The Politics of English in Hong Kong: Attitudes, Identity, and Use

Jette G. Hansen Edwards
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The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real time language attitude changes against a divisive political landscape. It is also the most comprehensive study of language attitudes in Hong Kong to date, taking place over four years with over 1,600 participants. Through both survey and interview data, a multifaceted portrait of language change in progress is presented, providing a more nuanced and complex view of language and identity than has previously been presented.

The book examines the status of Hong Kong English in the light of attitudes towards Cantonese, English, and Putonghua, providing a deeper analysis of the linguistic complexity of Hong Kong; it can be argued that one cannot understand attitudes towards Hong Kong English without fully understanding the status and use of English in Hong Kong today. The book also presents a complex examination of language attitudes in Hong Kong by focusing not only on the what of language attitudes, but also the question of for whom, through an analysis of language attitudes by gender, age, identity, and speaking HKE.

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生活在廢墟 : 你所不知道的考古學家與他們的一百種生活 (Lives in Ruins)

瑪莉蓮．強森 (Marilyn Johnson)
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亞馬遜網路書店100大好書

過本書通俗又不失專業的記述，我們可以了解考古學的樂趣與使命，考古學家如何在廢墟中解開人類早年的生活與智慧。下一次看到考古隊在田野發掘時，不要以為他們是在挖寶，其實是在解讀深埋地洞的史書！

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

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老店風情畫

飛天豬 Flying Pig
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插畫家飛天豬 Flyingpig，以溫暖色彩記下她眼中的鋪頭日常

故事是由Flyingpig對畫畫的執念開始的。她被彩虹華麗理髮廳富年代感的裝潢吸引，非常想要把店裡的人、事、物通通畫出來，為了進入「女賓止步」的傳統理髮廳，她動員了全家，讓爸爸成為客人，請媽媽幫忙拍素材，自己則一邊觀察繪畫，一邊和老闆店員交談，就這樣成功地把華麗理髮廳華麗地用速寫畫了一遍。此後Flyingpig走訪了香港各地的老鋪，以畫會友，把這些一直默默努力經營的店，還有店中人的生活哲學，以溫暖清新的畫風展現。

作者飛天豬 Flying Pig, 畢業於城市大學創意媒體學院，主修動畫。

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This Is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters

by Drew Dudley
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Based on his TEDx talk "Everyday Leadership (the Lollipop Moment)"--voted one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time--This Is Day One is leadership expert Drew Dudley's guide to cultivating the behaviors that will help you to succeed and empower those around you.

If you're intimidated by the mystique surrounding leadership, this book is for you. Dudley simplifies leadership without denying its complexity, demonstrating that leadership in all its forms begins at the same clear and accessible place for everyone: what he calls "Day One."

Day One is when you discover, define, and start to consistently deliver on your foundational leadership values. Living that day over and over is what creates leaders, and Dudley provides the key tools necessary to craft and commit to your own personal Day One, including:

• A step-by-step process designed to surface your core leadership values and embed them into your daily behavior
• A roadmap to behavioral changes proven to increase commitment, pride, productivity, and happiness
• Insights into key leadership values that drive performance and impact

Sharing the process that led him through battles with alcohol, obesity, and personal tragedy, Dudley shows you how to develop a relentless commitment to the daily behaviors that will make you a better executive, coach, or teacher, and how you can inspire others to do the same.

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橡皮擦計畫 : 兩位天才心理學家, 一段改變世界的情誼 (The Undoing Project)

麥可．路易士 (Michael Lewis)
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《橡皮擦計畫》是麥可‧路易士備受好評的作品，講述這兩位重要心理學家之間，如何長期緊密合作、探究人類心智秘密的故事。

這兩位科學史上最偉大的夥伴，有人形容他們是心理學界的「約翰‧藍儂與保羅‧麥卡尼」。兩人雖然合作無間，但卻擁有鮮明的人格特質──特沃斯基（Amos Tversky）絕頂聰明、極度自負，生性好鬥，個性外向，無論走到哪裡，必定是所有人注目的焦點；康納曼（Daniel Kahneman）小時候為了逃離納粹而成了難民，個性內向，習慣自我懷疑。如此之天差地遠，為這個故事增添趣味，也帶來淚水......

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The Literature Review : Six Steps to Success

Lawrence A. Machi, Brenda T. McEvoy
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From daunting to doable in six steps

The process of literature search and composing a formal literature review can be intimidating. But masters and doctoral candidates in Education and related fields have found academic argumentation to be seamlessly intuitive with the six-step process pioneered by this book. This updated third edition features a wealth of all-new content including:

• A flowchart that graphically illustrates Machi and McEvoy’s process.
• Reflective Oversight boxes in each chapter, prompting readers to direct metacognitive activities.
• Links to online guides and resources.
• Expanded examples illustrating theoretical concepts.

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情緖勒索 : 那些在伴侶、親子、職場間, 最讓人窒息的相處

周慕姿
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2017誠品書店銷售總冠軍；

明明是最愛的家人、伴侶，與信任的朋友、同事，
但為什麼我們卻總是感到委屈、想逃？

你未曾覺察的「情緒勒索」，正在你的日常裡，一步步逼你就範。
眼淚與憤怒，往往就是一種情緒勒索！
6道關鍵練習，擺脫被情緒勒索，重新掌握人生！

情緒勒索是一種操控，只會讓彼此的關係崩壞。
因為當對方一再屈服與退讓，那是因為懼怕，而不是因為親密、信任與愛。

‧媽媽：「我把這輩子希望都放你身上。你怎麼忍心讓我失望？」
‧婆婆：「你把孩子給保母帶。你真自私，你會毀了孩子的一生。」
‧女友：「如果你敢回公司加班，我們就分手。」
‧上司：「我看你資質不錯，才想讓你多做一點事，栽培你。別忘了，你試用期還沒過。」

以上這些例子，你是否非常熟悉？這些我們習以為常、不以為意的對話，其實就是緩緩掐住我們脖子，讓我們無法呼吸的「情緒勒索」......

周慕姿心理師以精準且層次分明的角度，剖析情緒勒索的面貌，以及何種人最容易陷入情緒勒索的困境，並且針對華人文化，提出提升「自我價值感」為避免情緒勒索的最主要關鍵。此外，適時建立情緒界限，搭配練習，重新掌握自己的人生，因為，這是你的人生，你不該為滿足別人的需求而活。

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The Lean Startup : How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

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謝幕 : 中區警署建築群

梁家泰
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建於十九世紀的中區警署、中央裁判司署、域多利監獄組成了香港的「執法鐵三角」，隨着香港城市發展和人口膨脹，其他地區新的設施取代了這組中區警署群。中區警署群於一九九五年列為法定古蹟，未來將受保護地翻新為一文化商業綜合場所。本攝影集的照片轉眼之間已成為消失的場景，再不可尋。

本攝影集是著名攝影師梁家泰二零零六年在中區警署群停用後，深入、走遍每一個角落，全面地拍攝了整群建築的裏裏外外，並盡可能地訪問了曾在那裏工作過的警員和懲教署人員，甚至釋囚，這是香港難得一見的集體回憶。攝影集追尋的不只是史實和年份，而是在那裏工作、生活或者被囚禁時的感覺。

"These are not boring black-and-white photographs with no people in them but images that are subtly evocative of former denizens and their stories." ― May Holdsworth, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong

(摘錄自oupchina.com.hk)

Future-Ready Leadership: Strategies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Chris R. Groscurth
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Provides executive leadership teams with the information, tools, and advice they need to lead their organizations into the "future of work," characterized by transformative, smart, and connected technologies already under way, including artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and automation.

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猶太人 : 世界史的缺口, 失落的三千年文明史──追尋之旅（西元前1000-1492）(The Story of the Jews)

西蒙‧夏瑪 (Simon Schama)
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閱讀《猶太人》，彷彿在享受這個星球最閃耀的文化歷史盛宴。

夏瑪勳爵是一個很會講故事的人，他的故事深厚而博遠、史料豐沛、幽默而極具其個人魅力。──《紐約客書評》

夏瑪勳爵筆下的歷史起源於底層，在中間擴散並以意想不到的視角，重現那些被人們遺忘的過去。他通過解構社會、文化，使其筆下的人物和事件復活。──《紐約時報》

哥倫比亞大學歷史學家、獲獎作家西蒙‧夏瑪勳爵，帶給我們一部廣博深邃、精雕細琢的史詩。他的《猶太人》歷經三千年歷史，橫跨數大洲、涉及眾多國度，令你在閱讀中目不暇給、酣暢淋漓。──《出版人週刊》

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.

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理性思考的藝術

余錦波
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以淺白文字、配以漫畫及圖表，助你輕鬆掌握理性思考法。

在紛擾雜亂、訊息爆炸的時代，眾說紛紜，事件瞬息萬變，要求現代人有更高的判斷力，方能保持腦筋清醒。而要增進個人的判斷力，可通過有效的理性思考訓練。

本書以簡明及實用為宗旨，附以不少出自日常生活的真實例子，扼要地解釋理性思考的基本概念及原理。每章開首的熱身練習，加上章末的練習題及摘要，讓讀者輕鬆學會最基本的理性思考技藝，既可作進一步追求真知實學的準備，又可有一技旁身，提防受人愚弄或誤導。

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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

by Andrew Ervin
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An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time

Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing--and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman.

In Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin argues, games are art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political--and because they turn players into artists themselves.

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CREATE! - Guest Lecture 1.0: On Screen.play()

by Mr Ip Yuk-Yiu
6 Nov 2018 12:30-13:15
Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong

Why do we play on screen? Why do we play with the screen? The Talk is a personal exposition aiming to explore video game as a new form of Screen.Play(), a creative hybrid of ludic forms, screen practices and digital media, via examples of the speaker's own creative projects as well as works by other practitioners.

香港當代作家作品選集. 金庸卷

李以健
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一本全面呈現金庸多種寫作題材的文集。本書收入了金庸的武俠小說（節選）、社評、影評、專欄文章、翻譯小說、政論文章及史學研究論文。從數以千萬言的金庸的多種話語寫作中擷取代表性作品結為一集，並附有對其寫作的導讀、生平及寫作年表。

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Doing Research in the Real World

David E Gray
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This helpful book takes a pragmatic, real-world approach to research methods that gives readers the tools and confidence to carry out their own research in and out of the classroom. Expertly weaving quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods together, it encourages readers to be open-minded in choosing the most appropriate methods for their projects.

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雪球速讀法：累積雜學資料庫，達到看書十倍速，大考小考通通難不倒

宇都出雅巳 
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「速讀怎麼可能深入了解內容？」
「讀艱深的書沒辦法利用速讀技巧！」

其實，只要累積「雜學資料庫」，你就能短時間讀懂任何書！
要如何迅速累積資料庫呢？
讓高速大量循環［雪球速讀法］為你指一條明路！

★如果你是下列幾種人之一，請你一定要翻閱本書
一直覺得速讀是種「相當可疑」的方法，而不願接觸的人
曾試著看過速讀教本，但看到一半便放棄的人
曾參加過速讀課程，卻覺得很難應用在平時閱讀上的人

★什麼是「雜學資料庫」？
我們在讀任何讀物的時候，會用到我們從前所累積的所有知識、資訊、經驗，這就是「雜學資料庫」。閱讀速度的快慢，與雜學資料庫的質與量息息相關。
換句話說，擁有愈多讀書經驗，瞭解愈多相關領域的資訊，表示你的資料庫愈豐富。
比如說你是否有發現：
。讀過一次的書，第二次讀會讀比較快
。歷史系畢業的人，讀歷史類的書會讀比較快
→因為他們的「雜學資料庫」中，已經累積相關的知識與經驗

★什麼是高速大量循環［雪球速讀法］？
那麼，擁有雜學資料庫的人才有辦法學會速讀嗎？
錯！即使不具備與書籍內容相關的資料庫，只要利用雪球速讀法，也能達到速讀目的。
藉由「高速大量循環」的速讀技巧，
→快速讀過之後，可以累積一些資料庫
→累積一些資料庫之後，使閱讀速度提升
→閱讀速度提升後，使累積資料庫的效率也跟著提升
你就能像滾動雪球一樣，一步步累積扎實的資料庫

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Carl Safina
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I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest.

Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals. Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world.

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“ANiMAL: Art Science Nature Society” exhibition is being staged at the City University of Hong Kong until 30 December 2018. ANiMAL: Art Science Nature Society is a storytelling exhibition about the animal world seen through the lenses of Art, Science, Nature and Society. READ MORE

回首香港七十年 : 我們有過的歡笑和唏噓

周永新
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「回顧香港經過的歲月，我想起香港電台拍攝的劇集《獅子山下》，其中主題曲講到港人走過的路，是歡笑多，還是唏噓多？二次大戰結束到現在的七十年裏，港人嘗過的艱苦日子數之不盡，但歡笑的時刻也是有的。……要明白港人的唏噓和歡笑，首先得回到港人當時所處的環境。在這書裏，我希望透過這個懷舊旅程，重新的把港人走過的路，如實的顯現在港人面前，雖然只是吉光片羽，個人的感受也難有什麼微言大義，但只要是港人的真實故事，箇中必有你和我的苦與樂。」
——周永新

周教授特為香港人而寫的三部曲——《真實的貧窮面貌》、《香港人的身份認同和價值觀》、《回首香港七十年》，有如上了一課戰後香港社會發展史。周教授深切感到，港人今天的苦惱，追根究底，還是我們不知香港的前路往哪裏走：我們讚許香港原有的制度，認為這個制度造就了今天香港的成就，但同一時間，我們故步自封，不變的制度將會令香港沉淪下去。但一旦明白我們過去走過的路，我們就會知道，什麼才能使我們開創未來。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

William D. Nordhaus
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The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions.

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.

Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change.

Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.

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渺小一生 (A Little Life)

柳原漢雅 (Hanya Yanagihara)
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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。

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The Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur
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The World Mental Health Day (WMHDAY) is celebrated throughout the world on the 10th of October. Regular readers for pleasure report fewer feelings of stress and depression. The Sun and Her Flowers, filled with heartfelt and beautiful poetry, is one of mood-boosting titles.

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

你的善良必須有點鋒芒：36則讓你有態度、不委曲，深諳世故卻不世故的世道智慧

慕顏歌
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善良，是一種選擇
但善良不該等同妥協或吃虧
缺乏標準的善良
會為難自己，又慣縱了他人
就因為你很善良，底線應該更高
你當善良，且有力量

作者慕顏歌是一名心理諮詢師，她慧黠又有態度的觀點與文字，經常一語道破世道困境，為千萬人指引迷津，屢屢成為網路瘋傳的金句語錄。她最直指人心的觀點，就是在這時代，為「善良」寫下新的定義，破解許多人心中長久的兩難糾結。她認為，想要讓別人看見你的良善，你得用自己的光彩照亮自己。善良是一種選擇，不要習慣了容忍和退讓，結果慣縱他人，為難自己。

本書收錄36段人生場景，層層剝開36種隱藏在內心深處的心理與生活真相。作者在這些情境中，或苦口婆心、或當頭棒喝，解析引導，讓我們看穿人際的困境，重拾力量，找到適切的出口 ......

她提醒大家，越是善良的人，待人底限要越高。散發出鋒芒的人，才能兼顧人情與智慧，真正活得自在！

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

Mark O'Connell
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**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)

暗時間

劉未鵬
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劉未鵬說：「寫博客這件事情給我最大的體會就是，一件事情如果你能夠堅持做8年，那麽不管效率和頻率多低，最終總能取得一些很可觀的收益。而另一個體會就是，一件事情只要你堅持得足夠久，『堅持』就會慢慢變成『習慣』。原本需要費力去驅動的事情便成了家常便飯，雲淡風輕。」 

這本《暗時間》便是從劉未鵬8年的博客文章中精選出來的，主要關於心智模式、學習方法和時間利用，《暗時間》的書名便來自於此。

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