城市地標 : 殖民地時代的西式建築

陳天權
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

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

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

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

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

Naoki Higashida
online access from EBSCOhost Audiobook Collection
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

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

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

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

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

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

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

伊麗莎白．庫伯勒．羅斯 (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) ，大衛．凱斯樂 (David Kessler) 
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

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

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

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

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

The Shakespeare Book brings the work of William Shakespeare to life with full-color photography, images, idea webs, timelines, and quotes that help you understand the context of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

From Shakespeare's most-famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, to less-frequently performed works such as King John and Henry VIII, every play of the Shakespearean canon is collected in this comprehensive guide, along with his major poems and best-loved sonnets.

In The Shakespeare Book each play includes an at-a-glance guide to story chronology, so you can easily get back on track if you get lost in Shakespeare's language. Character guides provide a handy reference for casual readers and an invaluable resource for playgoers, and students writing reports on Shakespeare.

Packed with infographics and explanations of plots and including an introduction to Shakespeare's life and times, The Shakespeare Book is the ultimate guide to understanding the work of William Shakespeare.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on 27 March. World Theatre Day was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI).

光影中的經典文化 : 中國文化與電影藝術

劉衛林
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

電影與中國文化，兩者看似典不相干。然而如能結合運用，將可互相輝映。中國文化能提升電影的藝術深度及文化內涵，電影則能將抽象的文化觀念具象化呈現，除為大眾營構藝術境界之外，更成為推動與傳承文化的重要媒介。本書精選多部膾炙人口的華語及西方電影，包括《倩女幽魂》、《西遊．降魔篇》、《畫皮II》、《武俠》、《赤壁》、《潛行凶間》（Inception）及《華爾街》（Wall Street）等，以文化經典觀念為脈絡，用簡明而生動的文字，深入淺出地一一闡釋當中所蘊涵的中國哲學思想、道德倫理、歷史觀念、宗教文化、語言文學及藝術美學等課題，由此闡明藉著電影鮮明的聲音影像，有助弘揚中國文化；及藉著電影藝術，可將文化經典觀念以生活化、普及化方式重新呈現與演繹，在提升社會文化與藝術水平的同時，更令傳統人文精神得以密切傳承並廣泛傳播。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.

Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

要忙, 就忙得有意義 : 在時間永遠不夠, 事情永遠做不完的年代, 選擇忙什麼, 比忙完所有事更重要 (Off the Clock)

蘿拉．范德康 (Laura Vanderkam)
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

真正的高效人士不是做的事情比你多，
而是內心在意的事情會優先去做，
工作與人生目標都達成，身心富足、自在從容！

★ Amazon.com「工作生活平衡」與「時間管理」類百大暢銷書
★ TED最受歡迎的時間管理，點閱率No. 1，超過700萬次
★ 時間管理暢銷作家強力推薦

在忙碌的現代生活中，你是否有以下情形：
．總是覺得「好忙」、「沒空」
．不論工作或在家，經常不由自主地查看手機訊息
．週末都過得渾渾噩噩，並感覺時間過得很快
．明明做了很多事，卻常覺得一事無成，內心空虛

這些狀況都是因為什麼都想做，排了各種行程，結果卻不知道自己在忙什麼。

美國時間管理大師蘿拉．范德康觀察到有趣的現象，
高效人士通常遊刃有餘，自認「時間多得不得了」，有空做想做的事。
但有些人就算讀了各種時間管理，用了各種省時小妙招，反而更忙。

范德康育有四個小孩，除了照顧小孩，還要工作、寫書、處理個案諮詢、演講⋯⋯
她還能每週運動4.4小時、每天閱讀1小時、每天睡足7小時⋯⋯
到底是怎麼辦到的？

范德康歸納出七大時間祕訣，把時間用得更有意義，有效解決瞎忙的問題......

在時間永遠不夠、事情永遠做不完的年代，
本書讓你重新了解時間自由，並建立新心態，
聰明運用時間，正確選擇做真正重要的事，每分每秒都忙得有意義。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Svetlana Alexievich
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Celebrate International Women's Day (March 8) with The Unwomanly Face of War-- A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews 

For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.”

In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.

Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.

Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

不良女性主義的告白 : 我不完美、我混亂、我不怕被討厭, 我擁抱女性主義標籤 (Bad Feminist)

羅珊．蓋伊 (Roxane Gay)
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

★TED百萬點閱
★紐約時報暢銷排行榜
★美國公共廣報電台（NPR）2014年度好書
★加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）2015-2016推薦書單

......女性主義者歷來更受到許多誤解，如憤怒、嚴肅、仇男、好鬥、不具幽默感等刻板印象，有時也彷彿成為貶抑與羞辱，讓許多女性名人都想避開這個「負面又憤怒」的標籤。

...... 作者寫下自己的成長故事，並藉由性別與種族的角度，分析社會現象與流行文化：從脫口秀主持人的強暴玩笑，檢視大眾對性暴力的輕率語言；從強暴案的報導方式，反應出檢討受害人的風氣，以及整體環境所強調的不是如何制止性暴力，而是如何防止遭到性暴力......

作者透過幽默自嘲又犀利的風格，推翻社會對女性主義的刻板印象，反對將女性主義視為負面貶抑的標籤。她認為女性主義沒有既定的正統樣貌，也不需信仰全體一致的女性主義。重要的是，呈現多元的樣貌，尊重彼此的差異，讓紛亂的世界聽到女性主義的多元聲音。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

Peter Wohlleben
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

The second book in The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben. Book one, The Hidden Life of Trees, and the third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, are available now.

 "Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us." —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields.

Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up.

In this, his latest book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

減塑生活 : 與塑膠和平分手, 為海洋生物找回無塑藍海 (How to Give Up Plastic)

威爾．麥卡拉姆 (Will McCallum)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

3月3日是聯合國的世界野生動植物日(World Wildlife Day)，在這個節日，讓我們思考日常生活中如何減塑，為海洋生物找回無塑藍海。

塑膠的殺傷力驚人，海洋首當其衝，
愛海洋不只拒絕一根吸管，你還可以做得更多！
作者邀所有愛海洋的讀者，一起行動。

「那我們可以做些什麼？」
這本書正提供最佳解答。

海洋中的塑膠垃圾有一天會比所有魚類還要多？
這已不是假設，我們必須採取行動，避免這一天的加速到來。
本書榮登英國亞馬遜環保暢銷書第一名，
全球最實用手冊——由英國綠色和平海洋部主任
收錄最新研究和建議，
以實用、有趣和簡易方法教你日常生活減用塑膠！

作者威爾．麥卡拉姆是英國綠色和平海洋部主任，他不僅收錄最新研究與實用建議，以及相關領域科學家的軼聞，還有全球各地社區的成功案例，使這本書能成為一本實用手冊，教導人們如何在自家、社區和工作場所，開始終結對塑膠製品的依賴。書中提出的建議從用環保杯買咖啡等簡單動作，到較鮮為人知的方法：例如用洗衣袋裝衣物，減少洗衣過程中衣物纖維釋出等，無所不包。此外，本書也引導讀者一同監督大型機構如企業和政府等，迫使他們擴大施行減塑措施，為生活帶來最大的改變。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success

Euny Hong
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

"A must-read for anyone interested in the art of intuitively knowing what others feel." --Haemin Sunim, bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down and Love for Imperfect Things

Improve your nunchi. Improve your life.

The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how.

Have you ever wondered why your less-skilled coworker gets promoted before you, or why that one woman from your yoga class is always surrounded by adoring friends? They probably have great nunchi. The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need is your eyes and ears. Sherlock Holmes has great nunchi. Cats have great nunchi. Steve Jobs had great nunchi. With its focus on observing others rather than asserting yourself--it's not all about you!--nunchi is a refreshing antidote to our culture of self-promotion, and a welcome reminder to look up from your cell phone.

Nunchi has been used by Koreans for more than 5,000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from one of the world's poorest to one of the richest and most technologically advanced in half a century. And it's why K-pop--an unlikely global phenomenon, performed as it is in a language spoken only in Korea--is even a thing. Not some quaint Korean custom like taking off your shoes before entering a house, nunchi is the currency of life. The Power of Nunchi will show you how the trust and connection it helps you to build can open doors for you that you never knew existed.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

鼠疫 (The Plague) (La Peste)

卡繆 (Albert Camus)
online access from Apabi ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources by the same author in CityU LibraryFind

《異鄉人》作者/存在主義大師/諾貝爾文學獎得主/二十世紀法國文豪卡繆
在遍地鼠屍、鼠血橫流、屍臭沖天的疫病封鎖現場
直視人類恐懼、深入存在之輕與生命之重的小說創作

這些散布在歷史當中的一億具屍體，不過就是想像中的一縷煙罷了。
然而，在那縷沒有重量的輕煙裡，卻閃現著為生存而奮戰最根本的理由！

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
一天，李厄在樓梯平台上踢到一隻死老鼠。當晚，李厄上樓回家，忽然看見走廊角落竄出一隻大老鼠，步伐有些不穩，隨後在原地打轉，最後倒地從微張的嘴吐出血來。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
就從這天開始，各處冒出猝死的老鼠屍體，緊接著是鄰人紛紛暴斃。政府只得將發生疫情的奧蘭市全城封鎖，連信件都不得流通。來自外地的旅人被困在這座不屬於自己的城市，而當地市民與外地親人的重逢也顯得遙遙無期。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
這是高八度的喪鐘鐘聲，還是喚醒人心之善的低喃？在孤絕禁錮而束手無策的絕望情境中，你是否仍願為幸福做出最後一絲努力？

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.

These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.

With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

書寫的人

online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

關於發呆，韓麗珠說，那是蘊釀寫作力量的舉動。

而有發呆習慣的駱以軍則說：「常在開車時，握著方向盤陷入胡想而傻笑，被我妻子責備。」

不同的書寫的人，有著不同的書寫狀態。

在耍太極和游泳之間的董啟章，與矛盾共處的王貽興，習慣了在地鐵與下班的路上寫詩的關夢南……他們隱藏在文字背後的書寫狀態，到底是怎樣的？

本地備受期許的文學雙月刊《字花》，每期均會邀請不同的書寫的人與編輯進行筆談，於「書寫的人」欄目中暢論文學、風花雪月。多年下來，筆談者眾，如今結集出版，儼然構成一幅瑰麗的文學風景。

除了董啟章、駱以軍、王貽興、關夢南，還有劉芷韻、陳志華、可洛、江瓊珠、陳麗娟、葉愛蓮、朗天、韓麗珠、謝曉虹、張大春、孟浪、健吾、李維怡、楊照、袁兆昌、鄧小樺，二十位橫跨老中青，覆蓋中港台的「書寫的人」，與編輯及讀者一起，分享他們書寫的故事。

(摘錄自 cp1897.com.hk)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Named one of the best books of the year by: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
The McKinsey Business Book of the Year

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes - now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor - by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

"The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion." (Bill Gates)

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fund-raising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes' worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

輕鬆駕馭壓力 : 史丹佛大學最受歡迎的心理成長課 (The Upside of Stress)

凱莉．麥高尼格 (Kelly McGonigal)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

壓力能帶來正面能量？科學實證：這是真的！
重點不是擺脫壓力，而是你對待壓力的態度，
本書教你如何借力使力，成就更強大的自己。

全球熱賣1,500,000本，《輕鬆駕馭意志力》史丹佛人氣心理學家最新著作。
TED千萬人次點閱率，〈如何讓壓力成為你的朋友〉演講之深度專書。

史丹佛最受歡迎心理學家暨最高榮譽教學獎得主凱莉‧麥高尼格，全面顛覆你對壓力的想像，探討心理韌性（在壓力中成長）與思維模式（面對現實的正念能量）的連結，帶領讀者看見壓力的光明面、如何善加利用壓力帶來的好處，以及壓力可以激發同理心，讓我們成為更好的人。重點是，你如何看待壓力，將決定你人生的精采度。

◎考試、演講、簡報之前心跳加速是好現象？
A：緊張感其實是「你正準備大展拳腳」的證據，與其讓自己冷靜，不如透過深呼吸去感受身體的滿滿能量，能夠將焦慮將轉為力量，發揮最佳表現。

◎如何面對生病、手術、化療、等待檢驗結果的壓力？
A：請想像此刻有許多人同樣承受著痛苦或壓力，讓自己對那些人產生同理心，充分理解他們的感受，藉此提醒自己不是孤軍奮戰。

◎失去親人、感到孤立無援和龐大壓力時，該怎麼辦？
A：請允許自己「既勇敢又脆弱」，主動踏出第一步，以自身的痛苦做為連結點，將關注的焦點轉到別人身上，能得到更多支持的力量。　

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

對決病毒最前線:從流感、炭疽病、SARS到伊波拉, 資深防疫專家對抗致命傳染病的全球大冒險 (The Next Pandemic)

阿里‧可汗 (Ali S. Khan), 威廉‧派屈克 (William Patrick)
online access from HyRead ebook
online access from iRead eBook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

—肉眼看不見的微小生物，才是對人類性命的最大威脅—
從流感、漢他病毒、伊波拉病毒、炭疽病恐怖攻擊到SARS
從非洲、南美、波斯灣、亞洲到美國，為阻止流行病大爆發
25年資深防疫專家與最狡滑無情敵人的精采交手
同時揭開讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐真相

阿里．可汗醫師長期於公共衛生領域擔任第一先遣部隊，在25年的公衛生涯中，歷經無數驚險。他的足跡遍及全球，由叢林前哨，到只有騎馬才能抵達的智利村莊，到遭檢疫隔離的擁擠亞洲都市，也到環境教人不寒而慄，由外勞宰殺羊隻的波斯灣各大屠宰場。他努力阻止伊波拉病毒、SARS、MERS，以及其他種種教人害怕的疾病。2001年華府遭生化武器恐怖攻擊時，他也直接參與防治工作，阻止炭疽病傳播，並在2005年卡崔娜颶風侵襲紐奧良之後，協助重建當地的公衛基礎建設。

面對傳染病人，僅有薄薄的口罩保護他；面對無名病毒，手上只有難以確定的有限資訊，卻必須馬上做出攸關生死的決定。他發現儘管造成疾病的是細菌或病毒，但導致疾病流行的卻常常是人。我們會犯錯，會把緊急事件政治化，而且從不考慮自己的行為會有什麼後果。

本書是內行專家的現身說法，也是第一手的災難報告。說明微生物與人類密切的關係，如何對抗舉世最致命的疾病，以及讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Massimo Pigliucci
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

An engaging guide to how Stoicism - the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius - can provide lessons for living in the modern world

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that teaches us to act depending on what is within our control and separate things worth getting upset about from those that are not. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions. Should we get married or divorced? How should we bank in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever you are, Stoicism has something for you - and How to Be a Stoic is your essential guide.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

拒絕生病:無病生活從65件日常小事開始 (A Short Guide to a Long Life)

大衛.阿格斯 (David B. Agus)
online access from iRead eBook
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

【紐約時報暢銷書《無病時代》實踐版】
「世界級頂尖癌症醫師」精心整理出
每天都能做得到的養命指南
教您不花錢！卻活得久、活得好！

轟動全美，未上市即空降美國AMAZON網路書店排行榜第一名！
出版後，席捲美國各大書籍排行榜，蟬連榜上長達半年！
在台灣也成為暢銷書的《無病時代》作者，良心醫生阿格斯博士，
以值得信賴的最新醫療科技為依據，介紹人人都能輕鬆實踐的65條健康法則，是一本給所有想健康活到老的人的最佳指南。

在這個每十人就有七人是死於慢性疾病的時代，你有把握三十年後的自己依然健康嗎？
健康資訊哪些是真的? 哪些是錯的? 你都知道嗎？這本書將改變你的錯誤認知，讓健康變成自然而然的結果。例如: 每天運動多久才是適量有益健康? 原來，只要讓心跳速率高出平常時候的50%，15分鐘的運動就足夠維持身體的健康狀態。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Dissertation Journey: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Writing, and Defending Your Dissertation

Carol Roberts, Laura Hyatt
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

How to reach the pinnacle of academic achievement

The dissertation is a tough mountain to climb; half of all doctoral students never make it to the top. To overcome the practical, social, and psychological obstacles along the way, you need a knowledgeable guide and the right tools. This comprehensive how-to guide to developing and writing a quality dissertation provides:

•Expanded and updated coverage of crucial topics such as conducting a literature review, dissertation support groups, and harnessing technology to conduct research
•Progress tracking tools, sample forms, resource lists, and other user-friendly elements
•Thoroughly updated and revised chapters with the most current need-to-know information

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

高行健 : 徘徊靈山的人生 = Gao Xingjian : In Quest of His Soul Mountain

沈衛威
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

「只有在逃亡時，才感到我活着，才得到言而無忌的自由。逃亡也就是我們寫作的目的。」

高行健，法籍華人作家。為追求創作自由離開了國土，定居法國；在他那可以自由表述的世界裏，完成了一部部銳利而具啟發性的作品。他的小說《靈山》，有着強烈的流亡意識，是他寫照內心的一場修行，也是他追尋的心靈國度。

本書並非傳統的傳記體裁，作者以「我」的視角出發，以「你」稱呼高行健，於書中與高行健之間形成一種 「對話」；並記錄了與高行健親友及高行健本人的訪談，及大量運用其詩作、小說、散文和劇作內容，探討高行健作品中對語言、繪畫、兩性、家庭等諸多主題的思想，同時着墨於描繪高行健對「自由」的嚮往和對「逃亡」的執着，帶領讀者探進高行健的文學世界，也藉以向讀者呈現作者眼中的高行健。

書中同時引用西方哲學家與中國文學家的作品與高行健的思想作比較，豐富讀者的思考。游走在字裏行間，讀者將徘徊於理性批判的論述與敏感細膩的思緒，隨作者前赴高行健心中的「靈山」。

(摘錄自cityupress.edu.hk)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel

Olga Tokarczuk
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .

A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

尖沙咀海濱：歷史、城市發展及大眾集體記憶

蔡思行
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

尖沙咀海濱曾經是香港海陸空交通的樞紐，1960年代起逐步成為九龍半島以至整個香港的旅遊、消費、商業、文化及康樂活動中心的龍頭。1970年代，香港政府更發展尖沙咀為文化中心，尖沙咀海濱的文化設施包括香港文化中心、太空館、博物館等，較中環更多元化。

時至今日，尖沙咀海濱仍然是市民及遊客常到之處，其承載了豐富的歷史和大眾記憶，也是代表着香港的文化符號。本書引用了不同的檔案資料及珍貴的圖片，詳細記述尖沙咀海濱的歷史變遷，闡述從公用九龍倉碼頭到今日海港城的發展，並討論尖沙咀海濱和尖沙咀東部為什麼滿載了如此大量的集體記憶。過去尖沙咀海濱曾有多座具歷史價值的建築物，如尖沙咀火車站、舊水警總部等，本書深入探討了當年社會對保留、拆卸、重建和保育的爭議；同時又分析市民與遊客、康樂與商業對尖沙咀海濱公共空間的競逐和爭議。

香港寸金尺土，城市發展政策、大眾記憶、歷史建築保育等都是社會十分關心的議題，期望本書可為香港的歷史留下一筆紀錄，亦為將來的發展提供一些參考。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott.
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, The 100-Year Life explores how living to 100 will have a profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal lives.

Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer an analysis to help you rethink retirement, your finances, your education, your career, and your relationships to create a fulfilling 100-year life.

Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse--life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45, or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.

The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes the choices and options that you will face in the age of longevity. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms, and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

溪澗的旅次 : 劉克襄精選集

劉克襄
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

劉克襄獲得2019聯合報文學大獎;《溪澗的旅次》是評審推薦代表作之一。

劉克襄說：「《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》裡小男孩旅行多年，去尋找寶藏，最後才發現，原來寶藏就在自家的腳下。」細細品味作者對每一次行旅的觀察和寫作，句句顯露他對自然旅行、自然教育的熱愛。帶孩子徜徉山水，無須跋涉遠方，就近探索也能得到一方天地的啟示。

追隨他在溪澗的王國賞鳥的旅次，感覺也跟著溪鳥一直不斷移動尋覓食物；閱讀他在住家附近對小綠山的觀測紀錄，令人彷彿經歷了他們父子的探險，看到麻雀、褐頭鷦鶯在芒花間飛躍穿梭；＜旅次札記＞中，作者描述站崗的時候，對岸走出一位十歲的小女孩，以及手持細長竹枝、邊哭邊擦淚的男童，詢問後才知道，爸爸要他們一天捉二十隻紅尾伯勞……

本書收錄三十四篇劉克襄二十年來的精選文章，看似知性散文的質地，卻時常透露出感性的層面，內容不乏詩的情懷，也充滿對生態問題的省思。透過他平實的文字和獨特的觀點，我們得以用不同角度欣賞萬物之美，聆聽他與台灣這塊土地和人物的精采對話。且讓我們跟著作者綠色旅遊的足跡，穿越溪流，背起行囊，來一趟活潑有趣的生物觀察之旅吧！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

快樂就是 ...... : 500個生活裡的小幸福 (Happiness Is . . .: 500 Things to Be Happy About)

麗莎‧史瓦琳 (Lisa Swerling), 拉夫‧羅拉薩 (Ralph Lazar)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

每一天，都是幸福的發現！

快樂就是……

一個週五的夜晚、一句來自陌生人的讚美、一首帶你回到往日時光的歌曲、一道清爽的陽光灑進你的窗、一口香甜的吻在狹小的車裡擺盪，甚至是一顆新鮮的檸檬！

可愛又充滿魅力的插圖佐以妙趣橫生的短句，重新拾回生活的熱情與甜蜜。

晴天讀了心情更美麗，陰天讀著覺得溫馨，雨天讀後揮別憂鬱；難過就翻一翻，開心時看一看！

陪伴你走過分分秒秒、度過春夏秋冬，永遠守候與提醒──

日常裡的簡單快樂，就是專屬於你的小幸福。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Be With

Forrest Gander
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section―a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s―rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

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

米哈里．契克森米哈伊 (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

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

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

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

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

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

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

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

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates (Foreword)
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

The instant New York Times bestseller.

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

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

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

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

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

無言老師──遺體捐贈者給我們的生死教育課

陳新安, 伍桂麟
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」社會科學類別的「最佳出版獎」

無言身教，無言感激

死亡是一個點，生命卻是一條線。在這條線上，遺體捐贈者選擇在離世後成為「無言老師」，延續生命的意義，帶領我們從死看生，活好當下。

我曾遇過一位病人，他的家人不多，當感到年齡大了，知道終有一日會離開人世，希望為社會做些事，例如貢獻在醫學教育上。他知道當「無言老師」能夠幫助醫學生，因這軀體能成為學生深入了解人體結構的重要教材，認識各個器官和人體奧妙。在整個過程中，希望讓學生明白如何尊敬一個人，無論是生是死，每個人都需要有尊嚴，需要受到重視。

如果各位正考慮或曾經考慮參加「無言老師」遺體捐贈計劃，我想在此呼籲，這個捐軀的行動十分有意義，因為這不單讓醫學生在解剖教學上有學習樣本，並且在學習過程中，學懂如何尊敬別人的遺體，以至學習尊重人的一生。
——沈祖堯教授

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson
online access from EBSCOhost Audiobook Collection
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind


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

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

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

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

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

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

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Related Post:

我是馬拉拉 : 一位因爭取教育而被槍殺的女孩 (I Am Malala)

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

潘卡吉．米什拉 (Pankaj Mishra)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

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

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

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

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

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

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

國際媒體佳評如潮

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

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

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

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

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

Mary Robinette Kowal
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, 2019 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars."

Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Locus Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist 2019 Campbell Memorial Award

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.

Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too. Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

自由如綠

香港文學館
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」文學及小說類別的「最佳出版獎」 

《自由如綠》乃二十四位重量級香港著名作家，就二十四種植物創作的結集，是一前所未有的嘗試。本書作者屢獲獎項，包括香港書獎、香港文學雙年獎、中文文學創作獎、聯合文學小說獎等。書中內容包含詩、散文、小說、劇本；題材從私人世界到城市、時代、歷史的公共維度，風格各異，豐富多元。植物、文學，兩者對照結合，再搭配本地著名畫家姚柱東繪製精美插畫，更附種籽紙書籤，是視覺藝術與文學的跨界結晶，極具收藏價值。 

二十四篇，每篇附以植物的基本資料，書寫植物的種種照面，閱讀一花一草，體會自由如綠的意義。許廸鏘引言，朗天作跋。 

作者：（合集）董啟章、曹疏影、謝曉虹、袁兆昌、鄧小樺、黃碧雲、盧勁馳、何福仁、鄭單衣、周思中、陳麗娟、黃怡、馮睎乾、鍾國強、胡燕青、王良和、陳慧、洪曉嫻、韓麗珠、張婉雯、淮遠、劉芷韻、甄拔濤、陳曦靜

(摘錄自hkliteraturehouse.org)

Stress Management for Dummies

Allen Elkin
online access from Ebook Central Academic Complete
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy.

It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it's love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size — all without losing your cool.

• Shows you how to use stress in a positive, motivational way instead of letting it negatively affect your life
• Teaches you to retrain your body and mind to react positively to stress
• Helps you overcome common stresses faced in modern life

If you want to manage stress and get back to living a normal life, Stress Management For Dummies has you covered.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

校長畢業了 : 亦師亦友心底話 (The Principal's Graduation My Heartfelt Words)

沈祖堯
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「出版獎」

大學教育的價值和理念，談何容易？怎樣做一個儉樸、高尚和謙卑的人？提倡人文關懷、高舉道德，往往與今天的市場價值、競爭排名背道而馳。大學的校長面對著校園內外的爭論與風波，便需要在各種張力之間找出平衡點。

就任大學校長之後，沈教授身體力行，與老師和學生近距離享受大學生活，同憂同樂。《校長畢業了》收錄了沈祖堯擔任香港中文大學第七任校長期間在大學網頁發佈的57 篇網誌，就大學的教育理念與社會責任，年青人的成長路與抉擇，校長的使命與挑戰、價值觀和生命觀等話題，以情理兼備的真摯筆觸，跟他一代又一代的學生與關心年青人的人娓娓道來。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The Overstory: A Novel

Richard Powers
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann Patchett

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

我們都是地球人 : 被遺忘的孩子

陳美齡
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「最佳出版獎」

有些地方，小孩子不滿十歲就加入軍隊，被迫殺人。
有些地方，小孩子為了一餐一宿，被迫出賣身體。
有些地方，小孩子沒飯吃，要撿地上的小麥碎屑。

難以相信這是發生在同一個地球上的故事，無論天災還是人禍，首當其衝的永遠是小孩子。

陳美齡一直對兒童問題非常關注，從上世紀八十年代起，曾多次出訪世界各地不同國家，視察當地兒童的生活，包括戰禍、饑荒、童兵、買春、割禮、愛滋病等不忍卒睹的問題，1998年起更出任聯合國兒童基金會大使。

本書是她幾十年來視察各地的經驗總結，記錄了一個個悲慘中透著堅強和人性光輝的孩子們的故事，及這些見聞帶給她的衝擊和感悟。

世界上還有很多孩子需要我們伸出援手，因為我們都是地球人。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation."

This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)