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想像一下,末日來臨、如果人類突然永遠地消失了,我們的地球將會怎樣?生態系統能否穩定?我們的工業化世界將有什麼能倖存下來?什麼東西將最快消失?被自然摧毀的古代文明遺跡到現在的文明城市哪個會先崩解?人類滅絕的百年後,廢棄的摩天大樓將會由鳥、老鼠還有植物組成為「垂直的生態系統」.也許一個小動物就可以讓胡佛大壩水力發電廠倒下,洶湧氾濫的河水衝垮橋樑和大廈、加州灰熊和成群的美國野牛重回西部大平原.我們的汽車將生鏽變形、歸於塵土,我們的龐物不敵弱肉強食定律被強壯的野生動物取代.而人類最珍貴的歷史和文化記錄徹底腐爛消失,書籍、照片、電子數據,都將消失殆盡,進而抹除現代文明曾在地球上繁衍過的重要證據.1986年車諾比的核電站事故以及它帶來的長遠影響,為我們提供了一個有意思的、感性的課題:人類消失後將會發生什麼事.本片將帶領觀眾去到遥遠的小島,在緬因州的海岸附近尋覓廢棄的小鎮的蹤影;在紐約的街道下觀察地鐵隧道是如何可能成為水汪汪的運河;去蒙大拿州的原野預言熊和狼的命運.經過工程學、植物學、生態、生物、地質、風土學和考古學等各個領域的頂尖專家硏究推論,並透過本片擬眞的3D電影視覺效果,我們開啓了一次令人驚奇震撼的感官旅程,詳細地窺探,那一去不復返的世界.

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橫跨歐洲、美洲、亞洲，十位交換學生的親身體驗。看看各國教育方式的不同，以及這些國家在大學教育上對我們有什麼啟發。

　　「原本以為這次的出國，是要利用自己的雙眼觀察這個世界，到了國外生活才曉得，真正的學習，是以世界的眼光來省視自己，從外國人的角度來挑戰個人的認知。」

　　該怎麼做，才能變成交換學生？

　　當個交換學生、你可以學到什麼？

　　橫跨歐洲、美洲、亞洲，十位交換學生的親身體驗。

　　看看各國教育方式的不同，這些國家在大學教育上對我們有什麼啟發，也看看異國生活有什麼有趣與禁忌之處。

　　這些交換學生們以過來人的經驗，寫出他們的親身體驗，告訴大家交換學生的生活與學習經驗，並告訴大家這趟交換學生之旅可以帶給人生多大的改變。

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吃得滿足，愛得痛快！
情欲與美食的超完美結合，拉美故事天后伊莎貝．阿言德的快樂秘笈
絕對熱愛，無愛不歡，獻給全天下的飲食男女！

　　在享用春膳之前，請默念以下守則──所有春膳都必須以真心真意為藥引，否則就不能發揮作用。

　　九層塔名列禁忌食材名單？雞蛋是上選的助興極品？讓你活到一百歲的壯陽湯材料，超市竟然買得到？拉丁美洲最會說故事的天后伊莎貝．阿言德結合食物與性愛、融合個人回憶的《春膳》，自問世以來，即成為當代食膳、情色書寫的代表作，從家常菜到日本、台灣的藥膳祕方，宛如一部浩大、精密的情色食膳採集辭典。幽默的旁白和獨一無二的洞察力，阿言德將個人的回憶、世界各地的民俗、歷史典故和文學場景中值得咀嚼的瞬間（包括情色或其他的）充分攪拌融合，並精心烹煮調味。經由她的生花妙筆與親身試驗，食物與性愛的關聯與傳說，化為一則則有聲有色有溫度的精采故事，而這些渾然天成的調情配方背後，往往有位充滿想像力的情人！

　　以想像和歡樂讚頌感官肉欲，一部「食與性之歡愉」的私密歡快之歌！阿言德誠實的寫作風格、滔滔不絕的故事和帶點「腥」辣的插科打諢，讓這本書成為感官無法抵抗的豐富饗宴；她以最高級的熱情讚頌生命，春膳的好滋味全源於此！另外收錄阿言德母親潘琪塔女士的春膳食譜，從醬汁、前菜、湯、開胃小菜、主菜、甜點，一道道帶你∕妳進入享用春膳的實戰樂趣。

　　伊莎貝．阿言德　給親愛的讀者們──我知道各位心裡想些什麼：幹嗎開這麼多沒完沒了的清單啊？這個女人難道不能用「等等」二字，就把這些東西總結掉嗎？不行，不行，我真的辦不到。你如果想跳過這些名單，儘管請便，但基於科學的嚴謹，我非得做到鉅細靡遺不可。我打算有朝一日本書出版，我就可以自居全世界頭號春膳權威。地球的每一個角落者會有人來找我諮詢，萬一我做了寡婦，也不愁沒有追求者。

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《都柏林人》是閱讀喬伊斯的入門之作。這部小說十五個短篇故事彙集而成，分別記述都柏林人在童年、青年、成年時期及公眾生活的故事。在喬伊斯的描繪裡，二十世紀初的都柏林人，沈浸在英國殖民昏暗的燈火裡，看不見自己真正的面貌，甚至於在死亡將至的陰影裡，渾噩度日，麻痺不自覺。他的敘述，苦澀多於愉悅；他的書寫策略，尖酸諷喻，警世味道濃厚。

　　喬伊斯具有很高的文學才情，他的文字出入於悲劇和喜劇之間，擺盪在同情與嘲諷之際。他的書寫，有時候，帶著同情的介入；有時候，維持一種諷喻的疏離姿態。更多的時候，欲言又止。尤其是慣用「靈光乍現」的開放式結尾，引發讀者對劇情後續發展的揣測。

　　《都柏林人》採用寫實主義的敘述法，因此看似簡單，其實在文字表象下，有著相當分歧複雜的指涉意義。在這本書裡，喬伊斯以文化病理學家的姿態，對都柏林人在心靈、社會、政治及文化上的「麻痺」現象，進行解剖、清理與診療。

　　喬伊斯筆下的生命是一場困局，愛爾蘭的經驗提供我們一個自我觀照與省思的機會。透過批判性的閱讀，《都柏林人》可以引導我們在生命困局的掙扎中，增長智慧。

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※透過李家同簡潔而寓意深遠的文章，領略用英文表達中文故事的妙趣
　　※本作為「讀李家同學英文」系列最後一集

　　我在此給讀者一個建議：你不妨先看看中文文章，先不看英文的翻譯，然後試著將中文翻成英文，我相信你一定會覺得中翻英好困難。翻完以後，再去看英文翻譯，相信可以學到不少，也可以寫出越來越像外國人的句子。– 李家同

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　　由譯者郝凱揚自行撰寫中英對照的跋，譯者現身說法，以自身學外語的經驗，傳授學習外語的態度與方法，與李家同先生所秉持的「學好英文，沒有捷徑」，有著異曲同工之妙，並勉勵讀者一分耕耘，一分收穫。

　　天下沒有不散的筵席；我們的《讀李家同學英文》系列終於圓滿結束了。除了享受李教授的精彩故事以外，我希望你的英文有所改善。這是我一生中參與過最大的工程，三年來的萬變之中，它一直都陪伴著我。由於我投入其中的許多心血，這七本書對我的意義十分重大。而我相信，只要你好好地研讀每一本，將每題小試身手都寫好，該背的句型都背熟，該記的單字都記牢，而該欣賞的妙趣都能領略，那麼不用怕沒有益處。所謂一分耕耘，一分收穫也。

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　宅男，一個城市裡的單身人，即使年齡無可奈何地增長，內心卻還像個小孩。他渴望人群和世界，但卻不知怎地腦子某處秀逗（或因過分敏銳），以致與社會大眾人情世故格格不入，尤其無法忍受繁瑣老套虛偽功利。他渴望大自然，但卻不幸圈囿在壅塞的臺北盆地。他當然更渴望愛情，也試圖兼顧親情，嚮往青春和美，但同樣回到老問題上──不僅跟人合不來（特別是自己家人），他實在是怕了他們。

　　至於愛情、青春和美，對他來說，它們不只易碎，根本就是花朵，一熱便要凋萎。

　　於是蝸居城市一隅，端賴通過電腦的聯繫，擺脫了諸多現實近距離的不便、不快甚至惡夢。即使如此，他仍舊有如一葉小舟，搖搖擺盪在不斷發生與更新的漩流與波瀾當中。只有靠著一些微小的樂趣、短暫的幸福以及固定安全的「宅族」生活形態，造就了一面勉強堪稱穩定的網，使他暫且跟人群和世界達成了溝通與和解。

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一位母親與兒女的海外冒險之旅──

　　2000年的夏天，在馬來西亞熱浪島的沙灘上，大橋媽媽下了一個決定：讓兩個孩子去冒險吧，到不同的國度去，體驗各種不同的文化！

　　於是，一個嬌小卻勇敢，又富於冒險精神的媽媽，帶著十二歲的兒子一雄、十歲的女兒琴繪，從日本安逸的教育環境下離巢，遠赴馬來西亞，展開了長達七年的異國求學生存記。因為大橋媽媽堅信──把孩子培養成身心健康、無懼於面對挫折、對知識主動渴求、在世界每一個角落都能生活得很好，就是孩子最大的財富，父母最大的幸福。

　　大橋家沒有厚實的經濟背景，也沒有顯赫的人脈關係，曾因選擇的英文國際學校假期太多、學費太貴，毅然轉學兩次。接踵而來的是：內向兒子的適應問題、語言學習的挫折、女兒對於轉學的情緒反彈、移民局對於簽證的刁難、大橋爸爸的突然過世等等，一次又一次考驗著大橋媽媽。在不放棄的堅持下，母子三人走得益發踏實，得到了人生中難得的體驗與價值。

　　在考上台大圖書資訊系後，高中畢業典禮那天，一雄用中文寫了一封信給媽媽：

　　「從小的時候我們就跟隨著你。決定來馬來西亞的人也是你，當時我們都在反對。但現在想起來，我覺得這個選擇並沒有錯。上高中之後，一直認為我是個沒有一技之長的人。但是在上個月，我發現我可以用日文、英文和中文。可能是因為這三種語言已經很習慣的用在平時的生活上，對我來說已經不認為這是什麼了不起的事。我肯定的說，如果當時我們留在日本，我不可能像現在一樣在日常生活中用日語以外的語言，更不可能有外國人的老師和朋友，對走在國際化路線的現代來說，這些將會是永久的財產。……我有很多感想，但我最想跟你說的是：『謝謝媽媽！』」

　　而琴繪在東京工藝大學入學面試時，對於「這幾年在外國的經歷，感受最深的是什麼？」的提問，她這樣回答：

　　「當我遇到挫折時，我會想：前面的路還有很多，我們能選擇的不僅僅只有一條！」

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Fisheries science in North America is changing in response to a changing climate, new technologies, an ecosystem approach to management and new thinking about the processes affecting stock and recruitment. Authors of the 34 chapters review the science in their particular fields and use their experience to develop informed opinions about the future. Everyone associated with fish, fisheries and fisheries management will find material that will stimulate their thinking about the future.Readers will be impressed with the potential for new discoveries, but disturbed by how much needs to be done in fisheries science if we are to sustain North American fisheries in our changing climate. Officials that manage or fund fisheries science will appreciate the urgency for the new information needed for the stewardship of fish populations and their ecosystems. Research organizations may want to keep some extra copies for a future look back into the thoughts of a wide range of fisheries professionals. Fisheries science has been full of surprises with some of the surprises having major economic impacts. It is important to minimize these impacts as the demand for seafood increases and the complexities of fisheries management increase.

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For a society to endure, it is necessary to preserve the knowledge, beliefs, and ways of living that give shape to the identity of a group—what anthropologists call culture. One of the oldest and most effective ways to keep what has been learned from being forgotten is through face-to-face interaction between older and younger members of a community.

Good Mentoring offers a detailed analysis of the way mentors transmit not only knowledge and skills, but guiding values that support good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners. In doing so, mentors foster the professional integrity that benefits society as a whole, as well as the practitioners themselves and the fields in which they work. Drawing on a first-of-its-kind study by the GoodWork Project—a cooperative enterprise by Harvard, Stanford, and Claremont Graduate University—the authors show how the cultivation of professional ethics and excellence depends on teachers and mentors and the learning environments they foster. In profiles of three lineages of scientists who passed their professional skills, values, and practices down through generations, the book reveals what constitutes successful mentoring in science and beyond.

The authors identify six key dimensions of supportive mentoring:

A balance between intellectual freedom and guidance
Consistent availability and involvement

An atmosphere and resources for fostering development

Positive feedback that is specific and encouraging

Treatment of graduate students as respected collaborators

Individualized attention to the student

Good Mentoring includes practical advice to mentors, mentees, and institutions where graduate and professional education occurs, and suggestions for future directions for researchers.

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Pulmonary issues including mechanical ventilation and pediatric respiratory disease are the focus of this softcover book, a component of an earlier comprehensive work, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, by the same authors (Springer, 2007). An overview of pulmonary dysfunction and support in the critical care unit is provided. Senior trainees and practitioners managing critical ill children are an appropriate audience for this work, which has editorial leadership from pediatric critical care programs at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan. Pertinent physiology for intensivists is reviewed, followed by procedures and therapies including conventional and high frequency mechanical ventilation. Other therapies with specific applications to pediatrics, such as surfactant, nitric oxide, and extracorporeal life support are also discussed. The final chapters focus on congenital abnormalities, asthma, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and neuromuscular disorders. A brief chapter updates readers on pediatric lung transplantation. Chapters are clearly written and line drawings and tables reproduce well, although black-and-white photographs are less clear. A small number of bronchoscopic images are in color. Most, but not all, chapters are referenced with citations featuring original work dating back to three to four years prior to the date of publication. The table of contents lists chapters and acknowledges authorship while the brief subject index provides adequate access to content. This book provides an excellent review of critical care physiology in a discussion of mechanical ventilation and other therapies. The authors effectively blend adult and pediatric data. Acute respiratory failure accounts for half of all admissions to pediatric critical care units. Thus, the importance of this work.
來源：Doody’s Reviews
評鑑者：David J. Dries, MD(University of Minnesota Medical School)

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This practical book covers the latest applications of mass spectrometry in drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. The authors are experts in the fields of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics from pharmaceutical companies, instrumental corporations, and universities. The purpose is to provide comprehensive information about mass spectrometry for solving complex problems in chemical analysis. This book is valuable for scientists working in academic, industrial, and healthcare-related fields, who use mass spectrometry to investigate drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, chemical markers of toxicity and disease, xenobiotic exposure, and so on. The 12 chapters can be characterized in one of three ways: 1) introducing the knowledge of mass spectrometry from the simple basics to the complex applications; 2) combining mass spectrometry techniques with the applications in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics; 3) sharing of first-hand laboratory experience from leading experts around the world. The book begins with an overview of mass spectrometry in drug discovery and development and then details the applications of mass spectrometry in metabolites screening, identification, and quantification. In comparison to other books on mass spectrometry, this one not only provides both the basic and latest knowledge in mass spectrometry, but integrates the theory with applications to drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics. For instance, chapter 4, on the applications of quandrupole time-of- flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometry in reactive metabolites screening, demonstrates the importance of exact mass measurements and high-resolution mass spectrometry in metabolites screening and identification. This chapter also introduces the MetaboLynx software, which could facilitate the identification of metabolites. This knowledge is very helpful for scientists in the metabolomic field.
來源：Doody’s Reviews
評論者：Xiaochao Ma, PhD(University of Kansas Medical Center)

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This is an excellent description of the historical background and a comparison of two similar techniques for two different diagnoses, internal hemorrhoids and obstructive defecation, which can be easily confused by surgeons lacking in-depth knowledge of colorectal surgery. The authors do an excellent job of discussing techniques, indications, and contraindications with clear, visually appealing diagrams. The scoring system and algorithm are particularly helpful. The purpose is to define and distinguish PPH (procedure for prolapse and hemorrhoids) from STARR (stapled transanal rectal resection). This requires finesse in diagnosis from surgeons, since misdiagnosis can occur. This excellent book clearly meets the authors’ objectives. Due to the very narrow topic, the audience is limited to colorectal surgeons and surgeons who do a large amount of anorectal or pelvic floor work. The book is not for novices or students. The editors and authors are all credible in the international colorectal world. The book covers the historical background for stapling techniques of the anorectal region with a description of the anatomy, physiology, and diagnosis of both hemorrhoids and obstructive defecation syndrome (ODS). The book provides in-depth descriptions of the techniques and stresses proper patient selection. It addresses the evidence and controversies in an area where new techniques are becoming common practice. It is very clear and concise and the diagrams/photos are particularly good. While the book covers a very narrow topic, it is well written, clear, and in depth. This timely book is a great addition to the subspecialist’s library and will probably become a classic since it covers the material so precisely and completely.
來源：Doody’s Reviews
評論者：Shauna Lorenzo-Rivero, AB, MD(Colon & Rectal Surgery of Oklahoma, PC)

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