Monday, August 11, 2025

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt
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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, the New York Post, and Town & Country The Goodreads Choice Award Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the PEN Literary Awards

A must-listen for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.” —Shannon Carlin, TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024


After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height") lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

古人原來很會過日子 : 從衣食住行到婚戀職場, 古人自有好辦法

王磊
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★暢銷書《古人原來這樣過日子》作者「講歷史的王老師」再次鮮榨趣味歷史,
帶你看清最真實的古人,滿足你對古人日常生活的全部好奇。
★超過500萬次讀者點贊、1.7億次播放的抖音大號「講歷史的王老師」全新作品,
從衣食住行到婚戀職場,涵蓋古代日常生活的方方面面。
★6大類主題,53個話題,近60張珍貴史料插圖,帶你穿越遊走歷史現場。


古人一週上幾天班?古人要加班嗎?古代的薪水高嗎?古代老師的待遇好嗎?……

你知道古人結婚也要送彩禮(聘禮)嗎?先秦的時候士大夫喜歡送大雁,因為古人認為大雁一聲只有一個配偶,象徵著忠貞不渝的愛情。平民則歡送花椒,因為花椒的果實數量繁多,表達了古人對子孫興旺的美好願望。

古代的房價高嗎?漢朝的房價簡直是「白菜價」。普通人一兩年的工資就能夠在小城市買一間房了。唐朝的房價就不那麼友善了,官至吏部侍郎的韓愈,居然用了三十年才存夠買房子的錢。宋朝的房價更是高得離譜,蘇轍晚年在汴梁買房子花的錢,需要一個普通人至少一百二十年不吃不喝才能存夠……

本書作者是位中學歷史老師,歷史底蘊深厚不說,最難得的是擁有幽默的天賦把歷史講成一個又一個好笑的段子,用最日常的生活瑣事解答了你對古人生活的所有疑問,從衣食住行講到社會文化,覆蓋古人生活的各個方面。每一個腦洞大開的問題背後,都有可靠的史料支撐,既漲知識也長見識,讓你一面捧腹大笑,一面能具體想像古人真實的生活細節,滿足你對古人的一切好奇。原來,古人的日子過得如此多采多姿!原來,古人也很會過日子!我們許多的日常用語、習俗,原來是這樣演變流傳而來!

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Monday, August 4, 2025

How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing: Techniques for Engaging Readers and Successfully Navigating the Writing and Publishing Processes

Timothy G Pollock
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Good writing skills and habits are critical for scholarly success. Every article is a story, and employing effective storytelling techniques enhances scholars’ abilities to share their insights and ideas, increasing the impact of their research.

In this timely second edition, Tim Pollock draws on fiction and non-fiction writing tools and techniques to help academic authors enhance the clarity, presentation and flow of their scholarly work. With new chapters focusing on the intricacies of writing developmental reviews and dissertations, the second edition of How to Use Storytelling in Your Academic Writing provides comprehensive discussions illustrating the structural and stylistic factors involved in effective storytelling and how to apply them in writing each section of an academic article. The second edition also expands on important topics such as managing the co-authoring, writing and review processes.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics across business disciplines, particularly those in management-related sectors such as organizational behavior, organization theory, business and management history and corporate governance. It is also useful to those in adjacent social science disciplines such as sociology, psychology and economics.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

煤氣燈操縱 : 辨識人際中最暗黑的操控術, 走出精神控制與內疚, 重建自信與自尊 (The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook)

艾米‧馬洛 (Amy Marlow)
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為什麼明明是最重要的一段關係,他卻總讓我覺得自己毫無價值?
到底是我做錯,還是被他操縱?

情緒虐待、PUA、職場霸凌、邪教洗腦……都運用了「它」!


如果你也曾被「煤氣燈操縱」,有些疑問你一定深埋心中許久,卻不一定說得出口。
本書將解開你內心長久的困惑,並告訴你抵抗這種精神操縱的最佳解決之道。

◣ 什麼是「煤氣燈操縱」?

煤氣燈操縱是一種精神虐待,藉由否定、謊言、誤導,甚至恩威並施地加以情緒剝削,使受害者懷疑自己的現實、記憶、判斷力、自我認知,在極端情況下,甚至能使他們懷疑自己的精神狀態。煤氣燈操縱的本質是操弄與控制另一個人,讓受害者以操縱者的真實、利益、判斷為優先。

◣ 「煤氣燈操縱」會發生在什麼環境與條件之下?
各種人際關係都有可能發生煤氣燈操縱,但最常發生的環境往往是:①親友關係、②親密伴侶關係、③職場關係。

◣ 「煤氣燈操縱者」具有特定人格嗎?
煤氣燈操縱雖然經常與自戀型人格疾患、邊緣型人格疾患,與反社會人格有關,但並不代表所有施虐者都有人格疾患。事實上,無論是誰,都有可能虐待他人。

◣ 為什麼「煤氣燈操縱」會發生在你身上?

在尋找受害者時,施虐者的目標人選往往有這兩種特質:「易受傷害」與「值得擁有」。但有時,你只是被有施虐傾向的人找上了,不代表你具有某種人格缺陷。

◣如何辨識煤氣燈操縱?
一個人是否受困於受剝削的操縱關係,要辨識的重點不在於對方有沒有精神病態,而是在於自己與對方是否處於「明顯失衡的權力關係」。

▶▶ 從煤氣燈操縱者的目的與手段來看,有五大目標方向:①讓受害者喪失判斷力;②讓受害者噤聲;③樹立自身「有資格」這樣對待受害者的權威;④貶低並懲罰受害者,讓受害者覺得自己低他一等;⑤把他們對受害者所做的行為合理化,或美化為「愛」。

▶▶▶ 若從受害者的感受來判斷,則通常會有以下特點:①你會感到內疚;②你覺得自己被當成反應過度的那個人;③你會開始覺得你的(合理)要求是造成別人的麻煩,甚至對別人不公平;④你覺得被指責和羞辱;⑤你擔心要為此事付出代價,甚至被報復。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, July 28, 2025

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth
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International Best Seller

"Being You is an exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text." (The Guardian)

Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to 21st-century science.


What does it mean to “be you” - that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood.

Now, internationally renowned neuroscience professor, researcher, and author Anil Seth is offers a window into our consciousness in Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Anil Seth is both a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness and one of most prominent spokespeople for this relatively new field of science. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness.

Seth has been interviewed for documentaries aired on the BBC, Netflix, and Amazon and podcasts by Sam Harris, Russell Brand, and Chris Anderson, and his 2017 TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 11 million times, a testament to his uncanny ability to make unimaginably complex science accessible and entertaining.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

MBTI, 你的職業性格是什麼?發現自己的優勢, 規劃最適生涯 (What’s Your Type of Career?)

唐娜.鄧寧 (Donna Dunning)
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解讀自己,接受自己,
找到最適合自己的生涯路!

全球500強HR都在用的MBTI分析系統,
這是一種沒有任何偏見的工具,
能指引你妥善利用自己的性格優勢,
在職涯中找到最準確的角色,
真正享受每個階段的工作與人生。


每個人的一生都會花費大量時間和精力在工作上,因此人人都希望憑自身偏好選擇工作,確保選擇的職涯能讓自己滿意。

大多數人都曾懊惱過自己在職場上沒能發揮,還不停被數落工作表現,甚至因為性格差異,導致溝通不良,在工作上與人有所衝突。會引發這些困擾,是因為大多時候你根本不了解自己的職業性格:
★你的職業性格是什麼?什麼工作最能讓你感到自在?
★以你的職業性格來說,如何能最有效減低壓力?
★你是適合領導或被領導?
★你在什麼領域最具競爭優勢?
★你和哪種性格類型的同事與主管最合拍、能形成互補或肯定不合?
★你適合團隊工作、還是單打獨鬥?
★中年後或在人生的每個階段,你的職業性格會產生怎樣的變化?

性格差異與生俱來,因此每個人的工作方式、喜歡的工作類型完全不同,你的需求、技能、興趣和局限都會影響你的選擇,唯有把放大鏡朝向自己,才能了解屬於自己的最佳工作方式,豐富職業選擇,隨時調整方向,化解人際矛盾。

這是一本適合每個職場上班族的書,全面的性格分類,深度剖析在不同情境下面對壓力、決策、人際關係時,你的性格特質會引導出怎樣的想法、態度、溝通方式、心理效用與行為。

性格╳職業類型
深度自我了解,對職涯方向更有掌控力:
4組性格偏好 →→ 16種人格類型 →→ 8種職業性格,
找出你的專屬性格代號,為自己打造準確的職業選擇方案!

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)