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.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

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

解讀歷史編輯部
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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)