Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

Pope Francis
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In a world filled with challenges and uncertainties, finding a source of hope and guidance can be transformative. Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis offers just that—a powerful call to action and a beacon of light for those seeking to make a difference in our world.
In Let Us Dream, Pope Francis invites us to reflect deeply on the issues that shape our global community, from social justice and economic inequality to environmental concerns and the pressing need for solidarity.

Pope Francis begins Let Us Dream by exploring what COVID crisis can teach us about how to handle upheaval of any kind in our own lives and the world at large. With unprecedented candor, he reveals how three crises in his own life changed him dramatically for the better. By its very nature, he shows, crisis presents us with a choice: we make a grievous error if we try to return to some pre-crisis state. But if we have the courage to change, we can emerge from the crisis better than before.

Francis then offers a brilliant, scathing critique of the systems and ideologies that conspired to produce the crisis, from a global economy obsessed with profit and heedless of the people and environment it harms, to politicians who foment their people’s fear and use it to increase their own power at their people’s expense. He reminds us that Christians’ first duty is to serve others, especially the poor and the marginalized, just as Jesus did.

Finally, the Pope offers an inspiring and actionable blueprint for building a better world for all humanity by putting the poor and the planet at the heart of new thinking. For this plan, he draws not only on sacred sources, but on the latest findings from renowned scientists, economists, activists, and other thinkers. Yet rather than simply offer prescriptions, he shows how ordinary people acting together despite their differences can discover unforeseen possibilities.

Along the way, he offers dozens of wise and surprising observations on the value of unconventional thinking, on why we must dramatically increase women’s leadership in the Church and throughout society, on what he learned while scouring the streets of Buenos Aires with garbage-pickers, and much more.

Let Us Dream is an epiphany, a call to arms, and a pleasure to read. It is Pope Francis at his most personal, profound and passionate. With this book and with open hearts, we can change the world.

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未來之歌 : 粵語流行曲的傳承

留情, 梁明暉
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「粵語流行曲」概念面世多年，幾十年間創立無數里程碑，形成非凡景象。為了讓當中蘊含的珍貴情感、歷史及文化意義流傳後世，實踐有效傳承至關重要，為當今重要課題。本書齊集不同年代的專家樂迷，分上下兩編探討傳承的各種可能及方法。傳承是確立經典，也是對來歷和經驗的思考。上編由各個活躍於實踐粵語流行曲傳承的樂迷撰寫，通過親身經驗及觀察指出現今推動傳承中的機遇及挑戰。下編從學術角度檢視粵語流行歌的各種表達和現象，分析流行歌中集體情感的流動和結構。

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Politico Top 10 Most Anticipated Book of 2024
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today’s world.”–New York Times Book Review

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as their push for power escalates, a new order will affect everyone across the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a part of it, but in reality, this power struggle impacts every corner of our world—from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: in the Arctic, in the oceans and across the skies, on man-made islands and redrawn maps, and in tech and cyberspace.

Through globe-spanning, exclusive interviews with dozens of political, military, and intelligence leaders, Sciutto defines our times as a return of great power conflict, “a definitive break between the post–Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.” With savvy, thorough, in-person reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict.

The Return of Great Powers analyzes a historic and visible shift in real time. It details the realities of this new post-post-Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. And it poses a question: As we consider uncertain, even terrifying, outcomes, will it be possible for the West and Russia and China to prevent a new World War?

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香港史讀本

劉智鵬 , 劉蜀永
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一本既有知識性，又易於閱讀的香港歷史知識讀本

本書是權威香港史專家編寫的香港史普及讀本，全書分上下兩篇：
一、上篇從史前寫到九七回歸，就每個歷史階段選取若干主題，扼要敘述，具有連貫性。
二、下篇論述香港社會的發展特點，尤其突出香港與祖國內地、與世界的緊密聯繫。
三、本書配有多幅圖片，並輔以多個「歷史文化知多點」的小專題，跟正文互相補充，增加本書的閱讀趣味。

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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order—and helping us to see how it might be otherwise—The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires.

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消失的記憶 舊香港的光影故事

勇先
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【香港人，同笑同哭的光影記憶】

香港過去一段段的光影故事，一齣齣的本土電視劇和電影，除了陪伴我們成長，也是我們的香港記憶。

本書嘗試以文字作為放映機，帶著我們一幕幕回看上世紀香港的影視作品，字裡行間泛起的光影記憶，與幾代香港人同笑同哭，走過多少高山低谷。看著本書的舊香港光影故事，彷彿又回到那年那天我們最美好的時光，在迷失中，還是記得最愛的那個——香港。

作者前作《消失的記憶 101個即將遺忘的香港故事》長期高踞香港誠品書店及獨立書店暢銷書榜，本書為2024年推出全新作品，獲得香港大學香港研究課程 朱耀偉教授專文推薦。

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