Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Nir Eyal
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"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results."
- James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold.

What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable?"

International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book.

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.

Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:
♦ Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture--and how to fix it
♦ What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management"
♦ Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable
♦ How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world

Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention--helping you live the life you really want.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人生悟語：劉再復新文體沉思錄

劉再復
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榮獲2021年第三屆「香港出版雙年獎」文學及小說類別的「出版獎」。

首次完整地輯錄了作者多年來所寫的二千多則「悟語」。這種「悟語」寫作有別於傳統的小品文、雜文及散文詩，它是一種「碎片寫作」、「片斷性思想札記」，是一些表面無序而不連續寫作的文字。作者通過這種「新文體」，以精粹凝煉的文字，評述中國四大名著—《紅樓夢》、《西遊記》、《三國演義》、《水滸傳》，並對古今中外的名著作出精闢的文學評論與文化批判，從歷史、文學、哲學、文化等層面有所反思及感悟，既與古典名著裏的靈魂對話，也同時與自己的多重主體對話，以心讀心，呈現出深刻而豐富的思想圖景。

卷一：三書悟語，評論中國四大名著的其中三書─《西遊記》、《水滸傳》及《三國演義》。
卷二：紅樓悟語，專門評述《紅樓夢》，而四大名著中，作者尤其鍾愛《紅樓夢》，更於國外漂泊時視之為故鄉，是啟發其生命感悟和精神開掘的對象。
卷三：獨語天涯，作者自述在海外四處漂流及流亡期間，親身體驗多國文化的衝擊，從中引發了許多思索。
卷四：面壁詩思，作者放眼世界，把古今中外的作家、哲學家、著作共冶一爐，從更廣闊的視野探討歷史、哲學、文學、國家、生命、自由、宗教等。
卷五：共悟人間，為作者與大女兒劉劍梅身在異地的書信紀錄。

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From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader

Stuart Greene, April Lidinsky
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From Inquiry to Academic Writing helps students understand academic culture and its ways of thinking, reading, and writing. With a practical and widely proven step-by-step approach, the text demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing. An extensive thematic reader brings students into interdisciplinary conversations that not only bear on their college careers but also reflect larger cultural issues that they will encounter outside the academy. The fifth edition includes 23 new readings (forty percent) and an increased emphasis on using critical reading to evaluate multiple perspectives and stretch beyond binary thinking.

Achieve for From Inquiry to Academic Writing is a dedicated composition space that guides students through drafting, peer review, source check, reflection, and revision.

(Excerpt from macmillanlearning.com)

怎樣讀文學--文學慧悟十八點

劉再復
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本書根據作者二〇一六年在香港科技大學開設課程「文學慧悟十八點」的講稿整理而成。關鍵點、起點、特點、優點、弱點、難點、基點、亮點、戒點、盲點、拐點、制高點、焦慮點、死亡點、交合點、審視點、回歸點、終點，作者循這十八個「點」依次透視文學，角度之新，前無古人，因慧心獨具而悟識一新。材料雖古今中外，旁徵博引，講述則單刀直入，明心見性。這種融入自己的研究與創作感悟的新穎講述，令讀者有一入門牆，便窺堂奧之感。

作者既是著名的理論家，又是高明的創作家，本書與《什麼是文學──文學常識二十二講》並讀，可以完整地了解作者的文學觀。

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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Sarah Frier
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Winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Named “Best Book of the Year” by Fortune, The Financial Times, The Economist, Inc. Magazine, and NPR

In this “sequel to The Social Network” (The New York Times), award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals the never-before-told story of how Instagram became the most culturally defining app of the decade.

“The most enrapturing book about Silicon Valley drama since Hatching Twitter” (Fortune), No Filter “pairs phenomenal in-depth reporting with explosive storytelling that gets to the heart of how Instagram has shaped our lives, whether you use the app or not” (The New York Times).

In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: It would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic one billion dollars when Instagram had only 13 employees.

That might have been the end of a classic success story. But the cofounders stayed on, trying to maintain Instagram’s beauty, brand, and cachet, considering their app a separate company within the social networking giant. They urged their employees to make changes only when necessary, resisting Facebook’s grow-at-all-costs philosophy in favor of a strategy that highlighted creativity and celebrity. Just as Instagram was about to reach a billion users, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg - once supportive of the founders’ autonomy - began to feel threatened by Instagram’s success.

Frier draws on unprecedented access - from the founders of Instagram, as well as employees, executives, and competitors; Anna Wintour of Vogue; Kris Jenner of the Kardashian-Jenner empire; and a plethora of influencers worldwide - to show how Instagram has fundamentally changed the way we show, eat, travel, and communicate, all while fighting to preserve the values which contributed to the company’s success. “Deeply reported and beautifully written” (Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair), No Filter examines how Instagram’s dominance acts as a lens into our society today, highlighting our fraught relationship with technology, our desire for perfection, and the battle within tech for its most valuable commodity: our attention.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

超速學習 : 我這樣做,一個月學會速描,一年學會四種語言,完成MIT四年課程 (Ultralearning)

史考特‧楊 (Scott H. Young)
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★《原子習慣》作者詹姆斯‧克利爾專文盛讚：「真希望我能早一點擁有這本書。」
★《深度工作力》作者卡爾．紐波特高度肯定：「這是可以改變人生的超能力。」
★Amazon、《紐約時報》《華爾街日報》暢銷書

快速學會某件有價值的事，並不是天才的專利，而是每個人都能擁抱的成就。

本書作者史考特‧楊曾完成三項令人印象深刻的學習挑戰：
挑戰1：一年內學完麻省理工學院資訊科學四年的課，共計33門線上課程，並通過所有期末考試！
挑戰2：一年內從零開始，學會使用四種語言：西班牙語、葡萄牙語、中文、韓語。
挑戰3：一個月學會專業素描肖像畫技巧。

他並不是絕世天才，只是掌握了「自學」的正確技巧。本書將分享這位著名的｢學神｣，如何在短時間內熟悉一項技能的「超速學習」法則。

●超速學習法，集合科學實證＋真實案例＋親身經驗！
在這個劇烈變革的時代，成為佼佼者只是一時的，唯有持續不斷自我精進，擁有快速的自主學習能力，才保持領先地位、跟上時局變化。

作者縱覽最新研究，考察其他超速學習者的歷程，並輔導小團隊進行學習計畫，再加上自己的親身經驗，歸結出九大關鍵法則，任何人都能藉此方法成為｢超速學習者｣，擁抱超乎想像的美好人生！

★再難都能自學成功的「超速學習」九大法則！
1. 後設學習：超速學習者懂得在開始學習前先畫出地圖，也會去學習其他人是如何學會自己想擁有的能力。
2. 專心致志：磨利你的刀，專注投入你想做的事。
3. 直截了當：走最短的路。想學外語，第一天就用新語言跟人聊天，想當程式設計師，就親手設計一款app。
4. 反覆操練：攻擊你最大的弱點，不斷練習。
5. 提取記憶：用測驗來學習。學完後，先寫出你剛才學了什麼，輸出有助於進一步輸入。
6. 意見回饋：別閃避重拳，聽取任何你收到的建言。
7. 保留記憶：別往漏水的桶子裡加水。如何提升記住新資訊的能力，如何防止習得的新知識從腦中溜走。
8. 培養直覺：超速學習者都能用很快的直覺來理解新事物，一旦學會，你會一次學得比一次快。
9. 勇於實驗：往舒適圈外探索大量新方法，你會達成許多意想不到的成就。

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot
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*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

If you could go back, who would you want to meet?

"An affecting, deeply immersive journey into the desire to hold onto the past. This wondrous tale will move readers."-- Publishers Weekly

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.

Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?

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天空地圖 : 瑰麗星空、奇幻神話, 與驚人的天文發現 (The Sky Atlas)

愛德華．布魯克希欽 (Edward Brooke-Hitching)
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「只要我注視著滿天星空的運行軌跡，我的雙足便能離開地面。」─托勒密（Ptolemy）

第一次有人如此描繪天空：
不只是恆星與行星的領域，更有諸多橫衝直撞的神鬼魍魎、天象魔法師、
飛翔的水手、中世紀外星人、神話生物與妖怪。

多國暢銷書《詭圖》（Phantom Atlas）、《寶圖》（Golden Atlas）的作者布魯克希欽，帶來一部遨遊諸天的視覺歷史。《天空地圖》收羅了各種宇宙圖、故事、繪畫與器物，勾勒出人類對於頂上天空與天空之外的想像與發現。

這本圖文並茂的天體圖寶藏，滿滿交織著歷史上最偉大的天文學發現，最奇特的傳說，以及為人所遺忘的篇章，化為一部美麗別緻、豐富趣味的星空大全。

書中從亞里斯多德開始，經過愛因斯坦的時代，直至最新的星際探索，此外更有古代的不明飛行物目擊紀錄、長著翅膀的月球生物「人蝠」、天空之外的廣闊大海，以及二十世紀初關於火星地圖的奇妙故事。讀者將踏上一段包羅萬象的旅程，行遍世界各地迷戀星辰的文化，遭遇古中國甲骨文、西藏天葬、西伯利亞舞衣與蒙古薩滿，一直到近代對於哈雷慧星的觀測、日食的攝影、冥王星的發現，以及近年來最振奮人心的影像——黑洞。

今日，隨著世人大膽探索宇宙的中心，眼下正是時候讓一本如夜空般瑰美的書，來擘劃這些探索成就的規模，襯托出即將到來的發現。

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