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Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems. The first part of the book considers how use of the self can be enhanced by analytic reflection and application to difficulties facing individuals and communities.The second part shows psychodynamic theory to be a valuable aid when thinking about issues faced by social workers facing threats and accusations, therapeutic work with children and restorative youth justice. The third part of the book considers the implications of working with the arts in community settings - an ex-mining community in North West England, the Tate Gallery in London and the ‘cultural capital’ of Liverpool.Taken as a whole these chapters combine to inspire and provoke thought of how the arts and the imagination can be used creativity to help service users confronted by problems with living and the workers who attempt to get alongside them to think about these. This book was published as a special issue of the “Journal of Social Work Practice”.

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本書簡介

Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems. The first part of the book considers how use of the self can be enhanced by analytic reflection and application to difficulties facing individuals and communities.The second part shows psychodynamic theory to be a valuable aid when thinking about issues faced by social workers facing threats and accusations, therapeutic work with children and restorative youth justice. The third part of the book considers the implications of working with the arts in community settings - an ex-mining community in North West England, the Tate Gallery in London and the ‘cultural capital’ of Liverpool.Taken as a whole these chapters combine to inspire and provoke thought of how the arts and the imagination can be used creativity to help service users confronted by problems with living and the workers who attempt to get alongside them to think about these. This book was published as a special issue of the “Journal of Social Work Practice”.

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A solution to the climate and energy crisisDemonstrating the feasibility of a clean, renewable global energy future,Post-Oil Energy Technology: The World”s First Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plantdescribes the detailed design of the first 1,000 megawatt solar power plant with hydrogen storage.How is this possible?Our planet receives more solar energy in about a half hour than humans use in a year. In fact, collecting solar energy on just one percent of the Sahara desert would be sufficient to meet global electricity needs. This energy can then be stored and transported in the form of hydrogen.Converting from nonrenewable energy sources to solar-hydrogen energyIn this timely book, author explains how a solar-hydrogen economy is technically feasible and cost-effective. He first outlines existing conservation technologies and renewable energy processes as well as evolving technologies, such asenergy-free homes, roof shingle solar collectors, and reversible fuel cells. He goes on to discuss energy optimization techniques that could reduce the energy consumption of industrialized countries by twenty-five percent and that of third-world countries by even more. Lipták also shows that we already have the know-how optimizing large solar power plants, providing solar energy storage in hydrogen, and operating reversible electrolyzers—to build a full-sized renewable energy demonstration plant.It is time to harness the power of solar energyWith global energy consumption quadrupling in the last fifty years and atmospheric carbon dioxide reaching the highest level ever recorded, now is the time to prevent further damage to the planet and ensure future generations of human civilization. This book provides the facts about renewable energy, proving that it can slow global warming, stabilize our climate, eliminate the possibility of energy wars, and improve the world’s economy.

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★獲選2008年美國圖書館協會「青少年最佳圖書獎」
★入圍2009 IMPAC文學獎

一場心碎的異境之旅
讓回家的路跟離家的路一樣漫長

　　直到那時他才明白，這趟旅程將會是多麼悲傷而徒勞。

　　她送他前往自己的死亡，這就是這趟旅程的意義，而她別無選擇，只能送他上路。

　　即使他能活著回來，她也永遠不會原諒自己，竟要兒子用自己生命來換取父親的性命。

　　十四歲的少年羅比，在母親的要求下，獨自一人出發前往兵荒馬亂的戰場上尋找爸爸，要把他帶回家。

　　羅比隨身只有兩樣可以保命的東西：一件母親特別幫他縫製、可以兩面穿的軍人制服，一面是藍色，一面是灰色；還有就是一匹身形高大、毛色漆黑，名為「黑炭」的神駒。

　　在這趟充滿死亡威脅的旅程中，未經世事的羅比，用最痛苦的方式體會了世間各種邪惡、殘酷、卑劣與墮落。羅比不但看盡世態炎涼，遇見騙子、盜墓者、掠奪屍體者以及狠心蹂躪少女的牧師，而且在見證了四周的混亂失序和血腥屠殺後，為了保護自己摯愛的人，被迫生平第一次舉起槍殺人……

　　這是一個告別純真的故事。當羅比歷經艱險終於回到母親身邊時，他已不再是原來的那個羅比，而是從男孩蛻變成為男人……

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「茶非古也，源於江左，流於天下，浸濕於近代，君子小人霏不嗜之，貧賤富貴霏不用也。」──宋代李觀

　　「夫茶之用，等於米鹽，不可一日無以」──王安石

　　茶，4600年前神農時代就被發現。茶樹的種植始於周代或周代以前，至今3000多年歷史，深深影響每一個中國人的日常生活，它不僅是國飲，更可能成為世界的飲料之王。

　　我們不能不了解茶的風情、文化與習慣，不懂飲茶習俗等於不懂茶。

　　本書清楚體現飲茶源流、品茶環境、人文茶風、飲茶習俗，提供茶人最完整詳盡的茶風、茶俗、茶文化。

　　茶，源於中國，興於亞洲，傳播於世界，所以中國被稱為「茶的故鄉」。

　　由於中國人最早飲茶，所以也最懂得茶中真趣。飲茶習俗根植於中國人的生活之中，進而演化出豐富多彩的飲茶習俗。

　　從中國茶飲歷史的整體發展來觀察，陸羽《茶經》的出現，不但總結了古代飲茶的經驗，歸納了茶事的特質，也奠定了茶道的規矩。

　　透過陸羽《茶經》的影響，特別是後世茶人遵循陸羽設定的品茶脈絡，對飲茶之道進行審美的品評與探索，飲茶成了一門學問，也成了體會生活品味提升的修養法門。因此，唐以後的飲茶風尚，與上古飲茶解渴的實用性質完全不同，涉及了精神文化的層面，也逐漸發展出一套特別屬於中國的飲茶習俗。

　　品味茶香之餘，本書完整呈現中國飲茶習俗，讓您輕鬆走進茶的美妙世界。