Passion and Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders

John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, W. Oliver Segovia
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Globalization. Sustainability. Technology. Diversity. Learning. Convergence of the public and private sectors. These are the big issues on the minds of young leaders today—the challenges they most want to, and must, pursue.

In Passion and Purpose, dozens of recent Harvard Business School MBAs share personal stories on assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike any previous generation. In candid accounts of their successes and setbacks—from launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

Drawing on insights from a survey of 500 students from top U.S. business schools, Passion and Purpose provides an overview of big, hot-button issues, followed by firsthand accounts from young leaders who are tackling these issues head-on. Their personal stories are rounded out with broader perspectives from established luminaries in business, academia, and the public sector, including Dominic Barton (Managing Director of McKinsey & Company), Nitin Nohria (dean of Harvard Business School), David Gergen (CNN analyst, presidential advisor and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership), Carter Roberts (CEO of World Wildlife Fund), and many others.

Passion and Purpose offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all aspiring leaders who hope to lead change in the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

麥田裡的守望者 (The Catcher in the Rye)

塞林格 (J. D. Salinger) 著
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《麥田裡的守望者》之所以受到重視，不僅是由於作者創造了一種新穎的藝術風格，通過第一人稱以青少年的說話口吻敘述全書，更重要的是因為作者用現實主義的筆觸，生動而細緻地描繪了一個中產階級子弟苦悶、彷徨的精神世界，真實地揭露了資本主義社會精神文明的實質。

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《麥田捕手》(上)
《麥田捕手》(下)

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer 
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The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

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一個人‧九十九座山

章武 著
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章武說：「每座山都是一部百科全書，我滿懷敬畏之情親近它，閱讀它，與它進行心靈對話。」四十多年，爬了中外130餘座山，紀錄下超過百篇的爬山文字，有景有情，更有歷史鋪陳，這樣一筆巨大的精神財富，集中於全書與你分享。

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Amazing Things Will Happen: A Real World Guide on Achieving Success and Happiness

C.C. Chapman 
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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen

Amazing Things Will Happen offers straightforward advice that can be put into action to improve your life. Through personal anecdotes from the author's life, and interviews of successful individuals across several industries, this book demonstrates how to achieve success, in all aspects of life, through hard work and acts of kindness. Split into five sections, this book details how to begin the self-improvement journey.

• Explains how to cope with the situation you are currently in, and how to make the most of it until you can break free
• Shares exercises and practices that can help define your goals and how to set realistic tasks to reach them
• Helps you to navigate the seas of doubters and obstacles to get to where you want to be
• Ensures that you help others, once you have reached your goals

Each of us has different goals in life, but everyone wants to succeed, and have as much fun as possible along the way. Amazing Things Will Happen shows how to get on this path to success.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

當下的幸福 (Start Where You Are)

克里斯.加德納 (Chris Gardner)，米娒.艾齊勒.里華斯 (Mim E. Rivas) 著
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本書從心理學的角度出發，探討了人何時最快樂；如何掌控自己的內在意識與體驗，品嘗生活的快樂以及如何將日常生活中的事件轉換為樂趣的泉源。《當下的幸福》還提到，快樂並非瞬間發生，也不受外在世界的操縱，而是取決於我們對外在事物的闡釋。同時快樂須靠個人修持，事先準備，刻意培養。只有學會控制心靈的人，才能決定自己的生活品質，而如果具備了這種能力，也就相當於接近幸福的境界了。

(摘錄自amazon.cn)

The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos

Michael Freeman 
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Design is the single most important factor in creating a successful photograph. The ability to see the potential for a strong picture and then organize the graphic elements into an effective, compelling composition has always been one of the key skills in making photographs.

Digital photography has brought a new, exciting aspect to design - first because the instant feedback from a digital camera allows immediate appraisal and improvement; and second because image-editing tools make it possible to alter and enhance the design after the shutter has been pressed. This has had a profound effect on the way digital photographers take pictures.

Now published in sixteen languages, The Photographer's Eye continues to speak to photographers everywhere. Reaching 100,000 copies in print in the US alone, and 300,000+ worldwide, it shows how anyone can develop the ability to see and shoot great digital photographs. The book explores all the traditional approaches to composition and design, but crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique of shooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited, manipulated, or montaged to result in a final image that may be very different from the one seen in the viewfinder.

Features
*Covers both traditional in-camera composition and the new opportunities for picture-making made possible by digital imaging editing
*Shows how to explore situations and locations in order to find the best possible photographic possibilities
*Uses clear examples from real photographic assignments, with schematic illustrations of how and why the pictures work

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動機與人格 (Motivation and Personality)

馬斯洛 (Abraham H. Maslow) 著
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初版於1954年的《動機與人格》一書，包含了馬斯洛對人類心理學的重要發問和早期探索。這本書在創建一個積極和全面的關於人性的觀點方面，有著巨大的影響，迄今，它仍然是一個獨特的、有感染力以及影響力的源泉，這一點可以從當代的心理學、教育、商業和文化趨勢中看出來...

本書分以下四個主要部分︰動機理論；心理病態與正常狀態；自我實現；人類科學的方法論。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)