Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps

Marina Khidekel
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This revolutionary guide to real change introduces microsteps—tiny, science-backed changes that will help you get your life back on track.

​Live the life you want, not the life you settle for.

Helping people build healthy new habits that improve their lives is more important than ever. Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global to do just that--Thrive's specific mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential. Science continues to show that we don't have to sacrifice our well-being in order to succeed; in fact, it turns out that well-being is critical to peak performance.
Learning to thrive means:

• Moving from awareness to action - from knowing what to do to actually doing it
• Embracing solutions that appeal to wisdom, wonder, intuition, reflection, and are steeped in science
• Taking the time to rest and recover in order to fuel and maximize productivity, both personal and professional
• Making the mindset shifts and habit changes that supercharge performance in ways that truly matter to us

Eschewing trendy self-care fixes or the latest health fads, Your Time to Thrive is the revolutionary guide to living and working based on Microsteps--tiny, science-backed changes. By making them too-small-to fail, we can incorporate them into our daily lives right away, and begin building healthier ways of living and working. This book is a Microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

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閱讀電影與電影閱讀 : 深度解讀及分析著名的中外電影

曉龍
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透過電影提升學生閱讀興趣的影評結集，是學生及電影從業員必備的電影導賞天書

如果觀眾只看電影，忽視了創作人透過此故事表達自己的人生觀的意圖，就浪費了創作人藉著影片傳送的訊息的一番苦心。作者精選了62套電影，環繞著人際關係、生命價值、感情世界、社會探索，分別從縱向及橫向的角度進行思考和分析。資深影評人兼中學教師曉龍透過影像獨特的力量，帶學生閱讀世界的真善美，加深讀者對電影的認識，提升觀影水平！此書的後半部分被命名為《電影•閱讀》，作者以電影及其改編的原著小說為本，比較電影與小說的異同，探討電影與小說的關係，還對小說改編為電影的成果進行跨文本的分析。

本書獲電影界和教育界人士好評，電影愛好者必讀！

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud
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The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Amazon.com Review
A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time."

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Europe in a Comic Strip Exhibition showcases thirteen comic strip pages illustrating the great moments that have built Europe that we know today, with the objectives of introducing major events in European history at a glance, and appreciating comic art from a cultural and historical perspective. The exhibition is being held from 5 May to 16 June 2023 at Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. READ MORE

城市如何文化

茹國烈
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城市是什麼？
文化是什麼？
城市如何文化？

本書探討城市文化，提出「文化系統」、「文化指數」、「文化地圖」及「文化空間」等概念，解構城市文化的各種要素。作者選取了十四個著名城市，深度考察它們怎樣成為獨特的文化都市。最後，作者走訪香港各區，探索各自的文化特質，對香港未來的城市文化發展規劃提出建議。香港如何「文化」？讀者可以透過本書，與作者共同思考未來香港的城市文化發展。

(Excerpt from mybookone.com.hk)

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily

"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair

“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire

"Exhilarating.” —New York Times

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

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52赫茲的鯨魚們

町田苑香
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52赫茲的鯨魚，是世界上最孤獨的鯨魚。其他鯨魚無法接收到牠發出的高頻率叫聲。雖然有很多同伴，但其他同伴聽不到牠的呼喚，牠也聽不到其他同伴的聲音。就像總是無比孤單、無人理解，無人在乎的我一樣⋯⋯

沒有人能理解、無法將內心呼喊、求救傳達出去的你，並不孤單。「我會傾聽你那無法傳達給任何人的52赫茲的聲音。」

日本九州一處偏遠的海邊小鎮。斷絕所有一切，獨自移居此地的貴瑚，在某個下雨天遇到了跟自己一樣散發孤單感的一名少年……兩個人相遇，踩著憂慮，一步一步向著未來前進……

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
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The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects

“This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”—Frank Gehry

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example:
• Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.
• Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.
• Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
• Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
• Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.”
• Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
• Know that your biggest risk is you.

Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

創業軍師 : 年輕創業家的博弈論 (Startup Theory)

溫學文, 余樂明
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可能是全香港最受年輕人喜愛的創業電視節目，首次結集成書。

書中訪問了20位年輕創業家，分享他們的創業經歷，如何面對高低起伏。他們未必是最成功最發達的生意人，但絕對是一班擁有創業夢想，並能夠將之實踐的年輕創業鬥士。

「你的夢想是什麼？」

本書輯錄了20個創業故事，都是以初創及青年創業為主線，從這些故事當中，看到年輕創業家的衝勁及熱情，要知道，速度是Startup的最強武器，亦是唯一的武器。起動要快，發展要更快，改變要更更更快，就像天下武功唯快不破。

創業路上不能停步，一定要不斷有突破才能保持動力；而突破，往往是在被逼入牆角，無路可退時激發出來的。

在向這班年輕創業家致敬之餘，更希望大家能從中學習到他們的營商智慧。

(摘錄自cosmosbooks.com.hk)

80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom : Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Stan Skrabut
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What is the impact of chatGPT on your classroom? Should you be concerned? Should you use it or not?

In the book, "80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning," Dr. Stan Skrabut, an instructional technologist and designer, explores these topics and much more. He presents different ways to incorporate chatGPT into the classroom, including preparation for classes, providing instructional assistance, creating assessments, developing study aids, and using chatGPT for computer programming. The book also covers how students can use chatGPT for writing assistance, research, and personalized learning.

Stan provides practical examples and suggestions to help educators fully utilize chatGPT's capabilities while addressing potential concerns and criticisms. The book aims to show that AI can enhance teaching and learning and encourages educators to embrace this technology in the classroom. See what the uproar is about!

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

原子習慣 : 細微改變帶來巨大成就的實證法則 (Atomic Habits)

詹姆斯・克利爾 (James Clear)
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每天都進步1%，一年後，你會進步37倍；
每天都退步1%，一年後，你會弱化到趨近於0！
你的一點小改變、一個好習慣，將會產生複利效應，
如滾雪球般，為你帶來豐碩的人生成果！

一出版立刻風行全球，
企業界、運動界、教育界、瘦身界都在用的習慣養成實作指南！

本書作者詹姆斯‧克利爾在高二的一場棒球賽中意外被球棒擊中臉，嚴重受傷，甚至被實施人工昏迷。經過好幾個月的治療，雖然痊癒出院，可以重新踏上球場，後來也進入大學棒球隊，卻只能坐在板凳席，幾乎沒有上場機會。

然而，在頭部嚴重受傷之後的第六年，他被選為他所就讀大學的最佳男性運動員，並且入選ESPN的全美明星陣容——整個美國僅有33人獲得這項殊榮。

從運動生涯幾乎結束，到入選全美明星陣容，甚至在畢業時獲得學業方面的總統獎章，他是怎麼做到的？一切只因他認識且善用了「原子習慣」的力量！

◎有效建立永久良好習慣的系統化「行為改變四法則」
雖然知道習慣很重要，但你經常為了自己的壞習慣苦惱，想要戒除卻力不從心？或者，你想養成好習慣，卻老是半途而廢？其實，問題不在你身上，而是你遵循的行為改變系統出了問題！

作者從生物學、心理學及神經科學中擷取菁華，結合自己親身實踐的經驗，創造出簡單易懂、容易執行的「行為改變四法則」。這套法則可運用於學業、工作、家庭、健康、財富、人際關係等人生各個面向，有效幫助你打造好習慣、戒除壞習慣。

◎風行各界的習慣養成指南
本書作者是世界知名的習慣養成專家，經常受邀到各界演講，例如NFL、NBA、MLB的球隊，以及美國運通、麥肯錫、美林證券、奇異公司、本田汽車、思科系統、IKEA等知名企業。

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