便利店人間 = コンビニ人間

村田沙耶香
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

第155屆芥川賞得獎作品
今年度，最衝擊社會普世價值，
動搖「正常」與「異常」的人格界線，
引起媒體熱烈討論，極具話題性的寫實小說。

36歲未婚女性古倉惠子，大學畢業後沒有就職，
在便利店打工已歷經18個年頭，至今未交過男朋友。

某天，以尋找結婚對象而加入打工行列的男人白羽，
卻對惠子的生活方式提出質疑：
「妳不覺得丟臉嗎？」

從此，惠子向來信奉的價值被徹底顛覆了，
失去基準的她，能找回真正的自我嗎？

「本作品透過將主角設定為一個偏離社會常識的怪物般角色，銳利、淺白、並且滑稽地刻畫出人類世界的這個真相。本作品堪稱傑作。」----------------奧泉光

「將身為社會異物的主角，放入人工式的正常化超商盒子裡，便鮮明地映照出外頭世界的人們的奇異。作者自由地伸縮這曖昧模糊的境界線，這部分的發展讀來趣味盎然。」---------------小川洋子

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

by Evan Osnos
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014

A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation

From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.

As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth?

Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

渺小一生 (A Little Life)

柳原漢雅 (Hanya Yanagihara)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources by the same author in CityU LibraryFind

2015年曼布克獎決選小說 (A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST)
榮獲2015年科克斯評論文學獎 (THE KIRKUS PRIZE)
入選2015年3月美國獨立書商協會選書
Goodreads 讀者討論排行榜的文學小說第一名
Buzzfeed 2015年春季 14 本話題熱門書冠軍
廣受各大媒體好評：Vogue時尚雜誌、紐約時報、紐約客、華盛頓時報、全國公共廣播電台網書評、華爾街日報、科克斯評論、出版人週報

四個大學好友，畢業後來到紐約闖蕩，
在這個花花世界各擅勝場，也嘗盡了傷痛與歡愉……

從青春年華到人生終曲，在生命最深的那個黑洞，
纏人的回憶是吸音的彈簧，而友誼是上方唯一的光亮，與垂下的救命索。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

**Winner of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize**
**Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction**
**Finalist for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize**

“This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has found support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world’s biggest businesses.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence.

Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not just for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions, O'Connell presents a profound, provocative, often laugh-out-loud-funny look at an influential movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Home Fire: A Novel

Kamila Shamsie
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed.

Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Less : A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review).

WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE--Fiction

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

微塵記

張婉雯
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources by the author in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲第十一屆「香港書獎」

本書十二個短篇小說以香港為背景，以寫實的風格，反映市民日常生活，還原他們立體的面貌，從中折射社會變遷。〈陌路〉、〈拘捕〉、〈周年誌〉以雨傘運動為題材；〈明叔的一天〉、〈老貓〉、〈打死一頭野豬〉、〈離島戀曲〉、〈鳥〉、〈禮芳街的月光〉呈現基層的悲歡；〈使徒行傳〉由宗教角度探討複雜的人性；〈玫瑰誄〉、〈回家的路上〉則重塑一代精神貴族的形象與消逝。全書立足於本土生活，以「小敘事」刻劃香港人的情與愛。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

20世紀中國知識分子精神史三部曲

錢理群
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲第十一屆「香港書獎」

「20世紀中國知識分子精神史」三部曲，是錢理群教授橫跨二十年歲月寫成的當代知識分子精神歷史，分別寫共和國建立前、毛澤東時代及之後知識分子的命運與選擇，呈現「起承轉合」結構，將知識分子的個體命運與中華人民共和國的整體歷史交錯在一起，是首部無刪減作品。

一九四八年，正是兩個中國—所謂「新中國」與「舊中國」生死大決戰的時刻，同時，也是中國知識分子必須在歷史的大轉折中作出決定自己命運的關鍵時刻。

《1948：天地玄黃》就是記錄了一九四八年，圍繞各類知識分子的不同選擇而發生的極其複雜也極其豐富的社會、思想、文化、心理現像。

「改造」與「堅守」，這是建國後中國知識分子命運的兩個關鍵詞，也構成了本書的歷史敍述的兩個中心詞，寫成中國知識分子精神史上最沉重的一頁。是屈從抑或抵抗、要低頭抑或昂首？毛澤東時代的中國知識分子如何在黑夜裏前行，盡錄在《1949－1976：歲月滄桑》。

毛澤東逝世後，知識分子從絕地對裏重生。錢理群教授肩負起知識分子之名，用自身的經歷和反思，為整代中國知識分子精神史作一個總合，冀歷經滄桑後也守望著知識分子的本分。《1977－2005：絕地守望》，是錢教授留給年輕一代和後人的思想結晶和祝福。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)

你該殺死那個胖子嗎? 為了多數人幸福而犧牲少數人權益是對的嗎? 我們今日該如何看待道德哲學的經典難題 (Would You Kill the Fat Man?)

大衛‧愛德蒙茲 (David Edmonds)
online access
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲美國專業與學術傑出哲學出版獎（The PROSE awards）

道德哲學是在我們的日常生活中最常遇見的哲學。小至欺騙撒謊、大至殺人放火，我們不斷用心中那把尺檢視自己與他人，但那把尺卻不會始終如一，甚至有時還會自我矛盾，這把尺究竟該長什麼樣子，正是道德哲學家苦心孤詣想找出來的。

大衛‧愛德蒙茲在本書中從一個倫理學中著名的思想實驗「電車難題」出發，不僅用饒富趣味的生動文字討論電車難題的源流以及種種變形，更介紹近十年來社會學、心理學、神經科學等對電車困境的熱情與解釋。因為這個看似極端的「一或五」情境，背後代表了生活中大大小小的道德選擇，愛德蒙茲用各種精彩的真實案例來挑戰我們的道德直覺，更試圖在許多哲學家絞盡腦汁想出的電車場景中，讓我們不禁反思這個大哉問：道德到底是什麼？我到底該怎麼做才是對的？

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

中國女權 : 公民知識分子的誕生

曾金燕
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲「香港出版雙年獎」社會科學類別的「出版獎」

艾曉明教授裸胸抗議的照片，在防火牆內外的中文社交媒體上引發了憤怒、悲傷、驕傲、嘲諷、厭惡等情感，爭論中形成了支持或瓦解艾曉明教授抗議的不同社群。而葉海燕通過身體的、性化的、演繹性的、政治化的日常生活、社會行動和網絡寫作來改寫個人生命和改變社會。愈來愈多女權主義者用各種形式進行象徵性的抗議，引起社會上強烈的反應。

本書作者多年來在中國從事維權工作，雖曾被軟禁，但發聲不絕，更於2007年被美國《時代》雜誌選為全球100位最具影響力人物。作者從艾曉明和葉海燕開始，書寫中國知識分子、獨立電影導演、文人作家、藝術家等人在政治反抗者、社會運動活躍分子、「多餘的人」之間的角色中，面臨思想資源、行動力、審美趣味方面的困境和選擇。作者又提出完整地實踐、提升建立在尋求真理基礎上的自我關照能力，是當下中國人建立良心生活、貢獻社會改進的一種生存美學。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)

Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts

Daniel Shapiro
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

** Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award

Are you struggling to deal with conflict in your life? In Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro introduces a groundbreaking method to bridge the toughest divides—whether with family members, colleagues, or in the polarized world of politics. He reveals the hidden power of identity in fueling conflict, and presents a practical framework to reconcile even the most contentious situations. Field-tested around the world, the results are empowering.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

注意！這是我的個人資料私隱 (Watchout! This is My Personal Data Privacy)

黃繼兒
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲「第二十九屆香港印製大獎」書刊印刷優異獎

個人資料 由你掌握 齊齊做個「私隱話事人」！

現代社會資訊及通訊科技高速發展，為我們的生活帶來方便，但同時，亦對個人資料的保障帶來新的挑戰。我們日常生活中經常接觸的社交網絡媒體、閉路電視，或是填寫會員表格、使用電子錢包等，都可能不知不覺洩漏了個人資料，如身份證號碼、電話號碼、地址、相片、信用卡資料、交易紀錄等，令人防不勝防，假如落入不法之徒手中，後果不堪設想，人人自危。

所幸的是，《個人資料（私隱）條例》（以下簡稱《私隱條例》）已於1996年正式生效，香港個人資料私隱專員公署亦在同年成立，我們的個人資料須按法律所規定的原則來收集、持有、處理和使用。

為提高「保障、尊重個人資料」的意識，香港個人資料私隱專員公署聯同香港城市大學出版社出版《注意！這是我的個人資料私隱》一書。本書根據《私隱條例》，以淺白的語言，並附以具啟發性的個案，詳細介紹保障個人資料的法律權利，從生活的不同層面分析私隱外洩的陷阱，並以多個真實個案剖析《私隱條例》的法律根據與原則，讓你懂得如何保護個人資料。書中除了介紹條例下六個保障資料原則的要求及主要豁免條款以外，亦就不同範疇解答私隱疑難及提供各項實用提示。 此外，本書亦從人力資源管理、物業管理、資訊及通訊科技、直接促銷等角度，解答有關收集及使用個人資料的問題，讓讀者避免在不知情的情況下觸犯《私隱條例》。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro (石黑一雄)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources by the same author in CityU LibraryFind

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.

The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren 
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind 
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family.

Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work? A storm of media attention brings Scott fame that quickly morphs into notoriety and accusations, and he scrambles to salvage truth from the wreckage. Amid trauma and chaos, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy grows and glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, morality, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.

Kristin Hannah raves, "Noah Hawley really knows how to keep a reader turning the pages... a complex, compulsively readable thrill ride of a novel."

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam Grant, with foreword by Sheryl Sandberg
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

2016 NAUTILUS AWARD Gold Winner

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas—and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take and co-author of Option B

“Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of Lean In

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?

Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

紫禁城100

趙廣超
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

香港出版雙年獎 藝術及設計最佳出版獎

《紫禁城100》講述紫禁城一百個關於建築空間、宮廷生活等故事，成功把中華文化的普遍意義，帶給廣大的海內外觀眾。

紫禁城(故宮)這個空間內建築的變化，其功能的演變，以及建築背後的思想、設計、藝術、功能等方面的因素，都在作者的關注範圍之內。書中圖片，全部是作者團隊繪製，精彩呈現故宮每一個元素美妙的細節之處。大到全景的地圖，小到瓷器上的一個紋理，無不在生花妙筆下活靈活現，精彩動人。圖片與文字結合，從肌理到內核，從紋樣到思想，一一深入剖析，細節呈現。

紫禁城(故宮)不僅是空間，也是人生活於其中的地方。這裏有前朝事，宮院事，花園事，心靈故事等等，事事非同尋常。人在空間內居住，也受空間的約束，這裏上演的既有帝王豪情，也有無奈辛酸，把一個文化中的活力、可能性和自身弱點，通過這些人物折射出來，引人深思。

此書內容不止如此，呈現的也不僅是紫禁城(故宮)的一百個細節，而是涉及方方面面，並且對文化的思考貫穿其中。正如作者所說：「歷史給我們留下這座六百年前的天下和宇宙的中心，明月清風，與我們一起見證這悠長的文化如何無有間斷。」文化的基因嵌入我們每一個人的行為之中，在有意無意之間，都會表露出來。而通過這本書，我們更能明白紫禁城(故宮)的基因，傳統文化的基因，看到文化如何不間斷地成長，看到故宮以及每一個人，如何更好地走向未來，走向下一個六百年。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

太古之道 : 太古在華一百五十年

鍾寶賢
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

香港出版雙年獎 商業及管理類最佳出版獎

在中國內地和香港，到處可以聽到「太古」這個名字：三里屯太古里、太古匯、太古城、太古糖等，但較鮮為人知的是，這個集團由施懷雅（Swire）家族擁有，創辦人約翰．施懷雅（John Swire）於1816年成立約翰．施懷雅父子公司（John Swire & Sons），其子約翰．森姆爾．施懷雅（John Samuel Swire）於1866年遠赴中國成立太古洋行。

現時領導太古的已是約翰．施懷雅的第六代曾孫，多年來太古業務不斷繁衍，從最初單單經營航運業務，到後來興辦船塢、建立全球知名的國泰航空、取得可口可樂的專營權等，這一切不但見證太古在落戶中國一百五十年間的變化和發展，也見證著幾代家族成員的默默耕耘。本書記載的就是太古由小型進出口公司演變為環球企業的發跡故事。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

我是街道觀察員 : 花園街的文化地景

郭斯恆
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind 

香港出版雙年獎 生活及科普最佳出版獎

花園街是一條社區匯聚和生命舞台的街道

從排檔（攤販）的空間規劃看社區網絡的運作

花園街是一條充滿著生氣和活力的街道，因為她讓不同階層的人找到生存空間，他們能日復日地參與地方意義建築和編織花園街社區關係網。

內容先從城市和街道空間理論出發，然後再微觀花園街各樣元素和關係。之後，會剖析排檔三尺乘四尺的神奇空間，如何變身、如何運用細微配件擴展展示空間；此外，也會介紹排檔的十大武器等。另外，也會透過花園街排檔檔主的口述歷史細說花園街的變遷，以及觀察檔主以外，其他街道寄生者所扮演的角色。綜合各項分析，可全面了解街道作為社會區網絡是如何運作。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

香港好走系列

陳曉蕾
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

香港出版雙年獎 心理勵志類最佳出版獎

《香港好走》系列包括《香港好走 怎照顧？》、《香港好走 有選擇？》、《平安紙》。

《怎照顧？》檢視香港現時的醫療和護理服務，老病死沒法避免，可是得到的治療和護理，是和所處的社會有關的。香港的醫院、院舍、寧養院、社區究竟提供了怎樣的支援？香港病人可否待在家中，甚至在家離世？而社區的基層醫療、社福機構正在編織一張怎樣的安全網？是否可讓香港人放心老去，平安好走？

《有選擇？》報導人生最後一程在香港的不同選擇：預設醫療指示、預設照顧計劃、不作心肺復甦法文件、持久授權書等等，深入探討病人、家人、醫護人員在各種醫護決定背後的想法和分歧。報導亦從病人自主權，梳理「安樂死」、「醫助死亡」、「終止無效治療」、「拒絕治療」等在香港的討論和實踐。

《平安紙》是一本教人寫遺書的著作，不過，它不是硬生生的那種，而是充滿溫度，因為它會細說自己一生如何度過，葬禮想怎樣安排，想哪些人出席，給他們什麼遺言，要不要用入侵性醫療等等，都一一考慮周全，並為使用者提供人生的指引，淡淡的。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)