Crush Your Career: Ace the Interview, Land the Job, and Launch Your Future

Dee Ann Turner
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Chick-fil-A's former HR operations manager helps you create a work life you love from recruitment to retirement, including how to prepare and interview for jobs, develop strong relationships, keep a job, and grow your career.

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宮崎駿とジブリ美術館 = Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum

宮崎 駿
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1985年，動畫導演宮崎駿、高畑勳等人成立吉卜力工作室，發行多部動畫史上經典作品：《風之谷》、《天空之城》、《龍貓》、《魔女宅急便》...。不但橫掃各大獎，還累計無可超越的超高票房。2001年推出的《神隱少女》，更是日本首部奪下奧斯卡最佳動畫片獎的動畫！

當年，以吉卜力動畫為主題而設計的美術館於日本東京三鷹成立。此書集20年之大成，紀錄宮崎駿成立吉卜力美術館的構思過程，及18個主題展覽企畫的草創規劃、創意發想。

兩冊收錄近900張插畫作品，包括水彩分鏡圖、鉛筆素描、底稿、塗鴉等極其珍貴的創始草圖。是日本動畫迷一生夢幻收藏！

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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.

Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, The Week (UK) ...

"A wild and dishy memoir of the bravado, debauchery, idealism, and recklessness of start-up tech culture during the height of Silicon Valley." —Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor

"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress ...

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HK Tech 300 is a large-scale flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme organised by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for aspiring entrepreneurs among CityU students, alumni, research staff and others to launch start-ups and ignite their entrepreneurship journey. READ MORE

字型城市--香港造字匠

郭斯恆
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本書不是要從專業的字體設計角度，來解構中文字體或字型結構的工具書，也不是中文字體設計理論專書，要教人如何設計中文字體；而是從人文關懷和香港本位出發，以了解本土造字匠的工藝美學和社會轉變之間所產生的關係。我們希望從多角度去了解和記錄我們所身處的城市和本土美學，透過走訪並聆聽每一個造字匠的成長背景，從他們個人的經歷帶出造字工匠的工藝或技術與日常生活的關係。看畢本書，希望大家能重新觀察我們的城市，從細微之處了解和欣賞我城當中的字型美學和功能。

這本書將分成三個範疇──字型與交通、字型與工藝和字型與信息。透過七位造字匠的訪問，以大量資訊圖像、實地拍攝及航拍等，圖文並茂地記錄製作過程，以及香港的字型美學與功能。香港雖然是彈丸之地，但我們的造字工匠，也一直默默地為香港作出貢獻。

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Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson
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The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.

In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.

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長安客

北溟魚
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長安的大雨天，杜甫睡在青苔與積水裡，李白困在翰林院的書堆裡打瞌睡，小旅館裡王維正為少年時的詩作標注年齡，李商隱在下雨的春天登上高樓，中年白居易從夢中驚醒，慢慢想起來，這是元稹去世的第八個秋天……

最偉大的唐代詩人們，他們的作品已經是不朽的經典，有的更是被後人貼上了 “詩仙”“詩聖”的標籤。詩句於他們而言是用來炫耀才華，交換功名，鋪展開自己人生地位與財富的籌碼。詩人們懷揣著夢想來到長安，希望能做官，買房，為國家效力，成為時代的英雄。那時候他們都年輕，都擁有卓絕的詩才，光明的未來仿佛觸手可及。然而命運最叛逆，從不輕易滿足人的心意。

本書集歷史、傳記、詩歌評論等多重元素於一體，可以說是一本大唐版《人類群星閃耀時》。用八個故事，串聯起大唐由盛轉衰直至滅亡的一段歷史，從詩人的眼裡看見時代與命運，講年輕人在大城市裡的夢想、艱難和漂泊。那些不朽的詩篇來自他們無數歡欣和至暗的時刻。通過這些故事，你或許能重新認識這些詩人，就像重新認識一位元老朋友，在人生的某一時刻，他曾有過和你同樣的悲喜。

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

Scott Barry Kaufman
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A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs - and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life.

When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.

Kaufman's new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment - not by striving for money, success, or "happiness," but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization. While self-actualization is often thought of as a purely individual pursuit, Maslow believed that the full realization of potential requires a merging between self and the world. We don't have to choose either self-development or self-sacrifice, but at the highest level of human potential we show a deep integration of both. Transcend reveals this level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.

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共享經濟如何讓人變幸福? : 利他•分享•在地化, 我們已進入第四消費時代

三浦 展
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後Covid-19的經濟發展必然趨勢──共享的新世代消費模式
利他．分享．在地化，我們已進入第四消費社會

《下流社會》作者三浦展提出「第四消費社會」，倡議「共享經濟」

◤21世紀大趨勢──簡樸生活、與人共享，追求人生意義的消費
「購物使人幸福的時代，已經結束了。」真正能帶來幸福的不是物質，而是「聯繫」——人和自我、他人、社會、自然的聯繫。在三浦展看來，進入第四消費時代的日本社會，告別購物使人幸福，重新思考消費的意義，人們關心的不再是消費什麼，而是和誰一起消費。

◤「第四消費社會」的五大趨勢
趨勢1：從個人意識到社會意識，從利己主義到利他主義。趨勢2：從私有主義到分享意識。趨勢3：從追求名牌到追求簡單、休閒。趨勢4：從崇尚歐美、嚮往都市到在地化意識的社會。趨勢5：「由物質到服務」的真正實現，對人更為重視。

◤消費行為成為尋找自我、思考生命意義的媒介
被譽為日本消費社會研究第一人的三浦展，經三十年觀察提出讓人變幸福的趨勢報告：想在第四消費社會生存下去，我們必須如何轉變思維，企業應該做什麼？我們不再是單純購買商品、滿足自我的利己消費者，消費行為成為尋找自我、思考生命意義的媒介。

◤生活方式、真正的服務、人際關係的充實感
我們不再追求經濟快速發展和效益最大化，而是享受簡約生活；不再終日奔波、蝸居在大都市，而是重新發現地方的特色和自然的力量；不再拚命工作賺錢，為了名利汲汲營營，而是為了幫助他人、共享快樂、獲得內心的平靜與幸福。年輕人不再是單純的物質主義，而是越來越強烈地在意生活方式、真正的服務、人際關係的充實感。他們選擇租借而不是占有，或者是那些隨著時間的流逝，反而會帶來更多的滿足感的物品。

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Fareed Zakaria
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New York Times Bestseller

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?

Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold.

Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.

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沒有退路, 才有出路

李尚龍
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《你的努力要配得上你的野心》百萬暢銷作家李尚龍重磅力作
★打破佛系厭世代的迷思，人生很難，裝睡的人生只會更難
★15個重塑自我的有效方法，帶你突破迷茫困局，成為更好的自己

長路漫漫，別左顧右盼。
只管向前走，闖出自我成就的大道！

上班累得像狗，回家只想躺平耍廢，哪有時間精進自我？
・無所事事是因為你沒做好時間管理
把碎片時間累積起來，關掉沒必要的手機通知、晚點再回訊息，主動而持續地善用會議前、塞車時、睡前、等車的空檔，你將獲得驚人的成長。

・越多斜槓，越可能是未來想要的人才
先學會做一隻蒼蠅，蒙頭亂撞、什麼都碰，最後總能找到成長的出口。學會跨界，多幾個斜槓，為更好的未來做準備；你這麼年輕，你該擁有更廣闊的世界。

長大後是否越來越不懂愛、不擅溝通、老友交流只剩按讚？
・學會做一個「相處舒服」的人
你可以幽默風趣，也可以認真誠懇，重要的是學會面對他人、接受自己、處理情緒。無論科技如何改變，社群軟體怎麼更新，你都要抓住「讓對方舒服」這個原則。

・為生命做減法，決定你想要的人際關係
人的長大，就是和新的朋友說你好，和過去熟悉的人和事說再見。離別是人生的主題，堅強是一輩子的功課，只求拚命盡興地珍惜彼此，以後無怨無悔。

總說著明天再努力，但你憑什麼輕易放過自己？
・別甘於平庸，越出眾的人越自律
自律的人，才擁有自由選擇的資格：選擇美好體態的自由，選擇理想學校的自由，選擇夢想職業的自由。所以別拖延了，從今天起成為一個自律的人，為自己展開更多可能。

這是一本寫給「迷茫患者」的生存指南，
「拖延患者」的自救手冊，
「社交障礙患者」的行動方法。
別把命運給的苦當成你必須承受的難，現在開始決定自己的一生，才能擁抱真正的自由

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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Angus Fletcher
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A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling any scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind. Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere—from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others—each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature’s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.

Wonderworks reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most powerful developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui—all while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found all throughout literature—from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare’s plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives. An easy-to-understand exploration of the new literary field of story science, Wonderworks teaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class. Based on author Angus Fletcher’s own research, it is an eye-opening and thought-provoking work that offers us a new understanding of the power of literature.

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北歐式的自由生活提案 (Less is More)

本田直之
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在都市上班，在悠閒的鄉間過生活
少一點物慾，換來更多的時間，更多的興趣
不替公司賣命，而是提升自己的能力和人脈
拋棄追求名利的舊觀念，擁抱自由生活的幸福
其實，我們都很想試試看……

用質物來感受幸福的時代已經結束了。
從物質獲得的滿足只能維持瞬間，但從經驗，以及從經歷所得到的知識，卻會留一輩子。

為何北歐各國的「幸福指數」居於世界排行的前幾名呢？
生活富裕的日本為何又只居於第81名呢？

為了找出答案，作者本田直之前往「幸福排行榜」前幾名的北歐各國，採訪當地民眾，他發現，唯有拋開物質至上主義的傳統價值觀，改而追求工作、居住、生活上的自由，才能達到真正的快樂......

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Digital Art

Christiane Paul
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“Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line.” ―Publishers Weekly

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but the emergence of entirely new forms such as internet and software art, digital installation, and virtual reality has forever changed the way we define art.

Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s to the present day and looks ahead to what the future may hold. She discusses the key artists and works in the genre, drawing a distinction between work that uses digital practices as tools to produce traditional forms and work that uses them to create new kinds of art. She explores the broader themes and questions raised by these artworks such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, and issues surrounding the collection, presentation, and preservation of digital art.

The third, expanded edition of the popular resource investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained prominence in recent years, including interactive public installation, augmented and mixed reality, social networking, and file-sharing technologies.

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" Art Machines: Past · Present " Exhibition 「藝術機器: 過去 · 現在」展覽
Date: until 23 May 2021 (Closed on Mondays)
Time: 10am to 7pm
Venue: Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, 18/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Admission: Free of charge, prior registration required for visitors BOOK A VISIT

The " Art Machines: Past · Present " Exhibition explores the relationship between artistic creation and tools, showing us the technology is not an impediment to the making of art but a condition of its possibility. It showcases artworks from four disciplines: Rube Goldberg machines and kinetic sculpture, computer graphics and animation, computer installation art and sound art. READ MORE

村上春樹詞典 : 一本書讀懂村上春樹世界

中村邦夫, 道前宏子
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第一本村上春樹【詞典+插畫】入門導讀書
完整收錄｜全作品、創作角色、關鍵字等詞彙，
享受圖解閱讀村上春樹的無限魅力！

1979年，村上春樹以《聽風的歌》踏入日本文壇，
其獨特又新穎的寫作風格，迅速引發注目，
爾後更以《挪威的森林》聲名大噪，成為舉世聞名的當代作家。
數十年來筆耕不輟的他，不只擅長寫小說，
隨筆、遊記、評論、翻譯等領域，亦創作甚豐。
作品被譯為50多種語言，更掀起一股名為「村上春樹」現象。

不同於一般坊間的評論集，
本書以淺顯易懂的詞語，搭配手繪風格的插圖，
帶領讀者一窺村上的奇思妙想，
書中沒有瑣碎的文章，每個詞語篇幅短短的，越讀越有況味，
穿插其中的專欄，更是專為鐵粉整理出的行家級知識，
從料理、電影、裝訂等主題討論，全方位分析村上作品的意象，
無論是入門新手或重度村上迷都能再次從中得到啟蒙！

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David J. Epstein
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

“Fascinating. . . . If you’re a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you.” —Bill Gates

“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes

“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.

David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see.

Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

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絲線上的文明：十三個故事，纖維紡線如何改變人類的歷史 (The Golden Thread：How Fabric Changed History)

卡西亞．聖．克萊兒 (Kassia St. Clair)
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一條絲線編織出人類文明進化的故事，
從出生到死亡，人們的日常生活都離不開織品。

從史前時代洞穴裡的纖維、中東布料與古埃及裹屍布；
中國皇帝的絲織龍袍與維京船的羊毛風帆、
印度的卡利科布、印花棉布跟工業革命的關係、
一直到現今實驗室製成的科技纖維，讓太空人成功登陸月球……

本書引用史詩、傳説、神話及史實，
呈現出織品對人類文明發展具有的重大意義與影響。
從語言到童話，從科技到社會關聯，我們的生活與紡織紗線緊密織就。
作者把古今中外，包括史前、古中國、古希臘、古埃及、近代、現代等等，
許多精采故事綴成一部内容豐富的人類文明進化史，老少咸宜，是當今最有趣的一本書。

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Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation

Marc P. Cosentino
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The Wall Street Journal calls Case in Point the MBA Bible! The world’s foremost authority on case interviewing and bestselling author Marc Cosentino demystifies the case interview process, which is not only used for recruiting in consulting but also in private equity, strategic planning, marketing, logistic, operations, and human capital. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions, and he shares with you the acclaimed Ivy Case System. It will give you the confidence to answer even the most sophisticated cases. Now in its eleventh edition, Case in Point is the most current and up-to-date book on the subject, and reflects all the latest changes in the case interview process —with plenty of graphs and lessons built in. The book includes dozens of strategy cases, with case starts exercises, 21 ways to cut costs and much more. Case in Point11 helps you build your case cred from start to finish.

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間歇高效率的番茄工作法：25分鐘，打造成功的最小單位，幫你杜絕分心、提升拚勁 (The Pomodoro Technique)

法蘭西斯科．西里洛 (Francesco Cirillo)
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國際媒體、全球暢銷書、高效大師、頂尖人士爭相引用的時間管理法
幫個人與團隊提升專注力、精準達標！

★ 《華爾街日報》、《哈佛商業評論》、《衛報》、《每日郵報》盛讚推薦
★ 準備考試、規劃專案進度、掌握團隊進度、自主進修學習都適用
★ 從個人到團隊，可運用於各層面，實現大小目標

◎ 全球數百萬人實證的高效時間管理術
1987年9月，法蘭西斯科．西里洛為了考試，需要念完三本書，
卻靜不下心，因為干擾太多，容易分心，也沒拚勁。
無意間發現，廚房裡的番茄鐘計時器，讓他重拾平靜，準備周全，通過考試。

1992年，他把「番茄工作法」系統化，研究出──
為什麼番茄鐘會有效？一個番茄鐘時段該設定為多久？
一天能進行幾輪番茄鐘時段？每個番茄鐘時段之間，需要休息多久？

1998年到1999年，開始傳授這套時間管理，經過無數次實驗與驗證，
他發現，工作25分鐘、間歇休息5分鐘，是最理想、效率最不會下降的方式。

2006年，將番茄工作法寫成書，自費出版，
截至2013年，電子書下載次數超過200萬次，
改善數百萬人的工作效率，受到國際媒體、時間管理大師、頂尖人士引用。

◎ 間歇、高效率的最佳單位──25分鐘
一般人會想一口氣、全力以赴把事情做完，但往往效率不彰，越做越沒勁，
番茄工作法之所以有效，在於有助發揮間歇、高強效的專注力，
一個番茄鐘只有25分鐘，不可打斷、不可分割，沒有半個或1/4個番茄鐘，
每天檢視該做的事，並預先為每項任務規劃需要多少個番茄鐘才能完成（本書提供專屬表格）。

執行任務時，當一個番茄鐘結束，必須間歇休息5分鐘，馬上放下工作，
趁機起來走一走、喝杯水、想一下放假去哪裡玩、跟同事聊天說笑……
讓頭腦消化吸收剛才25分鐘的工作內容......

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Bill Gates
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.

He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.

As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

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讀胡適

董橋
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董橋說今年[2019年]五四也一百年了，他緬懷胡適對世界、對國家、對山河、對生靈的關愛和擔當。他說胡適是老派人，有些說法有些做法很像他父親那個年紀的人，有點偏見，有點冥頑，有點迂闊，有點可笑，有點親切。頌揚和謾駡聲中，胡適一輩子是台上的人物。這本《讀胡適》只讀他喜歡讀的胡適，抄他喜歡抄的胡適 ......

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《讀胡適》獲第十三屆香港書獎。
董橋得獎感言:《讀胡適》從來不是一本熱鬧的書。我希望這本書是一道清淺的小河，靜靜流過從前和現在的中國，讓讀這本書的人在喧嘩的塵世裏聽聽那連綿的水聲，回望一個中國讀書人發憤追求知識塑造自己的過程，看他博讀中外典籍，用言行克服偏見，認識世道。胡適之經歷近代中國一波又一波的風浪。他治學，因為他相信學術必須傳承。他從政，因為他相信他的良知可以感化齷齪的無知。他提倡白話文的心志造就了中國語文從此脫胎換骨。他對自由民主的信仰成了近現代中國政治荒野中一盞不滅的明燈。我不忍心讓這樣一位有遠見有骨氣的讀書人的努力煙消雲散......

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香港城市大學邵逸夫圖書館現正舉行「跨洋之旅：胡適美國部分藏書展」"A Transpacific Voyage: A Collection of Hu Shih’s Books in the United States"，展期至5月30日。

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Laura Tunbridge
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A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal

“Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge’s pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a biography presented through the focus of nine different compositions.”—Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian

“Rewarding. . . . A lot of information is packed into her musical portraits.”—Richard Fairman, Financial Times

The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven’s career, placing his music in contexts that shed light on why particular pieces are valued more than others, and what this tells us about his larger-than-life reputation. Each chapter focuses on a period of his life, a piece of music, and a revealing theme, from family to friends, from heroism to liberty. We discover, along the way, Beethoven’s unusual marketing strategies, his ambitious concert programming, and how specific performers and instruments influenced his works. This book offers new ways to understand Beethoven and why his music continues to be valued today.

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香港電影王國 : 娛樂的藝術 (Planet Hong Kong : Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment)

大衛博維爾 (David Bordwell）
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著名電影史學家及理論家David Bordwell《香港電影王國—娛樂的藝術》 2020年香港增訂版。2001年香港中譯第一版早已絕版多年，增訂版新加了兩章及兩個附篇（「無間道」三部曲及杜琪峯專論），全書共360頁，內頁插圖幾乎全部轉為彩色，極盡精美。

David Bordwell對香港電影情有獨鍾，對香港電影七十年代至今的藝術成就及其對國際影壇的貢獻分析入微。全書旁徵博引，圖文並茂，喜歡香港電影的影癡必讀。

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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu
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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —The New York Times Book Review

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思考之法

梁光耀
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作為萬物之靈，人的獨特之處就是有思考能力，但思考必須學習和培養才有所成。
作者認為，有三種思考對個人的發展和成功最為基本和重要，一種是批判思考，另一種是創意思考，還有一種是積極思考。

本書所講的思考之法，共有六法，前四法屬於批判思考，即語理分析、邏輯方法、科學方法和謬誤剖析，可以歸納為兩個重點：思考清晰和推論正確；後兩法則對應着創意思考和積極思考，跟批判思考不同，創意思考和積極思考的重點不在於「思考方法」，而在於心態，如放鬆、幽默、樂觀及勇氣等。人類文明的發展實有賴於這三種思考，積極進取、批判和創造。

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition."--Kirkus, starred review

"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book."--Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev­olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per­sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

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大武山下

龍應台
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★ 本書為龍應台的首部長篇小說，超越政治與社會議題，直探生命的本質。
★ 本書所描述的動、植物多為台灣特有種與原生種，是龍應台最貼近土地的創作。
★ 本書插畫為龍應台親筆手繪，呈現創作軌跡與多元的創作能量。

龍應台以孩童似的無止盡的好奇、田野調查者追根究柢的執著、文學家時而空靈婉轉、時而深沉大氣的文字，刻畫出大武山的世界，既是煙火人間，又是冷月無聲。

自覺身心「脫臼」的不知名作家，彷彿命運牽引，回到闊別五十年的鄉間，與一位停格在十四歲的失蹤少女相遇。一段光影交織的魔幻旅程，讓生命和土地、植物、動物、歷史，相互因緣見證。一樁塵封的謀殺案，把遺憾和思念、擁抱和捨下，層層打開，像打開一條密密折疊、藏著香氣的手帕。

深山有野獸，小鎮有鬼神，
植物有記憶，動物有靈魂，
《大武山下》，是一次對於愛和生命的思辨跋涉……

「書中所有的人物都是虛構的，唯一真實的是人物的精神，所以不必對號入座。只是下回走進任何一個鄉間小鎮，你知道，馬路上走著的、市場裡蹲著的、田裡頭跪著的，斗笠和包頭布蒙著的，皮膚黑到你分不出眉目的，每一個人，都有他生命的輕和重、痛和快，情感負荷的低迴和動盪。」 ──龍應台

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