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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time.
In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior. Now fully expanded and updated, with a new introduction by the author, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how—and why—some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

If you're a website designer, intranet manager or someone without much Information Architecture experience, this book answers all those questions you were afraid to ask.
Drawing on her many years experience of practising and teaching Information Architecture, Donna Spencer guides you through some simple steps to better IA and leaves you feeling empowered and able to run your own IA projects. Whether it's organising content, providing clear descriptions or ways for people to get to them, this book is armed with practical advice and examples.
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Each Five Simple Steps book is individually, and beautifully, designed around the content. A Practical Guide to Information Architecture is no different. Spanning over 300 pages, the book features supporting case studies, illustrations and examples.
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A engaging history of the British Science Museum, produced to mark the centenary of its separation from the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1909. Rather than simply a narrative history, it uses the key themes of the Science Museums evolution to explore major issues and tensions common to the development of all science and technology museums.

How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be 'findable' in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web", the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability. Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of way finding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet. The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life. "Ambient Findability" doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond? Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these themes and more - ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian, whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why? Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces and growing inequality shape how parents raise their children. From medieval times to the present, and from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden to China and Japan, Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti look at how economic incentives and constraints--such as money, knowledge, and time--influence parenting practices and what is considered good parenting in different countries.
Through personal anecdotes and original research, Doepke and Zilibotti show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s and '70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing "parenting gap" between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In nations with less economic inequality, such as Sweden, the stakes are less high, and social mobility is not under threat. Doepke and Zilibotti discuss how investments in early childhood development and the design of education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all.
Love, Money, and Parenting presents an engrossing look at the economics of the family in the modern world.

It is no secret that the world is drowning in text and data. This causes real problems for everyday users who need to make sense of all the information available, and for software engineers who want to make their text-based applications more useful and user-friendly. Whether building a search engine for a corporate website, automatically organizing email, or extracting important nuggets of information from the news, dealing with unstructured text can be daunting.

Taming Text is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. It explores how to automatically organize text, using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. This book gives examples illustrating each of these topics, as well as the foundations upon which they are built.

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First published in 1928, the author aimed to to write this brief history of the International Settlement of Shanghai.
He failed to realize the difficulty of the task. Messrs. George Lanning and Samuel Couling gathered a large amount of material concerning the early days, but no one continued what they began, and therefore a good deal of spade work became necessary.
Many books have been consulted. A list of which is published at the end of the volume, and the columns of the North-China Herald have proved invaluable.
Another difficulty presented itself in regard to the public for which he was writing. He tried to bear in mind that it was for a larger public than for the residents of Shanghai. Many incidents might be of interest to those who live in the Settlement but would not be of much importance to the public at large. By some, probably, the criticism will be raised that the book lacks local colors, while others will perhaps object that too much reference has been made to matters that are of no concern to the rest of the world. It was hard to please the tastes of both classes.
As the book developed several things became apparent. It was evident that the history of Shanghai was difficult to condense, and that there was room for a bigger volume than this. There are so many details that it would have been easier to have depicted it on a larger canvas.
One also realized that in order to understand what has happened in Shanghai, considerable reference to Chinese contemporary history was necessary, and there was always a temptation to wander away from what was strictly the history of Shanghai to that of China.

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenth century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge, especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of the knowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing and the discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchange or negotiation between different knowledges, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, and European and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social or socio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest to historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and others in another age of information explosion.

In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War
When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives readers the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively readable.
Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts--in a first for a Churchill biographer--to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive.
We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today--and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership and moral conviction.

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《魔女宅急便》曾被人说 “这是宫崎峻最后一部作品了吧” ？
《百变狸猫》如何战胜《狮子王》取得票房新高？
为了向《猫的报恩》挑战，才创造了《哈尔的移动城堡》？
《红猪》原本只是宫崎骏用来纾解心情的15分钟视频？
《悬崖上 的金鱼公主》是因吉卜力的生育高峰而诞生的作品？
两位大师谢幕作《起风了》及《辉夜姬物语》的制作秘话……
《吉卜力的风》是吉卜力工作室的负责人、宫崎骏&高畑勋两位天才的制片人铃木敏夫，接受日本著名音乐人涉谷阳一的采访录实录， 完整收入历时2天、整整10小时的采访，从 《风之谷》 到 《起风了》，为您讲述吉卜力的30年，呈现最完整的吉卜力历史。《吉卜力的风》可谓了解宫崎骏、了解日本动画大师、了解日本动画制作业的最真实的书。
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2、囊括了宫崎骏和高畑勋两位导演30年内所有作品的花絮故事，其中有中国读者非常熟悉的《风之谷》《天空之城》《龙猫》《千与千寻》《幽灵公主》《哈尔的移动城堡》等。
3、作者铃木敏夫是宫崎骏和高畑勋两位导演的制片人，也是两位导演的工作室——吉卜力的董事长兼制片人，参与了所有作品的制作与宣传。在宫崎骏所有作品不授权给中国大陆的情况下，由铃木敏夫来谈吉卜力是最合适不过的

本书所收之文章主要是对中国左翼作家作品的文学批评。它是作者过世后，由其弟夏志清教授编辑而成。本书所讨论之左翼作家包括鲁迅、蒋光慈、左联五烈士以及瞿秋白，他们都是1949年以前共产党理念的同情者。《黑暗的闸门》全面检讨中国左翼文学运动的文学审美和政治观点，是该领域的少数奠基性作品之一。
《黑暗的闸门》此前曾于1968年由华盛顿大学出版社出版过平装和精装本，并获得很高的评价。在东亚研究的顶级刊物上，几乎没有同类的研究可与之匹敌。
《黑暗的闸门》全面检讨中国左翼文学运动的文学审美和政治观点，是该领域的少数奠基性作品之一。它深入梳理了左翼文学运动的两难境地：一方面它是左翼作家自身理念的创作，另一方面它又严格地受二十世纪早期共产党宣传的意识形态条条框框限制。
夏济安的文章特别具有可读性，因为他的文学批评不仅有历史学的严谨，还特别有作家的感性眼光。同时此书还是研究鲁迅晚年文学最重要的学术论著之一，夏济安用自己的原创眼光和同情之感受，打开了鲁迅内心的『黑暗之门』，揭示出一个令人着迷的鬼神世界，社戏和民间迷信是它们的源泉。
「熔文学批评与传记、历史甚至是哲学于一炉─这是Sainte-Beuve，埃德蒙・威尔逊、雅克・巴赞和 George Steiner的传统。」
─李欧梵
（资料来源于中大出版社2015年秋新书目录）

這裡是清代的「府前街」、日治時期總督府前的「本町通」；
1949年中華民國政府遷臺後，總督府成為總統府。
重慶南路見證了近代臺灣的權力交替與政經流轉，也帶動了附近區域的發展；
重慶南路是政經樞紐之路，也是充滿故事的道路。
臺北城中故事發生的舞台大抵在清代臺北城的範圍，涵括今天的館前路、重慶南路、衡陽路、中華路、博愛路，日治時期的表町、本町、榮町、大和町、京町一帶街區。這些街區在日治時期市區改正後，逐漸展現出現代化城市的面貌。這一帶商業活動蓬勃鼎盛，茶葉、圖書、銀行、藥品、攝影器材、百貨等百業聚集一應俱全，好不熱鬧。在城中故事裡，文史專家高傳棋、凌宗魁、鍾淑敏、蘇碩斌、林月先、徐明瀚引領讀者進入城中各個階段由生至衰、由沉潛再次轉型的軌跡。
城中重要的道路──重慶南路，是交通輻輳之地，緊鄰總統府、西門町、臺北火車站，與西門町、中華商場，形成一大商圈。這條路在清朝的舊名為「府前街」、「文武街」，在日治時期稱為「本町通り」，到了1947年重新命名為「重慶南路」。雖然只有短短三公里，卻曾經是政經文化的樞紐，連結起城中的繁榮，在1970-80年代達到顛峰。
在日治時期，因應都市計畫需求而形塑了現代風景，經過兩次市區改築，建築街景大致已形塑。1910年代市區改築時興建了臺北消防組、攝津館、臺灣書籍株式會社，在1920年代後期則設立了辰馬商會、日本生命保險株式會社臺北支店、三十四銀行臺北支店、新高旅館、西尾商店、辻利茶鋪、新高堂書店、臺灣銀行、總督府、臺北高等法院、民政長官官舍、臺北州立第一高等女學校等。在近二十年的拓展過程中，重慶南路的建築街景與地標於焉成形。
在1980年代以前，重慶南路書店林立，聲勢壯大，文字與思想在此匯聚交流，成為全世界華文圖書出版最重要的一條街。而書店街的歷史啟動器，就是來自日治時期的「新高堂」，1898年起創辦人村崎長昶從小型文具商發展為書店龍頭，於是新高堂書店、西尾商店、新起町一帶的東陽堂和鹿子島等，及榮町的文明堂、杉田等書店在一百年前形成書店街，並進行空間大改造。除了本町通和榮町通的日文書店外，大稻埕太平町也曾經發展出另一條書店街，如蔣渭水的文化書局、連雅堂的雅堂書局、謝雪紅的國際書局，儘管曇花一現，卻都是日治時期新文化傳播的重要據點。
戰後，隨國民政府撤退來臺的老字號商務印書館、中華書局、世界書局、正中書局，以及經銷教科書的臺灣書店、戰後第一間本土創辦的東方出版社、迄今仍具規模的三民書局、被譽為那個年代最好的文星書店……，都匯聚在重慶南路這塊沃土上。書街上各種知識與各式風景相互混雜。這些書店各有專擅，成為各個世代重要思想養分的汲取地。在白色恐怖時期，重慶南路書報攤是禁書的流通點，滋養並啟迪了黨外政治與思想。從臺灣書店、東方出版社，到中華書局、商務印書館、三民書局等編修辭典起家的書店，再轉到武昌街明星咖啡館的文化社群，街道騎樓上周夢蝶書攤子、禁書書攤和文星書店，蔚為一片生態盎然的書森林，作家季季因此寫下：「文星和明星，印刻了我來臺北後最早的寫作記憶。成為我日後不斷想要重返的生命場域。」還有西西：「經過周夢蝶的書攤子的時候，我們停下來看看有沒有甚麼書店裡不可能再找到的詩集。譬如：一些很舊的詩集，流速緩慢、流域不廣的詩集，靜默的詩集，等等。」曾幾何時，這片茂盛的書森林逐年凋落成零星的枝葉，令人不勝唏噓。
位於重慶南路與衡陽路口的星巴克，在日治時期曾經是「茶苦來山人」三好德三郎的辻利茶舖。三好德三郎在此販售老家的宇治綠茶和臺灣的烏龍茶，透過參與一場場茶葉共進會、博覽會，投入大量的行銷廣告，讓臺灣烏龍揚名國際。這位居臺四十年、埋骨台灣的日本名流也積極參與公益與政治活動，穿梭於官民之間調和鼎鼐，讓人們看到這位有「民間總督」之稱的三好德三郎精彩鮮活的人生。
走到中華路，戰後隨國民黨政府撤退來臺的軍民在1950-60年代於中華路鐵道旁搭起棚屋聚落，進行商業活動。棚屋拆除後，1960-80年代在新建的八棟「忠孝仁愛信義和平」中華商場聚集成繁華的景象，各式商品、各路人馬在此川流不息，形成中華路和中華路兩側地景與庶民生活變遷史。在中華商場裡的家鄉味餐館、學生制服訂製店、電子零件行、唱片行等商店，帶領人們神遊那段經濟起飛的年代，令人玩味。
本書時序涵蓋清領、日治至今，每頁故事既個別又半透明地相互疊合，其中的街廓紋理、城市歷史、建築、人物、產業都交互滲透在每個時代的切片裡。雖然現在重慶南路上旅館、藥妝店、餐廳取代了昔日的人文景觀，但過往仍一直留存在人們的記憶中，成為一幕幕生動的場景。昔日勝景不再，逝去的城區地景與記憶也無法逆轉，所幸我們仍可透過書籍的出版，重新捕捉重慶南路街區的歷史細節，比過去更了解過去。
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王惠君（國立臺灣科技大學建築所教授）
文自秀（有度出版社社長、藏書家）
石芳瑜（作家）
邱翊（台北城市散步執行長）
陳建守（「說書 Speaking of Books」創辦人）

美国革命是一次奇怪的革命。“在其他的革命中，人们拔剑出鞘是为了捍卫受到侵犯的自由，反抗那正在威胁着社会核心的压迫。”但很难说美国革命是由于这个爆发的。北美的保皇主义者彼得·奥利弗（Peter Oliver）批评说：“这是地球上从未有过的最胡闹和不自然的叛乱。”
对北美在 英国治理下的生活的优劣，可以用几个量化指标来做一个简单的审视。第一个指标是人均税负。以不列颠本土人民在1765年人均税负为100，弗吉尼亚、康涅狄格、纽约、马萨诸塞、马里兰、宾夕法尼亚诸州的税负只在2到4之间（0.1到0.22美元之间）。第二个指标是居民身高。英法七年战争期间美洲殖民地新兵的平均身高大约是1.727米，比同期的英国新兵的身高平均要高上7到8厘米。也就是说，几乎在200年前，殖民地人民的身高就达到了现代水平。根据常识，身高反映营养水平，间接反映生活水平。第三个指标是收入水平，1760年代北美人的人均收入是60美元（相当于现在的1920美元）。第四个指标是经济学家所估算出的英国贸易法规给北美施加的直接间接经济负担——平均每个人损失0.26美元。
无论如何，英国在北美的统治说不上严酷。正相反，可以说是善治的典范。正因为如此，当时的北美人民普遍都有英国认同。
那么，为什么北美还会独立出去，就是一个值得回答的问题。本书认为，要回答这个问题，需要我们转变两个旧观念：1，不要把北美的独立看作是殖民地对帝国的反抗，而应该看出，美国革命其实是一场英国内战。北美独立不是战争的起因和目的，而只是内战的结果；2，应该从英帝国的整体环境来考虑美国革命问题。
首先，与其说美洲革命是一场反抗暴政的起义，不如说这是一次“跳船”行动。从根源上来看，使北美人离心离德的原因，在于他们对英国统治的不放心。再具体一点，就是英国国内政治的弊陋和腐败导致它统治合法性的丧失。再追根溯源一点，就是十八世纪英国正在经历政治转型和社会转型，在这种转型中，君主立宪制与议会制的争斗、大众社会与大众政治的兴起、政治改革呼声与社会运动都在摧毁殖民地人民对英国政治的信心。直到1775年，殖民地人士都确定自己在处于一场由政治和社会腐败引发的宪法危机之中，这种危机心态极大的影响了他们对英国诸项殖民地政策的判断。
其次，英帝国的政治结构是有严重缺陷的，而这种缺陷反过来激发了北美与英国之间的矛盾。在长达十多年的时间里面，英美双方一直在寻找一条帝国框架下满足彼此需要的合法出路，他们思考了若干种方案，比如让北美向不列颠议会派出代表，或不列颠与北美组成共主体制，或成立帝国总议会，又或建立一个倾斜式双头帝国，但是这些方案都遇到了严重的困难而无法实行。
由于宪法结构上的缺陷，导致北美和不列颠两方的妥协空间减少，敏感性与脆弱性增高。
最后，不列颠人的应对实在不当。尽管从国王到大臣未必存心为恶，但是他们的反应却不好，一是回避真正的政治问题，把美洲问题简单归结为一小撮人野心作祟，把政治冲突庸俗化；二，在冲突显性化之后，却又实施“边缘政策”，又把政治斗争“零和”化。这些行动策略极严重的恶化了局势。
总之，本书的观点可总结为：
1.美国革命其实是一场英国内战，内战的结果是北美独立。
2.美国革命也是第二次英国革命——美国独立运动与英国革命之间存在继承关系。
3.18世纪英国的政治与社会转型制造着一场总危机，北美人士的抗争是英国抗争运动的一部分。
4.大英帝国的政治结构存在根本缺陷，这种结构上的缺陷转化成实际的政治对抗。
5.英国统治者无意镇压，北美抗争者无意决裂，但存在循环刺激，恶性升级。
6.在革命/改良的关键时刻，英式保守主义并不胜任。
最后，本书也提出，对美国独立这个案例的研究，有助于我们突破既有的国家分裂理论的限制（现实冲突视角、情感-心理视角、资源动员视角、政治过程视角等），从变迁、结构、话语、互动等更动态、更历史的角度来审视国家分裂问题。

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