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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情繫調景嶺：二十個嶺上人的故事

丁新豹, 汐爾, 劉義章
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對很多香港人來說，調景嶺只是近百個地鐵站的其中一個名字，但對於那些在這片土地上出生和成長的人們來說，這個地方盛載著他們人生中不少珍貴的回憶，他們的回憶又牽連著近代中國歷史的發展軌跡。

一九四五年抗日戰爭結束不久，國共內戰就打響了。為了逃避戰火，不少同胞南下香港，其中包括不少國民政府官員和軍人。他們或許沒有想到，調景嶺最終會成為他們安身立命的家園。隨著一九九○年代香港回歸在即，調景嶺面臨被清拆的命運，嶺上人從此分散於不同社區。

今天的調景嶺已經是高樓大廈林立的住宅區。殊不知，這個社區有其獨特的歷史背景及生活模式，特別是當年嶺上人在這片荒地上建立起自己的家園。如果說他們是「獅子山精神」的先導，一點也不誇張。

透過本書中二十個故事，我們可以細味充滿感情的文字，以領略嶺上人昔日的生活；細看已經發黃的照片，以重現調景嶺昔日的風貌。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles
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With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2020, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

NAMED ONE OF THE ALL-TIME 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS BY TIME

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies sold. This newly streamlined edition features the latest resources, case studies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.

At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.

This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible.

Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

書店現場: 香港個性書店訪談札記

周家盈
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「讀這本書可以看到香港的獨立書店的光景，也可以看到出版這本書背後的獨立出版的精神，能對他們熱情的來源有所體會。」
－－台灣大塊文化董事長／ 郝明義

「期許人們關注香港書店的生態而非疲態。」
－－《書店現場──香港個性書店訪談札記》／周家盈

看看逛逛，買書細讀，
這應該是讓書店延續及對書店支持的最好方式吧。

●12家香港個性書店訪談錄
●46家書店慢慢遊地圖
●資深書店職人講談記

當看到《書店日常──香港獨立書店在地行旅》的延續篇推出，
你或許會訝異，問：「怎麼香港還有那麼多書店？」

或在舊區街道上、或在二三樓甚至更高層之中、
或在屋邨街市裡、或在偏僻菜田上……
各家書店各有個性，
都是主理人對書店的理念與熱情的反映。

我們不知道在《書店日常》、《書店現場》之後，
還會不會再有延續篇的推出。
惟望這兩冊小書，能喚起大家對香港書店的重視，
關注書店日常的經營生態，也多前往書店現場，
看看逛逛，買書細讀，
這應該便是讓書店延續及對書店支持的最好方式吧。

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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Financial Times, Best Books of 2019
The Guardian, Best Food Books of 2019

"Beautiful, powerful writing that's made me rethink the way I eat." ―Samin Nosrat, author of Salt Fat Acid Heat

“In a style rarely found in books about global catastrophe, [Foer] interweaves personal stories, bulleted factoids and a delicious serving of metaphor. The effect is dazzling.” ―Bruce Watson, The Washington Post

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?

The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves―with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat―and don’t eat―for breakfast

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

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。

How to Be Miserable in Your Twenties: 40 Strategies to Fail at Adulting

Randy J. Paterson
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“Randy Paterson has done it again! In his latest book, How to Be Miserable in Your Twenties, Paterson provides insight into how young adults can avoid common traps that can contribute to unhappiness. It includes a range of well-tested, commonsense strategies that are especially relevant for those transitioning into adulthood and independence. This engaging and humorous book is a must-read for young adults (even those who are not in their twenties) who want to prevent the thoughts, behaviors, and habits that can lead to feeling overwhelmed, depressed, or anxious. I highly recommend it!”
—Martin M. Antony, PhD, ABPP, professor in the department of psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON, Canada; and coauthor of The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook and The Anti-Anxiety Workbook

“Pathological social withdrawal (called ‘hikikomori’ in Japan) is now increasingly considered a global mental health and socioeconomic concern. Withdrawal behaviors tend to be regarded as negative and maladaptive. Is this perception always correct? Randy Paterson’s book challenges such preconceptions and prejudices regarding hikikomori-related behaviors while also suggesting multidirectional solutions to this phenomenon.”
—Takahiro A. Kato, MD, PhD, associate professor in the department of neuropsychiatry, and chair of the hikikomori research clinic at Kyushu University Hospital in Fukuoka, Japan

“Innovative and inspiring.... The provocative mood makes the reading easy; the structure in lessons makes the book an on-demand pool of instructions the reader can refer to whenever needed. Randy Paterson has made great work to collect life situations and convert them into such practical actions.”
—Ivan Ferrero, PsyD, cyberpsychologist, speaker, trainer, educator, edge innovator, and futurologist

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

永無坦途 : 吳冠中自述

吳冠中著
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在《永無坦途》一書中，吳冠中回憶自己的成長歷程與繪畫之路。年輕任性，棄工程而投身藝海，一度沉湎故國傳統，一度拜倒西方現代藝術，兩家門下轉輪來，卻不願當地上地下之走狗，一味竭力探尋屬於自己的所愛所思，自己的腳印連成了自己的生命之軌跡。本書還講述了吳冠中自己的生活、文藝觀，其中不少文章都是當年針對現實而發，並引起過強烈反響和爭議，亦體現出吳冠中作為知識分子的責任與良知。

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香港藝術館「從糞筐到餐車——吳冠中誕辰一百周年展」第二期展覽，於2020年5月22日起開放至7月5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.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

你看港街招牌

李健明
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在電腦字體盛行的今天，
我們要如何欣賞手寫字招牌的美？

說起香港街道特色，怎能不想起頭頂上五花八門的招牌？
然而你有留意到招牌已漸漸被拆卸嗎？
本地招牌製作者李健明為了保育手寫招牌字的文化，
開展了「李伯伯街頭書法復修計劃」。
經常帶領招牌導賞團的他，今次將透過「招牌佬」的視覺，
用文字記下屬於香港的招牌故事！

細說「李漢港楷」的創作歷程！
簡述招牌製作的工藝知識！
帶你散散步，隨處發掘本地招牌的故事！
揭露招牌上的視覺巧思和秘密！

讓我們抬頭欣賞招牌美學！

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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Erin Meyer
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An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out.

In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

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The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, held on May 21, is a United Nations–sanctioned international holiday for the promotion of diversity issues.

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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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell
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A Best Book of the Year 2019: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? ...

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

更大的訊息 : 與大衛・霍克尼的跨世紀的藝術對話 (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney)

馬丁．蓋福特 (Martin Gayford)
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大衛．霍克尼（David Hockney）是英國史上繼盧西安．弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud, 1922~2011）之後，第二位被英國女王頒發功績勳章的藝術家。世人稱之為「最受歡迎的在世畫家」（The World’s Most popular living painter）。其作品風格綺麗，廣受愛戴。然而，不僅如此，他也是一位言語犀利、對藝術充滿獨到見解的思想家。

本書記錄了霍克尼與知名藝評家馬丁．蓋福特（Martin Gayford）長達十五年的對談，從這些生動的訪談之中，霍克尼以特有的熱情、智慧與幽默感，暢談他一生追尋的繪畫意義。世界如何透過藝術家之眼，呈現在平面的畫布上，不只是畫家的課題，而是個哲學議題。

霍克尼指出，繪畫的本意就是讓人更加、更加清楚地觀看世界。繪畫的媒材──從洞穴壁畫到iPad，是否讓人類的觀看改變？人類所製造出來的各種圖像，如何與真實世界連繫？科技和文明是否一再撼動藝術家的創作方式？我們能否再次學會如何單純享受「觀看」之樂，徹底欣賞一張臉龐、一次日出，或是一棵樹？

在這本妙趣橫生的書中，藝術大師們如梵谷、卡拉瓦喬、維梅爾、莫內、畢卡索，都是作者與霍克尼的絕佳話題，他們睿智風趣的談話也觸及霍克尼的私人生活，與對家鄉的濃烈情感。與霍克尼來往的同輩藝術家如攝影大師卡蒂爾．布列松，或大製片家比利．懷德，也是他熱愛提及的人物。

這本書無疑是霍克尼的一幅自畫像，更是本世紀最有影響力的、關於人類創造力與世界本質的探索之作。

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「觀景・景觀——從泰納到霍克尼」(A Sense of Place: from Turner to Hockney)展覽是香港藝術館首次與英國倫敦泰德現代美術館（Tate Modern）合辦，展期至2020年5月27日，共展出76件泰德現代美術館藏品。展品包括David Hockney的《華特附近的巨樹群》(Bigger trees near Warter)，這五米高的傑作成為藝術館閉館四年後重開最觸目展品之一。READ MORE

Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

Derek Roger, Nick Petrie
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FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS.

If you’re like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it’s not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress—and how we should “manage” it—is just plain wrong.

STRESS IS A CHOICE.

It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It’s a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry and fret and agonize over the work you need to do—instead of just doing it.

WORK DOESN’T HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

This book offers a radically different approach to stress. It’s about being resilient. Flexible. Mentally awake and in the moment. It’s about changing your mindset to keep things in perspective instead of adding fuel to the fire with negative thoughts. The techniques you’ll find in this book are powerful, practical, and proven to work—without stress.

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家國之間——五四在香港百年回望

陳學然
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1919年，中國內地爆發五四運動。運動在內地如火如荼之際，香港卻因港英政府嚴管，只有零星市民聲援反日救國，未有在香港引起波瀾。「五四運動」雖然在1919年乃至1920年代對香港沒有造成巨大衝擊，但由於「五四」有學生運動、愛國、反強權、反外敵的多種特質，故在往後的不同年代，「五四運動」的旗幟不斷為人所高舉，或用以爭取國家、文化認同，或用以批判社會病痛；無論是抗日、反共、反國民黨、專上學生的「認中關社」運動甚至是保衛釣魚台運動，「五四」都沒有缺席，一直出現於香港歷史發展的進程中。

本書是一部五四在香港的發生史、紀念史及詮釋史。作者充分利用報章、文集、雜誌等史料，解說「香港的五四」如何同異於「國家的五四」，了解不同政治陣營或思想立場的人在不同年代如何利用及反思五四運動，折射出時人的心態，從而洞察在時代變局下，香港華人對國家認同的心態變遷之跡。

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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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多給自己5% (5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results)

邁克．亞登 (Michael Alden)
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小小5％堅持如同滾雪球，可以帶來超過百倍的成功。這是一本實用的指南，不要求你顛覆一切，來個大轉彎。事實上，採取簡單的行動，反而能帶來驚人成效。不同於一般自勵書籍只停留在「想」的階段，本書直接提供辦得到的具體方法。不論你處於人生什麼階段，絕對都能替自己、替家人、替同事和主管、替自己的事業，多帶來5％的進步。

不用卯足全力，只需多盡一點力
你可能聽過，把大目標拆成數個小目標，更容易達成。不過，小目標依舊得夠大，才不會淪於瑣碎，還得夠簡單，才不會讓人容易放棄。本書把目標拆得剛剛好：多努力5%就好。不需耗費太多力氣，但立刻就能看到成效。

不限領域、不限階層，你可以不一樣
本書各章針對一項特定的人生關鍵領域，解釋多5％將如何帶來巨大差異。你不必一次全盤接受，只要依據自己的情況，從最迫切需要改變的領域開始。書中每一個數據、每一則故事，都各自解釋一項重點......

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg
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The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across the globe, from the United Nations to Capitol Hill and mass street protests, her book is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.

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Earth Day (April 22)
Every April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the 1970 birth of the modern environmental movement. Earth Day's mission is to build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet. READ MORE

讀書的價值

森博嗣
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閱讀，支撐著非凡的想像力和產出
閱讀，不僅可能改變你的思維方式，甚至改變你的工作、生活與人生

為什麼在今天這個時代，書依舊無法被取代？
《全部成為F》人氣推理小說家森博嗣
帶你窺探閱讀的本質

本書集結他對閱讀價值的體驗和思考，
他認為，讀書最大的價值，就在於「自己」選書的過程，
不是閱讀別人推薦的書、也不特意去看暢銷書，
享受自由閱讀、深度思考的愉悅。

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聯合國教科文組織(UNESCO)自1995年起，把4月23日定為「世界閱讀日」(World Book & Copyright Day)，希望藉著這個重要的日子，推廣閱讀和寫作，以及宣揚版權意識。

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
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2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

Picked as a book of the year by Fortune magazine

'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times

USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products—and for the innovators aspiring to make them.

It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last forever, while others disappear? User Friendly guides readers through the hidden rules governing how design shapes our behaviour, told through fascinating stories such as what the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island reveals about the logic of the smartphone; how the pressures of the Great Depression and World War II created our faith in social progress through better product design; and how a failed vision for Disney World yielded a new paradigm for designed experience.

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第七感：啟動認知自我與感知他人的幸福連結 (Mindsight)

丹尼爾．席格 (Daniel J. Siegel)
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第七感是每個人都有的內在潛能，
是培養EQ（智商）與SQ（社商）的真正基礎，
也是開啟認知自我與感知他人的神祕鑰匙。

即刻開啟你的第七感，獲得連結幸福人生的關鍵力量！
「鍛鍊第七感，對我們的人際關係、家庭生活、婚姻、職場以及領導統御方面，都有很大的幫助。」──《EQ》、《SQ》作者，丹尼爾．高曼　高度推薦

• 有時你會變得不合理地生氣或不安，並且難以平靜下來嗎？
• 有沒有想過為什麼你不能停止你的行為，無論你怎麼努力？
• 你和你的孩子（或父母、伴侶或老闆）是否陷入了看似不可避免的衝突模式？

我們要如何發展出一種能力，而能認知到自己的某個想法──而不只是擁有一個想法──並認知到這是自己的內在心智活動，而不至於被它掌控？
我們要如何能獲取所有關於心智的豐富寶藏，而不是只能受制於反射反應？我們要如何引導自己的思考與感受，而不是被它們驅使？
我們又如何能瞭解他人的內心，真正理解他們「到底在想什麼」，並且更有效地給予同情的回應？

對大腦運作方式有基本的瞭解，將有助於瞭解自己有多大的改變潛能！
人類的五種感官知覺，讓我們得以探索外在世界；而第六感，讓我們得以察覺自己內在的生理狀態。第七感，是一種向內觀看的能力。統合外在與內在的世界，進一步認知內心、反思自我。開啟第七感的力量，邁向自我蛻變、打開與他人的幸福連結。

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Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.

Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.

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城市地標 : 殖民地時代的西式建築

陳天權
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文物建築是城市的標誌，亦是歷史的活見證。今天香港僥倖留存下來的文物建築已成為珍貴的文化遺產，但隨著城市發展，它們大多隱沒於高樓大廈之間，逐漸被人遺忘。回歸前後，社會上掀起本地史熱潮，市民對舊建築擁有一份情懷，特別是滿載集體回憶的地標；政府亦意識到要保育有集體回憶的歷史建築，推出活化閒置歷史建築的計劃，令它們得以重生。

本書以香港歷史發展為脈絡，串連殖民地時期各主要地區的主要西式建築，包括行政、軍事、法治、醫療、商廈和會所等不同類別，當中絕大部分是法定古蹟或評級建築，目的是希望引起大眾注意這些地標，從而了解香港如何走過這百多年的路。

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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism

Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international success. Now, in Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a young man living each day with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of travel, and the difficulties of speech. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it’s raining outside. Acutely aware of how strange his behavior can appear to others, he aims throughout to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage society to see people with disabilities as people, not as problems.

... this book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets every challenge with tenacity and good humor. However often he falls down, he always gets back up.

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The thirteenth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2020. Autism Partnership Foundation organizes "Autism Awareness Actions" in April for generating public awareness of autism and fundraising to help more children with autism.

當綠葉緩緩落下 : 與生死學大師的最後對話 (On Grief and Grieving)

伊麗莎白．庫伯勒．羅斯 (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) ，大衛．凱斯樂 (David Kessler) 
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臨終關懷之母伊麗莎白.庫伯勒.羅斯（Elisabeth Kubler-Ross）在其《論死亡與臨終》《On Death and Dying》一書中指出了臨終前的五階段：否認（denial）、憤怒（anger）、討價還價（bargaining）、沮喪（depression）、接受（acceptance）。多年來，事實證明這些階段不只適用於面對死亡，也同樣適用於面對生命歷程中的各種災難。

在本書中，庫伯勒.羅斯與《用心去活》的合著者大衛.凱斯勒，重新檢視這五個階段，希望給予深陷悲傷的人更深的同理與受用的指導。兩位作者的洞見與忠告幫助讀者體認生命本應如此，並找到繼續活下去的勇氣。

本書中分別探討悲傷、縈繞的記憶、夢境、孤立、孩子、治療乃至性生活，融合了務實的智慧與靈性的探索，形塑出一條通往圓滿的道路。除了豐富的內文，另有精闢的前言探討家人長期臥病時所產生的預期性悲傷，在後記「悲傷的恩典」裡作者告訴我們，失落的意義與治療的力量實蘊藏在悲傷的過程裡。

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