A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership

Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra, Kurt Strovink
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New York Times Bestseller

From leading global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the minds behind the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery.

In the high-stakes world of corporate leadership, becoming a Fortune 500 CEO is an Everest-like ascent—with only the savviest managing to avoid falling off the mountain. In A CEO for All Seasons, you’ll find an essential climbing route that will take you through every stage. Featured in this tip-dense guide is wisdom from some of the world’s most iconic leaders, including Dell Technologies’ Michael Dell, Merck’s Ken Frazier, Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman, Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman, Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, ASML’s Peter Wennink, and Chevron’s Mike Wirth.

Unique in applying a number of sophisticated metrics to isolate the world’s top 200 CEOs, reduce them to a representative sample, and then reap their wisdom, the McKinsey team, in A CEO for All Seasons, spotlights the specific stage-based hurdles that CEOs face. From preparing for the role to starting strong to sustaining momentum to ensuring a lasting legacy, the book leaves no segment of the journey unmapped. Along the way, it offers proven strategies for maintaining forward progress and, crucially, alerts readers to common blind spots that can sabotage success, as revealed by a detailed survey of thousands of executives.

Whether you’re an aspiring leader or a new-to-the-job CEO—or even a board member wanting to better steward your company’s performance—this is the compact, hands-on guide you’ve needed. Its compendium of pressure-tested tips is a must-have game changer for leaders at all levels.

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暗處襲來一道掌風：城市漫遊的譫妄狂想

馬家輝
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馬家輝漫遊我城的譫妄狂想結集，寫下散步途上偶遇的人情、對城市變遷的觀察，以至藏身轉角的掌故。全書分兩輯。第一輯「夜巷雨聲」既看新舊書店，也尋訪唐樓、老店，甚至在社會復常後的街頭回望一個消失的藍雪櫃，追憶前事。第二輯「街角掌風」，聚焦各路武家在香港留下的身影，由黃飛鴻、葉問到李小龍等，捕捉街角傳奇。

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Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz
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Financial Times Best Books of 2024: Economics — Martin Wolf

"...an invaluable framework to better understanding growth, the financial sector, and the key trends shaping the global economy" — Financial Times, Tej Parikh

The shocks and crises of recent years—pandemic, recession, inflation, war—have forced executives and investors to recognize that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. Yet unreliable forecasting, pervasive doomsaying, and whipsawing data severely hamper the task of decoding the landscape. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral—or permanent and structural? False alarms are costly traps, but so are true structural changes that go undetected.

How can leaders avoid these macro traps to make better tactical and strategic decisions?

In this perspective-shifting book, BCG Chief Economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Senior Economist Paul Swartz provide a fresh and accessible way to assess macroeconomic risk. Casting doubt on conventional model-based thinking, they demonstrate a more powerful approach to building sound macroeconomic judgment. Using incisive analysis built upon frameworks, historical context, and structural narratives—what they call "economic eclecticism"—the book empowers readers with the durable skills to assess continuously evolving risks in the real economy, the financial system, and the geopolitical arena.

Moreover, the authors' more nuanced approach reveals that the all-too-common narratives of economic collapse and decline are often false alarms themselves, while the fundamental strengths of our current "era of tightness" become visible.

With rational optimism rather than gloom, Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms speaks to the key financial and macroeconomic controversies that define our times—and provides a compass for navigating the global economy. Rather than relying on blinking dashboards or flashy headlines, leaders can and should judge macroeconomic risks for themselves.

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新九龍 : 獅子山下的記憶軌跡

阮志主編
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「新九龍」，這片九龍半島北部的土地，是自1860年《北京條約》劃定界限街以來而逐漸形成的區域概念。新九龍的歷史特殊性在於其「過渡性」本質，這裏是地理上的過渡帶，也是時間上的過渡帶，更是文化上的過渡帶，這使新九龍成為解讀香港近代化進程的絕佳樣本。

本書分為四大篇章：
•「歷史沿革篇」透過地理與行政區劃演變，揭示新九龍如何從邊緣地帶逐步轉化為二十世紀香港都市擴張的前沿陣地；
•「工商發展篇」聚焦兩個具標誌性的經濟活動——深水埗織造業與花墟花卉產業；
•「社會民生篇」以宗教組織為觀察窗口，追蹤基督教與天主教在新九龍的在地化實踐；
•「文化娛樂篇」則從空間生產與休間消費角度，解讀新九龍的都市文化形塑過程。

(摘錄自chunghwabook.com.hk)

Terrible Magnificent Sociology

Lisa Wade
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With Terrible Magnificent Sociology, Lisa Wade set out to reinvent the introductory sociology textbook by writing a compulsively readable book that uses memorable stories to sell students on the discipline. Her fresh, streamlined approach has been enthusiastically received by instructors and students alike for its emphasis on lively stories, focus on intersectionality, and integrated coverage of sociological theory and methods. Throughout the book, Wade introduces readers to a more inclusive canon that emphasizes the contributions of women, immigrants, and sociologists of color. A new Norton Illumine Ebook helps students understand the sociology behind the stories with author videos, "How Do We Know?” interactives on sociological research methods, and Check Your Understanding questions with answer-specific feedback.

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焦慮是禮物：24個練習，培養自我修復力，溫柔擁抱內在的自己 (The Wisdom of Anxiety)

雪瑞兒．保羅 (Sheryl Paul)
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學習自我治癒，擺脫情緒困境，傾聽內在療癒師的聲音，找回那個最真實的自己。

每個人偶爾都會有焦慮的經驗——但對某些人而言，焦慮是長期的磨耗。在《焦慮是禮物》中，作者教你如何看穿焦慮的表面，去發現它從潛意識捎來的重要訊息。你將學到如何轉向，而不是逃避焦慮，並挖掘你不適感的起源，以在其中尋得豐沛的自知。

焦慮不是敵人，而是一場邀請，讓我們走進內在、靠近自己。
全球有超過2.6億人被診斷為焦慮症患者，還有更多人從未被發現。
焦慮，是我們這個時代的共同語言。

你是否常在深夜問自己：
「我是不是撐不下去了？」
「如果我永遠無法好起來呢？」
——這些你心裡常常響起的問題，其實很多人也正在經歷，你不是一個人。

本書以24個溫和實用的練習，引導你認識、接納、並與焦慮和平共處。這是一趟無需靠藥物、也不需要壓抑或逃避的療癒旅程。當你願意轉身擁抱它，焦慮就會成為通往內在力量的禮物。

・不靠藥物，也能跨越焦慮暗夜
・從轉折中的不安，找回自己的路
・24個練習，溫柔陪伴你走過情緒風暴，走向平靜與韌性

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Negotiating the Impossible : How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle)

Deepak Malhotra
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An award-winning professor from Harvard Business School offers a new and improved edition of his guide to navigating negotiation deadlock, while offering practical advice and stories of success. Updated with 20% new material, including a brand-new chapter and discussion guide.

Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible in this fully expanded upon second edition.

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of the US Constitution, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the odds in complex business situations. He also shows how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether in a job interview or even negotiating with children. Brand new to this edition is a chapter on challenges facing today's world, including how to effectively negotiate in virtual spaces, incorporate AI in your toolkit, and tackle increased polarization.

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我在北京送快遞：那些失意，都很偉大

胡安焉
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快遞員不為人知的內心世界
一個「底層」打工人的20年歲月

工作是生存的手段，不是人生的目的！
他將工作的點滴和生活的甘苦化作真誠的自述。

∕※全球售出十六國版權※
※豆瓣2023年度圖書第一名※
※三聯行讀圖書獎中文原創文學年度作品※
※中簡版銷售20萬冊，橫掃暢銷榜！※

20年裡，作者胡安焉走南闖北，輾轉於廣東、廣西、雲南、上海、北京等地，做過快遞員、夜班揀貨工人、便利商店店員、保安、自行車店銷售、服裝店導購、加油站加油工……，在事後的追憶中，他將工作點滴和生活的甘苦一一記錄，藉由寫作療癒自我……，身體在飛，心裡在悲，「底層」中看見微光！

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Start up 101 (English)

CityUHK TechVenture Series Editorial Committee
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Some people say that entrepreneurship is a lonely road, but new startups do not need to travel it alone. Hong Kongʼs mature startup ecosystem provides many lessons to be learned for startup founders in the city and around the world. As long as they are well prepared and understand the ecosystem, they can create a path to success!

This book provides insights from entrepreneurship experts, addressing diverse challenges and opportunities encountered in the startup process. It aims to help readers establish successful business models.

(Excerpt from cityu.edu.hk/upress)

我們都是單車人 : 走過香港單車百年歲月

楊英瀚, 翁靜儀
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香港單車的歷史故事精彩連連，本書收錄了多幅珍貴的歷史照片，描繪出單車作為一種運輸工具，在舊香港社會的民生發展，扮演着重要角色。本書作者同時亦訪問了多位以單車為本業的老行尊、老前輩；也有新世代，在單車界努力拼博的年青人，整理出一幕幕珍貴的單車往事。

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Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

Tim Minshall
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From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives – and the world around us.

We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from?

There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us – be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us.

From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, Tim Minshall traces these journeys to reveal the hidden world of manufacturing.

Charting how this world came to be, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world, exploring how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable, more equitable future. In doing so, Minshall grants us the ability to make better choices for ourselves, our communities and the planet.

''This brilliant book shows that manufacturing is foundational to our lives, not only now but also if there is to be any hope for a sustainable future. I learned something new on every page.''
PROFESSOR DIANE COYLE, author of Cogs and Monsters

''Reading this book is like being given a personal tour of the world’s factories by a real-life Willy Wonka. Brimming with insight, curiosity and wit, Tim is a masterful storyteller of the manufactured world.''
DR ANNA PLOSZAJSKI, author of Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making

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港式日語：香港日文大搜查，懷舊、日常、新興300例

片岡 新,李燕萍
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本書精選了20世紀60年代至今香港社會使用頻率較高的300個港式日語，一方面加深本地讀者對中文母語的瞭解，另一方面提高日語愛好者的日語水平，以及為學者研究日新月異的香港語言問題提供參考借鑒。

選詞考究：根據30年來的語言調查研究，選出至今仍在使用並有代表性的港式日語。
分類細緻：按時序分成懷舊、常見和新興三類，並細分日常用語、飲食、娛樂、廣告、語法結構等。
插畫精美 ：圖文並茂，部分詞語配有生動有趣、形象可愛的插畫，幫助學習者輕鬆理解詞義和用法。
附贈錄音 ：由作者親自朗讀示範日語和粵語發音，帶領學習者體會純正、地道語感。

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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

Eva Dou
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“Authoritative… a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today.”–Financial Times

“There’s probably no better account of China’s rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company.”–The Wall Street Journal

ABOUT THE BOOK

The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.

On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world’s most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the global spotlight.

In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, and how he built a sprawling corporate empire—one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed, and national glory that Huawei helped to build—and that has also ensnared it.

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查毅超：管理平衡

香港城市大學城傳系列編輯委員會
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榮獲第五屆「香港出版雙年獎」商業及管理類出版獎

本書回顧了查毅超博士，在人生路上遇到的各種挑戰與考驗，如何尋覓最佳的平衡。

專訪香港科技園董事局主席查毅超博士，他同時是香港工業總會主席、福田集團控股有限公司董事總經理，被稱為「磅秤大王」。從小在工廠長大的他，自少對機械、工程感興趣。在美國畢業後回港接手家族生意，憑着獨到的眼光與技術革新公司，讓公司成為跨國企業。他更積極投入多個與工業及科技有關的公職，對香港貢獻良多。本書回顧了查博士如何由「廠佬」成為科技人，並藉着分享他待人處事的態度與平衝各方的智慧，讓年輕一代有所啟發。

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The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE

The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."

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未知的香港粗獷建築

彭展華
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榮獲第五屆香港出版雙年獎：最佳出版獎（社會科學)、2024 美國建築師學會香港特別嘉許獎狀、粵港澳大灣區書籍設計藝術展（2025）優秀圖書等獎項

由零開始，還原本地粗獷建築的精神面貌

多年來粗獷建築均被誤解，有人認為與城市空間格格不入，另外也有人批評混凝土外觀冰冷無味，殘破不堪。有人嫌它醜，更多人其實是一無所知。

粗獷主義（Brutalism）提倡「As Found」概念：追求真實的材料運用，如實地設計當下現況，讓建築呈現最客觀的現實。

1960至1980年代為戰後與經濟起飛之間的年代，香港開始與世界脈搏同步呼吸。本書介紹的20組香港粗獷建築及12位建築師的故事，展現出緊貼世界潮流的觸覺。前衛的設計，令本土的城市風景增添了國際化的色彩。同時也反映當時的人文風景：樸實無華，追求基本生活的精神。

長達三年的研究試圖填補歷史的空白，打開討論的大門，讓專業人士、保育專家和普羅大眾共同尋找這批建築的「未知的」命運：是「去」？或是「留」？

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Dallergut Dream Department Store

Lee Miye
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THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD

For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.

What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?

In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always sold out. Some seek dreams of loved ones who have died.

For Penny, an enthusiastic new hire, working at Dallergut is the opportunity of a lifetime. As she uncovers the workings of this whimsical world, she bonds with a cast of unforgettable characters, including Dallergut, the flamboyant and wise owner, Babynap Rockabye, a famous dream designer, Maxim, a nightmare producer, and the many customers who dream to heal, dream to grow, and dream to flourish.

A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a bestselling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their daily life.

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香港四季色 : 身邊的植物學

劉大偉, 王天行, 吳欣娘
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本套書以四季作為分冊，輯錄了香港市區及郊野常見的100種植物。

春季
春季在寒冬過後，大地回暖，恢復生機，是很多植物配合久違了的動物活動萌芽開花的季節。本冊以在春季花期，呈現出顯著花色的品種為主題，共計25種包括：紫、紅、黃、綠、白等色系；加上1種擁有鮮艷的紫紅色葉片品種，全冊共載26種。

夏季
夏季來臨，有不少植物開始結果，也是讓人聯想到水果的季節。因此，本冊除了夏季開花的18個品種，花色包括紅、橙、黃、綠、白、紫等色系之外，還收錄了7個果實顏色顯著的品種，包括紅、橙、黃、綠等色系，全冊共載25種。

秋季
秋季是不少植物的結果期，因此本冊除了秋季開花的8個品種，花色包括黃、綠、白、紫、紅等色系外，還收錄了具顯著果色的17個品種，包括黃、綠、黑及紅等色系，全冊共載25種。

冬季
冬季是植物葉色轉化最明顯的季節，因此本冊除了冬季開花的8個品種，花色包括白、綠、黃、紅和紫等色系；9個結果的品種，果色包括黃、紅和橙等色系之外，還收錄7個具顯著葉色的品種，包括黃和紅等色系，全冊共載24種。

本書系統地以植物最突出的顏色（花色、果色、葉色）作為索引，即使不清楚品種的名稱，根據顏色便可輕鬆尋得其資訊。書中有超過1600張不同角度與焦距的實物照片，可結合胡秀英植物標本館製作的3D植物模型記錄，以及可觀察植物真實生長狀態的360度VR環境記錄，用嶄新的角度、數碼互動媒體去認識我們身邊的植物。本書基於嚴謹的植物學分類研究，化繁為簡地介紹了香港常見植物的知識，是植物學的入門著作。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century

Tim Weiner
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""No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer."" —The Guardian

A masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers: The Mission is a gripping and revelatory history of the modern CIA, reaching from 9/11 through its covert operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s secret battles with Russia and China, concluding with the Agency's own fight for survival under the current president of the United States

Tim Weiner's epic successor to Legacy of Ashes, his National Book Award–winning classic about the CIA's first sixty years

At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise.

Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets—Moscow, Beijing, Tehran—while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror—and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance.

A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before.

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大英博物館給世界的藝術課：細品一生必看的21件文明珍寶，在一個博物館思考整個世界

程珺
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大英博物館尋寶記
讀懂偉大博物館的背後傳奇
▌用21件珍寶，濃縮800萬件藏品精華 ▌
7件作品看懂鎮館之寶˙9件作品見證文明奇蹟˙5件作品看見文化融合

▌懂世界：
˙為什麼大英博物館最多人參觀的地方，永遠在羅塞塔石碑？法老過世2000年後，兩個男人去征討他的國家，研究他們的文字，這相隔2000年的交流，如何寫下文明的里程碑？
˙馬雅文明和復活島，曾經輝煌卻又消失，傳奇文明如何覆滅？世外桃源的真正下場是什麼？文物如何洩露玄機？
˙如何從古埃及壁畫，理解埃及人的理想生活？埃及法老的雕像，為什麼都那麼像？
˙兩河流域的一塊泥板，如何震驚世人？諾亞方舟的故事只存在於《聖經》裡嗎？
˙世界最早的亞述帝國，人口占了世界1/3，為何國王愛獵獅？而一個戰車模型，竟能看懂統治者是如何管理國家？

▌講傳奇：
˙十四層樓的摩索拉斯陵墓，名列世界古代七大奇蹟，當代建築爭相仿效，是如何消失的？
˙英國大衛爵士如何眼光獨具，收藏了碩果僅存罕見的元青花瓷，改寫了中國陶瓷的歷史？
˙八國聯軍入侵下的受難國寶《女史箴圖》，堂堂大英博物館竟硬生生切割它，犯下世界級的錯誤？

▌看名作：
˙為什麼古希臘雕塑特別珍稀、好看？如何正確欣賞？
˙《女史箴圖》是一幅文學插畫？畫中十二重要場景訴說著怎麼樣的歷史故事？
˙從近8000張到今天剩不到十張，《神奈川衝浪裏》如何從過去紅到今天，成為史上最暢銷的浮世繪？

▌800萬件藏品，濃縮人類文明的藝術簡史
這是大英博物館和其他大型博物館（如羅浮宮或大都會博物館）最不一樣的地方，因為這個博物館的著眼點一直放在「全球文明」上。這本《大英博物館給世界的藝術課》也是從這個視角出發的，特意精選了大英博物館裡21件非常重要的藏品，它們幾乎覆蓋了全世界各個地區的文明，有像四大古文明之一的古埃及文明，也有像復活節島這樣已經永遠消失的部落文明。它們中的每一件所反映的都是不同時期的人類，他們的智慧、觀念與創造力的結晶。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)