象與騎象人：實現快樂的十個配方 : 老智慧與新科學的結合 (The Happiness Hypothesis)

強納森・海德特 (Jonathan Haidt)著
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我們的心，像是一頭放任的大象。 我們的智，像是一個希望具備掌控能力的騎象者。 心智往往意見相左，各行其事，結果離開快樂越來越遠。 如何引導大象與騎象者以協調的步伐走上快樂之道？ 過去人類歷史沉澱下來的古老智慧，告訴我們許多快樂的指南針， 現在尖端科學研究出快樂的方程式，則是H = S + C + V。 Happiness（快樂）= Setpoint（快樂起始點）+Condition（生活條件）+Voluntary　 activities（自發性活動） 只要懂得善用老智慧及新科學、掌握自己的潛能與限制， 就能實現快樂，過一個充滿智慧的人生。

★得獎紀錄： 獲選中國時報開卷十大好書美好生活書獎

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Sontag: Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.

Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

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穿梭太平洋︰金山夢、華人出洋與香港的形成 (Pacific Crossing)

冼玉儀 (Elizabeth Sinn)
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「第十三屆香港書獎」

十九世紀美國加州的淘金熱
改變了香港的命運

1848年初，加州發現金礦，自此華南地區尤其是珠江三角洲的人，前仆後繼遠渡重洋，到達加州尋找他們的金山夢，此一浪潮也徹底改變了香港的命運。淘金熱把太平洋變成了連接北美洲和亞洲的幹道，並在此過程中把香港打造成亞洲的主要太平洋門戶。香港與後來被稱「舊金山」的三藩市的距離，比起從大西洋的港口到舊金山要近得多，令香港迅速崛起成為太平洋商貿的樞紐。

香港作為華人移民的「中介之地」，既是資金、貨物、資訊、意念、個人通信不斷往來流動的樞紐，也為移民提供各種與家鄉保持聯繫的方法。香港對華人出洋的重要性，以及華人出洋對香港經濟、社會和文化發展的深遠影響，一直欠缺足夠研究，而這正是本書的重點，以華人出洋前往加州為案例，探討香港在華人移民史中的地位。

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命子

董啟章
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寫給爸爸、寫給兒子、寫給自己，建構三代人，一個完美，有溫度，香港人的故事三稜鏡......

《命子》以父親的角度，進入存在或不存在的兒女之人生。第一部分〈命子：果〉以回憶錄／生活散文形式，寫父子的相處日常和兩人之間的相互「忍讓」，寫兒子果之執著，為人父母之甜蜜無奈，讀來生動幽默。第二部分〈笛卡兒的女兒〉，則是沒有女兒的作者，透過虛構笛卡兒的人物傳記，想像一個有女兒的人生。第三部分〈命子：花〉則虛構另一個不存在的兒子花的書信，試圖作為真實兒子的對照，也帶入自己孩提時的記憶，作為另一種隱性式父對子的期待。

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香港北魏真書

陳濬人, 徐巧詩
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」「出版大獎」及藝術及設計類「最佳出版獎」

「香港北魏真書」設計研究計劃，總結長達六年的北魏書法研究和字體設計創作歷程。本書收錄了南北朝魏碑、清代書法家趙之謙到四十至七十年代盛行香港的北魏招牌書法源流和藝術價值，訪尋香港北魏書法家區建公、蘇世傑墨寶故事，還有於不同年代遍佈香港城市街道和日常生活的北魏體應用實例，首次專訪獨步香江的貨車北魏體設計者楊佳。

字體設計師陳濬人，以設計思維分析北魏歷史文化和創作精神，利用電子向量曲線和字體設計原理演繹當代香港北魏真書，設計案例多達二十多項。還有與多位設計創作人包括麥震東、譚智恒、柯熾堅和許瀚文的對談系列，探究字體在城市和設計文化中的重要角色。

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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
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Number one New York Times best seller

Winner of the Booker Prize

The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be enjoyed on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

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香港當代作家作品選集．饒宗頤卷

鄭煒明 編
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獲得「第十一屆香港書獎」

饒教授是國學泰斗，他的文學造詣也很高，代表了當代香港的古典文學寫作的最高成就。本書收入饒宗頤教授創作的古典詩詞、駢文、散文（學術隨筆）等各種文體作品，是目下最全面，校對最準確的饒教授的文學創作大觀。

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「饒宗頤的故事」展覽在香港文化博物館舉行，展期至 2020 年 6 月 22 日。

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham
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A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.

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文具物語——寫於時空書桌的歷史

鍾燕齊
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」生活及科普類別的「最佳出版獎」

人類透過文具記載了數千年歷史，

是時候說說文具本身的故事了……

文具歷史，源遠流長。

本書由上世紀香港淪陷時期說起，時日軍佔港，東洋色彩文具湧至；六十年代太空人登陸月球，文具開始沾上太空風；塑膠工業於戰後蓬勃發展，深深影響新一代文具製造及設計。

一直緊守崗位的文具店，也隨著時代節拍而漸起變化……

香港的文具業發展，將何去何從？

此書精選四十至九十年代各家廠商的經典文具近1000件，包括毛筆、鉛筆、顏色筆、橡皮擦、駁筆桿、卷筆刀、筆盒、考試盒、書包等等，以及珍貴的文具廣告資料，全面呈現文具發展的歷代沿革，並展示工業發展及社會進步帶來的設計及製造技術！

以文具的演變看時代的變遷，探討老文具的存在及傳承價值，及香港文具設計的未來。

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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Frans De Waal
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A New York Times Bestseller 
Winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 

Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it—from dogs “adopting” the injuries of their companions, to rats helping fellow rats in distress, to elephants revisiting the bones of their loved ones—show that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Frans de Waal opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected.

“A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones.” - Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

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Be With

Forrest Gander
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WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section―a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s―rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”

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無言老師──遺體捐贈者給我們的生死教育課

陳新安, 伍桂麟
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」社會科學類別的「最佳出版獎」

無言身教，無言感激

死亡是一個點，生命卻是一條線。在這條線上，遺體捐贈者選擇在離世後成為「無言老師」，延續生命的意義，帶領我們從死看生，活好當下。

我曾遇過一位病人，他的家人不多，當感到年齡大了，知道終有一日會離開人世，希望為社會做些事，例如貢獻在醫學教育上。他知道當「無言老師」能夠幫助醫學生，因這軀體能成為學生深入了解人體結構的重要教材，認識各個器官和人體奧妙。在整個過程中，希望讓學生明白如何尊敬一個人，無論是生是死，每個人都需要有尊嚴，需要受到重視。

如果各位正考慮或曾經考慮參加「無言老師」遺體捐贈計劃，我想在此呼籲，這個捐軀的行動十分有意義，因為這不單讓醫學生在解剖教學上有學習樣本，並且在學習過程中，學懂如何尊敬別人的遺體，以至學習尊重人的一生。
——沈祖堯教授

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The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

Mary Robinette Kowal
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Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, 2019 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars."

Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Locus Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist 2019 Campbell Memorial Award

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.

Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too. Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

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自由如綠

香港文學館
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」文學及小說類別的「最佳出版獎」 

《自由如綠》乃二十四位重量級香港著名作家，就二十四種植物創作的結集，是一前所未有的嘗試。本書作者屢獲獎項，包括香港書獎、香港文學雙年獎、中文文學創作獎、聯合文學小說獎等。書中內容包含詩、散文、小說、劇本；題材從私人世界到城市、時代、歷史的公共維度，風格各異，豐富多元。植物、文學，兩者對照結合，再搭配本地著名畫家姚柱東繪製精美插畫，更附種籽紙書籤，是視覺藝術與文學的跨界結晶，極具收藏價值。 

二十四篇，每篇附以植物的基本資料，書寫植物的種種照面，閱讀一花一草，體會自由如綠的意義。許廸鏘引言，朗天作跋。 

作者：（合集）董啟章、曹疏影、謝曉虹、袁兆昌、鄧小樺、黃碧雲、盧勁馳、何福仁、鄭單衣、周思中、陳麗娟、黃怡、馮睎乾、鍾國強、胡燕青、王良和、陳慧、洪曉嫻、韓麗珠、張婉雯、淮遠、劉芷韻、甄拔濤、陳曦靜

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校長畢業了 : 亦師亦友心底話 (The Principal's Graduation My Heartfelt Words)

沈祖堯
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「出版獎」

大學教育的價值和理念，談何容易？怎樣做一個儉樸、高尚和謙卑的人？提倡人文關懷、高舉道德，往往與今天的市場價值、競爭排名背道而馳。大學的校長面對著校園內外的爭論與風波，便需要在各種張力之間找出平衡點。

就任大學校長之後，沈教授身體力行，與老師和學生近距離享受大學生活，同憂同樂。《校長畢業了》收錄了沈祖堯擔任香港中文大學第七任校長期間在大學網頁發佈的57 篇網誌，就大學的教育理念與社會責任，年青人的成長路與抉擇，校長的使命與挑戰、價值觀和生命觀等話題，以情理兼備的真摯筆觸，跟他一代又一代的學生與關心年青人的人娓娓道來。

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The Overstory: A Novel

Richard Powers
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann Patchett

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

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我們都是地球人 : 被遺忘的孩子

陳美齡
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有些地方，小孩子不滿十歲就加入軍隊，被迫殺人。
有些地方，小孩子為了一餐一宿，被迫出賣身體。
有些地方，小孩子沒飯吃，要撿地上的小麥碎屑。

難以相信這是發生在同一個地球上的故事，無論天災還是人禍，首當其衝的永遠是小孩子。

陳美齡一直對兒童問題非常關注，從上世紀八十年代起，曾多次出訪世界各地不同國家，視察當地兒童的生活，包括戰禍、饑荒、童兵、買春、割禮、愛滋病等不忍卒睹的問題，1998年起更出任聯合國兒童基金會大使。

本書是她幾十年來視察各地的經驗總結，記錄了一個個悲慘中透著堅強和人性光輝的孩子們的故事，及這些見聞帶給她的衝擊和感悟。

世界上還有很多孩子需要我們伸出援手，因為我們都是地球人。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

香港六七暴動始末——解讀吳荻舟

程翔
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本書共分三部分：探討有關六七暴動的幾個概觀問題，解讀吳荻舟《六七筆記》，並附有吳荻舟遺文。全書的重點是吳荻舟。

吳荻舟長期領導中共在香港的地下黨，掌握中共對香港的政策，他留下來的筆記，反映了當年中共在港的活動，具有重要的歷史價值。「香港六七暴動」的官方檔案尚未解密，吳荻舟筆記提供了暴動期間的內情和一手線索。讀者可以看到：暴動的左傾思想根源、發動暴動的動機和目的、暴動的組織指揮系統，以及總理周恩來在暴動中的角色等，還可以看到吳荻舟對整件事的反思等。

吳荻舟並沒有《六七筆記》這樣的一本書，這是他女兒吳輝發現父親的一本筆記本，裏面記載的都是香港六七年暴動期間中央的內部討論。《六七筆記》是一本工作筆記，不是完整的文章，需要詳加解讀。

本書在前人研究成果的基礎上，對六七暴動以下幾個方面有不少新的發現：在六七暴動的成因、中共同英國秘密協定不反對香港由英國接收、中共一直在香港保存着兩個地位平行的地下組織，一個是已經半公開的「香港工作委員會」，另一個是迄今仍然保密的「香港城市工作委員會」（這個「城工委」外界一無所知）。此外，還有很多所謂「二、三、四線」組織。第四，沙頭角槍擊事件是中央軍委直接部署、由解放軍正規部隊執行的。第五，英國解密檔案對六七暴動研究提供新角度。

(摘錄自 hkbookcity.com)

余英時回憶錄

余英時
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從一九三七年抗日開始到今天，是中國現代史上變亂最劇烈的一段時期。我深切感到：如何將這一特殊歷史階段的重大變動在訪談稿中呈現出來，其意義遠大於追溯我個人生命史的發展。回憶錄因個人的處境互異而各有不同，這是不可避免的。我一生都在研究和教學中渡過，因此回憶也只能騁馳在學術、思想和文化的領域之內。不用說，我所經歷的世變也是通過這一特殊領域得來的。我希望我的回憶對於這一段歷史流變的認識稍有所助。同時我也相信，一定會有和我同代的其他學人，以不同方式留下他們的回憶。這樣的回憶越多越好，可以互證所同、互校所異。出版這部「回憶錄」的另一動機：拋磚引玉，激起更多學人追憶往事的興趣。如果允許我再有一個奢望，我想說：我在《回憶錄》中所記述的個人學思歷程，無論得失如何，也許可以獻給新一代求學的朋友們，作為一種參考。——余英時

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)