作者以其豐富的學識，廣泛而獨特的服務經歷，加上多年來在中小學主任校長儲訓班、大學、文官培訓所和各種訓練機構講授「創意思考與問題解決」課程累積的實務經驗，寫成本書「實用彈性思考法」，也就是通稱的「創意思考法」。
本書涵蓋\「彈性思考法」的理論與實務，而且實務部分多於理論部分。蒐羅內容廣泛：從文字到圖形；從語文到數理；從本國語文到外國語文；從人文到科技；從日常生活到學術研究等等。
本書是難得一見的整合性創意思考讀物，通俗平易卻又趣味盎然。閱\讀本書有如閱\讀數本創意思考的書籍。

為什麼這時候必須重新了解中國大陸？從來沒有像現在這樣，對岸如此逼近台灣。無論同意與否，中國大陸都將是影響台灣未來最重要的關鍵！然而，有多少人真正深入了解中國大陸？

　　資深新聞工作者楊渡，以八年的時間，深度的研究探索，不僅從政治、軍事、經濟的上層架構，更從社會、文化、人口的下層結構，為你全面揭開「謎樣中國」的神秘面紗！

這是一本記載李模先生一生關心世人、致力法治教育工作的點滴想法。內容含括李模先生的人生哲學、教育理念、法務經驗、對司法、對政治的期許等等。身為知識分子，李模先生對國家社會的理想抱負在本書表露無遺。
　

實力，不會永遠存在；經營是永遠的挑戰與創造。泡沫經濟的氾濫決堤、日圓巨幅升值的打擊，傳統日本企業制勝的模式被畫上了問號……。然而，日本企業愈挫愈強、屢闖佳績，除了掌握消費趨勢、靈活運用資訊、提供多樣化產品與服務外，日本如何在組織拆解、重組、凝聚後，再度崛起？

1997年底，金融風暴席捲亞洲，也撼動韓國。當時韓國外債高築，國家經濟瀕臨破產，一向好強爭第一的民族自尊心也幾乎瓦解。從五年前外匯存底只有三十多億美元，到今天一千一百多億，居世界第五；從失業人口逼近兩百萬、失業率六．八％，降到今天三．一％；從負成長，到經濟成長率居亞洲四小龍之冠；韓國經歷怎樣「鐵與淚」的改造過程，才能東山再起？韓國從經濟陰霾復甦的同時，為什麼還能搖身一變，成為文化輸出國？

反敗為勝的漢江奇蹟
真正的重整，勢必痛苦，也勢必漫長。再生的韓國，漸漸看到風暴後的黎明。五年後的今天，南韓以七百萬街頭歡欣鼓舞的「紅魔鬼」，展現信心與活力，一掃過去陰霾。
是什麼樣的精神、願景與策略，使一個製造代工國，擁有創造流行的能力？使一個原本在強鄰夾縫中求生存的小國，站上世界舞台，展現新創實力？團結、強悍、充滿朝氣的韓國，又可以給企圖轉型的台灣什麼新啟示？本書的第一手深入報導，從政治、經濟改革，到韓劇、韓片、資訊產品、線上遊戲、美容整形，解開南韓反敗為勝的祕訣。

過去保險產品導向的保險銷售已宣告結束，以客戶財務保障需求為導向的時代已經開始。客戶所買的是整體財務安全計劃，而非個別的保險產品。保險業務員的銷售過程與客戶的購買過程是相容的；保險業務員最重要的工作，在於引導客戶正確選擇適宜的保險計劃。保險業務員的第一要務不是推銷保險產品，而是與客戶溝通財務安全計劃。
　　在本書中，作者先以介紹歷史的軌跡，逐步舖陳保險業務員的發展空間。接著以法律與保險公司的角度，定義保險業務員；同時藉由介紹保險公司的運作，闡述保險業務員的正當行為；第三章中，作者強調經營保險業的經營理念對保險事業的成功具有決定性的影響力。最後，從第四章到第六章，作者從新入行的保險業務員的發展一路介紹到成熟的階段。當然，比重最多的部分是說明新保險業務員建立保險事業基礎的階段。其次在本書的附錄部分，作者也針對比較爭議的一些話題，例如經營保險事業的第一季、保險代理人與經紀人、業務與管理的事業途徑與跳槽問題，提出個人的看法。
　

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Jack London was born in a poor family and lived a very short life. He had a long list of jobs, writer and journalist were among them. Call of the Wild remains his most famous book. 

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born into a Polish family who lived in the Ukraine. At the age of sixteen he went to sea, and later joined the British Merchant Navy, becoming a Master Mariner and a British citizen in 1886. After twenty years at sea, he came to live in England, where he wrote many famous novels, including Lord Jim, Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, and The Secret Agent.

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Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of England's greatest novelists. Born into a poor family (his father was once imprisoned for debt), Dickens became both rich and famous in his lifetime.

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Two young look-alikes in 16th-century England decide to trade clothes and roles, a situation that drastically alters the lives of both. This timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's best-loved novels.

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When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

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Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of ark Twain?-- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.

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O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), most famous for his clever use of twist endings in his stories.

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Guliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was read "from Cabinet-council to the Nursery". Written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) it was and still is one of the greatest satires written on human nature.

Captain Lemuel Gulliver takes voyages that end up at four fantastic places. The Lilliputians are only six inches tall. The land of Brobdingnag is populated with beings over sixty feet tall. He also visits a series of lands peopled by the most impratical groups. Lastly he visits a land ruled by horses where men are the laboring brutes.

Guliver's Travels was rated by George Orwell as one of the six most indispensable books in the world.

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The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.

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Dickens himself prepared this text from the novel especially for his own public readings he frequently gave of his works.

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Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.

Biography
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.

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Expertly retold to appeal to second to fourth graders, as well as older reluctant readers, each of the beautiful, high-quality books in the Classic Starts series is a literary treasure.

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The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Caitlyn Payne - Children's Literature
What does a young boy do when he witnesses a murder but is terrified the murderer will come after him and kill him if he tells anyone what he saw? This terrible quandary is just one of the trials young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn face after they see a man killed. On top of this worry about being attacked by the murderer, Tom has to deal with a meddlesome aunt, an ornery teacher, and a pretty girl who does not respond to his schoolboy affection. Quite an adventure for a boy who started his summer trying to get out of having to whitewash a picket fence! Fans of adventure stories, mystery buffs, or readers who enjoyed getting into scrapes with Tom years ago will enjoy this tale of a mischievous boy and his assorted pranks, trials, and intrigues. The book is funny, interesting, and thought provoking. Readers may be put off by archaic language and slang, but once you get beyond the printed words, Tom Sawyer is a wonderful book about a loveable boy who could not stay out of trouble. Part of the "Adventure Classics" series. 2005 (orig. 1876), HarperCollins, Ages 8 to 12.

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An American family moves into Canterville Chase, rumored to be a haunted house. But the skeptical Americans do not believe in ghosts—not, that is, until their daughter Virginia disappears after a series of uncanny incidents. Full color.

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A celebrated and feared English ghost is outraged when the new American owners of his haunting place refuse to take him seriously and actually fight back against him.

Biography
The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde once said, "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts.

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Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to observe the suspects at close hand.

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When a second member of the Baskerville family dies, Sherlock Holmes investigates and finds murderous greed behind the supposed curse.

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Young Martians start elementary school in this reassuring comedy, the debut of the First Graders from Mars series, in which the hero longs for the good old days of "martiangarten." Horus, a froggy-looking child with prehensile tentacles on his chartreuse head, becomes confused in his new classroom. "Where are the snooze mats? Where are the snacks?" he asks. "First graders are too big for those things," scoffs a reptilian girl with lilac hair. Horus's pink-and-green-spotted teacher (who "had eyes in the back of her head. And in the front. And on the sides") purses her lips with concern. Corey (You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!) believably depicts Horus's embarrassment and his conflict with his mother, who literally drags him to school the next day. While the author doesn't examine Horus's confident classmates, she shows how Horus encourages another scared student to be brave. Teague (How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?) sets the action amid a Seussian landscape of spiky mountains, purple volcanoes and green anemone with eyeballs on their stalks. His bug-eyed, rubbery-limbed aliens perform familiar tasks in comical ways (Horus reads upside-down, balancing on his own face). Like Dan Yaccarino's First Day on a Strange New Planet, this universal drama takes a shrewd but optimistic look at first grade. Ages 5-7. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Biography
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.

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Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of England's greatest novelists. Born into a poor family (his father was once imprisoned for debt), Dickens became both rich and famous in his lifetime.

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Published thirty years after the Civil War, this "impressionistic" American classic tells a war story in a thoroughly modern way - without a trace of romanticizing. Through the eyes of ordinary soldier Henry Fleming, we follow his psychological turmoil, from the excitement of patriotism to the bloody realities of battle and his flight from it. In the end, he overcomes his fear and disillusionment, and fights with courage.

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In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in New Jersey and was the last of fourteen children. While The Red Badge of Courage is considered Crane's masterpiece, he is also known for another brilliant yet grim work of fiction, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1893), as well as his poetry and journalism. Crane moved to Europe in 1897 and died in Germany at the age of twenty-nine from tuberculosis.

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A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years without trial by the aristocratic authorities. Finally released, he is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay, another expatriate, who has abandoned wealth and a title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but there he is arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. His wife, Lucie, their young daughter, and her aged father follow him across the Channel, thus putting all their lives in danger.

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This novel provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history, during the French Revolution.

全書由八篇報導組成，這些案件都曾震撼社會、轟動一時，報導中的主角是黑社會中呼風喚雨的老大、走私軍火的私梟、地方上令人聞之喪膽的角頭、纏訟十三年，被判十二次死刑與六次無罪的小老百姓、旅館中的斷頭男屍、私宰集團的首腦……。

記者透過管道，得到黑道大哥的首肯與「邀請」，有機會與他在日本同進同出十天，透過近距離的細微觀察與紀錄，描繪出事情的一層面相、某個角度。社會上有一個角落、有一群人，沒有人瞭解他們的世界，甚至更明白地說，在冷漠的現今也沒有多少人想去瞭解，他們沒有機會向世人吐露他們身為這個社會一員的心聲。而書中的記者「我」，他只是盡記者的職責，竭盡所能找到前往這個世界的通道，讓我們看到了人人置身其中的這個社會的一面。

本書為「異同、影響與轉換：文學越界學術研討會——2005青年文學會議」所發表的14篇論文結集，論文主題多樣、內容紮實，顯現台灣文學越過文字的框架，延展至電影、繪畫、戲曲、科技等範疇，綻放無限丰姿，充分實踐會議主題之「越界」性格。書中更附每篇論文講評、專輯演講內容、座談會記錄、觀察報告，以及會議側記等，重現研討會精華。

 

莫泊桑（1850-1893）
　　莫泊桑1850年生於法國，是法國自然主義小說家。由於父母感情不睦，於是他從小就和弟弟隨母親一同生活。十三歲時，進入伊斯佛特神學校，開始寫詩；十七歲進入盧昂的高級中學，認識詩人路易‧布依耶，該年秋天與福樓拜會面，成為他的弟子。他在小說敘述的精緻方面，完全承繼了福樓拜的創作方法，而全局的架構和題材的取擷，則是青出於藍勝於藍。1880年，他在左拉所主編的《棉蘭夜譚》中發表《脂肪球》，極受矚目，奠立作家的地位；隨後，又發表了重要作品《女人的一生》、《溫泉鄉之戀》等長篇小說，以及三百多篇短篇小說，贏得短篇小說之王的美譽。1890年為精神病所困，1893年死於巴塞精神病院。

　　莫泊桑曾寫過不少長篇小說，但是以短篇小說最突出，被譽為「世界短篇小說之王」。他認真觀察生活，善於從平凡鎖碎的事物中截取富有意義的片斷，以精巧奇特的布局，構思耐人尋味的故事情節，維妙維肖的細節描寫，刻畫小人物的內心活動，結局均能啟發人的省思，意義深遠，值得你我細細品讀。本書蒐錄六篇莫泊桑的短篇小說——家庭、菲菲小姐、蠻子母親、項鍊、雨傘、西蒙的父親。〈家庭〉描述平凡的藍領階級哈樂翁先生，向來過著正常生活，一天，他那吝嗇的母親突然昏倒不省人事，大家都以為她死了，貪婪的哈樂翁太太立即慫恿哈樂翁先生，將他母親值錢的東西都搬回家，不料沒多久，他母親突然「復活」，這對夫婦該如何面對這個難纏的老太婆呢？〈菲菲小姐〉的故事發生在法國，普魯士軍入侵法國，佔領伊威爾宅邸，縱情享樂的普魯士軍官召來法國妓女狂歡——「菲菲小姐」，其中一個軍官，他冷酷好戰，最後卻死於妓女手裡，宴會裡到底發生了什麼事？看下去就知道！〈蠻子母親〉的故事發生在普法戰爭時，四個被燒死的和善孩子和一個被人槍斃的母親，交織成一個悲慘壯烈的故事，令人不勝唏噓。〈項鍊〉——「如果當時沒有丟掉那件首飾，她現在會變成什麼樣呢？誰知道？人生真是奇怪，沒有一定，無論是害您或者救您，只需要出一點點差錯。」為了一條不值錢的「項鍊」，洛賽爾太太從一個美麗安逸的婦人，變成一個貧苦耐操的家庭主婦，其間發生了什麼事？結局叫人拍案叫絕，更發人深省！

住在恆石森林的鱷魚伊凡是個伐木工。
伐木工是個有益森林的重要工作。
前來森林遊玩的達洋，
伊凡跟牠說了一件心裡的祕密……

◎池田晶子創作的架空國度
　　在很久很久以前，瓦奇菲爾德其實是地球的一部分，然而神族與巨人族之間長年征戰不斷，擔心國土遭受破壞的雪之神，便將瓦奇菲爾德與地球切離，並命雪狼與霜狼守護。經過時間的流逝，地球有了急遽的變化；然而，瓦奇菲爾德仍保有舊時的古老風俗習慣，站立行走的動物們，依然舉辦各式各樣的祭典。

　　而原本生活在地球上的貓咪達洋，經由一場雪魔法的帶領下，來到了瓦奇菲爾德國度。在這個國度裡，達洋認識了鱷魚伊凡、兔子瑪西……並且成為了好朋友。他們在大森林裡展開一段又一段的故事，經歷充滿魔法、妖精與惡作劇的奇幻冒險，逐漸揭開這個不可思議國度的秘密喔！

◎什麼是「瓦奇菲爾德（Wachifield）」？
　　瓦奇菲爾德是池田晶子創造出的一個架空的國度；也是一家追求皮革創作的無限可能性的皮革製品專門店。這兩者之間的關聯是如何產生的？

　　大學畢業後的池田老師，透過母親開始學習皮革創作。剛開始創作的多為實用性為主的皮件等，但對繪畫抱持相當興趣的池田老師，想藉由皮革從事藝術創作，於是開始創作以皮革為素材的人偶，之後甚至受邀參加法國的人偶嘉年華展。

「人的潛力是無窮的」這是句人人耳熟能詳的話，但是，人們的潛能究竟有多大，要如何將它開發出來運用？恐怕就沒幾個人知道了。「腦內革命」提醒人們，人類的大腦是個可以無限提供潛能的製造廠，它可以治療癌症、可以增強記憶力、可以改善人際關係、更可以讓你成為一位快樂、健康的生活家。

　　這本書闡述的正是開發大腦潛能最有效的方法，已經有數百萬人因此獲益，強勢震憾醫界、心理學界、運動界、教育界、娛樂界、商界與政界！

　　本書作者出生於傳統醫療世家，而後進入東京大學醫學院研習西方醫學，有感於現代醫學的偏執，遂結合東、西方醫學，以建立真正有益人體健康的醫療體系。透過作者本身為醫師的專業眼光，我們可以得知醫藥治癒人體的效果有限，而創造美滿人生的基本根源，其實在於自己本身。

　　本書參照醫學與生理觀點，以簡易平實的方式敘述大腦的重要性，和積極的正面思考對人生所產生的影響力；另外，該如何落實預防重於治療的概念，藉助飲食、運動和冥想三方面的努力，創造腦內荷爾蒙分最佳環境，促使其發揮功能，達到健康長壽的目的。因此藉由此書，我們可以學習到：
受左腦教育的父母該如何有效教育出能開展右腦的孩子
如何運用關鍵的食物、運動與冥想交互作用來產生不可思議的生命能量
如何訓練難以控制的潛意識，成功達到目標
遠離疾病威脅，健康活到125歲的秘訣
短期內讓自己生活、工作與愛情變得美好的方法

腦內革命在二十世紀即將結束的幾年掀起了爆發性的全民運動，這股「人人需要腦內革命」的熱潮，延燒到今天，仍被認為是開發大腦潛能最有效的方法。作者春山茂雄本身即是學貫東西的醫生，他所傳述的健康管理術，「易懂可行」是最主要成功的關鍵。

　　《腦內革命２》的內容即著重於促進身心蓬勃發展的實踐法，特別是解析左、右腦的功能，春山茂雄先生一方面探討比較艱深的腦生物學理論，一方面也詳細說明培養腦內嗎啡的方法，亦即在正面思考的同時，如何搭配正確的飲食、運動與冥想，促使體內分泌更多有益身心的腦內嗎啡；書中附加生動的圖解說明，並且提示舒展體操、穴道按摩及有效步行等具體方法。

　　作者主張積極練習透過腦內嗎啡的運作，建立正確的生活方式、光明正大的生活方式、不受人譴責的生活方式、快樂又充實的生活方式，一旦掌握了這樣的生理機制，人們本身便是一個自足圓滿的免疫機構，或是潛能製造工廠，順境、逆境完全自己營生。其實，這種自身重建信心的方法與生活方式就是一種「自我實現」，因為它帶給人生快樂，自然可以年輕、健康與長壽。