Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER •WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

"Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.

These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER • Meet Elizabeth Zott: a “formidable, unapologetic and inspiring” (PARADE) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review) and “witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism.” (Stephen King, via Twitter)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek
“The most delightful novel I read this year...fresh and surprising...I laughed out loud!”—Philip Galanes, The New York Times
"A unique heroine...you'll find yourself wishing she wasn’t fictional." —Seattle Times

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

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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.

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零時差攻擊 (This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race)

妮可·柏勒斯 (Nicole Perlroth)
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年度《金融時報》和麥肯錫年度最佳商業圖書獎！
《書單》：年度最重要的一本書！

從駭客、學者、異議分子、影子經紀人到各國政府高層與外國傭兵
史上首度完整揭發即將引發第三次世界大戰的終極軍火真面目

網路安全記者深入「零時差漏洞」交易現場的第一手報導
駭客、巨富、強權，與比核武更致命的終極武器！

當所有的民生基礎設施都壟罩在戰爭的陰影之下，
這是一場沒有大後方的戰爭，每一個人都無處可逃。
「知識即權力」在資訊時代得到印證，
面對這場祕密失控的軍備競賽，我們該何去何從？

《紐約時報》資深網路安全記者以緊湊淺白的筆法，解釋駭客與政府高層交易的內幕，希望讓更多人了解這枚正在導向第三次世界大戰的致命炸彈。當高度機密的國安問題與個人隱私產生衝突、俄國政府能跨國操弄烏克蘭選舉、中國政府能任意出入他國國防資料庫、美國失去了壟斷網路軍火的霸主地位──作者試圖探究：隨時隨地可能一觸即發的「零時差攻擊」真的將帶來世界末日嗎？面對如此無所不能的危險武器，有可能透過法律來規範已然失控的交易嗎？

本書出版後令重量媒體、美國學者、專家、企業資安顧問讚不絕口。《紐約書評》盛讚：「本書作者穿越全球網路武器貿易的地下世界，寫就一部生動而充滿挑釁意味的數位攻擊史！」

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正常人 (Normal People)

莎莉‧魯尼 (Sally Rooney)
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為何我們渴望關係，卻又一再受傷？

「一部代表未來的經典。」──《衛報》
未來會怎樣我不清楚，但我們就是這樣開始的。

康諾和梅黎安在西愛爾蘭的小鎮一起長大，但兩人的共同點僅止於此。在學校裡，康諾人氣高，大家都喜歡他；而梅黎安則是獨來獨往。然而當兩人一開始對話，那是一段尷尬卻振奮的對話，足以改變他們人生的變化就此展開。

本書是關於兩個人互相吸引、友誼與愛的小說，從第一句對話開始，展開長達數年的故事發展。我們陪著這對年輕人，看著他們想離開彼此身邊，卻始終做不到。

我不知道我是有什麼毛病，梅黎安說，我不知道我為什麼就不能像正常人一樣。
我不知道我為什麼沒辦法讓別人愛我……

何謂正常？正常性？
渴望被愛，想擺脫孤獨感；害怕跟別人不一樣，卻一再失去自我……
「正常人」 維持親密關係的極限何在？

面對這個動盪的世界和現實的社會，舉世各地的年輕人內心充滿了虛無飄渺的想像與無力感，批判他人頭頭是道，但是對於自己總是舉棋不定。害怕被孤立、被比下去，拼命跟上他人的節奏；渴望被人理解，卻又恐懼真實的自我；渴望受人喜愛，卻又害怕袒露自己。1991年出生的作家莎莉‧魯尼被文壇肯定，在於她捕捉到千禧世代的脆弱不安和階級意識，一直小心翼翼，但世界令他們充滿無力感；想在親密關係中彼此依賴，但彼此之間存在的某種權力關係，像一種危險力量，令他們幾乎無法抓住對方，這種自我保護與逃避間的矛盾，引發無數年輕讀者的強烈共鳴──害怕面對未來，也害怕面對自己。

「我十分確定我所有的經驗都是極為日常的生活經驗，如果不是的話，根本不值得去寫。」──莎莉‧魯尼

一對從日常對話開始靠近的年輕男女，一段從生活表面走進靈魂深處的情感關係。乍看不過是生活的《正常人》，卻在當代不乏辭彙定義的各種關係中，寫出了一種更加熱情、親密的「深度」關係，也讓讀者清楚感受到人物在時光中愈加成長與複雜。徜若每個世代都需要一個膾炙人口的愛情故事，可以說繼村上春樹《挪威的森林》後，不曾有一本青春戀愛小說掀起全球文壇如此熱烈回響。同樣刻劃涉世未深的年輕人，同樣懷藏著難以明說的心理迷惑與混亂，全球眾多書評將兩本書相提並論。曼布克獎官網也在本書入圍網頁上將村上的經典列入《正常人》四本延伸書單之一。

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筆下 ── 文學經典的六個專題

葛亮
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《筆下》是葛亮博士長期研究、寫作與教學的專業經驗結晶。

在書中，作者深入而透徹地論析文學經典之作，涉獵J.D.塞林格、伊恩‧麥克尤恩、帕特里克‧莫迪亞諾、石黑一雄、太宰治、白先勇、黃碧雲等中外名家；全書以主題設章，同中釋異，捭闔古今，在文學評論著作中可謂匠心獨具。藉由作者解讀，可一窺方家創作軌跡，並對其作品文字風格、內容意蘊、審美意趣等有豐瞻而全面的認識；亦從文學創作導引之角度，令讀者在題材選取、遣詞用句、敘述手法等層面皆有所獲益，進而由好讀者邁向好作者之境。

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心安即是家

王賡武、林娉婷 著 ・夏沛然 譯
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海外華人史學大家王賡武在年近九旬之際寫下自己「長年半游牧生涯」的故事。他的人生以殖民時代的東南亞為起點，歷經殖民、戰爭、動亂、革命，大半生在三大洲間遷徙， 構成二十世紀的歷史洪流之中一部豐富而獨特的流浪史。

接續上卷《家園何處是》，下卷《心安即是家》的故事從王賡武身份認同的廢墟上展開， 繼續述說他輾轉於新加坡、吉隆坡、倫敦、劍橋、坎培拉、香港的探索旅程。王賡武逐漸從滿腔熱血、致力於「建國造史」的年輕知識精英，轉而投向大學校園「尋求更大的自由」。

這段旅程的同行者是本書另一位作者林娉婷。我們會從她的角度回看那些年，她與年輕的鬍子詩人王賡武相識於馬來亞大學，兩人在倫敦成婚，在異鄉生子，先後遷居五個國家、七座城市，共同尋求身份認同的歸宿：「我們住在什麼地方，那裏就是我們的家。」

「在這本引人入勝的回憶錄中，王賡武娓娓道來自己的學術之旅，娉婷回憶他倆在新加坡和馬來西亞的日子更是充實了敍述，在這兩地，王賡武成為了啟發人心的老師、能幹的大學行政人員和享譽國際、研究中國和海外華人的歷史學家。此回憶錄讓我們看到是什麼造就了這位廣受讚譽的歷史學家的學術成就和世界視野，但最吸引人的是他如何描述對『家』的領悟。」 ─李錦興，馬來西亞新紀元大學副校長

(摘錄自cup.cuhk.edu.hk)

鄉風市聲

作者： 魯迅、豐子愷、葉聖陶 等; 編者：錢理群
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遙憶念舊、戀土懷鄉、睹物思人，尋找失去了的過去，尋找一去不返的童年……既是本書的主題，更是一種心態與情調。

本書選錄了20位現當代文學名家共36篇文章，描述了中國鄉村的變革，社會歷史的變遷，以及傳統鄉村與現代城市的衝突與矛盾，還抒發了作者深刻的感情。這些城鄉書寫展現了北京、上海、青島、南京、揚州等城市的不同個性，除具有獨特的美學價值外，還富有特殊的民俗學價值。

作者在輕談淺說之間，道出「鄉風」與「巿聲」是兩種地域文明的對抗，它們消長起伏，反映着中國的變化。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社)

The Anthropocene Reviewed : Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green
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Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.

“The perfect book for right now.” –People

“The Anthropocene Reviewed is essential to the human conversation.” –Library Journal, starred review

The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.

Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a species, we are both far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough, a paradox that came into sharp focus as we faced a global pandemic that both separated us and bound us together.

John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world.

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Fathoms: The World in the Whale

Rebecca Giggs
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WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NIB LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION

‘There is a kind of hauntedness in wild animals today: a spectre related to environmental change … Our fear is that the unseen spirits that move in them are ours. Once more, animals are a moral force.’

When Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beach in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales might shed light on the condition of our seas. How do whales experience environmental change? Has our connection to these fabled animals been transformed by technology? What future awaits us, and them? And what does it mean to write about nature in the midst of an ecological crisis?

In Fathoms: the world in the whale, Giggs blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore these questions with clarity and hope. In lively, inventive prose, she introduces us to whales so rare they have never been named; she tells us of the astonishing variety found in whale sounds, and of whale ‘pop’ songs that sweep across hemispheres. She takes us into the deeps to discover that one whale’s death can spark a great flourishing of creatures. We travel to Japan to board whaling ships, examine the uncanny charisma of these magnificent mammals, and confront the plastic pollution now pervading their underwater environment.

In the spirit of Rachel Carson and John Berger, Fathoms is a work of profound insight and wonder. It marks the arrival of an essential new voice in narrative nonfiction and provides us with a powerful, surprising, and compelling view of some of the most urgent issues of our time.

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做自己的情緒管理師：20個負面情緒管理法

香港心理學會輔導心理學部
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【榮獲2021第三屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類「出版獎」】

全書分為四個章節：第一章焦慮家族：焦慮、恐懼、強迫、羞怯、緊張、沒有安全感，第二章抑鬱家族：抑鬱、沮喪、悲傷、孤寂感、麻木，第三章憤怒家族：憤怒、憎恨、矛盾、內疚，第四章困惑家族：沒有希望感、失望、無助、悶/無聊、空虛

介紹以上的情緒特徵，並有「自測表」自我篩檢測驗是否有相關的困擾、應對方法、有甚麼可預防和注意等等。

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尋琴者

郭強生
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如貓印般音符的輕緩語言，演奏出一段迷人故事，傾訴了人、音樂與情感之間的靈魂歸屬，如此的蒼茫雪景與滄桑人生的互映，只有郭強生老師的《尋琴者》能乘載，這是一部令人眷戀的小說。──甘耀明（小說家）

《尋琴者》關於音樂與樂器的描寫很多，從小聽曲、唱曲的強生，有著善於審音的聽覺，他寫了一個聽覺小說，讓感情更純粹與空靈。這本書在談藝術，更在談創造小說的敘述藝術，然而愛情總是他作品中的終極藝術，因為不完美，甚至千瘡百孔，更能說明細緻純粹的情愛更是藝術，這是作者孤獨的藝術，也是悲傷的救贖。──周芬伶（作家）

讀《尋琴者》宛如聆聽一首跌宕的曲子，讓人不禁憶起孟若的《幸福與陰影之舞》、石黑一雄的《夜曲》、托瑪斯・曼的《魂斷威尼斯》、三島的《金閣寺》，甚至是恩田陸《蜜蜂與遠雷》……在這中篇裡，幾乎與所有音樂小說、與所有探討人性與命運之複雜的小說、與所有追求藝術與美的偉大小說，都彼此呼應著。如此具有啟發，如此難得。──盛浩偉（作家）

一位擁有過人音樂天分的鋼琴調音師，少年時的遭遇讓他放棄成為鋼琴家的夢想，人生也停留在逝去的時光與感情之中。
一位年逾六十歲的生意人，因為妻子死後留下的一架鋼琴與調音師相遇，兩人結伴踏上尋琴之路……

每個人都有與生俱來的共鳴程式，「有人在樂器中尋找，有人在歌聲中尋找，也有人更幸運地，能夠就在茫茫塵世間，找到了那個能夠喚醒與過去、現在、未來產生共鳴的一種震動。」你的一生是否也在尋覓能夠共鳴的靈魂？

金鼎獎、台灣文學金典獎、開卷好書獎得主郭強生，繼暢銷動人的散文書寫之後，重回小說領域推出《尋琴者》。這是郭強生首次嘗試音樂題材的小說，每個句子宛如音符精確而優雅，譜寫愛慕與寂寞的殘酷，只為追尋靈魂共鳴的無悔。全書哀傷而節制，讀完讓你掩卷嘆息。馬世芳力推：「這本書既寫出了深淵的黑暗，也寫出了那不可方物的至美。」

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情緒靈敏力：哈佛心理學家教你4步驟與情緒脫鉤 (Emotional Agility)

蘇珊‧大衛 (Susan David)
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最受企業人士歡迎的情緒課，
教你建立快速調整思緒的新能力，
做自己情緒的主人！

★2016年美好人生書獎（心理學類）
★《華爾街日報》暢銷書排行榜No.1
★ 2017 Axiom Business Book Awards

你是多慮煩憂型、情緒封裝型，還是情緒經常失控型？
為了努力保持一張專業的臉，讓你每天總是情緒過勞？
在工作上很難完全做自己，常常心口不一？
想靠正向思考擺脫壓力卻更有壓力，好比上鉤的魚，不斷掙扎卻於事無補？

當你開始這樣想──
你的工作──「這次簡報我一定會搞砸」
你的同事──「他們就是愛暗中較勁」
你的上司──「不能讓老闆覺得我做不到」
你的伴侶──「說了也沒用，反正不會有什麼改變」
你的家人──「老是錯過孩子學校活動，我真是失敗的父母」
小心你已經上鉤了！

研究情緒對行為影響已二十多年的哈佛團隊發現，情緒驅動想法，也影響行為並帶出其他感覺，然而，情緒並非事實，只是反映你看事情的觀點！
你感覺很糟，並非你真的很糟；他讓你生氣，跟你感覺生氣是兩回事。
有情緒是人的本能，善用最新認知科學，簡單四步驟讓人不再情緒一來就上鉤：

第1步：坦然面對（找出模式）
80%的成功純粹贏在到場現身，所謂現身就是抱持好奇心去面對自己的情緒與想法，如此才能找出哪些負面思緒最易讓你上鉤。
第2步：跨出去（標示情緒）
思考過程、容忍矛盾，然後一笑置之，改變觀點或用第三人稱和自己說話，接著戳破它：被困住是真的，但情緒並非事實。
第3步：依循價值觀（與情緒脫鉤）
隨波逐流會讓你失去工作和生活的意義，你的決定必須和你重視的事情產生連結，否則只是在浪費時間。
第4步：向前走（做最好的自己）
大腦非常在意你相信什麼，可塑性高的自我感覺是情緒靈敏力的基石。人生是一連串片刻的累積，每個片刻做些微調，加總起來就可產生重大改變。

情緒勞動攸關生活品質，更是工作表現的關鍵。最成功的人往往也是最懂得如何快速調整思緒，自我轉型，把壞情緒轉化為好能量的人。長期假裝或壓抑，表面上雲淡風輕，私下卻咬牙切齒的人，不僅會傷害自己，也會傷害組織。本書幫助你跳脫毫無助益的情緒慣性，建立人生成功最關鍵的能力，實現你想要的工作與生活。

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人生悟語：劉再復新文體沉思錄

劉再復
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榮獲2021年第三屆「香港出版雙年獎」文學及小說類別的「出版獎」。

首次完整地輯錄了作者多年來所寫的二千多則「悟語」。這種「悟語」寫作有別於傳統的小品文、雜文及散文詩，它是一種「碎片寫作」、「片斷性思想札記」，是一些表面無序而不連續寫作的文字。作者通過這種「新文體」，以精粹凝煉的文字，評述中國四大名著—《紅樓夢》、《西遊記》、《三國演義》、《水滸傳》，並對古今中外的名著作出精闢的文學評論與文化批判，從歷史、文學、哲學、文化等層面有所反思及感悟，既與古典名著裏的靈魂對話，也同時與自己的多重主體對話，以心讀心，呈現出深刻而豐富的思想圖景。

卷一：三書悟語，評論中國四大名著的其中三書─《西遊記》、《水滸傳》及《三國演義》。
卷二：紅樓悟語，專門評述《紅樓夢》，而四大名著中，作者尤其鍾愛《紅樓夢》，更於國外漂泊時視之為故鄉，是啟發其生命感悟和精神開掘的對象。
卷三：獨語天涯，作者自述在海外四處漂流及流亡期間，親身體驗多國文化的衝擊，從中引發了許多思索。
卷四：面壁詩思，作者放眼世界，把古今中外的作家、哲學家、著作共冶一爐，從更廣闊的視野探討歷史、哲學、文學、國家、生命、自由、宗教等。
卷五：共悟人間，為作者與大女兒劉劍梅身在異地的書信紀錄。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Sarah Frier
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Winner of the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Named “Best Book of the Year” by Fortune, The Financial Times, The Economist, Inc. Magazine, and NPR

In this “sequel to The Social Network” (The New York Times), award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals the never-before-told story of how Instagram became the most culturally defining app of the decade.

“The most enrapturing book about Silicon Valley drama since Hatching Twitter” (Fortune), No Filter “pairs phenomenal in-depth reporting with explosive storytelling that gets to the heart of how Instagram has shaped our lives, whether you use the app or not” (The New York Times).

In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: It would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic one billion dollars when Instagram had only 13 employees.

That might have been the end of a classic success story. But the cofounders stayed on, trying to maintain Instagram’s beauty, brand, and cachet, considering their app a separate company within the social networking giant. They urged their employees to make changes only when necessary, resisting Facebook’s grow-at-all-costs philosophy in favor of a strategy that highlighted creativity and celebrity. Just as Instagram was about to reach a billion users, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg - once supportive of the founders’ autonomy - began to feel threatened by Instagram’s success.

Frier draws on unprecedented access - from the founders of Instagram, as well as employees, executives, and competitors; Anna Wintour of Vogue; Kris Jenner of the Kardashian-Jenner empire; and a plethora of influencers worldwide - to show how Instagram has fundamentally changed the way we show, eat, travel, and communicate, all while fighting to preserve the values which contributed to the company’s success. “Deeply reported and beautifully written” (Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair), No Filter examines how Instagram’s dominance acts as a lens into our society today, highlighting our fraught relationship with technology, our desire for perfection, and the battle within tech for its most valuable commodity: our attention.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

讀胡適

董橋
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董橋說今年[2019年]五四也一百年了，他緬懷胡適對世界、對國家、對山河、對生靈的關愛和擔當。他說胡適是老派人，有些說法有些做法很像他父親那個年紀的人，有點偏見，有點冥頑，有點迂闊，有點可笑，有點親切。頌揚和謾駡聲中，胡適一輩子是台上的人物。這本《讀胡適》只讀他喜歡讀的胡適，抄他喜歡抄的胡適 ......

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《讀胡適》獲第十三屆香港書獎。
董橋得獎感言:《讀胡適》從來不是一本熱鬧的書。我希望這本書是一道清淺的小河，靜靜流過從前和現在的中國，讓讀這本書的人在喧嘩的塵世裏聽聽那連綿的水聲，回望一個中國讀書人發憤追求知識塑造自己的過程，看他博讀中外典籍，用言行克服偏見，認識世道。胡適之經歷近代中國一波又一波的風浪。他治學，因為他相信學術必須傳承。他從政，因為他相信他的良知可以感化齷齪的無知。他提倡白話文的心志造就了中國語文從此脫胎換骨。他對自由民主的信仰成了近現代中國政治荒野中一盞不滅的明燈。我不忍心讓這樣一位有遠見有骨氣的讀書人的努力煙消雲散......

(摘錄自虛詞p-articles.com)

香港城市大學邵逸夫圖書館現正舉行「跨洋之旅：胡適美國部分藏書展」"A Transpacific Voyage: A Collection of Hu Shih’s Books in the United States"，展期至5月30日。

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu
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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures

Roma Agrawal
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Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books

The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.

While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed upon, or how it remains standing.

In Built, star structural engineer Roma Agrawal explains how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach into the sky. She unearths how humans have tunneled through solid mountains; how we've walked across the widest of rivers, and tamed nature's precious water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials used to build the Pantheon and the Eiffel Tower; and explains how careful engineering can minimize tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge. Interweaving science, history, illustrations, and personal stories, Built offers a fascinating window into a subject that makes up the foundation of our everyday lives.

“Conveys insight into the built environment in an unusually accessible style-the kind of insight that will help lay readers look differently at the world around them.” ―Wall Street Journal

“Interweaving science, history, illustrations, and personal stories, Built offers a simply fascinating and impressively informative history of architecture, a subject that makes up the foundation of our everyday lives.” ―Midwest Book Review

“Makes engineering concepts easy to understand . . . [Agrawal] asks to reader to dream with her, look at the world before a problem is solved, then rejoice in the solution and all that it has meant to us as heirs of earlier genius. In short, she does the almost impossible; she makes engineering fun.” ―Manhattan Book Review

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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

David Attenborough
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*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year*

In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.

See the world. Then make it better.

I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.

As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.

I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.

We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.

All we need is the will to do so.

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"The eminent traveler and naturalist delivers a combination of memoir and manifesto, the first leisurely, the second earnest....Recognizing that we are at a tipping point, Attenborough is refreshingly optimistic, noting that one thing humans do well is solve problems. Anyone concerned with the planet's ecological future will want to spend time with this excellent book."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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The Midnight Library: A Novel

Matt Haig
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A WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK GUARANTEED TO LIFT YOUR SPIRITS”

A New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!

"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?"

A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

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