Monday, March 26, 2012

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder
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Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth, and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

敦煌石窟全集

敦煌硏究院 主編
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敦煌石窟是全世界規模最宏偉、內容最豐富、延續時間最長、保存最完好的佛教藝術寶庫。由北朝到元代,歷經千多年,現存洞窟400多個,壁畫4.5萬平方米,塑像2,000多個,為國家級重點文物保護單位,並列入世界文化遺產。

敦煌世界知名,因為她太豐富、太微妙,幾乎關涉古代所有重大文明,還見證東方世界的思想碰撞──佛與儒道的合流。一粒沙裏看世界,敦煌是沙漠中看世界的天書。

敦煌石窟全集包括總卷《再現敦煌》及專題卷25卷,分為佛教、藝術、社會三類。

各卷卷名如下:

1 再現敦煌

佛教類
2 尊像畫卷
3 本生‧因緣故事畫卷
4 佛傳故事畫卷
5 阿彌陀經畫卷
6 彌勒經畫卷
7 法華經畫卷
8 塑像卷
9 報恩經畫卷
10 密教畫卷
11 楞伽經畫卷
12 佛教東傳故事畫卷

藝術類
13 圖案卷 〈上〉
14 圖案卷 〈下〉
15 飛天畫卷
16 音樂畫卷
17 舞蹈畫卷
18 山水畫卷
19 動物畫卷
20 藏經洞珍品卷(非賣品)
21 石窟建築卷
22 建築畫卷

社會類
23 科學技術畫卷
24 服飾畫卷
25 民俗畫卷
26 交通畫卷

(摘錄自商務印書館網站)

Monday, March 19, 2012

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

Steve Chandler
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In this first-ever paperback edition of his long-time best-seller, motivational speaker Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act-methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling your lifelong goals and dreams. Whether you're self-employed, a manager, or a high-level executive, it's still easy to get stuck in the daily routines of life, fantasizing about what could have been. Steve Chandler helps you turn that way of thinking around and make what could have been into what can and will be.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

從中國古籍獲取不可思議的力量

北尾吉孝
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……北尾先生在這本書中所呈現給讀者的,是如何從中國的古代典籍中汲取精神營養,並且以其為指南,始終如一地運用於實踐所取得的成就和體會。篇幅雖然不長,但極富於哲理和人生經驗;所舉事例和論理,簡要而精闢,活潑而生動。我想任何人都會從閱讀此書受益,但我願特別推薦給我的同胞們 — 看一個日本的企業家是如何對待我們中國的傳統文化或者所謂國學的,得天獨厚的我們難道不該捫心自問,從而 — 借用一位偉人文章的標題 — 改造我們的學習嗎?

本書是作者關於如何參與國際事務、如何與世界為伍等問題的思考,作者認為應從中國古籍中汲取力量,作者還結合自身的體會,對中國古籍進行了通俗易懂的說明。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Monday, March 12, 2012

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.

In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, Nonviolent Communication offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life—one interaction at a time.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

圖像中國建築史: 關於中國建築結構體系的發展及其形制演變的研究 (A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture)

梁思成 英文原著;費慰梅 編;梁從誡 譯
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本書是已故著名建築學家梁思成教授早年用英文寫成的一部簡明中國建築史,旨在藉助大量照片和圖版,就中國古代建築的結構體系及其形制的演變,向西方讀者作個通俗的解說。其資料源於作者本人和中國營造學社同仁於三、四十年代在中國廣大地區所作的大量實地考察、測繪紀錄;書中圖版及照片絕大部分也是作者及其主要助手當年所親自繪製和拍攝的。

全書內容包括:中國建築結構體系的起源;明清保存下來的兩部中國古建築基本法規;佛教傳入以前的中國建築;石窟建築;從唐到清以來中國木建築的三個發展時期;中國佛塔(方形、多層式和密檐式) ……

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, March 5, 2012

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Matthew Frederick
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101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the design studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language the things they tend to make murky and abstruse. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of how to draw a line to the complexities of color theory--provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy and make concrete what too often is left nebulous and open-ended in the architecture curriculum.

…Written by an architect and instructor who well remembers the fog of his own student days, 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL provides valuable guideposts for students navigating the architectural design studio and the rest of the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates, from young designers to experienced practitioners, will turn to the book as well for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving complex design problems.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

設計的開始

王澍 著
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作者王澍,中國當代建築師,2012年普利茲克建築獎得主。

《設計的開始》是建築界叢書之一,介紹國內外最新建築思潮,討論當代建築問題,從學術角度剖析中外最具活力的建築師的代表作,推出建築文化、城市規劃、建築設計、室內設計、建築歷史、建築教育天空和最新學術成果。叢書圖文並茂。在這本書裡,建築與寫作是兩條永遠平行但並不互相解釋的線索,全部含義都指向:通過某種建造房子的活動,一個人如何實現自覺,從自覺其所說的語言開始。

(摘錄自amazon.cn)