The Character Triangle Companion: A 30-Day Kick Start to An Even Better YOU!

Lorne Rubis
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 Can our CHARACTER be developed? Or are we born and stuck with it? In his 2011 book The Character Triangle, Lorne Rubis shared a breakthrough method of shaping our own character by practicing three distinct but interdependent values: Accountability (Do It Now!), Respect (Be Nice!) and Abundance (Give More!).

His follow up, The Character Triangle Companion: A 30-Day Kick Start to an Even Better YOU!, is a practical guide to help you to Do It Now, Be Nice, and Give More.

In 30 Days, you will learn how to identify your life’s purpose, find your motivation and consciously practice the core values that will help you to live with greater character, have an impact and inspire others.

In this book, Rubis presents key learnings from both research driven results and experiential leadership. You’ll learn from some of the best business, leadership and self-improvement experts including Marshall Goldsmith, Stephen Covey, Clayton Christensen, Charles Duhigg, Brene Brown, Jim Collins, Ram Charan, Jim Kouzes and others. He also shares leadership and management best practices from top companies including Apple, The Ford Motor Company, Campbell Soup Company, WestJet and more.

This 150-page quick read is a real roadmap to success for anyone looking to move goals into actions and set an intentional path towards continual improvement.

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另外的90% 開啟你未發掘的潛能 (The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life)

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 長久以來，人們普遍認為人類的能力有種種極限，儘管已經有許多科學研究證實這種觀點的錯誤，但根深蒂固的心態仍然阻礙著我們，使我們看不見許多潛藏的可能性，未能發掘與運用自己與他人的無限潛能，於是，在面對種種壓力、變革、與不確定性下，我們感到精疲力竭、黔驢技窮。不論我們多麼勤奮努力，不論我們付出多少，仍然無法達到期盼的生活與境界。其實，還有別的方法，生命可以有另一種不同的風貌。

本書作者是神經科學先驅、同時也是知名的領導力領域專家羅伯．庫柏，敦促我們徹底改變對人類能力的觀點，他說，絕大多數人只發揮了不到百分之十的潛能。在本書中，他以淺顯易懂、容易學習的步驟教導我們如何發展與運用另外百分之九十的潛能。

......作者應用神經科學、行為心理學、工作生理學等領域的最新研究結果，提供許多鮮為人知的實用方法，教大家如何：

*提高工作時的精力，同時也擁有更多精力投入個人與家庭生活
*啟動大腦裡的“警報開關”，以消除壓力與緊張
*運用“三個不同的大腦”
*激發自己與他人的獨特才能

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Claude Monet

Nina Kalitina and Nathalia Brodskaia
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For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession to express emotions and to transmit light effects over nature was much more intense than his contemporaries. In his words: Skills come and go... Art is always the same: a transposition of Nature that requests as much will as sensitivity. I strive and struggle against the sun... should as well paint with gold and precious stones.

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The exhibition Claude Monet: The Spirit of Place, now being held at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum from 4 May till 11 July 2016, features some of Monet’s most emblematic artworks including the famous water lilies of “Nymphéas.”

莫內的魅力

洪麟風 著
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莫內把印象派的理想，所謂「光的神祕」，將全部身心投入奉獻進去。他也是創造「組畫」的畫家，從來沒有一位畫家，將一種主題以不同時辰、不同季節、不同氣氛來表現。因為他的畫都在戶外寫生，而且尋覓到那麼多「畫點」，所以現在有所謂「莫內繪畫之旅」的導覽。

本書目錄：「光之印象．色彩的光輝」、「生活在水邊的喜悅」、「可讀時辰的畫」、「水氣．霧靄的魅力」、「在理想的風景中」、「莫內－印象派繪畫之母」、「確立印象派技法」、「維特尼的冬天」、「吉維尼終生之家」、「在南國的強光下求光色」、「連作組畫」。

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香港文化博物館推出「他鄉情韻--克勞德‧莫奈作品展」，展出法國印象派大師莫奈17幅畫作，展期為5月4日至7月11日。

Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

By Qian Zhongshu (錢鍾書); Edited with an introduction by Christopher G. Rea
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Qian Zhongshu  (錢鍾書) was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian wrote a brilliant series of short stories, essays, and a comedic novel that continue to inspire generations of Chinese readers.

With this long-awaited translation, English-language readers can immerse themselves in the invention and satirical wit of one of the world's great literary cosmopolitans. This collection brings together Qian's best short works, combining his iconoclastic essays on the "book of life" from Written in the Margins of Life (寫在人生邊上) (1941) with the four masterful short stories of Human, Beast, Ghost (人獸鬼) (1946). His essays elucidate substantive issues through deceptively simple subjects-the significance of windows versus doors, for example, or the blind spots of literary critics—and assert the primacy of critical and creative independence. His stories blur the boundaries between humans, beasts, and ghosts as they struggle through life, death, and resurrection. Christopher G. Rea situates these works within China's wartime politics and Qian's literary vision, highlighting significant changes that Qian Zhongshu made to different editions of his writings and providing unprecedented insight into the author's creative process.


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楊絳傳

羅銀勝 著
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《楊絳傳》以溫暖的筆觸敘寫了楊絳的百年人生，包括童年成長、家庭變遷、求學歷程，以及同錢鐘書半個多世紀相濡以沫的愛情，盡現其博學、睿智、寬容、韌性的純德名媛風範。

楊絳是一個從容優雅的精神貴族，她對抗戰火、疾病、政治風暴、生離死別的態度，堪稱生命的正能量；她經盡人生起起落落，依然平靜、充實、恬淡、知足又不卑不亢地生活著，她的傳記值得所有人靜下心來一讀。

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楊絳，1911-2016年，本名楊季康，祖籍江蘇無錫，生於北京。著名的作家，戲劇家、翻譯家，錢鐘書的夫人。楊絳通曉英語、法語、西班牙語，由她翻譯的《唐·吉訶德》被公認為最優秀的翻譯佳作，到2014年已累計發行70多萬冊；她早年創作的劇本《稱心如意》，被搬上舞台長達六十多年，2014年還在公演；楊絳93歲出版散文隨筆《我們仨》，風靡海內外，再版達一百多萬冊，96歲成出版哲理散文集《走到人生邊上》，102歲出版250萬字的《楊絳文集》八卷。

The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories

Susan Ostrov Weisser
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Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our “postfeminist” age, are more popular than ever. Increasingly, we have become a culture of romance: stories of all kinds shape the terms of love. Women, in particular, love a love story.

The Glass Slipper is about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age. Comparing influential classics to their current counterparts, Susan Ostrov Weisser relates in highly amusing prose how these stories are shaped and defined by and for women, the main consumers of romantic texts. Following a trajectory that begins with Jane Austen and concludes with Internet dating sites, Weisser shows the many ways in which nineteenth-century views of women’s nature and the Victorian idea of romance have survived the feminist critique of the 1970s and continue in new and more ambiguous forms in today’s media, with profound implications for women...

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"In this timely, valuable, relevant study, Weisser examines the ways in which traditional ideas of romantic love endure, despite decades of feminist scholarship and critique challenging sexism and misogyny and calling for change. Her prose is accessible, lively, and informed, and her discoveries outlining where feminism and romance dovetail and diverge have far-reaching implications to be valuable to anyone interested in gender studies, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Highly recommended." -- Choice  

文化演繹中的圖像 : 中國近現代文學, 美術個案解讀

姚玳玫 著
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本書主要以“圖像”為線索，運用敘事研究、文化研究的方法，對發生於20世紀中國的關涉文學、美術諸領域的一組個案加以解讀和剖析，主要涉及幾方面問題：晚清至民國時期海派刊物“女性”主題圖像的含義生成和圖式衍變問題；早期媒體傳播中女性肖像照的公共性與私人性僭越問題；“五四”背景下西方美術圖像的引進、譯介、闡釋，與本土表達的銜接，這一過程所隱含的“五四”知識分子自我身份定位問題；20世紀中國女藝術家“自畫像”與女性自我認知問題，20世紀中國美術的人文圖式構建問題，20世紀二三十年代身處生存夾縫中的中國現代主義藝術家藝術追求的多熏性、分裂性問題，等等。本書經由相關個案解讀，考察“圖像”背后文化運作的跡象、內在意圖及其在多方力量的制衡下形成的格局。

Time Travel in Popular Media Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games

Edited by Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod
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In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. -- Provided by publisher.

時間簡史 : 從大爆炸到黑洞 (A Brief History of Time)

史蒂芬. 霍金 (Stephen W. Hawking)
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史蒂芬. 霍金那本暢銷世界的《時間簡史》已成為科學著述的里程碑。這不僅歸因於作者迷人的表達方式，還歸因於他討論的令人敬畏的主題：空間和時間的本性，上帝在創生中的作用，宇宙的歷史和將來......

Game Art: Art from 40 Video Games and Interviews with Their Creators

Matt Sainsbury
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Game Art is a collection of breathtaking concept art and behind-the-scenes interviews from videogame developers, including major players like Square Enix, Bioware, and Ubisoft as well as independent but influential studios like Tale of Tales and Compulsion Games. Immerse yourself in fantastic artwork and explore the creative thinking behind over 40 console, mobile, and PC games.

Art from: Akaneiro: Demon Hunters • Alice: Madness Returns • American McGee's Alice • Atelier Escha & Logy • Atelier Meruru • Atelier Rorona • Atelier Shallie • Atelier Totori • Bientôt l'été • Bladestorm: Nightmare • Child of Light • Contrast • D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die • Dead or Alive 5 • Deception IV • Dragon Age: Inquisition • Dynasty Warriors • escapeVektor • Fairy Fencer F • Fatal Frame II • Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn • flowmo • Gamebook Adventures • The Graveyard • Hyperdimension Neptunia • KILLER IS DEAD • LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW • Luxuria Superbia • Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox • Monster Monpiece • NaissanceE • Never Alone • Ninja Gaiden 3 • The Path • Samurai Warriors • Shadows of the DAMNED • Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God • Spirit Hunters Inc • Sunset • Tengami

Interviews with: Peter Budziszewski and Tamara Schembri • Amy Fredeen and Alan Gershenfeld • Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn • Yosuke Hayashi • Keisuke Kikuchi • Makoto Kitano • Mike Laidlaw • American McGee • Naoko Mizuno and Tsunako • Alex Norton • Yoshito Okamura • Jean-François Poirier• Guillaume Provost • Neil Rennison • Jennifer Schneidereit • Mavros Sedeño • SUDA51 • Hidetaka Suehiro • Akihiro Suzuki and Hisashi Koinuma • Nic Watt • Naoki Yoshida

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設計中的設計 = Design of Design

原研哉 著
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到底何謂“設計”？對一位專業設計者而言，這是一個相當基本的問題，而對我的人生也一直在追尋著這個答案。

邁入二十一世紀的當下，伴隨著資訊科技的發展，全世界正陷入一大改革的漩渦中，對於商品或溝通等等的價值觀也隨之動搖……

當科技正要重新改造世界時，卻往往犧牲了蘊藏於生活中的美感價值。當技術與經濟掛帥且強領者世界向前邁進的同時，生活中的美感也正不堪於此瞬息萬變而發出哀鳴。

The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis

Richard L. Epstein
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This series of books, Essays on Logic as The Art of Reasoning well, presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay is designed so that it may be read independently.

The question addressed in The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis is how we can justify our beliefs through reasoning. The first essay, "Arguments," investigates what it is that we call true or false and how we reason toward truths through arguments. A general theory of argument analysis is set out on the basis of what we can assume about those with whom we reason. The next essay, "Fallacies," explains how the classification of an argument as a fallacy can be used within that general approach. In contrast, there is no agreement on what the terms "induction" and "deduction" mean, and they are not useful in evaluating arguments, as shown in "Induction and Deduction."

In reasoning to truths, in the end we must take some claims as basic, not requiring any justification for accepting them. How we choose those claims and how they affect our reasoning is examined in "Base Claims" ... Essays in "Base Claims" include "Analogies", "Subjective Claims", "Generalizing",  "Probabilities", and "Rationality,".

This volume is meant to give a clearer idea of how to reason well, setting out methods of evaluation that are motivated in terms of our abilities and interests. At the ground of our reasoning, though, are metaphysical assumptions, too basic and too much needed in our reasoning for us to justify them through reasoning. But we can try to uncover those assumptions to see how they are important and what depends on them, which is a major them of this volume.

Other volumes in the series Essays on Logic as The Art of Reasoning Well include:
Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations
Prescriptive Reasoning
Reasoning in Science and Mathematics

溫柔的路途 : 散漫時光札記

馬家輝 著
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  一個男子，一個女子，一個女孩，在地球上走走停停，用鏡頭拍下沿途景象，用文字寫下旅途心情。《死在這裡也不錯》是前篇，《溫柔的路途》是延續......

Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies

By Rob Yeung 
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A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questions

In today′s competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition teaches you how to perform professionally and productively under stressful interview conditions.

With this handy guide, you′ll learn to breeze through tricky questions and accentuate your most impressive qualities. This updated second edition features a ten–step guide to having a great interview, ten tips for projecting confidence, ten techniques for trouble–shooting your job search, 200 tough sample interview questions with detailed advice and model answers, proven strategies to combat nerves, and guidelines for perfecting your social media presence and handling questions that may arise from an online search. There is no need to enter an interview feeling unprepared with this guide by your side.

•Rob Yeung′s holistic approach helps you make a positive first impression
•Shows you how to prepare to answer questions regarding your online presences (and how to avoid embarrassing search results)
•Provides essential preparation so that you can familiarize yourself with tricky questions before embarking on the stressful interviewing process

Whether you′re an entry–level worker or a mid–level professional, Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies prepares you to blow the competition away with your poised and professional responses.

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應屆生求職面試全攻略

應屆生求職網  編著
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本書介紹了面試前的準備，面試類型及應對技巧，各類面試題型以及面試之后要注意的事項。書中對電話面試、小組面試、AC面試、行為面試、壓力面試、結構化面試等一一進行了介紹。書中有大量面試實例，可供學生參考。

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The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

by Richard Koch
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How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.

The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.

Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies.

The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives.

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生命,才是最值得去的地方 : 敘事治療與旅行的相遇

黃錦敦 著
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旅行看似出走，卻是一種回歸。

作者透過旅行途中遇見的人事物，介紹敘事治療的視野；同時透過敘事治療的眼光，回頭看看旅程裡的風景，一路上且行且思，讓「旅行故事」與「敘事治療概念」來回對話，交織成一幅深刻動人的生命風景，幫助讀者打開心扉，向內旅行，撐起更大的心靈空間。

在旅行裡，旅者交換了故事，也就交換了生命的某種能量。

當我透過聆聽別人的生命故事，而碰觸到自己內在的深刻經驗，這種共鳴感受就是所謂的生命感。這些生命的碰觸會影響我接下來的行動與思考，影響我的人生。這就是敘說故事的影響力。因為彼此的生命在故事裡現身，於是更深刻的相互影響就發生了，這也就是為何敘事治療強調聽故事、說故事，因為故事可以承載活生生的生命，可以更自然地產生影響人的力道。

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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
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A digital executive shows millennials how to excel in a corporate environment still dominated by an older generation, while remaining true to their personal values

Think and Grow Digital teaches young talents how to align with company "seniors" without giving up their ideals. The author explains how readers can help companies focus on moon shots: things really worth going for that help both the company and the world. Readers learn how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen worked in several media and advertising businesses before he joined Google in 2010. He serves as European Head of Insights Communication, aggregating research and data insights into B2B narratives that explain changes in the media landscape, marketing, and consumer behavior.

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什麼都沒有發生

陳冠中
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《什麼都沒有發生》這本書是作者第一次把文化觀察與創作才能結合 , 寫成一本對於香港有所反省的長篇。小說以一種幽默而略帶反諷的書寫 , 為我們帶來閱讀的樂趣。《什麼都沒有發生》可以作為俗世情故事看 , 也可以作為香港文化評論讀 , 肯定是香港九○年代最重要小說之一。

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Louder Than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence

Joe Navarro with Toni Sciarra Poynter
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 “Louder Than Words takes us from an understanding of nonverbal behavior to an understanding of something far more valuable for success—nonverbal intelligence.” — Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence: Science and Practice

“Joe Navarro brings together the art and science of nonverbal communications for the business sector with the edge of a former FBI agent and the insight of a world-class observer.” — Jack Canfield, co-author of The Success Principles

Joe Navarro, bestselling author of What Every Body Is Saying and Phil Hellmuth Presents Read ‘Em and Reap and former FBI agent specializing in behavioral analysis, helps you successfully navigate the business world by training your brain to see what others are feeling, thinking, or intending. Job hunters and professionals of every ilk—as well as fans of the hit FOX television series Lie to Me—will find many helpful and effective tips to reading body language and microexpressions in Louder than Words.

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地圖集 : The Atlas : Archaeology of an Imaginary City

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這不是一本地圖
它是90年代以來重要的城市論述
在空間與權力中
它讓我們認識一座城市的身世

中國時報開卷好書獎、亞洲週刊中文十大好書、紅樓夢獎決審團獎、香港藝術發展局藝術發展獎年度最佳藝術家獎、聯合文學小說新人獎、聯合報文學獎、聯合報讀書人最佳書獎得主、香港知名作家董啟章┼畫家楊智恆，跨界跨域首度合作

地圖模仿世界，還是世界模仿地圖？
地圖是埋藏在時間之下的地方，
地圖是凝止在地方之上的時間。

在1841年之前，在1997年之後，
故事已經開始，故事還未結束。
考古學家是下一個太平盛世的第一位備忘錄零餘者，
用文字繪畫香港的地圖，建構一段被遺忘的V城歷史。

彷彿波特萊爾筆下所描述的城市漫遊者般，
或者卡爾維諾的馬可波羅，
考古學家憑藉上一個千年殘存下來的維多利亞城地圖，
通過想像，解讀和重構一個湮沒城市的面貌，
開發地圖這種地理測繪形式中的歷史、文化和權力暗示，
把地圖重新讀成一種小說、一種虛構、一種偽嚴肅，偽學術風格，看似正經，實則荒誕。
有如卡爾維諾的《看不見的城市》，用解讀地圖的方式
把一座實實在在的香港城拆成數十節神祕而虛幻的片段

香港新生代重要畫家楊智恆，特別為本書繪製四幅具有代表性意義的跨頁插畫，
小說家VS.畫家，是對昔日香港的沉思，對香港未來的推想；
更是小說諧仿理論論述的有趣實驗。

《地圖集》分為理論篇、城市篇、街道篇和符號篇，全書成於1997年前夕，作者董啟章嘗試在這歷史性時刻重繪香港地圖：

．理論篇發掘或發明各種形容香港地理的名詞，帶出閱讀城市的理論；
．城市篇與街道篇結合虛構與地方掌故，重寫歷史，審視當下的香港；
．符號篇是對香港城市透過書寫想像的空間刺探一個實體城市的過去、現在與將來。在史實的基礎上鋪排虛構的情節，虛實之間，令讀者著迷。

從理論篇→城市篇→街道篇→符號篇，
從消失到重建，
香港，這個名字，
從文字到畫面躍然紙上。

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Resilience: How to Cope When Everything Around You Keeps Changing

Liggy Webb
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BOUNCE BACK FROM WHATEVER LIFE THROWS AT YOU

Stressful situations are a fact of life. Job insecurity, financial burden, relationship doubt are all too familiar. Some people approach them with confidence and poise, facing change and challenges head on. Others back away slowly into a corner and become quivering wrecks at the mere thought of them. So what is it that makes some people cope with these adverse situations so well? It s not about what is happening to you, but how you react to it. It s about your resilience.

Happiness guru Liggy Webb is here to help us all find positivity and inner strength to cope with stressful situations. Arming you with a personal toolkit to handle day to day challenges, and providing strategies for thriving in uncertain times Liggy shows you how to increase your bouncibility and bounce back from whatever negative things life throws at you.

Timely topic with governments across the world promoting happiness on the one hand and dealing with vast economic uncertainty and austerity on the other

Easy to digest, anecdotal and practical guide with lots of common sense advice

Contains timely examples and tips tailored for coping with difficult times

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方法論Ⅲ－研究之建設

劉勝驥 著
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《方法論III：研究之建設》是一本跨越學門整合社會科學各科之方法論輝煌巨著，全書十四章 ...... 本書由1概念→2變項→3策略，完成研究論文的「問題意識建構」；為進一步統計分析推論之需；接著→4範疇→5排序→6測量，整理研究材料的基本觀念與方法，完成研究論文的資料鑑定。從事「質性研究」則：7解釋→8關係→9意識形態，是社會科學質性研究提出各項新理論入門方法。從事「量化研究」則：10行為→11模式→12系統→13制度，是科學量化研究理念，一旦模式、系統、制度建構成功，其研究發現將是您給學術界增添了一項新定理或新公式。

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A Scientific Approach to Writing for Engineers and Scientists

Robert E. Berger
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A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO WRITING

Technical ideas may be solid or even groundbreaking, but if these ideas cannot be clearly communicated, reviewers of technical documents--e.g., proposals for research funding, articles submitted to scientific journals, and business plans to commercialize technology--are likely to reject the argument for advancing these ideas.

The problem is that many engineers and scientists, entirely comfortable with the logic and principles of mathematics and science, treat writing as if it possesses none of these attributes. The absence of a systematic framework for writing often results in sentences that are difficult to follow or arguments that leave reviewers scratching their heads.

This book fixes that problem by presenting a "scientific" approach to writing that mirrors the sensibilities of scientists and engineers, an approach based on an easily-discernable set of principles. Rather than merely stating rules for English grammar and composition, this book explains the reasons behind these rules and shows that good reasons can guide every writing decision.

This resource is also well suited for the growing number of scientists and engineers in the U.S. and elsewhere who speak English as a second language, as well as for anyone else who just wants to be understood.

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18歲前就該讀的哈佛人生哲理

王愛民 著
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 哈佛是社會菁英寶地，不是因為哈佛人天生就是菁英，而是因為他們的視野更高，志向更遠，付出的更多。我們也要有菁英意識，要努力、努力再努力，鍛鍊自己，培養自己，讓優秀成為一種習慣，讓自己脫穎而出，讓自己成為時代的菁英，菁英中的菁英。

「先有哈佛，後有美利堅合眾國」，哈佛人驕傲地將這句話寫入了自己的校史。這絕不是哈佛人的自誇，哈佛早就已經成為一種成功與榮譽的象徵。它被譽為「美國人的思想庫」。

哈佛創校三百年來，為全世界造就了大批的人才：七位美國總統，三十多位諾貝爾獎得主、三十多位普利茲獎得主與數十家跨國公司總裁。

到底哈佛靠什麼打造了這些人？難道他們的教育中有著什麼不為人知的秘密？

實際上，哈佛能夠培養出如此多的頂尖級人才，不僅僅在於其課堂上傳授的知識，更在於其在承載了厚重歷史的前提下、在歲月中沉澱下來的引人深思的智慧。這些智慧潛藏在哈佛的各個角落和師生生活的每一個細節之中。在其靈秀之氣中長期耳濡目染，人們便會於不知不覺中脫胎換骨，進入一種高素質、高水準、高格調的境界。

哈佛，不只是一所大學的名字，更是一種精神，一種智慧。百年哈佛帶給世界的不僅僅是優秀的人才，還有經典而深刻的人生哲學。哈佛已經成為很多年輕人夢想開始的地方。

我們每個人都有必要做做百年哈佛的學生，學習它教給我們的人生哲學。哈佛的人生哲學需要我們拜讀，它的智慧是指引一生的航標。在它帶給我們的智慧和哲理面前，我們不能有絲毫的懈怠。

為此，我們編著了這本名為《18歲前就該讀的哈佛人生哲理》一書。這是一本青少年的成長讀物，也是修身養性的人生指南。書中圍繞著哈佛哲理精神，精心選擇了一百多個哲理小故事，它們或幽默風趣，或發人深省，而且每一個故事後面還附有一段精彩的點評。

本書內容包括了夢想、品質、習慣、機遇等各個方面，沒有冗長的說教，只有無窮無盡的榜樣力量。本書從各個角度充分詮釋了哈佛的哲理精髓，觸及了人生中最樸素的感情和人性中最本質的東西，並挖掘出成功中最豐富的內涵。

本書通俗易懂，不僅能為我們的心靈撥開一絲愁雲，還可帶來閱讀的愉快體驗。讀這本書，你會感覺到幾百年來的哈佛智慧就像涓涓細流在你的心頭流淌。無須親自走進哈佛校園，此書就會帶給你對哈佛的深刻體驗。在書中，你可以聆聽哈佛教授的精彩哲思，可以品味哈佛大學的濃郁氣息。走進此書，你就會像一個智者一樣低頭沉思……

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What the Best College Students Do

Ken Bain
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The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college―and every other educational enterprise, too.

The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book―college graduates who went on to change the world we live in―aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.

Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.

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不安於「是」：西洋女性文學十二家

李根芳 著
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以西洋文學中的女性主體和建構為主題，探討女性文學的六大議題：族群與歷史、成長與背叛、婚姻與獨立、纖弱與堅強、驚悚與奇詭、欲望與身體。每一主題以兩個經典文學作品為例，透過說故事的方式，細膩分析女性作者如何把這些議題寫入作品之中，使其發光、發熱，昇華為散發美感的經典作品。

淺顯流暢的文字，引領讀者一窺女性書寫的歷史，探索西方女性主義關切的重點議題，表現女性安穩的「是」或不安於「是」。選題精要並具新意，作者除推薦相關作品的中譯版本，更在導讀中翻譯作品精華片段，堪稱近年來最佳的西洋女性文學導讀。

※精選十二位重量級的西洋女作家，介紹其生平故事及膾炙人口的作品，包括湯亭亭、吳爾芙、奧斯汀、莫里森等。

※書中討論了十八世紀至二十世紀的經典女性書寫，文類涵蓋了詩、小說、戲劇等，論述之間不掉書袋，輕鬆中帶有一定深度，另附延伸閱讀書單，最適合剛對文學萌生興趣的讀者。

※翻譯名家李根芳教授以淺顯易讀的文字，搭配說書般的敘事口吻，與讀者分享每一篇經典作品的精妙之處。

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Martin Ford
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Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

A New York Times Bestseller
Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes
One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making “good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries—education and health care—that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.

In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren’t going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects—not to mention those of their children—as well as for society as a whole.

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長鏡頭下的張愛玲：影像、書信、出版

蘇偉貞 著
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遊牧者上路，靠的正是記憶。一九五二年張愛玲離開上海後就未曾回去，赴美後的創作於今看內容不脫重寫、自傳、自白，說明了這些作品如同記憶結晶，不斷折射著她的回返路線。

作者以同時為小說家又為評論家的視角，洞察創作與人生的織理；以影像、哲學、精神分析、創作美學等不同角度與分析脈絡，依據全新出土之書信與著作，重啟張愛玲研究。更以曾為媒體編輯身分與作家張愛玲往返寫信的親身體驗，從張愛玲的小說、劇本、筆記、書信、未完成與散佚稿件……勾勒出一幅比張任何一部作品都更驚人的層層疊疊建構：或者，一切都是小說家的虛構，便虛構地完成了小說家的人生。

　　繼《孤島張愛玲》後，
　　小說家學者蘇偉貞又一次對張愛玲的析論與細說
　　全書以影像、書信、出版三大面向綜論張愛玲的創作意象與內涵
　　是極具新意與創意的「看張」論述

本書以張愛玲與電影的淵源開始進行析論，曾經參與編劇的〈傾城之戀〉〈太太萬歲〉乃至〈不了情〉，張愛玲究竟欲傳遞何種訊息，以及這些影像作品與其創作，乃至真實生活中的關係，作者皆有深入的論述。

在〈生成－書信：張愛玲的創作－演出〉中，作者有意證明如果釐清張愛玲書信中重要事件之經緯，就能找到張愛玲小說－書信－人生相關的詰問與答案。作者另附記了他任職報社編輯時，與張愛玲的書信往返十數封，寫就〈張愛玲的書信演出──自誇與自鄙〉，其中細膩的析論，可為張愛玲本人性格提供註解。

在〈連環套：張愛玲的出版美學〉，作者援引了二○○九年出版的「自白體」長篇小說《小團圓》作為評說的主體，往復呼應張愛玲與胡蘭成間的情事，乃至其創作與人生，堪為讀者留下一格「張－看」「看－張」的窗。

〈重回前方，台灣行〉收錄張愛玲訪台唯一新聞報導，〈鴉片床與診療椅的心理治療檔案〉從精神分析學角度切入〈金鎖記〉的人物心理及人生悲劇，深刻反射張愛玲孤絕性格。

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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

Shelley Carson
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Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity

Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson's provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states.

•Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation
•Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity

Your Creative Brain, called by critics a new classic in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one's personal and professional life.

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批判性思維 (Thinking Critically)

約翰.查菲 (John Chaffee) 著
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本書綜合了邏輯學、心理學、語言學、哲學等方面的現代知識，對思維的作用、產生、發展及其表達方法作了由淺入深的論述。本書立論新穎、構思嚴謹、例証豐富、筆調流暢，在練習的設計和安排上獨具匠心，在理論聯關係實際的問題上有特色，是當代邏輯思維學和語言學一部難得的論著，其理論和方法受到了西方教育界的普遍重視。

Speaker, Leader, Champion: Succeed at Work Through the Power of Public Speaking, featuring the prize-winning speeches of Toastmasters World Champions

Jeremey Donovan, Ryan Avery
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The secrets of superb public speaking―based on the best of the best of Toastmasters

Toastmasters, a name synonymous with public speaking, is dedicated to developing its members’ communication and leadership skills.

Now Distinguished Toastmaster Jeremey Donovan and Public Speaking World Champion Ryan Avery break down the winning speeches from Toastmasters’ prestigious annual competition―providing you with tips and techniques guaranteed to improve your speaking, presentation, and communication skills. They also include a special section of insights and advice for readers who aspire to become serious public speaking competitors.

“Speaker, Leader, Champion demystifies what makes a presentation extraordinary. This engaging, actionable book will teach you how to go from appreciating a powerful speech to delivering one yourself.” ―Adam Grant, professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

“Whether you present in the boardroom, classroom, or lunchroom, the guidance will help you become a more confident, authentic, and engaging speaker.” ―Matt Abrahams, strategic communication lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and author of Speaking Up Without Freaking Out

“To change the world, you need to lead. To lead, you need to communicate. To communicate, you need this book.” ―Presiyan Vasilev, 2013 World Champion of Public Speaking

“This book translates the secret sauce of public speaking into easy-to-use tips.” ―Zoe Chance, assistant professor of marketing at the Yale University School of Management

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天資差異

伊莎貝爾・布裡格斯・邁爾斯 (Isabel Briggs Myers) , 彼得・邁爾斯 (Peter B. Myers) 著
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《天資差異》作者是邁爾斯-布裡格斯類型指數人格測試表（MBTI）的創始人，該人格類型量表是有史以來使用最廣泛的人格類型測試工具。《天資差異》增進了我們對人格類型的理解，是對該人格類型測試工具的基本要點，以及在實際生活中的應用的解釋。了解著名的MBTI性格測試工具，並且評估自己的性格類型，突破人際之間的“性格壁壘”，強化個人性格優勢，回避性格局限，分析他人性格，提高人際溝通能力。根據榮格理論的觀點，《天資差異》區別了四種主要的人格類型，並解釋了這些性格特質在人們面對世界和做出決定中的作用。《天資差異》還說明了這些因素對每種性格類型的人在學習、工作和人際關係諸多方面的影響。作者將一生奉獻給了對人格類型的觀察、研究和測試。《天資差異》已被翻譯成十多種文字。近來，全世界每年有250多萬人次接受MBTI測試。在美國每年有300萬人以上參加MBTI和性格測試，其中超過80萬人為管理階層。據統計，世界前100公司中有89%的公司引入使用MBTI作為員工和管理層自我發展、改善溝通、提升組織績效的重要方法，80%以上的高層管理者、高級人事主管都在使用這個工具。

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Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict, and Self-Sabotage

Neil A. Fiore
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A groundbreaking four-step program for breaking self-destructive habits, increasing productivity and creativity, and performing at your personal best.

We often make our worst decisions when we act from a weak sense of self, and our best decision when we are confident and self-assured. Using the latest research findings in neuropsychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Peak Performance strategies, Awaken Your Strongest Self shows you how to live with greater joy, ease, and effectiveness. Author Neil Fiore, Ph.D., provides a four-step program that involves (1)stepping back from old, ineffective patterns, (2)waking up your "new brain"--what neuroscientists call the “Executive Organizing Function” (3)awakening the five qualities of your strongest self, and (4)putting everything together to achieve your goals. Through innovative examples, case studies, and exercises, you will learn how to cope with stress, recognize early signs of inner conflict, perform at their personal best on everyday work projects, minimize feelings of being overwhelmed; and ultimately, choose healthy alternatives to replace former bad habits.

Topics include:
The Sleeper Must Awaken; Five Signs That You Are Not Your Strongest Self … Yet; Expand Your Identity Beyond Your Ego; Step Up to Your Strongest Self's Point of View; Speak Up in the Voice of Your Strongest Self; Safety Replaces Stress; Choice Replaces Inner Conflict; Presence Replaces Feeling Overwhelmed; Focus Replaces Self-Criticism; Connection Replaces Struggle; Self Efficacy and the Stages of Change: The Key to Realizing Your Dreams; Making up Your Mind; Committing to Change; Taking Action; Maintaining Long-Term Success; You Are Your Strongest Self

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世界遺產與歷史城市

林志宏 著
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本書收錄世界遺產難得一見之照片，其中不乏遭受破壞危機之建築或景觀，彌足珍貴。 作者希望借此書拋磚引玉，喚起大眾關心傳統街區保護與都市適度更新與發展的熱情，共盡保護人類珍貴遺產的世界公民責任。

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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

By Jane Austen
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Comprises the complete text of: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey",  and "Persuasion".

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.

Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.

Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.

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Jane Austen

單身愛之語 (The Five Love Languages for Singles)

蓋瑞.查普曼 (Gary Chapman) 著
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暢銷作家蓋瑞.查普曼博士認為，愛與被愛是人們的基本需求，每個人都有自己主要愛的語言，依個人的成長經驗和需求，可分為：肯定的言詞、接受禮物、服務的行動、精心的時刻，及身體的接觸五種。 因此，用對愛的語言，才能正確表達和接收愛，這也是心靈滿足與否 的關鍵。　

這本特別為單身者寫的書中，作者以自己三十多年來與單身男女互動所得的真實經驗作為範，切合現實的需求。不論你是年少、同事、同學、室友，讓單身者也能享受在雙向的愛之喜悅中。

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

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春節

姚郁卉 编著
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春節是中華民族傳統節日中最為隆重熱鬧的節日，其歷史悠久、習俗源遠流長。而中國又是一個詩歌的國度，從《詩經》到《楚辭》，從漢樂府到唐詩，從宋詞到元曲，詩歌的節奏始終激蕩在我們民族的血脈中。花烏草蟲，萬事萬物均可入詩。而春節作為中國的大年節，自然會引起歷代文人墨客的詩思和詩情，留下許多膾炙人口、流傳千古的名篇佳作。在這些詩篇中，有記錄各種傳統年俗的，有抒發個人情懷的，有描寫喜慶氣象的，可謂異彩紛呈。以詩的語言表達人們對親人的思念、對過去的留戀和對未來美好生活的憧憬，讀來妙趣橫生，又受益匪淺，給春節增添了絢麗多彩的風情。

在我國古代第一部詩歌總集《詩經》當中，就有許多詩篇描述人們歲暮載歌載舞慶豐收的熱鬧場景。 “朋酒斯饗，目殺羔羊，躋彼公堂，稱彼兕觥 萬壽無疆”。《詩經》里的這段描述大概是說古代臘祭時，人們宴飲美酒，宰殺羔羊，相互祝福，歡慶新年的隆重慶祝活動，表達了人們獲得豐收後的喜悅心情。今天的春節源于古代的臘祭，因此在傳統年俗保存相對完好的鄉村，人們通常認為“過了臘八便是年”。在臘八這一天，家家煮粥，不僅自己食用，而且還贈送親友，”今朝佛粥交相饋，更覺江村節物新”。從陸游的詩句可以看出當時過臘八節的盛況。也有人認為，臘月二十三祭灶以後才真正奏響了新年的序曲。範成大的《祭灶詞》中有“男兒酌獻女兒避，酹酒燒錢灶君喜”，從古時祭灶的年俗由此可窺一斑。過年總要有一個煥然一新的環境，清代蔡雲有“茅舍春回事事歡，屋塵收拾號除殘”的詩句，描寫了民間高高興興“掃年”迎新春的習俗。婦女則忙著“巧裁幡勝試新羅”，這樣才能保證新年“小大易新衣”，以嶄新的面貌迎接新年。對于欠債的人來說，過年卻如過”關”，因為民間有“舊賬還潔在此宵，不能再討待明朝”的年俗。“東鄰叩廣西鄰急，若個聞聲膽不消”，這首題為《討年賬》的詩就是對除夕討債躲債情景的生動描述。

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