Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism

Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international success. Now, in Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a young man living each day with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of travel, and the difficulties of speech. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it’s raining outside. Acutely aware of how strange his behavior can appear to others, he aims throughout to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage society to see people with disabilities as people, not as problems.

... this book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets every challenge with tenacity and good humor. However often he falls down, he always gets back up.

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The thirteenth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2020. Autism Partnership Foundation organizes "Autism Awareness Actions" in April for generating public awareness of autism and fundraising to help more children with autism.

當綠葉緩緩落下 : 與生死學大師的最後對話 (On Grief and Grieving)

伊麗莎白．庫伯勒．羅斯 (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) ，大衛．凱斯樂 (David Kessler) 
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臨終關懷之母伊麗莎白.庫伯勒.羅斯（Elisabeth Kubler-Ross）在其《論死亡與臨終》《On Death and Dying》一書中指出了臨終前的五階段：否認（denial）、憤怒（anger）、討價還價（bargaining）、沮喪（depression）、接受（acceptance）。多年來，事實證明這些階段不只適用於面對死亡，也同樣適用於面對生命歷程中的各種災難。

在本書中，庫伯勒.羅斯與《用心去活》的合著者大衛.凱斯勒，重新檢視這五個階段，希望給予深陷悲傷的人更深的同理與受用的指導。兩位作者的洞見與忠告幫助讀者體認生命本應如此，並找到繼續活下去的勇氣。

本書中分別探討悲傷、縈繞的記憶、夢境、孤立、孩子、治療乃至性生活，融合了務實的智慧與靈性的探索，形塑出一條通往圓滿的道路。除了豐富的內文，另有精闢的前言探討家人長期臥病時所產生的預期性悲傷，在後記「悲傷的恩典」裡作者告訴我們，失落的意義與治療的力量實蘊藏在悲傷的過程裡。

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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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The Shakespeare Book brings the work of William Shakespeare to life with full-color photography, images, idea webs, timelines, and quotes that help you understand the context of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

From Shakespeare's most-famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, to less-frequently performed works such as King John and Henry VIII, every play of the Shakespearean canon is collected in this comprehensive guide, along with his major poems and best-loved sonnets.

In The Shakespeare Book each play includes an at-a-glance guide to story chronology, so you can easily get back on track if you get lost in Shakespeare's language. Character guides provide a handy reference for casual readers and an invaluable resource for playgoers, and students writing reports on Shakespeare.

Packed with infographics and explanations of plots and including an introduction to Shakespeare's life and times, The Shakespeare Book is the ultimate guide to understanding the work of William Shakespeare.

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World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on 27 March. World Theatre Day was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI).

光影中的經典文化 : 中國文化與電影藝術

劉衛林
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電影與中國文化，兩者看似典不相干。然而如能結合運用，將可互相輝映。中國文化能提升電影的藝術深度及文化內涵，電影則能將抽象的文化觀念具象化呈現，除為大眾營構藝術境界之外，更成為推動與傳承文化的重要媒介。本書精選多部膾炙人口的華語及西方電影，包括《倩女幽魂》、《西遊．降魔篇》、《畫皮II》、《武俠》、《赤壁》、《潛行凶間》（Inception）及《華爾街》（Wall Street）等，以文化經典觀念為脈絡，用簡明而生動的文字，深入淺出地一一闡釋當中所蘊涵的中國哲學思想、道德倫理、歷史觀念、宗教文化、語言文學及藝術美學等課題，由此闡明藉著電影鮮明的聲音影像，有助弘揚中國文化；及藉著電影藝術，可將文化經典觀念以生活化、普及化方式重新呈現與演繹，在提升社會文化與藝術水平的同時，更令傳統人文精神得以密切傳承並廣泛傳播。

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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.

Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

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要忙, 就忙得有意義 : 在時間永遠不夠, 事情永遠做不完的年代, 選擇忙什麼, 比忙完所有事更重要 (Off the Clock)

蘿拉．范德康 (Laura Vanderkam)
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真正的高效人士不是做的事情比你多，
而是內心在意的事情會優先去做，
工作與人生目標都達成，身心富足、自在從容！

★ Amazon.com「工作生活平衡」與「時間管理」類百大暢銷書
★ TED最受歡迎的時間管理，點閱率No. 1，超過700萬次
★ 時間管理暢銷作家強力推薦

在忙碌的現代生活中，你是否有以下情形：
．總是覺得「好忙」、「沒空」
．不論工作或在家，經常不由自主地查看手機訊息
．週末都過得渾渾噩噩，並感覺時間過得很快
．明明做了很多事，卻常覺得一事無成，內心空虛

這些狀況都是因為什麼都想做，排了各種行程，結果卻不知道自己在忙什麼。

美國時間管理大師蘿拉．范德康觀察到有趣的現象，
高效人士通常遊刃有餘，自認「時間多得不得了」，有空做想做的事。
但有些人就算讀了各種時間管理，用了各種省時小妙招，反而更忙。

范德康育有四個小孩，除了照顧小孩，還要工作、寫書、處理個案諮詢、演講⋯⋯
她還能每週運動4.4小時、每天閱讀1小時、每天睡足7小時⋯⋯
到底是怎麼辦到的？

范德康歸納出七大時間祕訣，把時間用得更有意義，有效解決瞎忙的問題......

在時間永遠不夠、事情永遠做不完的年代，
本書讓你重新了解時間自由，並建立新心態，
聰明運用時間，正確選擇做真正重要的事，每分每秒都忙得有意義。

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Svetlana Alexievich
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Celebrate International Women's Day (March 8) with The Unwomanly Face of War-- A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews 

For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.”

In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.

Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.

Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

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不良女性主義的告白 : 我不完美、我混亂、我不怕被討厭, 我擁抱女性主義標籤 (Bad Feminist)

羅珊．蓋伊 (Roxane Gay)
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★TED百萬點閱
★紐約時報暢銷排行榜
★美國公共廣報電台（NPR）2014年度好書
★加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）2015-2016推薦書單

......女性主義者歷來更受到許多誤解，如憤怒、嚴肅、仇男、好鬥、不具幽默感等刻板印象，有時也彷彿成為貶抑與羞辱，讓許多女性名人都想避開這個「負面又憤怒」的標籤。

...... 作者寫下自己的成長故事，並藉由性別與種族的角度，分析社會現象與流行文化：從脫口秀主持人的強暴玩笑，檢視大眾對性暴力的輕率語言；從強暴案的報導方式，反應出檢討受害人的風氣，以及整體環境所強調的不是如何制止性暴力，而是如何防止遭到性暴力......

作者透過幽默自嘲又犀利的風格，推翻社會對女性主義的刻板印象，反對將女性主義視為負面貶抑的標籤。她認為女性主義沒有既定的正統樣貌，也不需信仰全體一致的女性主義。重要的是，呈現多元的樣貌，尊重彼此的差異，讓紛亂的世界聽到女性主義的多元聲音。

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The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

Peter Wohlleben
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The second book in The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben. Book one, The Hidden Life of Trees, and the third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, are available now.

 "Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us." —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields.

Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up.

In this, his latest book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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減塑生活 : 與塑膠和平分手, 為海洋生物找回無塑藍海 (How to Give Up Plastic)

威爾．麥卡拉姆 (Will McCallum)
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3月3日是聯合國的世界野生動植物日(World Wildlife Day)，在這個節日，讓我們思考日常生活中如何減塑，為海洋生物找回無塑藍海。

塑膠的殺傷力驚人，海洋首當其衝，
愛海洋不只拒絕一根吸管，你還可以做得更多！
作者邀所有愛海洋的讀者，一起行動。

「那我們可以做些什麼？」
這本書正提供最佳解答。

海洋中的塑膠垃圾有一天會比所有魚類還要多？
這已不是假設，我們必須採取行動，避免這一天的加速到來。
本書榮登英國亞馬遜環保暢銷書第一名，
全球最實用手冊——由英國綠色和平海洋部主任
收錄最新研究和建議，
以實用、有趣和簡易方法教你日常生活減用塑膠！

作者威爾．麥卡拉姆是英國綠色和平海洋部主任，他不僅收錄最新研究與實用建議，以及相關領域科學家的軼聞，還有全球各地社區的成功案例，使這本書能成為一本實用手冊，教導人們如何在自家、社區和工作場所，開始終結對塑膠製品的依賴。書中提出的建議從用環保杯買咖啡等簡單動作，到較鮮為人知的方法：例如用洗衣袋裝衣物，減少洗衣過程中衣物纖維釋出等，無所不包。此外，本書也引導讀者一同監督大型機構如企業和政府等，迫使他們擴大施行減塑措施，為生活帶來最大的改變。

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