The Wild Iris

Louise Glück
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms

Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

"Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither 'confessional' nor 'intellectual' in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry. . . . What a strange book The Wild Iris is, appearing in this fin-de-siecle, written in the language of flowers. It Is a lieder cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form." (Helen Vendler, The New Republic)

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香港當舖遊蹤 = Excursions in Hong Kong Pawnshops

徐振邦
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本書以當舖為中心，分五個部分介紹關於當舖的知識，包括當舖的設計、當押流程、當舖營運與管理手法、當舖的現代化以及與當舖發展有關的故事，書中亦穿插著香港當舖的特點和香港個別當舖的發展歷史。作者在書中還引用了舊時香港報章上關於當舖的專欄文章，並在書中穿插大量有關當舖的照片，在書的結尾亦單獨開出兩章，將曾經在報刊上刊出過的與當舖有關的漫畫以及作者本人收集的當票票頭做一展示。本書內容豐富，文字輕鬆易讀，是了解香港當舖的必備讀物。

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper

Arlene Fink
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Providing readers with an accessible, in-depth look at how to synthesize research literature, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper is perfect for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. Bestselling author Arlene Fink shows readers how to explain the need for and significance of research, as well as how to explain a study’s findings.

Offering a step-by-step approach to conducting literature reviews, the Fifth Edition features new research, examples, and references from the social, behavioral, and health sciences, expanded coverage of qualitative research, updated and revised meta-analysis procedures, a brand new glossary of key terms, double the number of exercises, and additional examples of how to write reviews.

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校服歲月 : 圖說香港校服史

陳美怡
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‧穿長衫的男生，從甚麼時候開始改穿恤衫西褲上學？
‧上世紀的制水問題如何影響校裙長短？
‧工業發展潮流、披頭四、嬉皮士風等，如何影響了校服造型？
‧香港電影和電視劇集歷年呈現了怎樣的校服形象？

由大襟裝、長衫、工人褲、水手服到白色連身裙……我們學生時代都穿過的校服，記載的不只是每個人的青春歲月，還有香港的百年歷史。由時裝設計師陳美怡，聯同香港教育博物館合著的《校服歲月：圖說香港校服史》，參考逾千舊照、校刊、文獻，以及訪問校服供應商、各校師生校友等，再結合香港歷史的發展、世界時尚潮流的影響，從中推敲校服的演變方向，以及背後的文化意義。

本書既以年代為縱、款式風格為緯，清晰展示香港校服自開埠至今的發展脈絡；各章亦附多篇小故事，以輕鬆角度為校服史補白。尤其可貴的是，本書不但收錄多張老照片，還有超過四百張手繪插圖，通過一頁頁的視覺盛宴，帶你重新發現我們早已視為日常的校服之美。

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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
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World-famous scientist Jennifer Doudna - winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR - explains her discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use.

“The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other.” — George Lucas

“Required reading for every concerned citizen.” — New York Review of Books

Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA could have myriad, unforeseeable consequences, to say nothing of the ethical and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating embryos to create “better” humans. Writing with fellow researcher Sam Sternberg, Doudna—who has since won the Nobel Prize for her CRISPR research—shares the thrilling story of her discovery and describes the enormous responsibility that comes with the power to rewrite the code of life.

“An invaluable account . . . We owe Doudna several times over.” — Guardian

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穿梭太平洋︰金山夢、華人出洋與香港的形成 (Pacific Crossing)

冼玉儀 (Elizabeth Sinn)
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「第十三屆香港書獎」

十九世紀美國加州的淘金熱
改變了香港的命運

1848年初，加州發現金礦，自此華南地區尤其是珠江三角洲的人，前仆後繼遠渡重洋，到達加州尋找他們的金山夢，此一浪潮也徹底改變了香港的命運。淘金熱把太平洋變成了連接北美洲和亞洲的幹道，並在此過程中把香港打造成亞洲的主要太平洋門戶。香港與後來被稱「舊金山」的三藩市的距離，比起從大西洋的港口到舊金山要近得多，令香港迅速崛起成為太平洋商貿的樞紐。

香港作為華人移民的「中介之地」，既是資金、貨物、資訊、意念、個人通信不斷往來流動的樞紐，也為移民提供各種與家鄉保持聯繫的方法。香港對華人出洋的重要性，以及華人出洋對香港經濟、社會和文化發展的深遠影響，一直欠缺足夠研究，而這正是本書的重點，以華人出洋前往加州為案例，探討香港在華人移民史中的地位。

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The Dutch House: A Novel

Ann Patchett
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New York Times best seller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 | 2020 Audie finalist - audiobook of the year and best male narrator

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed

Ann Patchett, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love, and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves, and of who we really are.

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當代藝術，如何看？：藝術家觀點，帶你看懂作品 (How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art)

大衛‧薩利 (David Salle)
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好藝術，如何看？
當代藝術就是布滿專業術語的地雷區
該相信你的眼睛？藝評評價？藝術史論斷？還是市場賣價？

紐約最前線、美國80年代新表現主義大將
塗鴉藝術家巴斯奇亞、凱斯˙哈林同代人、普普大師李奇登斯坦好友
重返20世紀藝術現場，說出藝術家們的激辯、交心、回憶與自白

◎什麼因素讓當代藝術滴答運作？什麼因素讓它變成好藝術？又是什麼因素讓它顯得有趣？

自杜象1917年在小便斗上簽名後，撼動了繪畫主導的藝術世界。視覺藝術的變化速度日益加快，未來主義、構成主義、新地理、機制批判、非具象主義、表現主義、抽象表現主義、低限主義、新表現主義等新名詞大量繁殖，當代藝術成了布滿專業術語的地雷區，這些術語就像是為了將欣賞者淘汰出局而設計的。

◎近五百年後，再度挑戰「藝術家談藝術家」

美國80年代最重要的新表現主義大將：大衛•薩利（David Salle），試圖扭轉一般人被藝評家阻隔於現代藝術之外的現況。身為塗鴉藝術家巴斯奇亞和凱斯˙哈林的同代人，及普普大師李奇登斯坦的好友，他想用藝術家聚在一起聊天的語言談論當代藝術，說出一位創作人面對藝術世界這四十年來天翻地覆驟變的真心話。他是繼1550年義大利藝術家瓦薩利，時隔近五百年後，再度挑戰藝術家談藝術家的後繼者。文集收錄的主題，從當代指標型人物到歷史人物皆有。許多是作者的同代人，有些更是認識幾十年的好友、同學 ......

本書的架構分為四部分：「如何為想法賦予形式」、「當個藝術家」、「世間藝術」和「教學與論戰」。

關於藝術的「如何」論戰，沒人比大衛˙薩利探索得更棒。──作家˙魯西迪

「如果說約翰•伯格的《觀看的方式》是藝術評論的經典，探究了藝術是『什麼』，那麼大衛•薩利的《當代藝術，如何看》就是藝術家給的答覆，告訴觀者該『如何看』。篇篇精彩的文章談論藝術家在創作時，他們想什麼？ 關於藝術的『如何』論題，或許從來沒人比他探索得更棒。」──作家˙魯西迪

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