Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth
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*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*
*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*
**The Sunday Times Bestseller**

Economics is broken, and the planet is paying the price.

Unforeseen financial crises. Extreme wealth inequality. Relentless pressure on the environment. Can we go on like this? Is there an alternative?

In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth lays out the seven deadly mistakes of economics and offers a radical re-envisioning of the system that has brought us to the point of ruin. Moving beyond the myths of ‘rational economic man’ and unlimited growth, Doughnut Economics zeroes in on the sweet spot: a system that meets all our needs without exhausting the planet.

The demands of the 21st century require a new shape of economics. This might just be it.

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在學術界謀生存

李連江
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學術界是怎樣的江湖？在其中要如何生存？作者以二十多年在學術界探索的親身經歷與清醒思考，揭開學術圈的生存法則和注意事項、規則與潛規則，分享學習研究的方法與捷徑。所涉及內容包括選題、研究方法、論文寫作、期刊發表、英語學習、學者生涯等等，皆是當下年輕學者或學生切實面對、卻往往無路可循甚至誤入歧途的問題。

作為出色的政治學研究者和教授者，作者不僅清楚了解研究的方法與訣竅，也深知當下年輕學者的問題和苦惱。全書既有生存之「道」，又有生存之「術」，誠懇直率，不弄玄虛，傾囊相授，令人讀來豁然開朗，不僅適用於社科、人文領域，對所有想進入或剛進入學術圈的研究者都極有啟發。

「在這本書中，李老師始終以資深學者罕見的平視視角，為我們講了許多心底話和良心話。」──田雷（香港中文大學政治學博士，華東師範大學法學院教授）

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You Are a Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself, and Do It Now

Tiffany Pham
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Ranked in Top 10 Bestselling Business Books in the US by Wall Street Journal

As the founder of Mogul--praised by Sheryl Sandberg as the #1 millennial platform--Tiffany Pham created a global technology and media empire by the age of 27. As living proof that the old rules of success no longer apply, Tiffany writes the new rules for following your passions and forging your own path in an age of disruption.

Traditionally, the word "mogul" has been attributed to men. But Tiffany Pham has redefined it--now, when you Google the word, the top search result is the company she founded: Mogul. The platform enables millions of women, across 196 countries, to connect, share information, and access knowledge.

So how did a young woman--who arrived in the United States without speaking a word of English--turn a dream of connecting women into a fulfilling career and highly profitable company that has changed so many lives?

Tiffany chronicles her path to becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs of her generation, and offers specific, actionable advice that covers everything from overcoming self-doubt, to pursuing side-hustles, to crushing it at life and work by over-delivering, all while remaining your authentic self. You will learn how to negotiate job promotions, secure and balance multiple career roles, hire and manage teams, and become a mogul yourself. The book also features strategies and insights from ten of the most powerful moguls worldwide, including Nina Garcia, Star Jones, and Rebecca Minkoff.

You Are A Mogul addresses the new reality that few of us will work for one company for our entire career and that there is no one straightforward formula for a "good life"--personally or professionally. To succeed, we have to be agile, flexible, and strategic. You Are A Mogul is an indispensable road map to the kind of life and career that is demanding and challenging--but also exciting and full of opportunities, if you know where to look.

"Becoming an entrepreneur is tough and I encourage all who are on the journey to be self-aware and use resources to help your hustle match your ambition. You Are A Mogul is one of those tools."
—Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder & CEO of VaynerMedia and New York Times Bestselling Author

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給教育局局長的二十封信

謝振康
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香港首位中學生從學生角度點評教育制度、考試及升學漏弊。作者代表學生發聲，意見大膽有見地，給離地的教育決策者當頭捧喝！ 前高官及名人如張炳良、劉鳴煒、何駿傑激讚此書，絕對是從事教育工作及管理人士的「學生心聲天書」！

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do?

Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.

And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.

Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.

The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

不如去闖：年輕不是迷茫的藉口

李柘遠
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18歲，挑戰第一個不可能的任務，
以90天的行動計畫突圍，全額獎學金錄取耶魯。

22歲，以行動打破迷茫，
用To-do list實踐目標，成功入職高盛投資銀行。

24歲，放棄投行明星分析師的光環與高薪，
衝出舒適圈為熱愛而努力，創立旅遊品牌「牛游果」

25歲，在創業中場重新充電，考取哈佛商學院。

在這個不缺少夢想的時代，
他說：「成功需要的是更多的自勵心×規畫力×執行力。」

作者李柘遠以行動和實踐完成夢想，
堅持不只呈現在嚴謹的計畫中，也在每一次的行動裡，
本書不僅是他進入世界級名校、全球五百大知名企業的教戰守則，
更以四十篇個人故事，講述在耶魯、高盛、創業和哈佛的見聞，
提供了年輕人可以實踐夢想的完整計畫。

如果你還在：
思考生命的意義，懷疑自己懷疑人生。
對那些人生勝利組，各種羨慕嫉妒恨。
說是很會說，但就是遲遲無法行動……

他說：「與其在起點抱怨，不如從現在開始，闖出1的驚喜。」

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A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus
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A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest...

In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.

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規模的規律和祕密：老鼠、小鳥、雞、大象，和我們居住的城市，隱藏規模縮放的規律， 掌握其中驚奇的祕密，也同時掌握企業和地球的未來 (Scale)

傑弗里‧魏斯特 (Geoffrey West)
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1.比擬《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》的科普大作。試圖提供一切事物一個生物性理論。

2.以打破傳統學科界線的方法，解決長期的全球永續問題。本書以複雜科學立論，這是一門新興學科，橫跨數學、物理學、動力學、統計、電腦科學、生物學、生態學領域，企圖以此解釋生命問題：包括生命起源、生物演化，以及經濟演化等等。

3.一本充滿令人興奮觀念的大書。本書極具原創性與重要性，內含看似彼此無關的主題的驚人洞見，例如老化與死亡、睡眠、代謝、城市、能源使用、創造力、公司，甚至人類生存的永續問題。如果你對世界的真正運作方式感到好奇，絕對不要錯過這本書。

4.對於現代社會與經濟、新創公司、大型企業與城市發展的基本科學法則，提出非常強有力的全新見解。企業執行長、技術專家、市長、都市領導人與任何想理解形塑我們複雜組織的世界背後的簡單法則，一定要讀這本書。

規模比例大小，很有事！
宇宙世界運作的祕密全都和規模有關，
它背後神奇的縮放法則顯示，規模主宰了一切生命的存在與消亡，
從細胞到城市，從企業到環境生態系統，從千分之一秒到一千年，
本書帶你在生命的複雜中尋找簡單與一致。
　　
•當城市與公司的規模加倍時，會發生什麼事？
•如果一棟建築物、一架飛機、一個經濟體或一隻動物的尺寸減半呢？
•如果某城市的人口變成兩倍，道路會不會也大約變成兩倍、犯罪率也變兩倍、專利也變兩倍？
•如果某公司的銷售加倍，獲利會不會也跟著加倍？
•如果某隻動物的體重減半，需要的食物是不是也只要一半？ ......

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

by Stephen Hawking
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The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND WIRED

Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years to live. In later life he could communicate only by using a few facial muscles, but he continued to advance his field and serve as a revered voice on social and humanitarian issues.

Hawking not only unraveled some of the universe’s greatest mysteries but also believed science plays a critical role in fixing problems here on Earth. Now, as we face immense challenges on our planet—including climate change, the threat of nuclear war, and the development of artificial intelligence—he turns his attention to the most urgent issues facing us.

Will humanity survive? Should we colonize space? Does God exist? ​​These are just a few of the questions Hawking addresses in this wide-ranging, passionately argued final book from one of the greatest minds in history.

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巨科技 : 解碼未來三十年的科技社會大趨勢 = Megatech : Technology in 2050

富蘭克林 (Daniel Franklin)
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巨科技（MegaTech）代表巨大的科技潮流，
將以雷霆萬鈞之勢，為社會帶來巨大衝擊。

《經濟學人》雜誌推出的《巨科技》這本書， 集結了二十位第一流的專家，就各自專長的領域， 對未來三十年的科技走向與社會變遷，做出大膽的預言。 從未來科技的物理學基石、摩爾定律的極限、生物科技的應許……

這一些巨科技發展的基礎條件出發， 擴展到巨科技在各領域的發展趨向，包括工業新材料、農業新型態、 醫療新科技、潔淨能源、尖端軍力、人機一體等等， 最後則探討了人工智慧、機器人、大數據興起後， 所引發的倫理道德問題與社會衝擊。 每一篇專論都充滿洞察力和啟發性。

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

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

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

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

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

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

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

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

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

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

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老店風情畫

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

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

作者飛天豬 Flying Pig, 畢業於城市大學創意媒體學院，主修動畫。

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Literature Review : Six Steps to Success

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

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

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

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情緖勒索 : 那些在伴侶、親子、職場間, 最讓人窒息的相處

周慕姿
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2017誠品書店銷售總冠軍；

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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謝幕 : 中區警署建築群

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

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

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

(摘錄自oupchina.com.hk)

Future-Ready Leadership: Strategies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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

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

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

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

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

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理性思考的藝術

余錦波
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以淺白文字、配以漫畫及圖表，助你輕鬆掌握理性思考法。

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

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

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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

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

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

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

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


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

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

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

香港當代作家作品選集. 金庸卷

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

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Doing Research in the Real World

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

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雪球速讀法：累積雜學資料庫，達到看書十倍速，大考小考通通難不倒

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

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

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

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

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

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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

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

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

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

回首香港七十年 : 我們有過的歡笑和唏噓

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

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

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

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

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

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

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

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

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渺小一生 (A Little Life)

柳原漢雅 (Hanya Yanagihara)
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2015年曼布克獎決選小說 (A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST)
榮獲2015年科克斯評論文學獎 (THE KIRKUS PRIZE)
入選2015年3月美國獨立書商協會選書
Goodreads 讀者討論排行榜的文學小說第一名
Buzzfeed 2015年春季 14 本話題熱門書冠軍
廣受各大媒體好評：Vogue時尚雜誌、紐約時報、紐約客、華盛頓時報、全國公共廣播電台網書評、華爾街日報、科克斯評論、出版人週報

四個大學好友，畢業後來到紐約闖蕩，
在這個花花世界各擅勝場，也嘗盡了傷痛與歡愉……

從青春年華到人生終曲，在生命最深的那個黑洞，
纏人的回憶是吸音的彈簧，而友誼是上方唯一的光亮，與垂下的救命索。

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The Sun and Her Flowers

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

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

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

Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

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

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你的善良必須有點鋒芒：36則讓你有態度、不委曲，深諳世故卻不世故的世道智慧

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

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

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

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

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

Mark O'Connell
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**Winner of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize**
**Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction**
**Finalist for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize**

“This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has found support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world’s biggest businesses.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence.

Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not just for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions, O'Connell presents a profound, provocative, often laugh-out-loud-funny look at an influential movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

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暗時間

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

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

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Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

by Mike Wallace, Alison Wray
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Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. Practical and engaging, Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates is bursting with tools for analysing texts and structuring critical reviews, helping you to gradually build your skills beyond undergraduate level and gain confidence in your ability to critically read and write.

New to this 3rd edition:

• Introduces a technique for developing critical thinking skills by interrogating paper abstracts
• Additional diagrams, exercises and concept explanations, enabling you to more easily understand and apply the various approaches

A glossary, to help with understanding of key terms. Also new for this edition, a Companion Website provides additional resources to help you apply the critical techniques you learn. From templates and checklists, access to SAGE journal articles and additional case studies, these free resources will make sure you successfully master advanced critical skills.

If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop a reflective and advanced critical approach to your research and writing.

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大退潮：全球化的終結與歷史的回歸 (Grave New World)

史帝芬‧金恩 (Stephen D. King)
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在《大退潮》這本挑動人心的新書中，英國經濟學家史帝芬．金恩以赫胥黎的反烏托邦名著《美麗新世界》（Brave New World）借喻，敲響全球化或將終結的警鐘。他融合經濟、歷史、地理、政治哲學與當前國際局勢（包括美國退出TPP、中國推行一帶一路、俄羅斯併吞克里米亞），解釋全球化倘若告終，世界經濟秩序將陷入何種境地。

—誰的全球化？區域整合的贏家與輸家
金恩認為，就政治和經濟而言，西方版本的全球化正接近極限。全球化似乎讓所有船隻都水漲船高，即使某些船隻內部的所得與財富分配愈來愈不平均。金融危機爆發之前，許多西方決策者和經濟學家過於自滿，認為全球的經濟大餅已經增長，卻沒有留心其分配情況。現實是：大部分的經濟收益都由強國與頂尖富人捧走，他們還占了優勢之便不斷累積財富。經濟危機的爆發更顯示全球經濟與市場之間有落差，而且國與國之間有根本的利益衝突。

—孤立主義與保護主義死灰復燃
只要經濟長期衰退，人們就會在失望中探究原因，進而產生孤立心態。英國脫歐、川普高喊「美國優先」當選，顯示西方與全球化的蜜月期已經結束，世界銀行、國際貨幣基金、北約、歐盟等跨國組織已成沉重的政治負擔。全球經濟重心正由西方轉移到東方，加上西方國家遭遇了一連串的困難，使其政治基調產生變化，導致民粹主義和孤立主義的勢力抬頭。

—「我們」與「他們」，排外情緒湧現
收入與財富不平等日益擴大，更加深民眾「不在同一艘船」的感覺，認為外來者會瓜分福利，因此排斥外國人、移民和菁英。政治氛圍愈來愈傾向於保護主義，各國在經濟、財政乃至於軍事上容易爆發全面衝突，全球化的進展遭遇愈來愈嚴峻的考驗。

—全球化浪潮退後，誰坐收漁翁之利？
既然不是人人都能得到好處，這個世界為何不能「去全球化」呢？試想，倘若希臘、義大利、西班牙等國的經濟長期停滯，德國這些強國持續繁榮，歐元就可能無法存續；假使世界強權日漸擁抱民族主義，跨國組織將受到打壓，國際貿易可能崩盤；如果物價礙於央行的措施而逐漸遭到扭曲，資本市場就可能無法發揮功能；毫無效率的資金配置將使得生產及收入雙雙下滑，各國便得付出慘痛代價。

—各國發展環環相扣，沒有人是局外人
最可怕的是，西方民主國家變得只想追求狹隘的自身利益，某些極權國家就會趁機填補空缺。美國經濟長期表現不佳，它既不願、也無力持續擔任領頭羊；但美國退縮之後，全球局勢更加混亂了。未來，歐盟如果瓦解、歐洲分裂，如何抵擋隔壁張牙舞爪的俄羅斯？那些威脅解散北約的人若不能建立可靠的替代機構，如何繼續維護集體利益？國與國之間的糾紛，由誰主持公道仲裁？與其擔憂國內日漸增加的移民，協助那些較貧窮的地區發展經濟，不是更能從根本上解決問題嗎？

—不確定的時代，我們的義務從現在開始
放任贊成孤立與保護主義的思想流竄，當他們的觀點成為主流的那一天，我們就必須面臨黯淡無望的新世界。對此，史帝芬．金恩在本書最後寫了一則寓言：西元2044年，川普的某個女兒成為共和黨候選人，她在演說中強調將繼續奉行孤立主義，禁止外國人進入美國；彼時歐盟已經瓦解，北約不復存在，俄羅斯趁機坐大，中國掌握整個東亞和太平洋，曾經有主權爭議的島嶼都歸它所有。這樣的新世界，是我們樂見的嗎？

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How to Do Your Research Project : A Guide for Students

by Gary Thomas
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How to Do Your Research Project continues to lead the way as an essential guide for anyone undertaking a research project in the applied social sciences. The new Third Edition of this best-selling title now includes further advice on concluding, writing, and presenting research, using social media and digital methods, and understanding how to effectively work with supervisors. Setting out a clear and detailed road map, author Gary Thomas guides the reader through the different stages of a research project, explaining key steps, and processes at each level in refreshingly jargon-free terms.

Readers will learn:

• How to choose your research question 
• Project management and study skills 
• Effective literature reviews 
• Methodology, theory, and research design frames 
• Ethics and access 
• Data collection tools 
• Effective data analysis 
• Discussing findings, concluding, and writing up

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創意天才的蝴蝶思考術 (The Net and the Butterfly)

奧麗薇亞‧福克斯‧卡本尼 (Olivia Fox Cabane), 朱達‧波拉克 (Judah Pollack)
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創意像蝴蝶，讓人心生嚮往，卻難以捉摸。
學習像天才一樣思考，訓練你的大腦，
就能讓靈感源源不絕，盡情爆發你的絕妙好點子！

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創意不是與生俱來，突破並非純屬意外，
你要如何讓大腦產生突破，進而獲得創意？

創意來自突破，突破是什麼？
突破就是你的知識或理解突然躍進，讓你通過障礙，
進而出現解決問題的全新方法，與看待世界的全新方式。

你將可以在本書學到：
如何在短時間產生新想法，提升神經可塑性
如何從清醒前狀態獲得靈感，解決問題
如何透過不花腦筋的活動，增進創意表現

你知道愛因斯坦、賈伯斯、達利，這些改變世界的傑出者，
都是以同樣的流程獲得突破性思考嗎？
你知道你可能跟他們一樣，產生相同的創意突破經驗嗎？
趕緊跟著書中的練習，一步步提升你的創意思考力吧！

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Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary

by Steve Hart
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Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing.

Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

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Deep Work深度工作力 : 淺薄時代,個人成功的關鍵能力

卡爾‧紐波特 (Cal Newport)
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★ AMAZON 2016年度最佳商業／領導書

在這個淺薄時代，人們紛紛擁抱分心，每天將大把時間浪擲於紛亂的電子郵件和社群媒體上，失去了深度思考、深度工作的能力，不知道自己其實能以更好的方式生活。
也因此，一種極有價值的技術變得越來越稀有、甚至成為當今最具價值的能力之一，正是——
DEEP WORK深度工作力！

卡爾．紐波特教授在本書中暢談連線時代的種種影響，從自身經驗告訴所有人：
專注力和生產力，是可以有系統地解決的科學問題！
擁有深度工作力，是擁有美好深度生活的必要條件！

「深度工作力」是專注於高認知需求任務而不分心的能力，它能讓你快速學習，以更少的時間創造更好的成果。本書融合理論根據與實踐技巧，協助所有想在專業領域中成功的人，學會高效工作，成為新經濟中的贏家。

別再以為忙碌代表生產力，區別深度工作與淺薄工作，聰明的規畫深度工作的時間，培養專注的習慣與能力，你將能改變習於淺薄、容易分心、無法忍受無聊的心智。培養深度工作力，才是達成生活與工作平衡，並維持高品質的最好方法。

培養深度工作力，用最少時間創造最高價值的18個策略：
　　1 確立你的工作哲學
　　2 建立深度工作的儀式
　　3 大動作投入深度工作
　　4 別獨自工作
　　5 像經營企業般執行
　　6 要懶惰
　　7 別逃避分心，要逃避專注
　　8 學老羅斯福那樣工作
　　9 練習生產性冥想
　　10 練習記憶一副牌
　　11 根據「重要少數法則」選擇網路工具
　　12 利用「斷線實驗」篩選社群媒體
　　13 別用網際網路來娛樂自己
　　14 安排工作日的每一分鐘
　　15 量化每一種活動的深度
　　16 確認淺薄工作的時間比率
　　17 在五點半前結束你的工作
　　18 讓自己難以連絡

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The Novel Cure : An A-Z of Literary Remedies

by Susan Elderkin & Ella Berthoud
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Are you weary in Brain and Body?
Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism?
Do you require Bronte to re-boot your Broken Heart?
Do you despair of your Nose?
Can Fielding open your Flood Gates?
Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia?
May we administer Austen to curb your Arrogance?
Hemingway for your Headache?
An injection of du Maurier for your low Self-Esteem?
Are you Shy, Single, Stressed or Sixty?
Are your Vital Statistics in need of some Spark?
May we massage you with Murakami?
Ease your pain with Woolf or Wodehouse?
Do you require the Very Book to lessen your Loneliness?

The Novel Cure is a medical handbook, with a difference. Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues, within these pages you'll find a cure in the form of a novel to help ease your pain. You'll also find advice on how to tackle common reading ailments - such as what to do when you feel overwhelmed by the number of books in the world, or you have a tendency to give up halfway through. When read at the right moment, a novel can change your life, and The Novel Cure is an enchanting reminder of that power.

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