CNN 互動英語 2022 年 9 月號 No.264 【有聲版】

CNN 互動英語 2022 年 9 月號 No.264 【有聲版】
Author: LiveABC編輯群
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2022-08-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
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人物 The Man with Big Dreams 重塑日本國際地位的首相──安倍晉三 Remembering Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 日本前首相安倍晉三在7月8日遇刺身亡,世人震驚哀悼。安倍縱橫政壇30年,是日本史上在位時間最長的首相,本文回顧他的政治生涯及遺緒。 政治 A Tumultuous Reign 任期內風波不斷 英首相強生黯然辭職 Boris Johnson Steps Down as UK Prime Minister amid Scandals 英國首相鮑里斯.強生艱難完成脫歐任務,但也遭醜聞纏身,聲勢暴跌。他於7月初宣布辭去黨魁一職,結束近三年的首相任期。 科學 Shots of the Universe 韋伯望遠鏡傳回你從未見過的宇宙景象 The James Webb Space Telescope Beams Back Its First Full-Color Pictures 斥資一百億美元打造的詹姆斯.韋伯太空望遠鏡回傳第一批全彩的宇宙影像,以前所未有的細節揭露遙遠星系、星雲的奧秘,讓科學界讚嘆不已。 政治 The Flying Fortress 普丁的空中堡壘──末日飛機 Russia’s Plane Designed to Evacuate Officials in Case of a Nuclear Attack 據說設計用來在核戰中作為俄國高層空中堡壘及作戰司令部的「末日飛機」相隔多年,再度於俄國勝利日閱兵彩排中現蹤,引發國際關注。 環境 The Land Threatened 極端氣候下的國家公園生態危機 America’s National Parks Are Affected by Climate Change 位於美國本土的國家公園有超過百分之七十面臨氣候變遷的衝擊,包含洪水、極端氣溫、乾旱及野火,對這些珍貴的地景造成極大威脅。 美食 Flame-Grilled Greatness 正宗德州烤肉 讓你食指大動! Sampling the Smoky Taste of Texan Barbecue 看似豪邁奔放的德州烤肉其實蘊含著廚師累積多年的經驗和細膩手藝,跟著理查.奎斯特一窺「燒烤大師」的獨門祕方! 商業 To Return or Not to Return 在家上班?回公司上班?職場的新兩難 Employers and Employees Clash over Working from Home 過去兩年疫情期間的居家辦公經驗讓求職者更傾向選擇有彈性的辦公模式,另一方面,企業主則希望員工回歸辦公室,掀起一波雇主與員工間的角力。 社會 Classroom Defenders 防堵校園槍擊事件 教師受訓對抗槍手 Teachers in the US Are Undergoing Training to Face Active Shooters 近期美國一連串槍擊事件讓校園安全蒙上陰影,學校教職員報名警方開設的用槍訓練班,希望能在危險情況發生時把傷害降到最低。 文化 A Priceless Palace 珍藏中華瑰寶 香港故宮文化博物館開幕 China’s Cultural Treasures Find Another Home in Hong Kong 香港故宮文化博物館於7月盛大開幕,9座展廳中展出逾900件中華文化瑰寶,包含166件一級文物,可看性十足! 旅遊 Lisbon Rejuvenated 全球旅遊大復甦 里斯本的魅力再現 Portugal’s Tourism Industry Is Bouncing Back in the Post-Pandemic Era 葡萄牙首都里斯本走過歐債危機、新冠疫情,要用充滿陽光的海岸線、美酒、甜點和豐富的人文寶藏重新迎接全世界的旅人。 焦點話題 CNN 全球瞭望 Monkeypox Cases on the Rise 猴痘病例大增 專家憂疫情爆發 Hidden Secret in van Gogh Painting 梵谷畫中發現隱藏的自畫像 The World’s Deepest Shipwreck Discovered 史上最深的沉船在太平洋現蹤 談天說地話英文 全方位理解CNN The Buzz about Bees 智慧科技蜂箱 拯救瀕危的蜜蜂 新聞片語通 單字聯想地圖 露營英語 CNN主編教你唸 料理方式

Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability

Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability
Author: Giancarlo Frosio
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2020
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198837135

This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and state-of-the-art discussion of fundamental legal issues in intermediary liability online, while also describing advancement in intermediary liability theory and identifying recent policy trends.

India-Taiwan Relations in Asia and Beyond

India-Taiwan Relations in Asia and Beyond
Author: Jagannath P. Panda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: India
ISBN: 9788182749047

Covers a wide spectrum of India-Taiwan relations in bilateral and regional contexts and beyond. The book promotes a possible strategic deliberation that the importance of India-Taiwan relation may not necessarily be confined to the bilateral context. It contextualises the vitality of Asia and beyond in India-Taiwan relations and analyses potential areas of strength where they can cooperate in the future.

Campaign Finance Reform

Campaign Finance Reform
Author: Melissa M. Smith
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2010-06-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0739145673

For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially manipulate the new laws. Campaign Finance Reform: The Political Shell Game provides an in-depth look at the history of political campaign finance reform with special emphasis on legislative, FEC, and federal court actions from the 1970s to present. In particular, the authors examine the ways that campaigns and independent groups have sought to make end-runs around existing campaign finance rules. Oftentimes the loopholes they find make a significant impact on an election, sparking the next round of campaign finance reform. New rules are then enacted, and new loopholes are found. Like a big political shell game, the amount of money in politics never actually decreases, but instead gets moved around from one organization to another.

Easter Island

Easter Island
Author: John Loret
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2003-08-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780306474941

Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown. Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World's Environmental Problems in Microcosm presents the research results from three years of interdisciplinary expeditions to Easter Island. The primary objectives were to investigate the effects of human population growth on the ecology of the island and to discover whether any dramatic climatic changes such as a prolonged El Niño could have disrupted the island's fragile ecosystem. The interdisciplinary scientific team were mainly researching the paleontology, archaeology, climatology, and geophysics of the island. This book now brings together the results of the three expeditions, identifies new areas of research, and hopefully will continue to inspire aspiring scientists to revisit this amazing island to explore and demystify this timeless enigma of human history.

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups
Author: L. Sandy Maisel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019160920X

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that will help scholars assess the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move. Never before has the academic literature on political parties received such an extended treatment. Twenty nine chapters critically assess both the major contributions to the literature and the ways in which it has developed. With contributions from most of the leading scholars in the field, the volume provides a definitive point of reference for all those working in and around the area. Equally important, the authors also identify areas of new and interesting research. These chapters offer a distinctive point of view, an argument about the successes and failures of past scholarship, and a set of recommendations about how future work ought to develop. This volume will help set the agenda for research on political parties and interest groups for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

Urban Informatics

Urban Informatics
Author: Wenzhong Shi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811589836

This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.

Rick Grimes 2000

Rick Grimes 2000
Author: Robert Kirkman
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781534322233

Beyond THE WALKING DEAD... RICK GRIMES2000! RickGrimes was a small-town police officer. Then the world fell to the walking dead.But the dead were only the start... and a new tale of alien horror beginshere. Superstarwriter Robert Kirkman (INVINCIBLE, FIRE POWER) and superstar artist Ryan Ottley(INVINCIBLE, Amazing Spider-Man) present the wildest WALKING DEAD story ever.This hardcover collects the entire RICK GRIMES 2000 story originally serializedin the pages of SKYBOUND X. SUPERHEROES, HORROR

Asymmetry in Plants

Asymmetry in Plants
Author: Bir Bahadur
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429960700

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in some but not in other plants. The book will underscore tha all phenomena related to handedness start during embryogenesis itself, with the occurrence of embryo rotation. Key selling features: First consolidated book on Plant Handedness Relates handedness, asymmetry and chirality to the evolution of different organizational levels in plant biology Emphasizes handedness as a vital governing force in plant functional evolution Provides a new perspective, hitherto ignored, into plant developemtn and evolution Describes how an age-old phenomenon can give scope for investigation from a very modern interdisciplinary approach