人生經驗,演講的內容就是他希望有人能在他年輕時告訴他的事。結果那場演講大為轟動,網路上瘋狂轉貼演講影片,點閱人數突破百萬,許多年輕人紛紛留言告訴他,聽了這場演講讓他們更了解如何從事創意工作。於是,這場演講啟發了作者寫下這本書,結果發現這些道理不只適用於想從事藝術創意工作的人,而是所有的人。

《點子都是偷來的》提出10個能改變一生的原則,幫助讀者發掘自己的藝術天份,讓生活更有創意。

10個沒人告訴過你的創意撇步
1. 點子都是偷來的
2. 不要等到了解自己才開始
3. 寫你想讀的書
4. 雙手萬能
5. 空閒計畫和嗜好很重要
6. 絕招:做好東西就要與人分享
7. 網路無國界,距離帶來靈感
8. 要做好人(世界很小)
9. 要耐無聊(只有這樣才能把事情做好)
10. 創意是一種減法

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, March 20, 2017

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Sonja Lyubomirsky
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A groundbreaking, practical guide to attaining happiness based on innovative scientific research, The How of Happiness is a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands. Drawing upon years of her own pioneering research with thousands of men and women, psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky reveals that much of our capacity for happiness is within our power. Detailing an easy-to- follow plan, including exercises in new ways of thinking and understanding our individual obstacles.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

The International Day of Happiness (known as Happiness Day) is celebrated throughout the world on the 20th of March. The International Day of Happiness (“Happiness Day”) was founded by United Nations adviser Jayme Illien on June 28, 2012.

過得還不錯的一年 : 我的快樂生活提案 (The Happiness Project)

葛瑞琴・魯賓 (Gretchen Rubin)
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帶著幽默和洞察力,魯賓循序記錄了這十二個月的生活歷險,親身嘗試種種年老的智慧、現今科學的研究,以及大眾文化中有關如何更快樂的各種課程。從希臘哲人伊比鳩魯到自然散文家梭羅,到電視主持人歐普拉到心理學家塞利格曼,還有達賴喇嘛;看哪些建議是真正管用的。

她的結論往往出人意表──她發現金錢的確能買到快樂,只要花得明智;她發現如果你認為自己是快樂的,你就能快樂;她發現挑戰是快樂的活力泉源;她發現「正確的吵架」甚至比不吵架好;她發現失敗中也藏有樂趣;還發現當我們有所成長時,就會快樂。

更棒的是,她發現快樂的神奇魔力是:即使遇上糟糕的一天,那也是「好的」糟糕一天……

本書特色
★ 作者法學院畢業的背景,讓這場快樂實驗,交織理性思維的辯證與柔軟感性的生活想像。
★ 找回快樂,不需要改變人生。不是人人都具有冒險家精神,作者也是,她所提倡的快樂實驗,是實踐在生活中的各處小地方,微小的變化就能帶來巨大的影響。
★ 作者同時在部落格上經營她的快樂提案,書中收錄作者與眾多網友互相激勵、成長的精彩互動。
★ 每個人的快樂提案肯定都是獨一無二的,但是啟發快樂的點子無所不在,誰能保證這本書不會是讓你開啟快樂的關鍵呢。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)