Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, and Amazon

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?

What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations.

With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

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貝加爾湖隱居札記 (Dans les forêts de Sibérie)

席爾凡・戴松 (Sylvain Tesson))
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21世紀的《湖濱散記》
恐慌世代讀者最需要的心靈書寫
一段隱居原始森林的人生思考

★榮獲法國梅迪西文學獎
★榮獲英國鐸曼旅行文學獎
★《國家地理》最佳秋季讀物
★《金融時報》年度最佳好書

「『隱居』乍看遠離生活，然而這本『隱居之書』卻站在與社會相依存的觀點，告訴人們生活是一門藝術，而非令人鄙視之事。」────《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews）

「我行前隨身帶了書、雪茄和伏特加酒。
其餘的東西──空間、寧靜和孤獨
──那裡已經有了。」

法國記者席爾凡・戴松曾向自己許諾，要在四十歲前去森林裡過一段隱居生活。於是，他前往西伯利亞自然而孤獨的荒野────貝加爾湖畔的一座小木屋裡住了六個月。離小木屋最近的村莊在一百二十公里外，他沒有鄰居，偶爾會有熊訪客。

▍在這裡，我見識了冬天和春天、幸福、絕望，乃至於平靜。
......「在這片無人之地，我替自己打造了一段清明又美麗的生活，我度過一段深居簡出的儉樸日子。我依山傍水，得以凝視日子一天天流轉。我砍柴、釣了自己的晚餐、讀很多書、到山裡健行，並在窗邊喝伏特加。這座小木屋是個絕佳的觀察站，能一窺大自然的各種動靜。」

在這片荒原中，他逐漸馴服了空間、時間，每一天都在發掘忙碌生活與旅行中無法帶來的體驗；最後他以緩慢沉穩的步調，創造出屬於自己的、簡約而美好的生活。

「也許所謂自由即在於擁有時間？也許所謂富有即在於坐擁獨處、空間和安靜──而這些恰恰都是未來世代人們所欠缺的事物。然而只要深山裡仍有小木屋，這世界就不至於全然絕望。」

「內容非凡……作者除了文學體操和怪癖外，寫下了描寫西伯利亞廣闊風光的讚歌，以及在度過逆境的生活方式。這本書讓人一頁頁不忍釋卷，直到我們和戴松一樣結束了這段隱居時光，返回我們的日常。」────《亞洲書評》（Asian Review Books）

「戴松的幽默感一絕，並生動寫下他熱愛的針葉林與俄國人對其近乎神祕的依戀。他在書中展開叔本華式地追索：現代人眼中的渴望與遺憾間的世界。」────《經濟學人》網站（Economist.com）網站

「這部作品非常珍貴，它揭露了流逝的時間那無可估量的價值。作品非常有張力，我們於是發現一個弔詭之處：說起來，在這座小屋中，（幾乎）什麼都沒發生。這部作品由一位穿著風之鞋的男人所撰，是一曲針對靜止、缺乏、靜默的頌歌。……如此對孤獨的追尋──我們尤其不能將之看作限制──促使作者內省靜觀。……他與孤獨的關係是複雜而意義豐富的。……在一個萬事萬物都以提高利潤為目的而遭到安排、組織的時代，戴松透過長時間凝賞貝加爾湖及湖中掩映的天空，重新發掘冥想的益處。」──《世界報》（Le Monde）

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Sontag: Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.

Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

打造理想人生的習慣大全:65個習慣開關, 讓你輕鬆戒掉壞習慣、無痛養成好習慣

古川武士
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許多人「知道」成功取決於90％的好習慣，
只是往往想做卻「做不到」，
事實上，養成好習慣的關鍵不在意志力，
而在某些隱形的開關！

★ 日本唯一「習慣養成」顧問
★ 針對培養好習慣會遇到的問題，一一詳細破解
★ 從行動、思考、感受、環境四大層面，提供65個無痛養成習慣的開關

如果你有以下煩惱，必讀本書：
．好習慣無法持續，壞習慣戒不掉
．容易負面思考
．心煩意亂，沒有充實感
．一年前就開始沒成長

好習慣可以提升效率、改善健康，讓自己過上理想生活，這毋庸置疑，
但培養好習慣會遇到的實際狀況總是三分鐘熱度，
因為多數人培養好習慣的策略是靠意念和毅力，
這樣反而讓培養好習慣變成一件苦差事，更是力不從心。

日本暢銷作家、習慣養成顧問古川武士認為，
「無法持之以恆」是人生最大的課題，
因此從2006年開始，他致力於開發獨創的習慣養成理論和技術。

經過十多年的研究與實驗，
他發現，養成好習慣的成效不彰，通常只把焦點放在表面的行為上，
若想順利養成好習慣，必須利用冰山模型，從不同的層面著手......

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Entrepreneurship: The Practice and Mindset

Heidi M. Neck, Christopher P. Neck, Emma L. Murray
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Murray catapults students beyond the classroom by helping them develop an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create opportunities and take action in uncertain environments. Based on the world-renowned Babson Entrepreneurship program, this text emphasizes practice and learning through action. Students learn entrepreneurship by taking small actions to get feedback, experiment, and move ideas forward. They will walk away from this text with the entrepreneurial mindset, skillset, and toolset that can be applied to startups as well as organizations of all kinds. Whether your students have backgrounds in business, liberal arts, engineering, or the sciences, this text will take them on a transformative journey and teaches them crucial life skills.

The Second Edition includes a new chapter on customer development, 15 new case studies, 16 new Mindshift Activities and 16 new Entrepreneurship in Action profiles, as well as expanded coverage of prototyping, incubators, accelerators, building teams, and marketing trends.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

史丹佛最強「創業成真」四堂課：矽谷創業推手教你以最少資源開創最大志業 (Insight Out)

婷娜‧希莉格 (Tina Seelig)
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創業不只是開公司，而是開創任何可能性。
實踐「三創一想」，生活處處是機會，小點子變大事業！

想像帶來創意。創意帶來創新。創新帶來創業。

在這個充滿創業機會與創意靈感的時代，每個人都懷著雄心壯志要打造自己的人生，也企圖解決世界更重大的問題，而唯一能將想法付諸實現的方法就是運用知識、技能與態度。可惜的是，大部分的正規教育教的是記憶，而不是創新。但如果有一套清楚的指示能幫助你實現想法，那會如何呢？

國際知名創造力導師、史丹佛大學教授婷娜‧希莉格認為，不教導年輕人有創業家精神是一種罪過。本書正是一部培養從靈感到執行這完整過程所需技能的葵花寶典。書中清楚定義了「想像」、「創意」、「創新」、「創業」的核心概念，提出一個能有效開展創意、創新與創業過程的「發明循環」模式，讓你把障礙看成機會，激勵別人一起共享你的願景，就像有了食譜，你可以拿著吸引人的點子與具體步驟，讓它轉變成不凡的大事。

此外，書中還分享了史丹佛大學課堂中的眾多範例，以及從矽谷到加州聖昆汀監獄、從巴基斯坦鄉下到北極等令人意外的創業故事。每章最後並附有作業練習，有助於強化對書中概念的理解與省思。

無論是學生、教育工作者、創業家或各領域的未來創新者，只要你想實現腦中的點子，本書幫助你畫出一條通往夢想人生的清晰路徑，讓你更有創意、更有創新力，同時更加敢於實踐！

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Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre
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How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.

Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.”

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts.

McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

金庸小說裏的中國文學

潘步釗
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本書一方面從中國傳統的文學體裁出發，提取金庸小說中的詩詞、散文、歌賦、對聯等內容，分析其與中國文學的內在關聯及文藝價值，同時從金庸小說中的人物形象、故事情節和時代背景切入，探究金庸的文學思想及其作品在中國文學發展脈絡中所處的地位和作用。語言通俗易懂，是品讀金庸作品和中國傳統文學不可多得的「小書」。

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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Timothy Ferriss
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Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book―a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.

From the author:

...... time is our scarcest, non-renewable resource. With a renewed sense of urgency, I began asking myself many questions:

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want?
How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?
How could I be kinder to myself?
How could I better say “no” to the trivial many to better say “yes” to the critical few?
How could I best reassess my priorities and my purpose in this world?

To find answers, I reached out to the most impressive world-class performers in the world, ranging from wunderkinds in their 20s to icons in their 70s and 80s. No stone was left unturned.

This book contains their answers―practical and tactical advice from mentors who have found solutions. Whether you want to 10x your results, get unstuck, or reinvent yourself, someone else has traveled a similar path and taken notes ...... Among other things, you will learn:

More than 50 morning routines―both for the early riser and those who struggle to get out of bed.
How TED curator Chris Anderson realized that the best way to get things done is to let go.
The best purchases of $100 or less (you'll never have to think about the right gift again).
How to overcome failure and bounce back towards success.
Why Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton believes that the best art will always be the riskiest.
How to meditate and be more mindful (and not just for those that find it easy).
Why tennis champion Maria Sharapova believe that “losing makes you think in ways victories can’t.”
How to truly achieve work-life balance (and why most people tell you it isn’t realistic).
How billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz transformed the way he engages with difficult situations to reduce suffering.
Ways to thrive (and survive) the overwhelming amount of information you process every day.
How to achieve clarity on your purpose and assess your priorities.
And much more.

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超級導覽員趣說博物館

河森堡
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大英博物館多達八百萬件館藏意謂著有99%根本看不到！
羅浮宮裡大氣磅礡的《勝利女神》雕像一度被塞在頂樓樓梯間？
大都會藝術博物館那一座完好無缺的埃及神廟竟是埃及人免費贈送的？
當年被留在南京機場帶不走的司母戊鼎到底是何來頭？

大英博物館、羅浮宮、大都會藝術博物館、故宮、東京國立博物館、梵蒂岡博物館、烏菲茲美術館、荷蘭國立博物館、梵谷博物館、中國國家博物館，以及羅塞塔石碑、《蒙娜麗莎》、童子切安綱、《創世紀》、《富春山居圖》、《最後的審叛》、《向日葵》、《快雪時晴帖》、《維納斯的誕生》、《女史箴圖》……，十一間博物館與它們的鎮館之寶背後，實在有太多說不完的精彩故事。

博物館保存的每一件文物，都是人類文明的「證據」。
每一座博物館，都是一間裝滿人類文明紀錄的檔案室。

各式各樣的藏品見證了那些已經消失卻曾經無比璀璨的文明。在博物館裡，你可以看到人類怎樣一步步從遠古走到今天。

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