The Handy Bible Answer Book: Understanding the World's All-time Bestseller

Jennifer R. Prince
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The Handy Bible Answer Book illuminates the secrets and reveals the wisdom of the Bible. Through easy-to-understand explanations to common questions, this book examines, story-by-story, the origins and history of the meanings of chapters, verses, and parables.

Offering enlightening explanations and defining key terms, people, places, and events, this user-friendly guide is for anyone interested in learning more about the Bible. It brings context to readers by answering more than 1,700 commonly asked questions about the Good Book, including:

• How has archeology contributed to understanding the Bible?
• What are some of the most notable Bible translations through the ages?
• What was the Day of Atonement?
• How did Gideon obey God’s call?
• According to Peter, what was the benefit of faith?
• What is the Apocrypha?

This comprehensive resource provides concise, straightforward information, drawing from five different translations of the Bible and other sources, it's designed to let even casual readers dig deeply into the Bible. It helps bring the Good Book's parables, stories, history, and power to your life.

“serve(s) as a first starting point for exploring the Bible. Recommended” —Booklist

“a good, simple, nondenominational guide that will probably be most helpful for [those] starting to learn about the ancient work.” —Library Journal

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

日本製造, 幻想浪潮 : 動漫, 電玩, Hello Kitty, 2Channel, 超越世代的精緻創新與魔幻魅力 (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World)

麥特．阿爾特(Matt Alt)
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當工業效率碰上華麗幻想
日本創意文化如何使夢想成真，重新定義你我的世界

★ 超乎想像的絕妙觀點，日本流行文化的全面解析與深度詮釋 ★
★ 那些隱藏在熟悉的日本之下，不那麼熟悉的迷人英雄故事 ★

＃隨身聽 ＃原子小金剛 ＃Hello Kitty ＃大頭貼 ＃紅白機 ＃神隱少女
＃電子雞 ＃超級瑪利歐 ＃Game Boy ＃阿基拉 ＃卡拉OK ＃B. B. Call

二次大戰後，日本以高品質消費性電子產品與汽車，從戰敗國崛起為產業經濟的新強權；1990年後日本陷入「失落的十年」，並迎來動漫、電玩崛起，村上春樹、無印良品風靡世界的奇妙轉變。日本的精緻創意，改變了我們如何與彼此互動、如何在獨處時打發時間，以及如何形塑自我認同。要了解這些巨大影響的起源，我們需要知道推動這些事物的創造者的奮鬥與成功。日本人的夢想構成了全球流行文化的新藍圖，並創造了我們所認知的現代世界。

不論是哪個時代，日本人日日憑空幻想，在日常生活中的瑣碎瞬間讓妄想膨脹。那些妄想與政府主導的國家戰略、企業營利目的都不相干。一般民眾的幻想，成就出「日本原創力」。本書是最適合探索日本原創力奧秘的著作，是能映照出日本真正姿態的淨玻璃鏡。──【吉田皓一│吉日媒體集團社長】──

如果將日本製造的幻想傳遞裝置視為進入異世界的邀請函，本書可說是進入異世界的說明書。當你拿著喜愛的邀請函與說明書，體驗著日本製造的幻想之際，你將會發現，這些日本製造正在改變你的生活，以及我們的世界。──【李世暉│台灣日本研究院理事長】──

從原子小金剛到機動戰士鋼彈，從小蜜蜂到超級瑪利歐兄弟，從隨身聽到卡拉OK，從電子雞到電車男，在在顯示了日本如何深刻地形塑我的青春。在那段日子裡，「日本製造」代表著品質的保證，不管是玩具還是電器，只要看到上面印著「Made in Japan」，就像是給了一張能夠前往世界之巔的通行證，擁有它，自己彷彿瞬間亮了起來！──【張哲生│懷舊大師】──

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

Megan Walsh
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What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?

The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world.

Fueled by her passionate engagement with Chinese literature and culture, Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it’s important to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction—an exuberant drama that illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one that is increasingly shaping the West as well. Turns out, writers write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or expect, and they work on a different wavelength to keep alive ideas and events that are either overlooked or off limits. The Subplot vividly captures the ways in which literature offers an alternative—perhaps truer—understanding of the contradictions that make up China itself.

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我城

西 西
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《我城》是西西的名著，獲亞洲周刊評為廿世紀中文小說一百強之一。本書風格獨特，無論結構、筆路、章法，皆發前人之所未發，其中寄託著青年的開放、進取、和各種成長之潛力充滿可能性。洪範版《我城》經作者增補萬餘言，是歷來最完整的全新版本，書末附有何福仁〈我城的一種讀法〉，是難得的賞析導讀好文章。

西西（1937年10月7日－2022年12月18日）原名張彥，香港知名作家。廣東中山人，一九三八年生於上海，香港葛量洪教育學院畢業，曾任教職，現專事文學創作與研究，為《素葉文學》同人；著作超過二十餘種，有詩、散文、小說各類型，包括長篇製作《哨鹿》、《飛氈》等。了解更多

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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

Gerd Gigerenzer
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How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”

Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world a better place—while tech industry critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Despite their differing views of the future, they all agree: machines will soon do everything better than humans. In How to Stay Smart in a Smart World, Gerd Gigerenzer shows why that’s not true, and tells us how we can stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms.

Machines powered by artificial intelligence are good at some things (playing chess), but not others (life-and-death decisions, or anything involving uncertainty). Gigerenzer explains why algorithms often fail at finding us romantic partners (love is not chess), why self-driving cars fall prey to the Russian Tank Fallacy, and how judges and police rely increasingly on nontransparent “black box” algorithms to predict whether a criminal defendant will reoffend or show up in court. He invokes Black Mirror, considers the privacy paradox (people want privacy, but give their data away), and explains that social media get us hooked by programming intermittent reinforcement in the form of the “like” button. We shouldn’t trust smart technology unconditionally, Gigerenzer tells us, but we shouldn’t fear it unthinkingly, either.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

你的姓氏從何來? : 100個最有趣的姓氏故事

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圖照+分布地圖+精彩解說，
解讀起源、人口分布和演變等歷史
認識藏在姓氏裡的有趣故事

尋根究底，探索家族根源，
你會發現，許多姓氏的始祖竟然大部分是來自古代的位高權重者，
也就是說，你我或許都身為王公貴族、帝王將相的後代

本書從現存近22,000個姓氏中，選取最常見的100個姓氏，提供詳細解釋。每個姓氏按常見程度遞減排序；「漢字演變」從漢字字形分析演變的過程，可掌握姓氏漢字背後含義；「尋根溯祖」概述姓氏的起源及其發展變遷，快速了解每一個姓氏的來歷；「遷徙分布」整理姓氏遷徙的歷程，知曉姓氏的來龍去脈；「名人古跡」精粹講述名人或古跡背後的傳奇故事。同時，書中還收錄名家畫作，列舉歷史上的該姓名人。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

"They Say / I Say" : The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (Fifth Edition)

Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein
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The little book that demystifies academic writing, reading, and research.

Used and loved by millions of students for its lively and practical advice, this is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on research, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on Revising.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

疫後震盪效應 : 防疫政治學與世界秩序的崩潰 (Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order)

科林‧凱爾 (Colin Kahl), 湯姆斯‧萊特 (Thomas Wright)
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「疫情不可免，但流行病是可選。」
一場疫病大流行兩年過去了，對社會的震撼效應依然餘波盪漾
疫後世界該何去何從，它打破的舊世界秩序又該如何修復？

唯一從多方面回顧過去700多個日子防疫作戰失敗與成功的故事。這是一場全人類的浩劫！我們不能忘記，單一疫病全球超過5億確診（數字還在新增當中），突破620萬死亡的大流行，留給我們是哪些教訓！全世界從一開始的無關痛癢、事不關己，到最後的驚嚇，乃至於惶恐，彷彿末日電影般的場景發生在我們的周遭。COVID-19在毫無預警的情形下，成了你我這一世代人類不想要的共同記憶。封城、隔離、口罩、疫苗、足跡已經成了我們的日常，消毒、量體溫、篩檢變成了習慣。疫情發生之前的生活，彷彿是另存在別個世代的記憶。何時才能夠恢復COVID-19發生前的日子？我們還回得去嗎？......

COVID-19將我們所認知的世界秩序給打亂了。它不僅僅破壞了衛生健康這種事，最重要的，維繫人類即有秩序的社會、經濟、內政，甚至是地緣政治的布局都遭受到破壞。大國利用醫療物資作為外交手段，逼迫小國就範，甚至趁人之危，大搞大外宣，全球一致對抗單一危機的倡議，最後淪為口號。各國為了自保，紛紛關閉邊境，禁止航班入境。短短幾個月時間，二十多年來在消除極端貧困方面取得的成績完全付諸流水。多年努力建立的全球化、地球村，一夕之間全都灰飛煙滅。原本已經脆弱的國家更是進一步遭到掏空。美中醞釀中的衝突白熱化，民主國家與威權主義在全球的角力愈演愈烈。這是一場真正的全球危機。

一場COVID-19讓人類現出了最醜陋的那一面。國際合作幾乎完全崩解，世界主要領袖話不投機，幾乎根本沒有溝通。各國在機場搶物資、停止醫療物資的出口或強制對方要出口的畫面還歷歷在目。危難之際，人類展現的是叢林原則，弱肉強食的生存法則。疫苗競賽成了各國要主宰他人或保護自己的靈丹妙藥，該是先保命還是要兼顧權勢呢？作者的結論，需要集體應對，唯有團結一致，人類才可能滅絕病毒或減低災害。

在下一次全球疫病大流行到來之前——作者預警一定會再來——人類會有補考的機會嗎？是時候檢視這兩年的錯誤，檢討我們的缺失，參考成功的案例，盤點將來我們要如何應對。面對下一次的攻擊，我們必須做好準備！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

Richard N. Bolles
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With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2022.

“One of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular.”—Fast Company

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.

At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.

This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible.

Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.

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教授為什麼沒告訴我(2020進化版)

畢恆達
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『這本有條理又接地氣的研究指引，是研究者在浩瀚知識大海中的救命浮木。反覆思考該書的貼心提醒，眼前的阻礙就會退縮消逝，崎嶇小徑逐漸平整為大道。』成令方 （高雄醫學大學性別研究所教授）

『做研究、寫論文是件痛且快樂著的事，這本書可以讓研究生的痛少一些，指導教授的快樂多一點，並讓師生共舞時舞姿更曼妙且饒富研究的興味。』林雯瑤 （淡江大學資訊與圖書館學系副教授）

《教授為什麼沒告訴我》於2010年修訂，增加訪談、無性別歧視、理論圖形等章節。十年之後這本《教授為什麼沒告訴我：2020進化版》，又增補了白話知識論、研究策略與方法、研究倫理等單元。不論是新進或資深的研究者，甚至是不在學院中的社會人士，都能從這本書得到一些對於生活與研究的靈感與啟發。

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Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking

Caroline Leaf
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A best-selling author and neuroscientist offers five proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success.

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少即是多：棄成長如何拯救世界 (Less is More)

傑森．希克爾 (Jason Hickel)
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人類未來與經濟發展的啟示之書
一部橫跨人類學、哲學、經濟、科學與生態的前瞻巨作

透過傑森．希克爾的宏觀視野帶領讀者橫跨了幾個世紀和大陸，整合了學科，全面探討經濟發展於對於當代人類與環境的影響。

人類存在於地球將近三十萬年，卻在資本主義興起的幾百年內面臨前所未有的危機，甚至揭開「第六次大滅絕」的序幕——氣候變遷、生態失衡、資源耗竭。

這本書可以帶領我們：
•脫離瘋狂的「成長主義」，建立一個更美好、更平等的社會。
•縮小貧富差距，投資全民公共財，更公平地分配所得和機會，讓人類從消費主義中解放。
•降低對生態系統的衝擊，讓人類活得更幸福。

我們從新冠危機的處理中了解，全球面臨攸關生存的共同危機之時，人民和政府齊心就能做到看似不可能的事。氣候危機亦然。當我們重新聚焦於人類福祉而非資本積累，意識正確方向、提出建設性的解方，便能重新校準、挽救崩壞的環境。

【關於歷史】
探究資本主義的悠久歷史，了解我們如何陷入「成長」的掌控，它又如何強加於世界各國的制度，顛覆了我們與生命世界的平衡。

【關於經濟學】
我們必須從債務制度到金融系統，打造一個後資本主義的經濟制度，將人民、企業、政府，甚至讓創新從成長的桎梏解放出來。

【關於科學】
GDP是結合能源和資源使用，到了二○五○年人類的材料消耗量會超過兩千億噸，超出安全界限四倍，棄成長勢在必行。

【關於人類學】
地球本身運作得像一個有生命的超級有機體。我們必須學習與其餘生命世界不同的看待角度，從根本上改變我們與自然的關係。

【關於哲學】
資本主義下的主流哲學思想貶低生命的價值，剝削自然，把土地變成財產、生物變成東西、生態系統變成資源，以達到成長的目的。

【關於生態學】
昆蟲是生命網的關鍵節點。科學家發現至少十％昆蟲物種面臨滅絕。如果昆蟲消失，一切將會崩垮。

得獎紀錄
　　★《金融時報》年度最佳書籍
　　★ 美國亞馬遜讀者好評4.7星
　　★ Goodreads 4.5星

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The Study Skills Handbook

Stella Cottrell
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This is the ultimate guide to study skills, written by million copy bestselling author Stella Cottrell. Her tried and tested approach, based on over 20 years' experience of working with students, has helped over a million students to achieve their potential.

When it comes to studying, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. This engaging and accessible guide shows students how to tailor their learning to their individual needs in order to boost their grades, build their confidence and increase their employability. Fully revised for the fifth edition, it contains everything students need to succeed.

New to this Edition:
- Additional material on writing skills, including proofreading, editing and writing for different assignments
- New chapters on managing stress and student wellbeing at university, learning in diverse and international contexts and writing essays
- More emphasis on reflective learning
- Extended guidance on how to balance study with work
- More use of visuals to summarise key learning points

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

我香港，我街道2：全球華人作家齊寫香港

編者：香港文學館
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我的城裡有你的街
外地視角的香港書寫

【香港文學館主編《我香港，我街道》續作】

《我香港，我街道》集合54位香港本地作家書寫香港街道，出版一年後，續作《我香港，我街道2》更引入外地視角，輯一「我的城裡有你的街」邀請曾經或當時居於外地的作家寫書寫與香港一條實存街道同名的外國街道，穿透名字背後所蘊藏的歷史文化，瞭解香港與外界的無形聯繫，例如台灣作家房慧真寫灣仔的太原街與台北的太原路，胡晴舫寫香港的第三街與紐約曼哈頓的第三街，澳門作家袁紹珊寫澳門天神巷與香港天后廟道。輯二「那裡的香港人」邀請居於外地的作家，寫香港一條實存街道上的一個人，包括台灣作家言叔夏、黃麗群、楊佳嫻、騷夏，與現居外地的香港作家廖偉棠、洪昊賢、沐羽、惟得等人。除了專業作家，輯三「我城漫遊」的作者群亦有香港舞蹈家、政治人物、社區工作者與素人學生，更能顯香港日常生活與庶民視角。

本書繼續發掘這個城巿的多樣性，埋在熟悉之下的陌生，或隱或現的紐結；而它與第一集的差別在於，為「香港本土」引入了更多的海外維度，在更多的對照與差異之中，想像連結與共同，面對我們離散的本質。——鄧小樺（編者序）

斷續看著新聞，斷續看著這些書寫香港的文稿；忽然覺得篇章如藥，鎮靜心神，又似旌幡與秘帖，招魂。——陳慧（推薦序）

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When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A GUARDIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.

Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.

With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

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親愛的圖書館 (The Library Book)

蘇珊‧歐琳 (Susan Orlean)
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1986年洛杉磯中央圖書館，疑似遭到縱火，100萬本藏書付之一炬，是史上最嚴重的圖書館火災之一，且懸案至今未破。三十多年後，《紐約客》知名記者和《紐約時報》暢銷書作家蘇珊‧歐琳，費時四年，鎖定一名嫌疑者。然而在採訪過一個又一個圖書館員後，她意外收穫更大的發現……我們知道的太少了，真正的靈魂與奧祕就藏在這裡，這是一本前所未見以「圖書館」為主題的圖書館之書。

★《紐約時報》《華盛頓郵報》年度選書
★好萊塢巨星瑞絲‧薇絲朋選書
★國際知名作家伊莉莎白‧吉兒伯特、何偉、戴夫‧艾格斯、艾瑞克‧拉森、大衛‧格雷恩──鄭重推薦

圖書館收藏了無盡的圖書，也收藏了許多不可思議的人和故事。
收藏的舉動等於是向世界宣示，每一則故事統統都重要。

「『大火吞噬不了愛書人的熱情』──這是本書的精髓所在。蘇珊‧歐琳以報導文學的手法，從一場文明浩劫為起點，刻劃愛書人與圖書館交織的情感，新穎而動人，從書中一起讀過去、看現在、想未來，發掘圖書館的祕辛，看愛書人的精神，如何撑起圖書館從立根到茁壯的靭性，令人動容。」──劉仲成，國立公共資訊圖書館館長

「蘇珊‧歐琳寫的東西，我當然是有出必讀──我也鼓勵大家照我的方式讀她，不計主題都讀讀看，因為她每一部作品都文筆精湛出色。話說回來，甚至以蘇珊‧歐琳作品的標準來看，《親愛的圖書館》意境特別優美，更能擴展心靈。本書將聚光燈打在圖書館上，照亮主事者的豪情壯志，各位將不斷聽見書裡的故事多麽重要。這些話全是肺腑之言，但是，讀這本書有更大的一個理由：因為它能讓你從第一頁沉迷到最後一頁。大家千萬不能錯過這一本喔！」──伊莉莎白‧吉兒伯特，《享受吧！一個人的旅行》

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Sea of Tranquility: A novel

Emily St. John Mandel
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

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換了語言，就換了腦袋：從荷馬史詩到達爾文，語言如何影響我們的思想、行為與認知 (Through the Language Glass)

蓋伊．多徹 (Guy Deutscher)
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◎ BBC山謬強森獎、英國皇家學會溫頓科學獎入圍作品
◎《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》、《金融時報》年度最佳讀物

語言是種本能嗎？
文法規則早已寫在我們的ＤＮＡ裡了嗎？
語言是否會影響我們的思考方式呢？

常有人說，一個國家的語言，反映了該國的文化、心靈和思維模式。比如：
＊古希臘人覺得羊是紫色，蜂蜜是綠色，是否他們無法分辨顏色?
＊澳洲某部落不說前後左右，只講東西南北，是否他們缺乏方向感？
＊德語的秩序感讓德國人的思想如此井然有序？
＊聲調優美曼妙的法語，是讓法國人如此浪漫的原因？
＊只要比較葡萄牙溫潤的聲音與西班牙語的艱澀音調，就能理解這兩個民族的性格差異？

那麼，換個語言，我們就會擁有不一樣的世界觀嗎？

本書將會帶領你穿越時空，從古希臘的荷馬到十九世紀的達爾文，從蠻荒野人到白袍科學家，多徹在書中綜觀語言學兩世紀的發展歷程，以極其豐富的有趣實例，向我們展示不同語言的特殊性，深入探討許多有關語言、文化和大腦的勁爆問題，並藉此告訴我們：語言對我們的影響，也許比你想像中的要來得更多、更令人驚奇！

◎各界好評

本書閱讀起來猶如偵探小說尋找答案般精彩，也樹立了語言學科普書寫逸趣橫生的典範。──江文瑜／國立臺灣大學語言學研究所教授

作者以博古知今的知識背景，以及機智中帶著辛辣的筆觸，帶領讀者走進語言學研究裡迷人而深刻的歷史公案，抽絲剝繭地探討語言、思想、大腦和文化間錯綜複雜的關係。──鄭凱元／國立陽明交通大學心智研究所教授

就算你完全不懂語言學，也可以享受這本書！──《新科學人》雜誌

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller
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An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market—runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand. America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.

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為什麼100隻貓無法吃掉1隻老鼠?：從個人、團體到社會，6.5個日常故事帶你建構生活中的賽局思維

鎌田雄一郎
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《日本經濟新聞》、《朝日新聞》、《週刊東洋經濟》好評報導
哈佛博士帶你發掘日常中最容易入門的賽局理論

日本經濟學家、哈佛大學博士鎌田雄一郎是「賽局理論」研究領域的佼佼者。他認為賽局理論是經濟學當中最重要的一項理論，也是「幫助社會上有各種煩惱的人，針對讓他們苦惱的各種事件做決策」的學問。他在本書拋開令人卻步的生硬詞彙，用6.5個平易近人的故事包裝，傳達賽局相關理論的核心概念，希望幫助讀者拉近與賽局理論的距離，並進一步將背後的決策思維學以致用。

賽局理論不只能應用於「團體」、「家庭」等小型社會發生的事件，也會拿來分析股票買賣、政黨競爭、納稅或國家政策等更複雜的問題。面對經濟、商業、人際關係等疑難雜症，如果不懂賽局理論，就像沒有羅盤就貿然出海航行。

這本書將幫助你從日常生活開始，輕鬆學習並建構賽局思維邏輯，讓你面臨不論是小社會還是大社會的各種問題時，都能往正確的方向思考，做出正確的決定！

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Introduction to Quantum Optics: From the Semi-classical Approach to Quantized Light

Gilbert Grynberg, Alain Aspect, Claude Fabre
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Prof. Alain Aspect was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. Prof. Aspect is a Senior Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). In 2018, he was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science by CityU in recognition of his significant contributions to education and society.

Covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics, this textbook is an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, familiarizing readers with the basic concepts and formalism as well as the most recent advances.

The first part of the textbook covers the semi-classical approach where matter is quantized, but light is not. It describes significant phenomena in quantum optics, including the principles of lasers. The second part is devoted to the full quantum description of light and its interaction with matter, covering topics such as spontaneous emission, and classical and non-classical states of light. An overview of photon entanglement and applications to quantum information is also given. In the third part, non-linear optics and laser cooling of atoms are presented, where using both approaches allows for a comprehensive description. Each chapter describes basic concepts in detail, and more specific concepts and phenomena are presented in ‘complements'.

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我偏愛讀詩的荒謬：現代詩的三十堂課

廖偉棠
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資深詩人的現代詩入門課，深入淺出地解讀當代詩意，以詩的荒謬戰勝日常的荒謬

資深詩人廖偉棠，出版過十多部個人詩集，斬獲數個文學大獎，活躍在中國現代詩的第一線。同時，他也是專業的詩歌研究者，既熟悉古典詩，又有大量的現代詩閱讀和寫作經驗。

在本書中，他以詩人的和研究者的雙重視角，兼具古典詩和現代詩的兩種維度，帶領讀者重新理解現代詩與當代生活、母語美學之間的關係，重塑詩意的力量。

廖偉棠兄是我非常喜愛的一位詩人跟評論家，左手寫詩，右手寫評論，是一樣的精彩。最重要的就是，他對詩的認識絕不只是限於現代詩的範圍。他能夠讓大家知道，整個中國各種詩的現況，以及世界詩壇裡的一些詩又能夠給我們什麼樣的教益。另一方面，他對於中國的古詩也有研究，所以他可以給大家一個對於詩的全面認識。——梁文道

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The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

Matthew Ball
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER
Amazon: Editors' Choice in Nonfiction

Tim Sweeney (CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games): “Matthew Ball’s essays have defined, analyzed, and inspired the Metaverse for years. His book is an approachable and essential guide to the strategic, technical, and philosophical foundations of this new medium.”

From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us.

The term “Metaverse” is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the latest fashion trends to the plans of the most powerful companies in history. It is already shaping the policy platforms of the US government, the European Union, and the Chinese Communist Party.

But what, exactly, is the Metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball explains, it is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences, and also underpin much of the physical world. For decades, these ideas have been limited to science fiction and video games, but they are now poised to revolutionize every industry and function, from finance and healthcare to education, consumer products, city planning, dating, and well beyond.

Taking us on an expansive tour of the “next internet,” Ball demonstrates that many proto-Metaverses are already here, such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox. Yet these offer only a glimpse of what is to come. Ball presents a comprehensive definition of the Metaverse before explaining the technologies that will power it―and the breakthroughs that will be necessary to fully realize it. He addresses the governance challenges the Metaverse entails; investigates the role of Web3, blockchains, and NFTs; and predicts Metaverse winners and losers. Most importantly, he examines many of the Metaverse’s almost unlimited applications ...

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領導者的數位轉型 : 哈佛大學教授給組織領導者的AI時代競爭策略 (Competing in the Age of AI)

馬可．顏西提 (Marco Iansiti), 卡林．拉哈尼 (Karin R. Lakhani)
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「破壞式創新正持續扭轉我們所熟悉的產業競爭樣貌。
對於渴望在嶄新商業環境中永續發展的企業領導者，
本書絕對是一本令人信服的必讀之作！」
―克雷頓．克里斯汀生（Clayton Christensen）

經歷新冠肺炎疫情的衝擊，我們已經沒有拖延的藉口
為求企業永續，數位轉型勢在必行！

● 領導者該如何帶領企業成功「數位轉型」？
● 行政首長該如何讓施政邁向「數位治理」？
● 組織成員該如何理解大規模「組織變革」？

本書兩位作者為哈佛商學院教授，他們將長年專研「數位轉型」與「創新管理」領域的研究與觀察寫成本書，向新時代企業領導者傳達一項重要的觀念：所謂「數位轉型」並非硬要將公司轉變為完全截然不同的營運型態，而是當傳統型組織導入數位營運的同時，仍保有過去所積累的文化及競爭優勢，在新與舊的交織之間啟動全新一波的成長動能。

本書透析「數位轉型」的企業實戰案例，例如仰賴「AI工廠」迅速從研發到製造的莫德納（Moderna）疫苗、宜家家居（IKEA）的數位化零售轉型、英國線上購物平台奧凱多（Ocado）、健康科技公司派樂騰（Peloton）等，詳盡說明當傳統型組織面對層出不窮、無法預測的指數型危機威脅時，如何布局未來動能、深化敏捷與彈性、有效提升數位時代中的組織競爭力。

作者向所有組織領導者大聲疾呼：「還有什麼是比新冠肺炎疫情更好的證據？」不論你的組織型態是新或舊，即使「病毒」沒有找上你，競爭者終究也會找上你。我們已經沒有拖延的藉口，每個組織都必須致力於組織流程、營運系統與競爭能力的變革！

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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

Harold Bloom
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America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald.

Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.

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NLP來自潛意識的語言力量:掌握主導權的14種說話模式 (Words That Change Minds)

雪兒‧羅斯‧夏爾凡 (Shelle Rose Charvet)
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當你理解人們如何做出決定時，就可以對他們的行為產生關鍵性的影響
NLP語言行為量表（LAB Profile®）應用聖經，自學NLP必讀
NLP LAB Profile®權威大師著作在台唯一出版！

如果你能在三句話中了解對方，世界上還有什麼事難得倒你？
想要知道客戶的下一步是積極回應，還是不理不睬？
想要激發工作夥伴的熱情，你該怎麼說？

神經語言程式學（NLP）讓你從對話中洞悉別人，進而改變、引導他們
任何人的態度、特質，或行為，幾乎都可以被拿來拆解和分析，並從中找出影響這個人的方法，如果你懂得使用語言的奧祕，你就可以從內到外徹底改變一個人！

藉由語言行為量表的分析，你可以比對方更了解他自己
語言行為量表（LAB Profile®）是從NLP發展出來的一套分析方法，是以NLP的全套型態為根據，透過這套方法，可以察覺激發人們的動力如何產生，如何處理資訊，如何決策，讓你學會如何為特定人士和團體客製化你的語言，引發對方的動力，進而改變他們的想法和行為。

重點不是說話的內容，而是說話的方式
藉由語言行為量表，你可以提升自己的洞察力，預測別人的想法，以最適合的方式與他人進行交流，並透過不同的說話方式改變別人的行為，並且在他們做決定前發揮關鍵性的影響。

當你可以輕易辨識出激發別人的動力來源以及他們的思考和決策方式時，你將能夠：
‧跟任何人建立非常融洽的關係，進行有效溝通
‧降低衝突和誤解的可能
‧縮短你的銷售週期，並且讓顧客滿意
‧設計出強而有力的行銷和廣告活動
‧招募到適任的人才，並為他們提供表現的舞台
‧大幅改善你的協商成果和談話效果
‧打造出可以滿足各種需求的學習計畫，提升對自我的認識和競爭力
‧學習一套全新的方法，讓你的輔導技巧和你的培訓事業更上一層樓
‧帶領高績效的團隊，讓團隊成員充分發揮長處，不被他們的缺點拖累 ......

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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Steven Strogatz
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Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.

Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz's brilliantly creative, down-to-earth history shows that calculus is not about complexity; it's about simplicity. It harnesses an unreal number - infinity - to tackle real world problems, breaking them down into easier ones and then reassembling the answers into solutions that feel miraculous.

Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes "backwards" sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.

As Strogatz proves, calculus is truly the language of the universe. By unveiling the principles of that language, Infinite Powers makes us marvel at the world anew.

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重讀20世紀中國小說

許子東
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讀100年的小說，看100年的中國。

巴爾扎克說：“小說被認為是一個民族的秘史。”這一次，我們用小說打開中國！

百年來，1902—1916，總被忽略的“晚清時期”；1917—1941，總被說起的“五四時期”；1942—1976，總被留白的“革命時期”；1977孕育新聲，總被爭論的“80年代至今”……

許子東的“20世紀小說課”，以編年體為順序，以文本閱讀為中心，“士農工商仕”中國社會各階層分析，重新梳理20世紀中國小說的關鍵線索，聚焦近代、現代、當代文學史上近百部（篇）中短長篇小說。從1902年梁啟超《新中國未來記》“神預言”開始，一直到2006年劉慈欣的科幻小說《三體》為止，奇遇中國100年。

特別收入“生態篇”，高度還原“作家的一天”——1926年郁達夫的“戀愛”日記，1936年魯迅晚年的“誤診”疑雲，1952年巴金“同志”在朝鮮戰場，1984年“尋根”韓少功在杭州會議，1994年“拜訪”王安憶的上海作家生活……

百年來，中國怎麼會走到今天？會走向怎樣的明天？《老殘遊記》有句話：“眼前路都是從過去的路生出來的，你走兩步回頭看看，一定不會錯了。”

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways

Sarah Stein Greenberg
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WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD

In an era of ambiguous, messy problems—as well as extraordinary opportunities for positive change—it’s vital to have both an inquisitive mind and the ability to act with intention. Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with ways to build those skills with resilience, care, and confidence.

At Stanford University’s world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka “the d.school,” students and faculty, experts and seekers bring together diverse perspectives to tackle ambitious projects; this book contains the experiences designed to help them do it. A provocative and highly visual companion, it’s a definitive resource for people who aim to draw on their curiosity and creativity in the face of uncertainty. Teeming with ideas about discovery, learning, and leading the way through unknown creative territory, Creative Acts for Curious People includes memorable stories and more than eighty innovative exercises.

Curated by executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg, after being honed in the classrooms of the d.school, these exercises originated in some of the world’s most inventive and unconventional minds, including those of d.school and IDEO founder David M. Kelley, ReadyMade magazine founder Grace Hawthorne, innovative choreographer Aleta Hayes, Google chief innovation evangelist Frederik G. Pferdt, and many more.

To bring fresh approaches to any challenge–world changing or close to home–you can draw on exercises such as Expert Eyes to hone observation skills, How to Talk to Strangers to foster understanding, and Designing Tools for Teams to build creative leadership. The activities are at once lighthearted, surprising, tough, and impactful–and reveal how the hidden dynamics of design can drive more vibrant ways of making, feeling, exploring, experimenting, and collaborating at work and in life. This book will help you develop the behaviors and deepen the mindsets that can turn your curiosity into ideas, and your ideas into action.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

如何閱讀一本書 (三版) (How to Read a Book)

莫提默‧艾德勒, 查理‧范多倫 (Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren)
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這本書在1940年出版，1972年大幅增訂改寫為新版。
不論什麼時候讀，都不能不嘆服作者對閱讀用心之深、視野之廣。
不懂閱讀的人，初探閱讀的人，讀這本書可以節省冤枉路。
對閱讀有所體會的人，讀這本書可以有更深的印證與領悟。

讀一本好書，會讓你的努力有所回報。而一本最好的書對你的回饋也最多。當然，這樣的回饋分成兩種：第一，當你成功地閱讀了一本難讀的好書之後，你的閱讀技巧必然增進了。第二，一本好書能教你了解這個世界以及你自己，你不只更懂得如何讀得更好，還更懂得生命；你變得更有智慧，而不只是更有知識。

本書提到閱讀主要有四個階段：一是基礎閱讀，只要懂得看書、識字，就算是達到這層閱讀；二是檢視閱讀，此階段有時間限制，要在很短的時間內抓住書籍想要表達的主題與部分內容，也可以稱作略讀；三是分析閱讀，是本書中最重要的一部分，在談如何做到最完整的閱讀，同時也是討論如何提升理解力與閱讀能力；四是主題閱讀，也是最高層次的閱讀，這是所有閱讀中最複雜也最系統化的閱讀。

書中特別提出如何閱讀七種類型的書籍方法：1.實用型，2.想像文學，3.故事、戲劇與詩，4.歷史書，5.科學與數學，6.哲學書，7.社會科學；以供讀者參考。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness

Stephen M. Fleming
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Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspection.

“Are you sure?”

Whether in a court room, a doctor’s office, a gameshow’s hot seat, or a student’s desk, we are always trying to answer that question. Should we accept eyewitness testimony or a physician’s diagnosis? Do we really want to risk it all on a final question? And what should we be studying in order to do as well as possible on a test? In short, how do we know what we and others know - or as importantly, don’t know?

As cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Fleming shows in Know Thyself, we do this with metacognition. Metacognition, or thinking about thinking, is the most important tool we have for understanding our own mind. Metacognition is an awesome power: It is what enables self-awareness as well as what lets us think about the minds of others. It is the ultimate human trait, and in its most rarefied forms is a power that neither other animals, nor our current artificial intelligences, have. Metacognition teaches us the limits of our own knowledge. Once we understand what it is and how it works, we can improve our performance and make better decisions. For example, on the SAT, it helps us gauge when we should skip a question rather than lose points getting an answer wrong.

Know Thyself, like the metacognition itself, is equal parts scientific, philosophical, and practical. And that means, like Thinking, Fast and Slow and Predictably Irrational, it’s that rarest of books: one that can both expand our minds and change our lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

玫瑰是沒有理由的開放 : 走近現代詩的40條小徑

廖偉棠
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40堂詩意講座X 63首現代詩經典。
廖偉棠帶路，說新詩也說詩人的故事，
開啟人們對情感節奏的感知，走近文字蘊藏的詩意。

詩是什麼？是文字美感。

美感是肉體感受，不是理性判斷結果，當波赫士要說明詩歌時，他引用了德語詩人西萊修斯(Angelus Silesius)的一句話做總結：玫瑰是沒有理由的開放。(The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.)

「新詩」誕生超過一百年，人們熟悉胡適、徐志摩、余光中這些著名詩人，<人間四月天>、<再別康橋>、<鄉愁>也是許多人朗朗上口的名篇，為什麼人們還是對現代詩陌生，或是認定現代詩難懂呢？

這本書是熟悉古典詩文，又熱愛現代詩創作的廖偉棠，透過四十個角度與主題，深入淺出地帶領讀者重新認識「詩意」，認識現代詩與文字的美。全書含括近百年來的經典詩人和詩作：周夢蝶、瘂弦、洛夫、夏宇、北島、顧城、西西、梁秉鈞、黃燦然、張棗、余秀華、洛爾迦、宮澤賢治、保羅·策蘭、奧登、布考斯基、辛波絲卡、胡適、卞之琳、廢名、穆旦……廖偉棠文情並茂地引詩論藝，除了是一本了解詩歌的完整論述，也是展現廖偉棠豐厚詩歌教養的創作，是現代詩的入門書。

梁文道｜評論家
「到底什麼叫作詩？什麼叫作好詩？尤其，什麼樣的詩才算是一首好的現代詩呢？這個問題至今都還有很大的爭論。香港著名詩人廖偉棠，左手寫詩，右手寫評論，一樣的精彩。他來談詩，會給大家較全面的認識，尤其是現代詩。」

駱以軍｜作家
「我們說電影電影，其實現代詩感覺才更像那個一瞬之電、一瞬光影。許多現代詩，它在那電流通過的詩人體腔發出陌生如在人造衛星上看地球的光，那是廖偉棠可以把中文現代詩講得那麼迷人，讓人心醉之處。」

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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Stanley Fish
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New York Times Bestseller

“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” – Adam Haslett, Financial Times

“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” – Slate

“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount Jr.

In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

任何人都適用的完美學習法

高榮成, 申榮俊
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★融合《快思慢想》《刻意練習》等多本著作精華的完美學習法
★韓國暢銷書、讀者高口碑評價

好的學習法，是人生堅實的支柱
跟著博士菁英與超強自學者，擁抱最高效的13堂學習課
兩位作者有著非常不同的經驗，他們網羅全球與學習相關的重要研究，
找出經科學驗證、真正有效的方法，
配合學習上會面臨的煩惱與實際輔導案例，
帶你不斷突破學習的天花板，成長、成功！

學習如果用對了方法，效果相當驚人！！

一位美國自由記者到國際記憶大賽現場採訪，驚訝的發現，得獎者的記憶力真的非常人所能及──15分鐘內能默記背出隨機選出的300個詞彙、5分鐘內能默記背出千位數的亂數數字、能記得10副亂序撲克牌的排序、能背出圓周率小數點後萬位數……簡直是記憶天才。但連著幾屆的記憶大賽冠軍告訴他，「記憶是可以靠學習的，只要你用對方法」。因此他決定報名隔年的大賽，給自己一年時間學習，結果真的贏得了冠軍獎牌！！

有鑑於此，本書的兩位作者，一位是博士菁英，一位是超強的自學者，決定研究找出最完美有效的學習法，完成一本可以幫助眾人的著作。全書除了以教育學、認知心理學、腦科學、行為經濟學等多方面理論為基礎，也輔導了數千名學生、職場工作者，有些文組的人就業失敗後，靠著持續學習，以工程師的身分重返職場；有些人從舊領域跨向新領域，得到理想的工作；有些人透過充實的系統化學習，突破自身限制，最終找到自己的夢想。

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." ―Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society―and that we could do things differently.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人生思考題 : 哈佛教育學院院長提出的5+1個人生重要問題 (Wait, What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions)

詹姆斯．萊恩 (James E. Ryan)
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《紐約時報》暢銷書 Amazon.com空降排行榜
哈佛大學給畢業生最棒的禮物‧感動全球900萬人精彩演說
你看過後，也會重新思考自己的日常溝通

5個平凡問題 串出非凡人生
如果你希望自己被愛、被珍惜、被尊重
就應該試著問，也試著答

網路上瘋傳的畢業典禮演講
哈佛大學教育學院院長剖析人生最重要的5+1個問題

不管在會議室或在教室，我們花了太多時間和精力在尋找正確答案。事實上，問題和答案一樣重要，甚至可能更重要。好問題能讓我們超越有限的認知，勇敢面對困難、未知、令人尷尬，甚至不愉快的處境，讓我們對人際關係和世界有更深入的了解。

哈佛大學教育學院院長詹姆斯．萊恩在本書指出問與答的奧妙，帶我們領略美國首席大法官的思辨過程，提醒我們經常詢問人生最重要的五個基本問題，包括：

• 「等等，你說什麼？」，是所有了解的根源。
• 「我想知道……？」，是所有好奇心的核心。
• 「至少，我們是不是能夠……？」，是所有進展的開始。
• 「我能夠幫什麼忙？」，是所有良好關係的基礎。
• 「真正重要的是什麼？」，能夠幫助我們找到生命的核心。

本書充滿許多幽默、動人的小故事，從美國最高法院、哈佛大學、殘障兒童之家到急診室，還有作者的身世。只要我們經常詢問這五個問題，就能夠回答人生加分題：「即便如此，今生今世，你是否已經了無遺憾？」本書妙趣橫生，說理深刻又感人，將永遠改變你對問題的看法。

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2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

Mauro F. Guillen
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The world is changing drastically before our eyes - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends, including analysis on how COVID-19 will amplify and accelerate each of these changes.

Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people aspiring towards the middle class yearned to own homes and cars. Companies didn't need to see any further than Europe and the United States to do well. Printed money was legal tender for all debts, public and private. We grew up learning how to "play the game", and we expected the rules to remain the same as we took our first job, started a family, saw our children grow up, and went into retirement with our finances secure.

That world - and those rules - are over.

By 2030, a new reality will take hold, and before you know it:
There will be more grandparents than grandchildren
The middle class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined
The global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history
There will be more global wealth owned by women than men
There will be more robots than workers
There will be more computers than human brains
There will be more currencies than countries

According to Mauro F. Guillen, the only way to truly understand the global transformations underway - and their impacts - is to think laterally. That is, using "peripheral vision", or approaching problems creatively and from unorthodox points of view. Rather than focusing on a single trend - climate change or the rise of illiberal regimes, for example - Guillen encourages us to consider the dynamic inter-play between a range of forces that will converge on a single tipping point - 2030 - that will be, for better or worse, the point of no return.

2030 is both a remarkable guide to the coming changes and an exercise in the power of "lateral thinking", thereby revolutionizing the way you think about cataclysmic change and its consequences.

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樹木教我的人生課 : 遇到困難時, 我總是在不知不覺間, 向樹木尋找答案

禹鐘榮
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「只要閱讀一次，就會愛上樹木，
閱讀兩次，就會熱愛自身的生命。」
★療癒韓國人民的年度之書
★15萬冊作者的最新力作，入選韓國最大連鎖書店「上班族必讀書籍」

樹木，是信仰，更是人類的心靈慰藉......

「努力、厚實實力，才能成功」——杉樹
你知道嗎？小杉樹要長得跟其他大樹一般，需要經歷百年的漫長歲月。但它們並未放棄，仍然在漆黑的土地中生根發芽，因為它們知道唯有等待並厚實根部的力量，才能有長高的事實。 ——如果是人類，也許有人早已放棄，但也有人如同小杉樹般，為了獲得成就，在別人不知道的幾千個日夜中努力。

「想獲得什麽，就得付出什麽」——樺樹
因為強風而無法向上長高的樺樹，取而代之的是往下深深扎根。而比起其他樹木，樺樹需要更多陽光才能生存，為此，它們放棄一起成長的朋友，選擇獨自在高聳的岩石上成長，這樣才能盡情獨享陽光。
——人也是如此，許多人都貪心得想要擁有全部，但兩全其美並非易事，需要取捨，才能獲得，如果糾結於失去，最終只會兩頭空。

「與樹木學習如何漂亮地退場。」——紅豆杉
樹木的空隙是老病樹木的傷口。古老的紅豆杉，隨著歲月的流逝，體內的空隙越大。而空隙就成為了被寒冬折磨得疲憊不堪的動物們之藏身處。如今已邁入人生下半場的作者，在一次與年輕後輩前往救治樹木時，學會了老樹戰勝傷痛，擁抱微小生命的人生智慧。
——無論是誰，到了某一瞬間，都要在該退後時退後一步，漂亮地讓出自己的空位。

作者照顧樹木已超過三十年，與樹木的相處遠比與人的相處還多，身為治癒樹木的樹木醫生，作者卻總說「是樹木治癒了我。」他相信樹木給予的力量，爲了和更多人分享樹木的智慧，於是寫下這本書。而人類身處於世界中，為了生存總是竭盡全力，正如同生長在條件惡劣中的樹木，不畏風寒，仍然在每一瞬間向下扎根，開拓它的生命。

樹木，世界上最古老且最有智慧的人生哲學家，它們用生存智慧教會人類生命的真諦。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

John Man
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The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today’s descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their heirs under Attila the Hun helped destroy the Roman Empire.

We don’t know what language they spoke, but they became known as Xiongnu, or Hunnu, a term passed down the centuries and across Eurasia, enduring today in shortened form as ‘Hun’. Outside Asia precious little is known of their rich history, but new evidence reframes our understanding of the indelible mark they left on a vast region stretching from Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China.

Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, Barbarians at the Wall traces their epic story, and shows how the nomadic cultures of the steppes gave birth to a ‘barbarian empire’ with the wealth and power to threaten the civilised order of the ancient world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

The “Hunters, Warriors, Spirits: Nomadic Art of North China” exhibition presented by the City University of Hong Kong tells the story of the nomads through the diverse lenses of archaeology, art history, and anthropology. It features over 250 artworks from the early 1st millennium B.C.E. to the “golden age” between the 10th and 13th centuries C.E. These include everyday objects and weapons from the early nomads of northern China, such as the Orochen, Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Rouran, presenting not only the ideal relationship between humans and nature but also the nomads’ superb arts and artisanship. READ MORE

“Hunters, Warriors, Spirits: Nomadic Art of North China” Exhibition:
Date: 23 July – 23 October 2022 (Open daily, except Mondays)
Time: 10am to 7pm
Venue: Indra and Harry Banga Gallery at City University of Hong Kong , 18/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building
Admission: Free of charge, prior booking is required