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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心流 : 高手都在研究的最優體驗心理學 (Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

米哈里．契克森米哈伊 (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
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出版三十年暢銷不墜，
啟發《刻意練習》、《異數》與《深度工作力》等著作的心理學經典。
「羅輯思維」、「得到App」萬為綱老師：「過去三十年最引人入勝的心理學概念。」

心流，一個人全神貫注於某件事而渾然忘我的境界，
這經驗是那麼美好，以致有人為了擁有它不惜付出任何代價！

建基於十數萬筆經驗取樣研究，
提出「心流」概念並以科學方法探索的開創之作。
啟發心理學、神經醫學、社會學、運動學、人類學、宗教學……眾多研究，
影響近四十年個人生活優化與文化建構的經典。

本書將帶領讀者走一趟心靈之旅，
認識意識的運作，並學會駕馭之；
控制經驗反應在大腦裡的資訊，進而決定自我人生的模樣；
最終結合所有經驗，打造一個有意義的模式，
讓一個人可以駕馭生命，並感受到它的意義。

最美好的幸福時刻，
發生在一個人有意地將身體或心智能力發揮到極限，
進而完成某件具有難度或有價值的事的時候；
而真正能夠滿足人心的，是對自己的生命真實感到滿意。
最優體驗需要個人的努力與創造力，以及隨時隨地掌控意識的能力。
讓更多日常生活進入「心流」，你將擁有更快樂的人生。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates (Foreword)
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The instant New York Times bestseller.

From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.

“A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson

A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.”—Bill Gates, from the foreword

Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation...

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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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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson
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A Book to Read for United Nations Human Rights Day 10 December

 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER; Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and made a lasting impact on our country.”—John Legend

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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憤怒年代 : 共感怨憤、共染暴力的人類歷史新紀元 (Age of Anger: A History of the Present)

潘卡吉．米什拉 (Pankaj Mishra)
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這是一場所有人對抗所有人的戰爭。憎恨、幻滅、失去方向！
寫給此刻身陷衝突、生活在暴亂邊緣的每一個人。
現代文明的根基並非理性、平等、自由，而是暴力與憤怒、屠殺與騷亂。
川普白人民族主義狂潮、英國脫歐、伊斯蘭激進派當道，並非偶然，而是「現代性」失落的宿命。
「歷史的發展看起來既不理性，也不進步。理性並不統治世界；現實明擺著就是不理性。」

《憤怒年代》將現代社會發展至今的脈絡，上推回喜迎個人主義、現代性，投身資本市場不遺餘力的伏爾泰，與識破現代性落空、虛偽、淺薄且並無根基的盧梭二人，並深且廣地論析近代法國、德國、義大利、印度、波蘭、英國、中國的關鍵問題，指出憤怒是小及個人、大至世界、上溯過去且注定擺布未來，這年代的關鍵宿命難題。

18世紀，西方啟蒙運動中知識階級興起，新的商業社會逐漸成形。由少數人發起的改革計畫挑戰教會傳統，講求理性、自由、個人主義，突破階級的個人欲望累積成對社會不平等的猛烈抨擊，造成了真正的革命，破壞了君主獨裁制，讓世界往民主的方向疾奔，影響了全世界。

世界歐洲化了，人人彷彿真的生而平等，但由上而下運作的現代化並未如眾人所想的造就平等新世界，反而讓先來者占盡了便宜，後到者則花費大量時間精力追求不可能達到的美夢。人們頹敗在物質至上造就的巨大不平等之前，各地的傳統文化也受西化衝擊，喪失了權威，外在物質與內在心靈、文化上的落空世代積累，種下燎原之火。「模仿」西方「現代化」成了後起之秀東方國家的有利工具，但在由上而下暴力式西化、現代化的過程中，人們在物質與文化上皆產生了被排除、傷害的感受，讓小至個人大至文明都深受其苦。一個不屬於西方、不屬於東方、沒有傳統，情感、知識、環境皆衝突的世代就這樣誕生，數十億人找不到在這世界上安身立命的所在，被現代化過程擊垮而喪志，這些「被剝奪者」、「多餘者」成了憤怒年代狂暴的源頭。

這是一個憤怨穿越歷史、怒意跨越國界、仇恨如烽火台連綿點燃的世界，是現在的世界、我們的世界。

潘卡吉‧米什拉提醒我們：追求西化的現代社會帶來的，除了人人有機會擺脫階級與出身的光明面，更重要的也許是看似公平榮景之外那些被拋在後頭的人事，導致了人們失根、自我憎恨、燃起報復的怒火，它們不只禍延今日，還會延燒未來的每一個世代。

國際媒體佳評如潮

米什拉是診斷我們所處當下境況的最佳著述者……在《憤怒年代》一書中，他對那些自覺被遺忘與被剝奪者作了迫切的分析，挑戰了我們認知的關於世界現況的一切。──《洛杉磯書評》

米什拉試圖釐清這個讓我們困惑的世界，提出了具說服力、豐富的案例，指出全球化以及收入不平等現象是如何無可避免地迎來反作用力。──NPR

博學……《憤怒年代》成書於英國脫歐和川普上台之前，這位印度非虛構書籍和小說作家潘卡吉‧米什拉，認為我們目前面對的憤怒狂潮有其深刻的歷史淵源。──《時代雜誌》（Time）

這本書是一記打中要害的重擊……米什拉的視野非比尋常地寬廣，有足夠的包容力和反抗力量去釐清一切。《憤怒年代》是這世界現正需要的書……和我們正目睹的全球不滿情緒密切相關。──《金融時報》

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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

(摘錄自hkliteraturehouse.org)

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。

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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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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」......

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Blockchain : Transforming Your Business and Our World

Mark Van Rijmenam, Philippa Ryan
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The internet was envisaged as a decentralised global network, but in the past 25 years it has come to be controlled by a few, very powerful, centralised companies. Blockchain is a technological paradigm shift that allows secure, reliable, and direct information transfer between individuals, organisations, and things, so that we can manage, verify, and control the use of our own data.

Blockchain also offers a new opportunity for humanity to fix some major problems. It can authenticate data, manage its analysis, and automate its use. With better data comes better decision-making. In this way, Blockchain can contribute to solving climate change, reduce voting fraud, fix our identity systems, improve fair trade, and give the poor an opportunity to improve their lives by monetising their (digital) capital. A world built upon peer-to-peer transactions and smart contracts can empower individuals and communities.

This book offers a fresh perspective with which to consider this transformative technology. It describes how Blockchain can optimise the processes that run our society. It provides practical solutions to global problems and offers a roadmap to incorporate Blockchain in your business. It offers a blueprint for a better world. Filled with easy-to-understand examples, this book shows how Blockchain can take over where the internet has fallen short.

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做個‧真選民—選舉工程48講 (Behind Your Vote)

周偉航
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經過多年的區議會、立法會選舉洗禮，不少港人愈來愈明白一票在手的價值。然而，選舉期間，各政黨都會出盡渾身解數展開選舉工程：網絡戰、傳媒戰、「蛇齋餅糉」、配票、運用地區椿腳等策略固然人前背後進行得如火如荼；候選人找來專業人士特訓口才、辯才，建立看似能幹、可靠、親切模樣等形象工程，更是層出不窮。誰在耍花招？誰是真材實料？

在台灣，選舉期間候選人同樣出盡花招。台灣熱門博客「人渣文本」版主周偉航，曾當過馬英九和國民黨議員的幕僚，也做過民進黨的競選總幹事和辦公室主任，選戰經驗極之豐富。本書由他以專業角度拆解選舉工程，從理論到實務，深入探討台灣選舉的眾生百態，藉由撥開眾多選戰花招迷霧，引領讀者建立公民意識、強化自身思考能力。

香港與台灣從來都是互相學習，本地政治人物便經常往台灣觀戰。書中拆解台灣選舉工程中的每一環都十分值得香港選民借鑑。作者深信，每次選舉的結束，都是下次選舉的開始；今次誤投錯的人，只要在下一次修正便好。讀完此書，明白選舉工程的箇中玄機後，冀讀者也能了解甚麼是選舉，更能真正運用手中的選票。

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New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You

Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
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Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
“The best window I’ve seen into this new world.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

In this indispensable guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing--and how 'new power' is reshaping politics, business, and life.

Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our time--the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump; the unexpected emergence of movements like #MeToo--and reveal what's really behind them: the rise of 'new power'.

For most of human history, the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized and then jealously guarded. This 'old power' was out of reach for the vast majority of people. But our ubiquitous connectivity makes possible a different kind of power. 'New power' is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It works like a current, not a currency--and it is most forceful when it surges. The battle between old and new power is determining who governs us, how we work, and even how we think and feel.

New Power shines fresh light on the cultural phenomena of our day, from #BlackLivesMatter to the Ice Bucket Challenge to Airbnb, uncovering the new power forces that made them huge. Drawing on examples from business, activism, and pop culture, as well as the study of organizations like Lego, NASA, Reddit, and TED, Heimans and Timms explain how to build new power and channel it successfully. They also explore the dark side of these forces: the way ISIS has co-opted new power to monstrous ends, and the rise of the alt-right's 'intensity machine'.

In an era increasingly shaped by new power, this groundbreaking book offers us a new way to understand the world--and our role in it.

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蔡康永的情商課──為你自己活一次

蔡康永
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很多人說要做自己，只是說著玩的。
先弄清自己是怎麼回事，才可能開始做自己啊。──蔡康永

這些年間，他發現有件事跟會說話同樣重要，那就是擁有｢高情商｣。他凝聚30年來在演藝圈摸索出的門道，舉大量實例、動人的故事和對話，以及獨到的幽默感和奇思妙想，幫讀者掃除自卑、恐懼、自欺、空虛……等負面情緒，踏出高情商的第一步。

提高情商，改變的不只是人際關係，甚至能改變一個人的命運。

◆我不是為你活的，你也不是為別人活的。你知道到今天為止，你已經為了別人，放棄了多少自己嗎？
◆情緒，就是我們當下的自己。想要高情商，就要做到適合與平衡，而不是極端的壓抑情緒，或極端的放任情緒。
◆消化情緒需要採取有效的行動，而選擇有效行動的依據，是釐清自己的感受。
◆幸福指需要「人和」──與人和、與自己和。而且最奇妙的是，如果一個人能夠「與自己和」，就能「與別人和」。
◆你也許聽說過，世界有世界的規則，但那不是你的規則。世界上只有一種值得你遵行的規則，那就是～你的規則。
◆你以為情商是壓住你的情緒嗎？如果手腳都被壓住。你要怎麼奔跑與舞蹈？對於情緒，我們要珍惜，並且恰當的分配，而不是壓制或遮蓋。
◆我們的心力，那麼有限，那麼珍貴，你怎麼捨得每分每秒的揮霍你的心力，去評價各種與你無關的人？去反應各種與你無關的事？
◆別老是相信那些動不動就要死要活的戲劇與歌曲，那些東西本來就被設計成情緒的炸彈，誰會抱著炸彈過日子呢？如果想要寧靜，並且內心強大，就要多看書，多與自己相處。
◆所有好看的戲劇，其中的人物情商都很低。追劇時請順便拿出抬槓的精神，當作自己的情商訓練。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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From the Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economics 2019, along with economist Michael Kremer, for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". READ MORE

Two practical visionaries upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.

Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer tby Abhijit Banerjee (Author), Esther Duflo (Author)hese questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

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香港六七暴動始末——解讀吳荻舟

程翔
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榮獲第十二屆香港書獎

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)

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.

The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so.

By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are.

Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

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“Stars Without a Heaven: Children in the Holocaust” Exhibition 
Date: 16-31 October 2019
Time: Monday to Sunday, 8:30am-11:00pm.
Venue: Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong
Admission: Free of charge
For enquiries, please email to lb@cityu.edu.hk
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收集夢的剪貼簿 (House of Day, House of Night)

奧爾嘉．朵卡萩 (Olga Tokarczuk)
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作者獲得2018年度的諾貝爾文學獎。

非線性小說的傑作，入圍2004年IMPAC都柏林國際文學獎決選，獲1999年波蘭尼刻文學獎

我在做夢，我覺得時間走得沒有盡頭。沒有以前，也沒有以後……
新魯達位於歐洲的心臟地帶，曾是個身分不明的地方，過去屬於波蘭、德國、捷克、奧匈帝國，現歸屬波蘭，語言與邊界的更迭造成此地生活的特異性。

敘事者與她的先生Ｒ搬來這裡居住，她是一個收集夢的人，收自己的夢與他人的夢，她發現了這個地方藏著許多祕密，藉由與奇特的鄰居老婆婆瑪爾塔的交往，從中得知許多當地的奇聞軼事、過往的歷史，以及生活的見解。

夢的獨白與對白穿插在文本中，交疊錯綜著現實生活的風俗民情刻畫、自我對話的哲思、歷史訊息的隱藏符碼、超現實的神話傳奇軼聞等，將整體交織成一部層次豐富、思維飽滿的多稜鏡，提供各個面向的觀照。因此，穿過敘事者的意識層，可以發現這部小說的主角其實是夢，夢掩藏著也承載著人的生存意義，敘事者試圖從中獲得什麼，端視讀者從中讀到了什麼，這是一部有著高度互動性、可撕黏性的文本。

情節以非線性剪接的方式呈現，接連出現的夢，彷彿呼應著榮格的「同步性」，將一幕幕非偶然的偶然，排演出一場多重意義的群舞：時間的秩序、空間的界線、意識的刻度、情感的對位、信仰的永恆、生活的本質、死亡的勝利……

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success

Wendy Laura Belcher
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“Wow. No one ever told me this!” Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Belcher made it her mission to demystify the writing process. The result was Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, which takes this overwhelming task and breaks it into small, manageable steps. For the past decade, this guide has been the go-to source for those creating articles for peer-reviewed journals. It has enabled thousands to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields.

With this new edition, Belcher expands her advice to reach beginning scholars in even more disciplines. She builds on feedback from professors and graduate students who have successfully used the workbook to complete their articles. A new chapter addresses scholars who are writing from scratch. This edition also includes more targeted exercises and checklists, as well as the latest research on productivity and scholarly writing. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks is the only reference to combine expert guidance with a step-by-step workbook. Each week, readers learn a feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. Every day is mapped out, taking the guesswork and worry out of writing. There are tasks, templates, and reminders. At the end of twelve weeks, graduate students, recent PhDs, postdoctoral fellows, adjunct instructors, junior faculty, and international faculty will feel confident they know that the rules of academic publishing and have the tools they need to succeed.

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失治之城 : 掙扎求存的香港 (A City Mismanaged: Hong Kong's Struggle for Survival)

顧汝德 (Leo F. Goodstadt)
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作者顧汝德為前中央政策組首席顧問，曾為港英政府出謀獻策，本書聚焦房屋供應、醫療和教育等普羅讀者最關心的民生福祉，提供相關的數據及文獻，全面分析香港管治制度崩壞的主要因由。

從土地大缺失、「劏房」貧民窟湧現、公營醫療「爆煲」、到中港融合的錯誤定位，點出歷任行政長官及其治港班子的一連串災難性的失策及弊政，如何危害香港人的財產、生活素質以至人命安全。

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder
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#1 New York Times Bestseller •

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

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深度學習力：學歷貶值時代，MIT博士教你從大學就脫穎而出的75個成功法則 (How to Win at College)

卡爾‧紐波特 (Cal Newport)
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超級暢銷書《Deep Work深度工作力》作者 ╳ MIT博士
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寫給年輕世代的深度學習指南
讓大學成為你前途的跳板

學歷貶值時代，上大學絕對不只是為了那張畢業證書！
如何利用大學4年培養真正的實力？
如何在踏出校園之前就替未來做好準備？

更重要的是……如何在培養競爭力的同時，又能享受充實而美好的校園生活？

除了自身擁有極具效率的時間管理方法與極富成效的學習成果，
卡爾．紐波特也採訪了哈佛大學、史丹佛大學等名校裡最優秀的學生們，
追問他們有關時間管理、讀書，以及平衡社交與用功的方法。

．該怎麼準備考試和報告？
．該參加哪些課外活動？
．該怎麼和教授互動？
．什麼才是刺激思維又維持樂觀的好方法？
．該如何平衡愉快的社交生活與雄心勃勃的日程表？
．怎麼樣才能量身訂製完美的活動，符合你的能力、興趣與喜好？

這些是每個學生都該提出的重要問題，而答案就在本書裡。
本書列舉了優秀大學生必備的75個成功法則，
你不必是天才，也不需要超強記憶力，
就能給自己更好的未來，同時還能享有健康的睡眠與愉快的社交生活。

在擁有足夠智慧與滿腔熱血的年紀，不該浪費你的才華與熱情。
善用校園的軟硬體資源，結識能給自己啟發與靈感的教授、同學，以豐沛的資源與支援為後盾，
你可以更有野心、更有計畫地，讓大學4年不光是苦讀或玩樂，更是前途的跳板！

大學時期培養的態度與習慣，將是一生受用無窮的寶藏—— 《深度學習力》就是引領你脫穎而出的一把鑰匙。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)