Monday, February 26, 2018

Swimming in Hong Kong

Stephanie Han
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Stephanie Han’s award-winning stories cross the borders and boundaries of Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. This is an intimate look at those who dare to explore the geography of hope and love, struggle with dreams of longing and home, and wander in the myths of memory and desire.

Stephanie Han’s Swimming in Hong Kong was the finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction as well as the Spokane Prize. She is City University of Hong Kong’s first English literature PhD.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

思考的藝術:52 個非受迫性思考錯誤 (The Art of Thinking Clearly)

魯爾夫.杜伯里 (Rolf Dobelli)
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我們經常會「直覺地、無意識地」做出決定,事後再補上一些看似合理的選擇理由。如果拿律師跟科學家來比喻,我們的思考模式比較傾向律師,因為律師都很會先射箭再畫靶。

我們很容易掉入思考的陷阱裡,產生偏差、謬誤、幻覺、錯誤……

杜伯里帶著放大鏡,幫助我們一一檢視這些常見的思考陷阱,並告訴我們為何該藐視權威、別跟模特兒做好朋友、別以實報實銷的方式付錢給律師、別參加什麼拍賣會或競標案、別說你在婚姻裡付出比較多……

作者以清晰易讀的語調,逐篇舉出52個人人易犯的思考錯誤,並佐以生活趣事、名人軼事、歷史、愛情關係、投資理財、實驗研究等內容,具體說明錯誤何在、何以會犯。此外,針對各項錯誤,作者一一提出解決之道,讓讀者不易掉入思考陷阱之中。同時,每篇均搭配一幅與主題相關的諧趣插畫,讓本書不僅具實用性,更具可看性。

不論是日常生活、學習、工作經營、投資理財或愛情關係上的大小事,本書指摘的52個思考錯誤,將讓你明白自身的弱點何在,並且更勇敢地與自己的非理性對抗,不再只靠直覺決定一切!

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, February 19, 2018

iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Jean M. Twenge
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A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.

With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to.

As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

快思慢想 (Thinking, Fast and Slow)

康納曼 (Daniel Kahneman)
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如果一年只能讀一本書,你絕對不能錯過《快思慢想》!

「快思」與「慢想」是我們腦中的兩位主角。它們大部分時候是朋友,有時是敵人,更常一起並肩打仗!

我們何時要相信直覺?何時要對抗直覺與偏見,召喚所有理性出來打仗?我們總以為能駕馭自己的思考,事實上,人們的行為常常受到未知因素所影響。我們對思考的機制充滿假設與誤解,又很依賴直覺的感知和記憶,常常做出因個人偏見導致的錯誤決策。

如果你希望自己更聰明、更冷靜,就要學會掌握「快思」與「慢想」的遊戲規則。

康納曼介紹了很多有趣的經典行為實驗,披露思考的捷徑、替代、偏好、框架、錨點等效應。不僅讓我們對大腦的複雜與非理性恍然大悟,也指出我們在什麼情況下該相信靈光乍現,什麼時候該三思而行,該運用哪些技巧來避免常常使我們陷入麻煩的思考偏誤,以及如何在商場、職場和個人生活中做出更好的選擇。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, February 12, 2018

China: Five Thousand Years of History & Civilization

Edited by The Editorial Committee of Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, City University of Hong Kong
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This richly illustrated chronicle of Chinese civilization furnishes general readers and scholars alike with an authoritative overview of Chinese history, art and culture, from the pre-historic era to the early twentieth century, touching upon recurring themes and developments and synthesizing more than five thousand years of evolution and transition.

Written with precision and flair by a host of leading academics from Beijing and Hong Kong, this single volume is a welcome addition to the study of world civilizations, a broad yet detailed chronological sweep through time. Every aspect of Chinese civilization is explained, interpreted, contextualized and brought to life with well-balanced commentary and photographic documentation.

The result is a fascinating distillation of the past, an indispensable guide that renders the ancient past relevant to China today and to the rest of the world.

(Excerpt from the website of City University of Hong Kong Press)

我比別人更認真 : 刻意練習讓自己發光 (Talent Is Overrated)

傑夫.柯文 (Geoffrey Colvin)
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小時候你也許從大人那裡聽過,如果要出人頭地,成為各行各業的頂尖人物,像是邱吉爾、莫扎特、巴菲特,甚至是老虎伍茲這樣的人,你從小就必須埋頭苦幹。

不過事實還不僅如此,所有我們看得到的天才人物其實必定經過「刻意練習」(deliberate practice)的洗禮,對練習結果進行分析,從失敗中吸取教訓,以科學的方法進行苦練,才有可能斬露頭角,讓所有人刮目相看。

(摘錄自eslite.com)


Monday, February 5, 2018

Reading Hong Kong, Reading Ourselves

Edited by Janel Curry,‎ Paul Hanstedt
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This book, written by fourteen reflective scholars about living and learning from Hong Kong, builds on the growing interest of using “place” as text while providing a model of deepening cross-cultural encounters. Each chapter is written in a personal and experiential style, exploring Hong Kong through the lenses of a range of disciplines that shaped individual author's perceptions and encounters.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

看電影與拍電影

趙崇基
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看電影容易,看懂一部電影卻需要慢慢咀嚼細味。電影以講故事為主,講甚麼樣的故事,悲歡離合,離不開身處的社會。觀眾從電影看社會,拍電影的,也需要關懷社會,了解社會, 洞悉人生,才能拍出感動人心的作品。觀眾能夠感動,其實就是因為電影將人生寫得透徹入微,讓看的人有共鳴。

不同人對同一部電影的理解不盡相同。導演趙崇基看了四十年電影,拍了二十年電影,也在學院教電影,對他而言,無論電影藝術如何改變,都離不開技巧、社會、人生這三種元素。此書是他的電影筆記,分為三部分,以電影語言中的三個景別:特寫、中景及全景,透過一篇篇的短文,談電影中的技巧,說電影中的社會,講電影中的人生。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)