Stress Management for Dummies

Allen Elkin
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Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy.

It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it's love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size — all without losing your cool.

• Shows you how to use stress in a positive, motivational way instead of letting it negatively affect your life
• Teaches you to retrain your body and mind to react positively to stress
• Helps you overcome common stresses faced in modern life

If you want to manage stress and get back to living a normal life, Stress Management For Dummies has you covered.

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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。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

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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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「最佳出版獎」

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)

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
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A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation."

This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

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冷思考：社群時代狂潮下，我們如何在衝突中活出自己，與他者共存 (How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds)

亞倫．傑考布斯 (Alan Jacobs)
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只讀標題，順手按讚和分享、轉貼，之後卻被真相打臉？
網路筆戰、瘋狂洗版，事後才後悔自己被人帶風向？
你在網路上的發言，是自己的想法，還是同溫層的共識？
社群／群組是給你歸屬感的夥伴，還是控制你思想的怪物？

講求效率和速度的網路時代，要求你即時回應，讓你來不及思考；
各種洗腦貼文、帶風向的錯誤訊息、來源不明的假新聞，已成為日常，
不只在個人的社交網絡激發迴響，甚至足以左右社會輿論、影響決定國家前途的大選。
我們該如何在聲量的大洪流時代，保有批判性思考的能力，
跳出牽制自己的心理陷阱、被有心人操縱的棋局？

當「後真相」／「另類事實」時代
與個人追求團體／社群認可的需求合而為一頭吞噬我們的巨獸，
個人因此更迷惑不安，社會因此更傾斜、方向更紊亂，
你需要養成一套思考的策略，找回思考的能力，
學會和不同於你的人一起思考……也許最終大家也能學會一起好好生活。

＃不經思考的「討論」算討論嗎？
＃思考太麻煩！

後網路時代，每個人身上都有好幾個社群標籤，每天在網路上對分裂的政治、社會等重大議題發表意見——但那是真正的討論嗎？
知名作家暨人文學院教授亞倫・傑考布斯，也是為《大西洋月刊》與《哈潑雜誌》等全國性刊物執筆的文化評論家，本身在各種社群中遭遇過大小衝突。多年經驗下來，傑考布斯發現：大多數爭辯淪為意氣、情緒的發洩，因為牽涉其中的人就是不思考。
我們不想思考，因為思考太麻煩！
它會逼迫我們脫離熟悉、讓人安心的習慣；它可能讓我們跟知心朋友的關係變得複雜；
而且思考很慢，當我們迷失在社群媒體、黨派爭執與確認偏誤的循環中，思考很慢就成了問題。

＃大師來幫忙診斷「思考病」......

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)