Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

Pope Francis
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In a world filled with challenges and uncertainties, finding a source of hope and guidance can be transformative. Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis offers just that—a powerful call to action and a beacon of light for those seeking to make a difference in our world.
In Let Us Dream, Pope Francis invites us to reflect deeply on the issues that shape our global community, from social justice and economic inequality to environmental concerns and the pressing need for solidarity.

Pope Francis begins Let Us Dream by exploring what COVID crisis can teach us about how to handle upheaval of any kind in our own lives and the world at large. With unprecedented candor, he reveals how three crises in his own life changed him dramatically for the better. By its very nature, he shows, crisis presents us with a choice: we make a grievous error if we try to return to some pre-crisis state. But if we have the courage to change, we can emerge from the crisis better than before.

Francis then offers a brilliant, scathing critique of the systems and ideologies that conspired to produce the crisis, from a global economy obsessed with profit and heedless of the people and environment it harms, to politicians who foment their people’s fear and use it to increase their own power at their people’s expense. He reminds us that Christians’ first duty is to serve others, especially the poor and the marginalized, just as Jesus did.

Finally, the Pope offers an inspiring and actionable blueprint for building a better world for all humanity by putting the poor and the planet at the heart of new thinking. For this plan, he draws not only on sacred sources, but on the latest findings from renowned scientists, economists, activists, and other thinkers. Yet rather than simply offer prescriptions, he shows how ordinary people acting together despite their differences can discover unforeseen possibilities.

Along the way, he offers dozens of wise and surprising observations on the value of unconventional thinking, on why we must dramatically increase women’s leadership in the Church and throughout society, on what he learned while scouring the streets of Buenos Aires with garbage-pickers, and much more.

Let Us Dream is an epiphany, a call to arms, and a pleasure to read. It is Pope Francis at his most personal, profound and passionate. With this book and with open hearts, we can change the world.

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未來之歌 : 粵語流行曲的傳承

留情, 梁明暉
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「粵語流行曲」概念面世多年，幾十年間創立無數里程碑，形成非凡景象。為了讓當中蘊含的珍貴情感、歷史及文化意義流傳後世，實踐有效傳承至關重要，為當今重要課題。本書齊集不同年代的專家樂迷，分上下兩編探討傳承的各種可能及方法。傳承是確立經典，也是對來歷和經驗的思考。上編由各個活躍於實踐粵語流行曲傳承的樂迷撰寫，通過親身經驗及觀察指出現今推動傳承中的機遇及挑戰。下編從學術角度檢視粵語流行歌的各種表達和現象，分析流行歌中集體情感的流動和結構。

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Politico Top 10 Most Anticipated Book of 2024
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today’s world.”–New York Times Book Review

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as their push for power escalates, a new order will affect everyone across the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a part of it, but in reality, this power struggle impacts every corner of our world—from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: in the Arctic, in the oceans and across the skies, on man-made islands and redrawn maps, and in tech and cyberspace.

Through globe-spanning, exclusive interviews with dozens of political, military, and intelligence leaders, Sciutto defines our times as a return of great power conflict, “a definitive break between the post–Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.” With savvy, thorough, in-person reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict.

The Return of Great Powers analyzes a historic and visible shift in real time. It details the realities of this new post-post-Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. And it poses a question: As we consider uncertain, even terrifying, outcomes, will it be possible for the West and Russia and China to prevent a new World War?

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香港史讀本

劉智鵬 , 劉蜀永
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一本既有知識性，又易於閱讀的香港歷史知識讀本

本書是權威香港史專家編寫的香港史普及讀本，全書分上下兩篇：
一、上篇從史前寫到九七回歸，就每個歷史階段選取若干主題，扼要敘述，具有連貫性。
二、下篇論述香港社會的發展特點，尤其突出香港與祖國內地、與世界的緊密聯繫。
三、本書配有多幅圖片，並輔以多個「歷史文化知多點」的小專題，跟正文互相補充，增加本書的閱讀趣味。

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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order—and helping us to see how it might be otherwise—The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires.

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消失的記憶 舊香港的光影故事

勇先
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【香港人，同笑同哭的光影記憶】

香港過去一段段的光影故事，一齣齣的本土電視劇和電影，除了陪伴我們成長，也是我們的香港記憶。

本書嘗試以文字作為放映機，帶著我們一幕幕回看上世紀香港的影視作品，字裡行間泛起的光影記憶，與幾代香港人同笑同哭，走過多少高山低谷。看著本書的舊香港光影故事，彷彿又回到那年那天我們最美好的時光，在迷失中，還是記得最愛的那個——香港。

作者前作《消失的記憶 101個即將遺忘的香港故事》長期高踞香港誠品書店及獨立書店暢銷書榜，本書為2024年推出全新作品，獲得香港大學香港研究課程 朱耀偉教授專文推薦。

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MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

James Rickards
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“Essential reading” – Forbes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security

In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users—the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic, popping up on the news, in ads, on your messenger apps, and in conversations with friends and family. But as AI becomes ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets?

In MoneyGPT, Wall Street veteran and former advisor to the Department of Defense James Rickards paints a comprehensive picture of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now more likely. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail when we rely on them the most.

MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it’s up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic and common sense before it’s too late.

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弱勢者視角下的香港未來

羅金義
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香港自20世紀中後期以後，憑着優越的地理位置和開放的政策，逐步發展成為東方之珠、大都會、國際金融中心。這些美譽突顯了香港的繁華，成為了無數人的向往。然而，在這座燦爛輝煌的城市背後，也有着晦暗、貧困的一面，存在着不少弱勢社群。

香港有哪些「弱勢社群」？少數族裔、殘障人士、低收入貧窮戶、病弱長者、新移民家庭；又或是同性戀者、跨性別人士，以至相對於成年人的青少年。他們面對生活上各種各樣的困難及有形無形的歧視、面對融入社會的挑戰、面對惡劣的生活環境，以至氣候變化也給他們帶來額外的威脅。當我們說香港正面對種種的困境及挑戰，也就是生活在這裏的人的困境及挑戰；而這種困境，我們必須要從社會上弱勢社群的視覺去解讀，方可窺見問題的根本。

「享天下之利者，任天下之患」。香港在璀璨的背後，隱藏着許多社會問題。本書輯錄了十二篇文章，涉及貧弱、青年、少數族裔、社區發展等不同議題，逐一從弱勢社群視角分析詳述。到底弱勢者正面臨什麼困境，社會又該如何幫助他們，社會政策範式應予何種轉移？作為香港的一分子，作者期望讀者大眾都能關注正視這些議題。

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My Life in Medicine A Hong Kong Journey

Yuen Kwok-Yung
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From humble beginnings in Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-Yung rose to international prominence as an academic, physician, and microbiologist. As an advisor to governments, he and colleagues made discoveries that helped the world cope in often controversial ways with unprecedented threats to public health, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In this compelling memoir, Dr. Yuen weaves personal stories with those from his extraordinary medical careers to take readers on an inspiring journey about perseverance, courage, faith, and the ongoing peril of infectious diseases.

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7天改不了社會

關志健
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在很多人心中，社會工作者都有一把公義的尺。尤其剛畢業的社工，充滿理想，矢志扶助弱勢社群，甚至期望改變社會面貌。然而人的改變，大多不是立竿見影；改變整個社會不同範疇的「有色眼鏡」，也殊不容易。

本書由1 0 0篇短小的文章組成，內容既涉及社會工作的基本概念、介入方法、服務使用者的需要，也有專業發展及持續學習等領域。作者透過書中生活化的例子和小故事，為讀者打開社會工作的大門，並領略到微小改變所帶來的力量。

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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Venki Ramakrishnan
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*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY*

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson

"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee

A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan

The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not only we but all our loved ones will die—and there is nothing we can do about it.

Or at least, there hasn’t been. Today, we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in understanding why we age—and why some species live longer than others. Could we eventually cheat disease and death and live for a very long time, possibly many times our current lifespan?

Venki Ramakrishnan, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and former president of the Royal Society, takes us on a riveting journey to the frontiers of biology, asking whether we must be mortal. Covering the recent breakthroughs in scientific research, he examines the cutting edge of efforts to extend lifespan by altering our physiology. But might death serve a necessary biological purpose? What are the social and ethical costs of attempting to live forever?

Why We Die is a narrative of uncommon insight and beauty from one of our leading public intellectuals.

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古典今情 : 跨越時空的經典閱讀與賞析

鄭吉雄
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落紅化作春泥，繁花重新綻放。人文丰采的新貌，印證古典精神的賡續；
舊土壤滋養靈根，新情懷得以孕育。血脈同源、新舊相接，文化綿延不絕。
放眼未來，運用新價值、新視野重新詮釋舊經典

古典為國學之本，無論深淺，都是千百年文化的沉澱，重要性自不待言，而當代讀者最需要的，是進入古典的途徑。本書精選中國傳統極具代表性的經典共十八種，敦聘香港各大學十八位前沿學者作解讀，俾引導讀者跨越時空，上下千載，掌握中國經典的精髓。他們如同領航人，拉近了讀者與莊嚴雋永的古典作品之間的距離。對於有興趣悠游於經典世界的讀者而言，這是一本既可親又可靠的入門讀本。

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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

Parmy Olson
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WINNER OF THE THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive - until now.

In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech Goliaths whose power is unprecedented in history. The story focuses on the continuing rivalry of two key CEOs at the center of it all, who cultivated a religion around their mission to build god-like super intelligent machines: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind.

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香港眾生七千年--四十古代歷史人物誌

香港古事記著 ; 倫@化外繪
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四十人，橫跨七千年，拼湊古代香港複雜而多元的圖像。

路過香港的末代宋帝趙昰；
殖民屯門的葡萄牙探險家區華利；
打鼓嶺「護圍英雄」劉阿牛；
陳抗官兵勒索、引發坑口大罷市的凌老師；
帶領信徒保衛西貢的和神父；
傳說預言香港陸沉的賴布衣……

四十位香港古代人物，有扭轉歷史的帝王將相，有反抗體制的俠客，更有平平無奇的「普通人」，雖然未有名留青史，卻是有血有肉，確確實實在古代香港存在過，反映著當時社會的面貌，組成香港歷史的一部分。

這是跨越七千年的四十篇人物誌。若想輕鬆一點，隨意挑讀篇章，都是有趣的故事；若想認真一點，順序讀完全書，理應會對香港古代史的輪廓有所了解。

重構香港眾生，探尋被遺忘的時空，窺見古代香港的輪廓。

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The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation

Timothy R. Clark
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This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas.

Perhaps the leader's most challenging task is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction. When this doesn't happen and it becomes emotionally expensive to say what you truly think and feel, that lack of psychological safety triggers the self-censoring instinct, shuts down learning, and blocks collaboration and creativity. Timothy R. Clark, a former CEO, Oxford-trained social scientist, and organizational consultant, provides a research-based framework to help leaders transform their organizations into sanctuaries of inclusion and incubators of innovation.

When leaders cultivate psychological safety, teams and organizations progress through four successive stages. First, people feel included and accepted; then they feel safe to learn, contribute, and finally, challenge the status quo. Clark draws deeply on psychology, philosophy, social science, literature, and his own experiences to show how leaders can, and must, set the tone and model the ideal behaviors--as he says, "you either show the way or get in the way." This thoughtful and pragmatic guide demonstrates that if you banish fear, install true performance-based accountability, and create a nurturing environment that allows people to be vulnerable as they learn and grow, they will perform beyond your expectations.

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超高齡紅利時代：人口未來學家帶你讀懂銀髮海嘯的危機與商機，打造長壽經濟的行動指南 (The Super Age)

布萊德利．雪曼 (Bradley Schurman)
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人口老化已是全球無法逆轉的超級大趨勢
等著我們的是停滯和衰退，還是一個更創新、更繁榮的新時代？
只有真正理解並擁抱超高齡時代的人，才能成為未來贏家！

超高齡時代靜悄悄地朝我們走來，人口老化已是全球無法逆轉的超級大趨勢，預計2030年，全球將有35個國家成為超高齡社會。

面對這樣的巨大轉變，如果我們沒有任何作為，恐將面臨經濟停滯、農村社區加速衰退等翻天覆地的災難。相反地，若能善用超高齡時代的優勢，像是人類將擁有更長壽、更健康的生活，以及更多的世代合作，那麼我們將大有機會從中挖掘全新市場，重塑新世界。

本書除了回顧人類一直以來看待老年的態度，也檢視了我們對青春的執迷，以及讓我們走到這一步的科學與社會成就。作者明確指出，企業若想要存活下來，就必須正視新時代的現實，重新思考龐大銀髮族的需求與渴望，為不同世代的受眾開發產品與服務。

打造超高齡時代的未來工程，你我都將參與其中。正面迎擊年齡歧視，把握潛在機會，做出個人生命、家庭、社區、事業與國家經濟需要的改變，建立一個更公義、更平等的未來。

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2025: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review, Ginni Rometty, Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao, Jamil Zaki
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A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.

We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Ginni Rometty to Robert I. Sutton and company examples from Maersk to Nvidia, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:

• Reskill your organization in the age of AI
• Rid your company of the obstacles that infuriate everyone
• Understand what today's rainmakers do differently
• Market sustainable products effectively
• Choose the right sources of demand to grow your company at the right speed
• Use strategic thinking to create the life you want

Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

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非暴力溝通的對話練習：放下指責或成見，善用5種情境對話，有效找出彼此的需要 (What We Say Matters)

茱迪絲．韓森．拉薩特 (Judith Hanson Lasater), 艾克．K．拉薩特 (Ike K. Lasater)
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──全球超過數百萬人都在用的說話方式──
馬歇爾•盧森堡博士的門生親授

唯有理解雙方的感受與需要，才能站在同理的角度說話，
一套真正避免衝突、減少情緒勒索的溝通法。

為什麼你需要「非暴力溝通」？
「非暴力溝通」是由馬歇爾•盧森堡博士創建，
由於他早期生活在動盪不安的底特律市，
因此非常希望能用新的溝通方式和平解決分歧。

之後他開始學習臨床心理學，並創立了「非暴力溝通」及培訓機構，
成功讓許多人使用這套「愛的語言」來說話，減少紛爭。

本書的兩位作者為盧森堡博士的門生，一直致力於「非暴力溝通」的推廣，
因此在書中，他們會告訴你要如何以此為基礎，
應用在自己、伴侶、孩子和父母，甚至是職場對話中。

此外，每一章結束後都會附上實作活動，幫助你將非暴力溝通巧妙地融入日常。

▍何謂「非暴力溝通」？你將學到什麼？
這是一套以「愛」為主的說話方式，並以此來傾聽和溝通。
簡單來說，就是在開口前，按照下列四個步驟來說話，
（1）觀察──客觀陳述狀況
（2）感受──說出你的感受
（3）需要──表達你的需要
（4）請求──提出具體的請求

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The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners

Amor Towles, Jenny Minton Quigley
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“A diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . . This must-have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed.” —Library Journal (starred review)

The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more.

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Amor Towles has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Towles, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.

THE WINNING STORIES

“Roy,” Emma Binder
“The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz,” Michele Mari (translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore)
“Orphans,” Brad Felver
“The Home Visit,” Morris Collins
“The Import,” Jai Chakrabarti
“Didi,” Amber Caron
“Serranos,” Francisco González
“Hiding Spot,” Caroline Kim
“Junior,” Katherine D. Stutzman
“My Good Friend,” Juliana Leite (translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry)
"The Castle of Rose Tellin,” Kate DiCamillo
"Rain,” Colin Barrett
“Marital Problems,” Robin Romm
“The Last Grownup,” Allegra Goodman
“The Honor of Your Presence,” Dave Eggers
“The Paper Artist,” E. K. Ota
“The Room-Service Waiter,” Tom Crewe
“Seeing Through Maps,” Madeline ffitch
“The Dark,” Jess Walter
“Mobilization,” Allegra Hyde

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天堂春夢：二十世紀香港電影史論

游靜
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電影是時代變遷的見證者！
本書重溯香港上世紀20至90年代的文化脈絡，
建構出香港電影中文化政治的史觀，
對昨日與今日的香港，提供不一樣的理解。

作者游靜爬梳大量原始資料，穿梭於電影個案解讀、影人自述，及時空政治脈絡分析；大歷史與微歷史之間，國、粵片兼論，細緻勾勒出香港百年璀燦光影，洞察歷史足印的偶然與必然，為華語電影研究、殖民及冷戰研究、香港文化研究，開創新天。同時提出關鍵探索及叩問：

▎對香港的思考成為協助反思其他華語文化歷史的資源。
▎作為華語電影世界的夢工場，香港電影的獨特貢獻在哪些方面。
▎香港電影史如何與文學史息息相關？
▎香港電影成為無權無勢的庶民抒解焦慮不安的重要場域。
▎李小龍的奮不顧身是香港傳奇的比喻。
▎香港主流道德價值曾經歷怎樣的翻新打造。
▎「大冷戰」與「小冷戰」如何影響香港電影發展？
▎香港電影史如何同時見證殖民治理與文化冷戰的軌跡？
▎資本主義現代性怎樣改造性／別關係，風月片如何展現反殖心結。
▎新浪潮電影如何叩問香港的冷戰前沿位置？
▎喜劇是香港夢的呈現？無厘頭揭示時代的壓迫、港式主體的反撲？

透過回顧香港電影史，進一步深思過去耳熟能詳的電影、人物、性別角色、文化歷史及其構成，體味今天華語以致全球流行文化，如何依舊從這份龐大深厚的歷史遺產中取經。

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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

Jean M. Twenge
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A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean Twenge analyzes data on 39 million people from robust national surveys—some going back nearly a century—to show that changes in technology are the underlying driver of each generation’s unique makeup. In this revelatory work, Twenge outlines key shifts in attitudes and lifestyle choices that define each generation regarding gender, income, politics, race, sexuality, marriage, mental health, and much more.

Surprising, engaging, and informative, Generations “gets you thinking about how appreciating generational differences can, ironically, bring us together” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author). It will forever change the way you view your parents, peers, coworkers, and children, no matter which generation you call your own.

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記憶決定你是誰 : 探索心智基礎, 學習如何記憶 (Why We Remember)

蘭迦納特 (Charan Ranganath)
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美國亞馬遜書店編輯選書
《紐約時報》、《洛杉磯時報》暢銷書

請花一點時間，思考一下自己是誰。想想身邊最親近的人、你的工作、目前的生活狀況。是哪些生命經驗，造就今天的你？是什麼樣的選擇，引領你到現在這個時空？

這一切都與記憶息息相關。
記憶決定了你是誰，在背後影響你的決定。

記憶是大腦的重要功能，幫助我們學習新事物、認識新面孔，影響我們的人際關係、人生選擇和自我認同，甚至形塑人類社會。雖然回想記憶時跟呼吸一樣自然，但我們經常只關注自己記得哪些事，沒有多加認識記憶的真正特質：
　　•遺忘是人類的天性，我們記不住每一件事。
　　•壓力會牽動一系列化學物質，影響記憶力。
　　•記憶具有可塑性，可以修改，也可以植入。
　　•記憶的關鍵不是記錄過去，而是詮釋過去。

對記憶抱持錯誤期待、不曾質疑為什麼記得或如何記得、很少留意記憶與情緒之間的關聯，讓我們錯失善用記憶改變自己的機會。

蘭迦納特教授研究記憶多年，在《記憶決定你是誰》中帶領我們認識大腦，了解多巴胺等神經調節物質如何影響記憶與學習，並指出人類是群居動物，記憶是眾人之事。他透過阿茲海默症、創傷後壓力症候群等患者的案例，說明記憶障礙不僅影響個人，更會對社會造成衝擊；還藉由親友之間的交流實驗，解釋共同記憶是如何創造，以及如何利用社會互動重新建構更好的生命敘事。

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You Are Here: A Novel

David Nicholls
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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Housekeeping "Book We're Most Looking Forward To" * An Independent Today "Best Fiction Books to Read" * A GQ Magazine (UK) "Best Book of 2024" * A Harper’s Bazaar (UK) "Best Novels to Read" * A Daily Record "Best Novel"

"Captivating [and] flawless...An affectingly hard-won romance. [Michael is] a sturdy and slyly amusing authority figure, … flailing amid the debris of a loving marriage gone sour. Marnie is a compulsively witty, winningly cranky near-agoraphobe...Both protagonists are prickly, smart and desperately yearning, but utterly guarded for understandably good reasons. Nicholls builds his own erotic and at times wrenchingly emotional suspense as the would-be lovers reveal past mishaps and surrendered dreams... As in the best romances, we cherish Michael’s and Marnie’s difficult personalities, and relish the unlikely process that might bring them together. The novel is sharp-tongued and irresistible."—New York Times Book Review

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . .

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house.

Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by.

When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for.

Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future . . . if they can survive the journey.

A hilarious, hopeful, and heartwarming love story—the novel beloved New York Times bestselling author David Nicholls calls “my funniest book yet”—You Are Here is a bittersweet and hopeful story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.

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擠迫之城的戀愛方法

黃怡
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要認識一座城市有簡單的方法，
就是去看民眾怎麼工作，愛戀與死亡。
──卡繆

地狹人稠、生活空間緊縮、行事節奏迅速，這一切形塑了香港獨特的價值觀，以及戀愛方式。生活在空隙中的人們如同打不死的蕨草，總能在最不可思議的狀況下變通、生存，並開出各種奇異之花。
本書以香港這座奇特之城為展開，作家在擁擠的城市裡，為虛構的戀人們裝置了不同的障礙賽和規則，觀察他們如何因應限制找到談情說愛的獨特方法，探知他們的逃避與迎合，生動地描寫了戀人的千姿百態，各種背景、性格和性取向的都盡錄其中。
情緒被動員起來的戀人們，在髮膚之間的距離裡便能引燃一場戀愛，上演一幕又一幕溫柔、狂野、信任、猜忌、寬容、嫉妒、期待、絕望、愛惜、冷淡的「感情思想實驗」。
「寫小說對我來說，常常是一種理解世界的方法，而愛情小說作為方法，讓我能以有時抒情、有時搞笑的角度重新審視這座城市的不同面貌。」──黃怡

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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Tae Kim
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Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews—including Jensen (as he is known) and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives—to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering competitors, including the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. Kim offers revelations at every step, among them:
An authoritative, myth-busting account of Nvidia’s founding in 1993.
How Nvidia managed to overcome early missteps that would have killed most start-ups.
The benefits of Nvidia’s flat organizational structure, which allows even low-level employees to contribute to the direction of the company.
How Jensen’s obsession with solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—the trend of entrenched market leaders falling to smaller, nimbler companies—drove him to reinvent his approach to corporate strategy.
How Nvidia saw the coming AI wave sooner than anyone else, and how it bet its future on a technology that had not yet arrived.

A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

“A captivating history of one of the world’s most important companies and what made it so great. Tae Kim deftly narrates Nvidia’s incredible achievements and instructive failures, and also captures the unique philosophies, motivations, and bets of its founders, scientists, and staffers.”—Matthew Ball, best-selling author of The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet

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解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集

蕭欣浩
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★ 文學跨界文化、飲食文學、都市生活的最新研究！

飲食圍繞日常，當中文化最容易被忽略。蕭欣浩博士花十年時間，研究香港飲食文學及文化，探討飲食的相關課題，結集成《解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集》。

本書題材從古代的甲骨文、蘇軾的詩文，到上世紀五、六十年代的粵語片、茶餐廳文化，以至香港作家也斯的創作、内地作家蘇童的小說與台灣作家劉克襄的散文，探討飲食於不同時空的文化意義。蕭欣浩博士以學者兼廚師的身分，呈現一道道美食背後，文學、電影與文化構成的人間滋味。

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Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Customs and Rituals

Wei Liming
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Festivals are the carrier of the national soul and sentiment o f the Chinese people , and are also the essence of the national affinity and cohesion. The culture of festivals roots deeply in the people, and it thus shows its enormous vitality. In spite of the change of times, it has gradually become part of the heritages of the colorful Chinese culture. Some important ones, the four major festivals (the Spring Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival) in particular, are still widely celebrated among people. Chinas statutory festivals and memorial days include New Years Day, Womens Day, Tree-planting Day, Labor Day, Youth Day, Childrens Day, Armys Day, Teachers Day and National Day, and etc. Minority people in China boast various festivals and almost every nationality has her own major festivals. Typical examples are the Tibetan New Year Festival, Water-Splashing Festival for Dai people, and Torch Festival for Yi People, the Singing Carnival for Zhuang people and Nadam Fair for Mongolian people.

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私隱即權力 (Privacy is Power)

卡里莎．貝利斯 (Carissa Véliz)
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英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz話題新作
深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響

*「我同意相關的私隱條款」
*「我接受向第三者披露個人資料作促銷或宣傳用途」
*「使用本網站即表示同意接受所有cookies」
無意識的點擊背後，代表我們失去了什麼？

科技帶來社會進步的同時，也讓我們的個人資料無聲無息地外洩——社交平台、手機程式透過大數據了解我們的喜好，推送商品及服務廣告；電訊公司、銀行直接出售個人資料予第三方，宣傳我們根本沒必要的東西；演算法下大眾接觸到截然不同的新聞內容和政治訊息，於是各自活在自己的同溫層中⋯⋯我們的性格、興趣、行蹤乃至不欲人知的秘密，是否都透過科技暴露在某些人的眼皮底下？

英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響，它們如何撩撥慾望、影響思考、左右決定，並造成差別化待遇，甚至社會對立？建立保護私隱的意識，就是自主的第一步。

從來沒有哪個時代如同今日人類被科技全面滲透，
而私隱則成為生活便捷性的高昂代價。

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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Cade Metz
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"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling." (Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker)

Recipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library Journal

The Untold Tech Story of Our Time

What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create?

With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing.

Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a 64-year-old computer science professor who didn’t drive and didn’t fly because he could no longer sit down - but still made his way across North America for the moment that would define a new age of technology. The other was a 36-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy who laid claim to being the greatest game player of all time before vowing to build a machine that could do anything the human brain could do.

They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. But both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. Their ideas drove a new kind of arms race, spanning Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and OpenAI, a new lab founded by Silicon Valley kingpin Elon Musk. But some believed that China would beat them all to the finish line.

Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict among national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question:

How far will we let it go?

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透視我城：香港文學文化十二講

蔡益懷
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一個城巿有她的面相，還有內在的肌理，探究一個城巿的文化現象，除了看她的表相，還要掌握脈相，細察肌理。在這次的研究與教學中，集中探究了香港文學文化的一些熱點、焦點議題，如都巿性、現代性、本土性等，並以這些維度展開不同的扇面，對都巿文化空間、社會意識型態、集體記憶、族群意識與身份認同等現象展開論述。此外從不同的側面切入，以點帶面，探索香港文學文化的不同版塊與元素，如香港大眾文化中的忠義元素、生死愛欲、懷舊風潮、流行歌曲、居住空間、飲食文化等，以形成一張大致展現香港文學文化風貌的拼圖。

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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love

Julie Sedivy
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A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious, lyrical exploration, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible.

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love follows the path that language takes through a human life―from an infant’s first attempts at sense-making to the vulnerabilities and losses that accompany aging. As Sedivy shows, however, language and life are inextricable, and here she offers them together: a childish misunderstanding of her mother’s meaning reveals the difficulty of relating to other minds; frustration with “professional” communication styles exposes the labyrinth of standards that define success; the first signs of hearing loss lead to a meditation on society’s discomfort with physical and mental limitations.

Part memoir, part scientific exploration, and part cultural commentary, this book epitomizes the thrills of a life steeped in the aesthetic delights of language and the joys of its scientific scrutiny.

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被遺忘的香港管樂史

連家駿
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管樂，是首種傳入香港的西樂，在香港開埠時，便以軍樂形式來到香港，從此落地生根，蓬勃發展，在香港的音樂歷史中佔有重要的位置。然而，社會對管樂團的重視卻遠遠低於管弦樂團，以致在研究或社會上都會被忽視。

本書從歷史的角度，詳細記述管樂由香港成為英國殖民地至現在一百八十多年的發展，是首本完整而有系統地剖析香港及周邊地區管樂歷史的書籍。作者把這段歷史分為啟蒙時代、轉變時代及當代三大部分，並加入嶺南地區和南洋與香港管樂發展關係的部分，記錄不同時代的重要管樂團，並且仔細闡述社會和管樂的關係，包括政府、社區、學校對管樂的看法，同時觀察香港政治、文化政策、青年政策、教學方針等對管樂發展的影響，以小觀大，展現香港西洋音樂歷史的轉變。作者亦專訪了多位管樂界重要人物，以大量第一手資料及圖片，呈現香港管樂的歷史圖像。最後希望藉着探討本地管樂發展的難處和期望，為日後管樂的發展管理、演奏及研究，提供不同的思考 角度，具有極高的參考價值。

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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

Luciano Floridi
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Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design.

Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

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我們為何吃太多？全新的食慾科學與現代節食迷思 (Why We Eat (Too Much):)

安德魯‧詹金森 (Andrew Jenkinson)
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給有志控制體重，但厭倦各種節食法的人。
已經吃很少了，為何身體卻覺得你吃很多，讓你越來越重？
不瞭解食慾和新陳代謝的科學，將無法擺脫反覆節食的輪迴！

蔡依橙醫師：「即使怎樣都瘦不下來，
也要搞清楚自己為什麼失敗！」（蔡依橙的閱讀筆記 板主）

「我可以減肥，但無法繼續減下去！」
為什麼飢餓感永遠是贏家？

我們都聽過這樣的黃金法則：少吃多運動就可以減肥。然而事情沒那麼簡單。減肥外科手術專家詹金森醫師在超過二十年的職涯中，治療過上千名陷入無止境減肥循環的肥胖症患者。本書結合他行醫時面對的實例，以及全新的新陳代謝科學研究，告訴你人體的食慾和代謝到底如何運作，你的身體如何決定你的體重。 這本書系統化地解釋為何「節食」如何適得其反。從脂肪被汙名化、植物油和加工食品的崛起，談到現代人攝取飲食中omega-3的不足、糖分的增加，都讓我們更加容易飢餓，並最終讓我們的體重設定點提高。作者探索了農業、製藥、人類學和醫學等各種領域，揭示我們不良的飲食習慣和日益嚴重的肥胖危機，背後隱藏的真相。

你可能也這樣想過……

•節食對我無效，我嘗試過所有節食方法，但最後體重比開始節食時更重。
•我只要看一眼奶油蛋糕就會變胖。
•我無法控制飢餓感，如果不吃飯我就會變得虛弱。

在這本書中，作者會為我們解釋以下幾件事：

•為何某些飲食建議會適得其反，讓減肥變得更加困難？
•為什麼體重越減越重？感覺被肥胖給困住了？
‧體重設定點是什麼？減肥的目的是下調體重設定點，該如何做？

作者帶領我們瞭解身體在能量代謝上的調節能力，這完全不像能量輸入和輸出那麼簡單。我們的環境、歷史和家庭背景中的各種因素，也會決定每個人最初的體重設定點，亦即設定為苗條、肥胖或其他。既然體重設定點是體重的主要控制因素，若能「識別」控制體重設定點的信號（從我們所吃食物類型及生活方式），我們的體重設定點及體重，便能真正處在自己的掌控之下。

幸好有這本深入探討最新的「食慾和人體能量代謝」科學的書，我們可以徹底改變自己與食物之間的關係，並開始停止透過激烈的節食減肥，而是從生活習慣和飲食習慣著手，真正達到降低體重設定點的目的。

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