CNN 互動英語 2022 年 7 月號 No.262 【有聲版】
CNN 互動英語 2022 年 7 月號 No.262 【有聲版】

Author: LiveABC編輯群

Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司

Published: 2022-06-30

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商業 Twitter Taken Over 馬斯克收購推特 社群媒體生態如何演變？ Elon Musk Purchases Social Media Giant, Raising Concerns 全球首富伊隆．馬斯克大手筆買下推特。馬斯克過去經常批評推特的言論審查制度，他的入主將為社群媒體生態帶來什麼影響呢？ 政治 Western Alliance 芬蘭瑞典申請加入北約 改寫歐洲安全版圖 Finland and Sweden Announce Plans to Join NATO 在外交方面長期採取中立原則的瑞典與芬蘭在五月中提交加入北約的申請，可能為歐洲地緣政治帶來重大改變。 經濟 The Inflation Problem 物價漲不停 通膨成因大解析 The Ins and Outs of the Rising Cost of Living 疫情、戰爭及供應鏈緊縮促使通貨膨脹加劇、物價高漲，CNN記者分析其中癥結及經濟形勢未來可能的走向。 環境 A Scrappy Success 廚餘變黃金 賦予剩食新生命 Uncovering Ways to Cut Down on Food Wastage 全球每年約有13億噸的食物被浪費掉，藉由資源分配和回收再利用，這些本來可能被丟棄的剩食有了新的價值。 體育 Techno Gyms 居家健身新潮流 宅在家也要動起來！ Blending Technology with Fitness for At-Home Workouts 疫情大流行開啟居家健身的風潮，運動用品公司嗅到新商機，開發出互動式健身器材，讓用戶在家也能享有如上健身房的健身體驗。 娛樂 To Boldly Go 星際爭霸戰推出最新影集 勇闖奇異新世界 “Star Trek” Seeks a New Generation of Fans with “Strange New Worlds” 《星際爭霸戰》迷期待的最新影集登場！故事背景設定在最初系列的十年前，主角是企業號的派克艦長。劇中新生代演員分享演出的感想。 科技 Served by Machines 智能機器人進駐飯店 清消、接待一把罩 Robots Are Making Their Mark on the Hospitality Industry 為因應數位轉型，許多餐旅業者開始將送餐、清潔與消毒、接待等勞動性質的工作讓機器人代勞，使工作人員更有餘力提供高品質的服務。 美食 Indulgence and Opulence 從傳統小點到極品火腿 跟著老饕品嚐歐陸美食 Richard Quest Explores the Delights of Dining in Russia 主廚馬納察卡諾夫帶著理查．奎斯特品味東歐傳統小吃，還有聖彼得堡的超人氣歐陸料理餐廳。 保育 Blue Fingers 海中苗圃 讓珊瑚復育看見希望 Coral Gardening Helps to Save Jamaica’s Coral Reefs 珊瑚在海中扮演著不可或缺的角色，在珊瑚園丁的細心照料下，海洋保護區內的珊瑚逐漸恢復生機，連帶也讓更多海洋生物回歸了。 環境 The Dry and Golden State 加州嚴重乾旱 美西面臨缺水危機 Californians Asked to Restrict Water Usage in the Face of Droughts 連年的乾旱使得美國南加州嚴重缺水，當地水務局採取了前所未見的限水措施，甚至限制民眾一周僅有一天可在戶外澆水。 焦點話題 insurance claims 保險理賠 plateau 高原期 monkeypox 猴痘 defamation 誹謗 CNN 全球瞭望 Philippines Elects New President 菲律賓前獨裁者之子當選總統 Abortion Rights Protests in America 美擬推翻墮胎權 國內抗議四起 Giraffe Reborn with Limb Surgery 矯正義肢讓長頸鹿寶寶重獲新生 談天說地話英文 全方位理解CNN Hero Doctor Stops Gunman at Taiwanese Church in LA 加州教堂槍擊案 台裔醫師捨身救人 新聞片語通 take sth. with a grain of salt 對某事持保留態度 CNN主編教你唸 配菜、醬料名稱 單字聯想地圖 餐廳用餐

How Race Is Lived in America
How Race Is Lived in America

Author: Correspondents of The New York Times

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780805070842

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A collection of essays which attempt to capture the raw emotions and candid words which often surround race relations in the United States.

American Opinion on Trade
American Opinion on Trade

Author: Alexandra Guisinger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0190651830

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Introduction -- The changing landscape of trade and trade knowledge -- Trade preferences and politics -- Economic vulnerability, self-interest, and individual trade preferences -- Community and trade preferences -- Racial diversity and white Americans' support for trade protection -- The negative perceptions of trade's national effect -- Could positive information shift national level beliefs? -- Conclusions -- References

Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules
Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules

Author: S. F. Sun

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-01-28

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0471281387

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Integrating coverage of polymers and biological macromolecules into a single text, Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules is carefully structured to provide a clear and consistent resource for beginners and professionals alike. The basic knowledge of both biophysical and physical polymer chemistry is covered, along with important terms, basic structural properties and relationships. This book includes end of chapter problems and references, and also: Enables users to improve basic knowledge of biophysical chemistry and physical polymer chemistry. Explores fully the principles of macromolecular chemistry, methods for determining molecular weight and configuration of molecules, the structure of macromolecules, and their separations.

An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility
An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility

Author: Michelle Ciurria

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1000024849

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This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It accomplisheses four main goals. First, it outlines a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. Second, it uses these principles to critique prevailing philosophical theories of moral responsibility. Third, it offers an account of moral responsibility that is compatible with the ethos of intersectional feminism. And fourth, it uses intersectional feminist principles to critique culturally normative responsibility practices. This is the first book to provide an explicitly intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. After identifying the five principles central to intersectional feminism, the author demonstrates how influential theories of responsibility are incompatible with these principles. She argues that a normatively adequate theory of blame should not be preoccupied with the agency or traits of wrongdoers; it should instead underscore, and seek to ameliorate, oppression and adversity as experienced by the marginalized. Apt blame and praise, according to her intersectional feminist account, is both communicative and functionalist. The book concludes with an extensive discussion of culturally embedded responsibility practices, including asymmetrically structured conversations and gender- and racially biased social spaces. An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Moral Responsibility presents a sophisticated and original philosophical account of moral responsibility. It will be of interest to philosophers working at the crossroads of moral responsibility, feminist philosophy, critical race theory, queer theory, critical disability studies, and intersectionality theory.

Big Intel
Big Intel

Author: J. Michael Waller

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1684514339

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Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL. How the Left Subverted the CIA and FBI Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America’s enemies at home and abroad. Now they are tools of a growing police state, attacking the left’s political enemies and spying on ordinary American citizens—even parents who push back against radical public schools. How did we get here? In this revealing and thoroughly documented book, a former CIA operative traces the origins of Big Intel to a loose network of Marxist academic agitators known as the Frankfurt School. Their ideology appealed to the Ivy League elites populating the CIA, but the subversion of the FBI took longer, impeded for a time by the bureau’s staunchly anti-Communist director, J. Edgar Hoover. Eventually both institutions succumbed, and today Big Intel is controlled by the cultural Marxists. Chronicling the parasitic infiltration of the CIA and FBI, Big Intel shows how normal intelligence functions have given way to political correctness and never-ending “pride” propaganda, trap- ping agents in the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” house of mirrors. Most chilling of all is the emergence of the leftist security state. Big Intel has become Bad Intel. There are hard times ahead, but if Americans remember what freedom once was, we can still defang Big Intel and return our intelligence services to the service of democracy.

The Realities and Futures of Work
The Realities and Futures of Work

Author: David Peetz

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1760463116

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What do we know about the current realities of work and its likely futures? What choices must we make and how will they affect those futures? Many books about the future of work start by talking about the latest technology, and focus on how technology is going to change the way we work. And there is no doubt that technology will have huge impacts. However, to really understand the direction in which work is going, and the impact that technology and other forces will have, we need to first understand where we are. This book covers topics ranging from the ‘mega-drivers of change’ at work, power, globalisation and financialisation, to management, workers, digitalisation, the gig economy, gender, climate change, regulation and deregulation. In doing this, it refers to some of the great works of science fiction. It demolishes several myths, such as that the employment relationship is doomed, that we are all heading to becoming ‘freelancers’ or ‘gig workers’ one day, that most jobs will be destroyed by technological change, that the growth in jobs will mainly be in STEM fields, that we will no longer value collectivism as we will all be ‘individuals’, or that the death of unionism is inevitable. The Realities and Futures of Work also rejects the idea of technological determinism—that whatever will be, will be, thanks to technological change—and so it refuses to accept that we simply need to prepare to adapt ourselves to the future by judicious training since there is nothing else we can do about it. Instead, this book provides a realistic basis for thinking about both the present and the future. It emphasises the choices we make, and the implications of those choices for the future of work.

The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758
The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

Author: Hugh Boscawen

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0806150254

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Louisbourg, France's impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island's foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years' War—only for British forces to suffer successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and France, as well as Indian nations caught in the rivalry, fought for high stakes: the future of colonial America. Hugh Boscawen describes how Britain's war minister William Pitt launched four fleets in a coordinated campaign to prevent France from reinforcing Louisbourg. As the author shows, the Royal Navy outfought its opponents before General Jeffery Amherst and Brigadier James Wolfe successfully led 14,000 British regulars, including American-born redcoats, rangers, and carpenters, in a hard-fought assault landing. Together they besieged the fortress, which surrendered after forty-nine days. The victory marked a turning point in British fortunes and precipitated the end of French rule in North America. Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the question "What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?" The result is the most comprehensive history of this strategically important campaign ever written.

Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments
Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments

Author: Enrique Murgui

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 3319433148

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This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the urban matrix. Authored by leading scientists in this emergent field, the chapters explore how the characteristics of the habitat in urban environments influence bird communities and populations at multiple levels of ecological organization and at different spatial and temporal scales, and how this information should be incorporated in urban planning to achieve an effective conservation of bird fauna in urban environments. Birds are among the most conspicuous and fascinating residents of urban neighborhoods and provide urban citizens with everyday wildlife contact all over the world. However, present urbanization trends are rapidly depleting their habitats, and thus knowledge of urban bird ecology is urgently needed if birds are to thrive in cities. The book is unique in its inclusion of examples from all continents (except Antarctica) in an effort to arrive at a more holistic perspective. Among other issues, the individual chapters address the censusing of birds in urban green spaces; the relationship between bird communities and the structure of urban green spaces; the role of exotic plant species as food sources for urban bird fauna; the influence of artificial light and pollutants on bird fauna; trends in long-term urban bird research, and transdisciplinary studies on bird sounds and their effects on humans. Several chapters investigate how our current knowledge of the ecology of urban bird fauna should be applied in order to achieve better management of urban habitats so as to achieve conservation of species or even increase species diversity. The book also provides a forward-looking summary on potential research directions. As such, it provides a valuable resource for urban ecologists, urban ecology students, landscape architects, city planners, decision makers and anyone with an interest in urban ornithology and bird conservation. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive overview for researchers in the fields of ecology and conservation of urban bird fauna.