Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Ron Friedman
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National Best Seller

For fans of Atomic Habits, Deep Work, and Peak comes a game-changing approach to mastering new skills and succeeding faster.

For generations, we’ve been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: reverse engineering.

To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure. It’s the ability to taste an intoxicating dish and deduce its recipe, to listen to a beautiful song and discern its chord progression, to watch a horror film and grasp its narrative arc.

Using eye-opening examples of top performers - from Agatha Christie to Andy Warhol, Barack Obama to Serena Williams - and groundbreaking research on pattern recognition, skill acquisition, and creative genius, Friedman reveals the staggering power of reverse engineering and teaches you how to harness this vital skill for yourself.

You’ll learn how to take apart models you admire, pinpoint precisely what makes them work, and apply that knowledge to develop novel ideas, methods, and products that are uniquely your own. Along the way, you’ll meet the culinary detective who exposes top-secret recipes, the burglar who can visit a bank and recreate its blueprints, and the celebrated artist who reverse engineered his way to the top of his profession without any formal education.

You don’t have to be a genius to achieve greatness, but you do need a method for getting there. Bursting with unforgettable stories and actionable strategies, Decoding Greatness is an indispensable guide to learning from the best, improving your skills, and sparking breakthrough ideas.

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何以金庸 : 金學入門六大派

邱健恩
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建基文本 探討文學 延伸文化

本書涵蓋金庸小說總貌概述、金庸小說的故事情節結構分析、金庸小說中應用的各種文學技巧特點、金庸小說版本研究初探、十五部金庸小說概述 ，以及淺析「金庸文化」。

作者邱健恩是香港文化博物館特約研究員，幫助博物館策劃金庸相關展覽，他的寫作特色是資料搜集扎實，文字平易近人，非常易入口。這本小書建基文本、探討文學、延伸文化，希望做到小而有趣、多樣、扎實，締造一種良好的輕閱讀氛圍。

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CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra
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New York Times Bestseller
Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2,400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.

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比小說還離奇的12堂犯罪解剖課 (Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime)

薇兒．麥克德米 (Val McDermid)
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英國犯罪小說天后薇兒．麥克德米親炙法醫與鑑識科學最前線
從調查者、被害者與加害者的多重角度，窺見犯罪偵查堂奧！

「這些科學家所分享的故事，從犯罪現場到法庭的曲折旅程，將是你聽過最引人入勝的故事之一。同時提醒我們：事實往往比小說更驚異。」

本書各章節分別切入當今法醫與鑑識科學的各種主要技巧，從火災現場取證、血跡、DNA分析、臉部重建、人體解剖學、法醫人類學及昆蟲學的應用，到最新的電子鑑識技術等。麥克德米在各項技術發展中都觸及一個主題：「鑑識是一門在科學與人性中間遊走的學問。」在安全、控制度高的實驗室中發展出來的技術與知識，如何理解、回應被害人家屬的需求與心情；如何推測、設想加害者的動機與方法；如何在法庭交鋒中，贏得陪審團的理解與共識（但並不是百分之百保證成功）。如同科學方法是一門持續演進的知識，法醫與鑑識科學中永遠會有某些主觀成分，可能左右詮釋走向──例如，專家對於指紋是否相同一事確實可能有不同詮釋，因而導致庭審結果迥異。

★入圍得獎紀錄 ★
2016年安東尼獎（Anthony Award）最佳非小說得獎作
2016年愛倫坡獎（Edgar Award）最佳犯罪實錄入圍作

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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone
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A Washington Post Notable Book

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

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承教・城傳 : 九龍學校的故事

李子建, 劉瑩, 陳智德, 香港教育博物館
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1860年中英簽訂《北京條約》，揭開了九龍發展的序幕，市區急速擴展，人口增長，教育需求亦大增。不少早年扎根於香港島的辦學團體洞悉對岸的教育需要，紛紛跨海拓展教育服務，作育英才。其後，辛亥革命、民國新政府成立、新文化運動，以及抗日戰爭等家國大事相繼發生，不少國內知識分子來港從事教育工作，除港島外，亦有大批國內民眾和學校遷徙至九龍各區。

世代更迭，人事遞嬗。如今，走進九龍半島，城市面貌雖已經歷幾番轉變，但仍能隱約從彌敦道、太子道、上海街、大埔道等最早發展的道路和歷史建築，細味新舊城區如何互相交融，從而尋覓各區的歷史延續。現存或停辦的學校，在不同年代，分佈於九龍各處，亦一同譜寫社區歷史，見證城市和教育的變遷。

本書涵蓋九龍早期城市發展、教育歷史、人物訪談、藝術教育及文學等多方面的內容，引領讀者重遊熟悉的街道、景點，窺探時代變遷的足跡，並追溯九龍各校的藝術教育如何營造社區文化藝術氛圍。

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A Thousand Brains : A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins
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A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

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為工作而活 : 生存、 勞動、 追求幸福感、一部人類的工作大歷史 (Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time)

詹姆斯．舒茲曼 (James Suzman)
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傳統經濟學思維告訴我們：「工作即謀生！」
但本書要你跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面理解工作的意義！

★★《人類大歷史》作者哈拉瑞盛讚！★★

原始社會物資匱乏，人類祖先卻能悠閒過活，每週只要工作15小時？
反觀現代社會技術發達，我們卻加班過勞、甚至害怕被未來AI取代！

是人類主宰工作，還是工作支配了生活？
大量湧現的工作真有存在意義嗎？
我們今天是否為了滿足社會的期待，導致人們為了忙碌而忙碌？

●織雀勤奮築巢、也勤奮拆巢，這看似無意義的工作竟是演化所需？
●狩獵採集者從不擔心糧食匱乏，為什麼改當農夫後卻拼命囤積糧食？
●為什麼有人的職業是遛狗？學校裡的行政人員人數怎麼會超越教職員人數？
●古代人習慣把工作轉嫁給水牛和奴隸，現代人為何害怕被機器人搶走飯碗？

綜觀人類三十萬年的歷史，我們幾乎從來不曾像今天這樣，把工作看得如此重要。那麼，人類是從何時開始將工作視為生活的核心？

■跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面解讀人類工作的意義！
■當工作成為義務，人們卻創造更多無意義的工作，把自己推入窮忙的火坑？

本書結合人類學、考古學、生物學、物理學和經濟學等多學科的觀點，從人類誕生一路談到AI時代，解讀不同時代驅使人類工作的動力。本書也點出，我們今天之所以把工作看得比狩獵採集祖先還要重要，就在於我們的工作模式與工作觀，隨著文明變革發生了多次改變。然而，如果我們曾經不為工作而活，那麼如今的我們究竟是為了自己而工作，還是甘願被工作綁架？

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The Secrets of Us

Lucinda Berry
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.

Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.

Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.

Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.

But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.

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不輸給雨 : 宮澤賢治短篇作品選

宮澤賢治
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啟發宮崎駿、手塚治虫、藤子不二雄等眾多動漫創作家的思想源泉
收錄宮崎駿動畫《龍貓》的靈感來源作品——〈橡子與山貓〉
日本國民作家宮澤賢治經典作品
在困難重重的世界，溫暖撫慰善良的心靈短篇

宮澤賢治是日本的國民作家，熱愛自然，熱愛生命。他的作品充滿了想像力和對生命的善意，是無數現代藝術家的靈感源泉。

《不輸給雨》《橡子與山貓》《要求多多的餐館》《奧茨貝爾和大象》《貓的事務所》《夜鷹星》《拉大提琴的戈什》……七篇治癒心靈的經典作品，給疲乏的心靈以慰藉，給善意以鼓舞，給想像力以自由。

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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan
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Foreign Affairs The Best of Books 2021

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others.

This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy may be going.

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見微知著 : 心靈故事選萃

李怡
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李怡三本暢銷書《細味人生100篇》、《閱讀人生100篇》、《感悟人生100篇》之文章選集，重新編排。

我從二十歲開始，就過着閱讀、編輯、寫作的生涯。數十年來，讀過的書不少（當然想讀而沒有讀的就更多），人生經歷過許多起伏跌宕，在社會上看到最多的並非「失敗乃成功之母」，而"是「成功乃失敗之母」。許多人從高處落下，不是不夠聰明，而是沒有自知之明。

我慢慢發現一些生活的小故事，一些漫不經心的話語，實際上蘊含着生活的大智慧。講出來似乎卑之無甚高論，但若成為時刻警惕自己的座右銘，則對一個人的一生可以有很大影響，甚至帶來關鍵性的轉變。十多年來，我將收集到的小故事，加上自己的解釋和領悟，寫成好幾本關於人生的書。這些書在銷售一時之後，這幾年已沒有重印。現在從這些書中選出我認為最有意思的一百多篇，以新的書名重新出版。

成語「見微知著」的意思，是見到些微跡象，就可以從中知道整個真象和發展趨勢。用作書名，是表示從一些小故事中可以領悟到的大道理和生活智慧。──李怡

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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Jimmy Soni (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator)
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National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice *Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022”

“A gripping account of PayPal’s origins and a vivid portrait of the geeks and contrarians who made its meteoric rise possible” (The Wall Street Journal)—including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared.

Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they’re as controversial as they are admired.

Yet for all their influence, the story of where they first started has gone largely untold. Before igniting the commercial space race or jumpstarting social media’s rise, they were the unknown creators of a scrappy online payments start-up called PayPal. In building what became one of the world’s foremost companies, they faced bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s. Their success was anything but certain.

In The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today—fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer—were planted two decades ago. He also reveals the stories of countless individuals who were left out of the front-page features and banner headlines but who were central to PayPal’s success.

Described as “an intensely magnetic chronicle” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (Business Insider), The Founders is a story of iteration and inventiveness—the products of which have cast a long and powerful shadow over modern life. This narrative illustrates how this rare assemblage of talent came to work together and how their collaboration changed our world forever.

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藏在地名裏的香港

木木
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優美散文：作者精選數十處香港地名，從中撰文探究香港歷史文化，講述在港生活諸多趣事。
手繪地圖：每篇文章文首配有手繪水彩地圖，標註著名景點與人文古跡，文藝清新，直觀介紹香港各地風貌。
古體詩詞：作者對古體詩詞頗有研究，文中插入許多作者

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French Braid: A novel

Anne Tyler
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present.

The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.

Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself.

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圖解嶺南建築

崔俊, 倪韻捷
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本書挑選了嶺南建築中的民居、園林、學宮、古塔、宗祠等類型, 並以西關大屋、騎樓、圍龍屋、清暉園、揭陽學宮、廣濟橋等經典建築為例，用圖解的形式向讀者呈現出嶺南建築清新明快、中西合璧、務實求變等鮮明的特點,從建築物中了解嶺南建築文化的價值和歷史地位。

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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy
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"An exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country" (Wall Street Journal) by an award-winning historian.

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its present and future.

Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various cultures. The mixing of sedentary and nomadic peoples and Christianity and Islam on the steppe borderland produced the class of ferocious warriors known as the Cossacks, for example, while the encounter between the Catholic and Orthodox churches created a religious tradition that bridges Western and Eastern Christianity. Ukraine has also been a home to millions of Jews, serving as the birthplace of Hassidism—and as one of the killing fields of the Holocaust.

Plokhy examines the history of Ukraine's search for its identity through the lives of the major figures in Ukrainian history: Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv, whose daughter Anna became queen of France; the Cossack ruler Ivan Mazepa, who was immortalized in the poems of Byron and Pushkin; Nikita Khrushchev and his protege-turned-nemesis Leonid Brezhnev, who called Ukraine their home; and the heroes of the Maidan protests of 2013 and 2014, who embody the current struggle over Ukraine's future.

As Plokhy explains, today's crisis is a tragic case of history repeating itself, as Ukraine once again finds itself in the center of the battle of global proportions. An authoritative history of this vital country, The Gates of Europe provides a unique insight into the origins of the most dangerous international crisis since the end of the Cold War.

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動漫摘星錄

黃夏柏
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零距離接觸
當代日本、中國、歐美動漫畫大師

盧子英作為香港資深動畫人，自七十年代起多次出訪日本，親炙多位當代日本動漫畫大師，包括手塚治蟲、宮崎駿、藤子不二雄、永安巧、永井豪……等，好些更結成好友，長期以書信來往。其後他亦有很多機會接觸中國和歐美的動漫界頂尖人物，如中國動漫之父萬籟鳴、中國水墨動畫片之父特偉，以及美國Pixar《Toy Story》的導演John Lasseter等。

本書將從他第一身角度，述說這班影響近代動漫界深遠的大師們的為人處事、工作態度、創作歷程等，每篇輔以大師生平簡介及作品點評；另外，本書收錄了盧氏多年來珍藏的大量相關動漫產品，當中更有各位大師們的親筆簽名畫，彌足珍貴。

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Bryman's Social Research Methods

Tom Clark, Liam Foster, Luke Sloan, and Alan Bryman
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Clear, comprehensive, and trusted, Bryman's Social Research Methods has guided over a quarter of a million students through their research methods course and student research project. The thoroughly updated sixth edition offers unrivalled coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods with renewed focus and a fresh, modern feel.

New to this edition

Thoroughly but sensitively updated by three new authors. Dr Tom Clark, Dr Liam Foster, and Dr Luke Sloan bring specialist expertise and have worked closely with students and lecturers to build on Alan Bryman's impressive legacy.

Extensively streamlined to provide even more focused coverage of the key aspects of social research, with adjustments made throughout to improve clarity and aid navigation.

A more straightforward writing style makes the content easier for all students to follow ...

A clean, attractive new design makes the material easier than ever to read and use.

Coverage - including citations and real research examples - has been broadened to better reflect the concerns and contexts of the book's geographically diverse, multi-disciplinary readership ...

New material on recent developments within social research, including social media research and big data, has been embedded throughout and the numerous examples of real research have been thoroughly updated.

In new 'Learn from experience' boxes, recent social science graduates from across the UK and Europe share their experiences of conducting a student research project. These candid accounts will inspire readers and help them to avoid common pitfalls and emulate successful approaches.

Expanded digital resources now include a 'research process in practice' simulation, answers to the end-of-chapter questions, videos from the new 'Learn from experience' graduate panel, and screencast tutorials covering the data analysis software packages SPSS, Nvivo, R, and Stata.

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香港粤語 : 二百年滄桑探索

張洪年
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粵語在香港作為一種有機體，有自己蓬勃的生命力，而且不斷地在變化。語言並不如想像之中那樣古板或死板。

1990年代，徘徊在柏克萊東亞圖書館的張洪年教授，無意中看到書架上有一本關於粵語的老書，一時好奇心動，順手抽下；站在昏黃的吊燈底下略略翻閱，接著就坐在圖書館地上，看了整個下午。這一回無心插柳，開拓了他後來二三十年的研究新路向。

《香港粵語：二百年滄桑探索》選輯了張洪年教授歷年所寫的一系列語言學文章，具體描述早期粵語的各種語言現象，解釋香港粵語從十九世紀到二十一世紀之間發生的種種變化。香港早期的粵語來自廣州，二十世紀中期以後逐步與廣州話分道揚鑣，漸漸自成一種語言。如今香港人口絕大部分以粵語為母語，社會上的活動都以粵語為主要溝通語言。香港的粵語雜用大量外來語，有的已經成了本地詞彙一部分，在語音和語法層面也發生了許多新變化。

然而，這些變化到底如何發生，幾時發生？變化的牽涉面有多廣，軌跡是否可循？我們能否在其他語言中，找尋到類似的發展？這種種問題，都是對語言發展歷史有興趣的人必須面對、尋求答案的重要切入點。作者希望能從眾多的語料之中，擬構出粵語在這新舊交替之際的發展軌跡，供後來者參考和討論。

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Around the World in 80 Books

David Damrosch
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A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them

Featured in the Chicago Tribune's Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring 80 exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran, and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature.

To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together, these 80 titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle - from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today.

Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.

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昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統

吳國坤
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本書以電影個案形式，輔以當代歷史脈絡和社會現實，討論電影作為普及的藝術創作，電影作者如何直面電影的政治及社會功能，又怎樣面向觀眾。

第一部分「子不語：民國電影的聲色政治」以薛覺先、費穆等的電影為例，討論民國時代的電影檢查政策。第二部分「怪力亂神：香港電影的禁忌與圖謀」，涉及英治時代香港的政治審查和殖民文化政策，所討論的諜戰、神仙鬼怪、壓抑和愛慾，都是過往甚少討論的冷門題目。第三部「亂世浮華：表象與真實」，探究在社會緊張騷動和充滿政治禁忌的年代，電影如何通過製造鏡花水月式的鏡像世界來扣問社會議題。

本書的研究結合檔案資料的梳理，將電影文本與歷史文化脈絡化，採用綜合分析方法，回答當代歷史、政治和電影美學的問題。

本書的文章雖以香港電影為主，但牽涉的題目包羅萬象，充分展示了國坤多年來所下的功夫。他自承對於當今學院盛行的文化研究──「大多偏重西方理論和文本的局部分析」──不大苟同，而想「用電影研究來回應歷史」，從大量的電影資料中「探究其隱藏的政治、道德和歷史的潛文本」，我在此舉雙手贊成。──李歐梵

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron
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'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER

Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

'Each time I've learned something important and surprising about myself and my work ... Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love'-Elizabeth Gilbert

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

走進大專院校圖書館 : 圖書館員視角下的大中華區高等教育 = Why the library? The role of librarians in the higher education systems of greater China

劉倩秀、盧敬之、周慶山、趙格華、卓文傑
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自從世界步入資訊時代，大專院校圖書館面臨「圖書館消亡論」的挑戰。學習模式逐漸從線下轉移到線上，紙本資源也不再是學生和教師吸收知識的唯一選擇。面對用戶習慣改變的衝擊，大專院校圖書館應該如何轉型並化危為機？

本書收錄三十篇訪問，採訪了內地、香港、澳門及台灣的大學圖書館重要從業人員，以受訪者豐富的工作經驗、相關學歷背景、創新業務等方面切入，探討兩岸四地大專院校圖書館的運作模式以及面對的困難，並藉由各地圖書館從業員的分享，了解不同大專院校圖書館如何針對用戶使用模式的轉變，不斷進行觀念和體制上的改革，以創意回應資訊時代的挑戰，科學地探索和規劃大專院校圖書館未來發展的新模式。

本書有助將要進入圖書館服務或正從事圖書館工作的同業，了解此領域專業工作的意義，並彰顯大專院校圖書館作為學校資訊中心和校園文化基地的重要地位。

「大學圖書館是知識寶庫，見它們如見大學：藏書、使用狀況、館內的氛圍，就是大學的底蘊。這一次大學圖書館之旅，也就是一次文化的旅程。」-- 呂大樂

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Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
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From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life,a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University and readers of their best-selling book, Designing Your Life ("The prototype for a happy life." —Brian Lehrer, NPR), that designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. And now more than ever, we all need creative and adaptable tools to cope with the chaos caused by COVID-19.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the book's new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it—and thrive.

Burnett and Evans's Disruption Design offers us a radical new concept that makes use of the designer mindsets: Curiosity, Reframing, Radical collaboration, Awareness, Bias to action, Storytelling, to find our way through these unchartered times.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future.

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小說課之王 : 折磨讀者的祕密

許榮哲
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「小說課之王」許榮哲代表作，精確剖析小說創作之謎
從閱讀、理解到創作，小說人的修鍊之路

「做為創作者，我們沒有選擇。是成為神的嚮往與執念，選擇了我們。」 ──許榮哲

「每篇好小說，都是這個世界的一個謎。」──魔幻寫實大師馬奎斯
簡單來說，謎就是魔術。
魔術之所以吸引人，是因為扭曲了現實。
可惜的是，魔術師不會為你解謎；同樣的，小說家也不會。
幸好我們還有許榮哲，他將帶你穿越蟲洞，解開折磨讀者的祕密。

也許你覺得我的小說之路太兒戲了，沒有天才的傳奇性。
但這正是我的目的，如果連我這樣的人，都可以藉由努力、自學，而走出一條小說之路，那你有什麼理由說你不行。
唯一不行的理由只有一個──你是個純粹的天才，你不需要加入星座，因為你自己就是星河。
萬一你真的是星河，請略過凡間的夜景，以及你正在看的這本書，努力發出自己的光。 ──許榮哲

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城市文學獎2022
結合創作講座、比賽，推動香港中學生、大專生的寫作風氣
截稿日期為2022年6月1日（星期三）下午五時正

Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Andy Weir
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.

ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

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疫苗戰爭 : 全球危機下Covid-19疫苗研發揭密, 一場由科學家、企業、政府官員交織而成的權力遊戲與英雄史詩 (The First Shots)

布蘭登・波瑞爾 (Brendan Borrell)
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──過去，最快推出臨床疫苗的時間是10個月──
──但是，這次世界的要求是：60天──

★ 莫德納、BNT、AZ、Novavax，全球疫苗競賽完整內幕揭露。
★ 訪談超過百名疫苗研發過程中的關鍵人物，匯集來自最前線的第一手資訊。

◤為何新冠肺炎疫苗的研發能如此快速？美國如何展開全面施打的計畫？
從未曾使用於疫苗上的mRNA技術，何以能在這次危機中異軍突起？◢

◤當這場世紀疫情席捲全球、帶來史無前例的衝擊之際，
來自各界的無名英雄眾志成城，寫下人類與病毒對抗的傳奇篇章。◢

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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

Adam Kucharski
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One of the Best Books of 2020 - Financial Times
One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" - Washington Post
One of the Best Science Books of 2020 - The Times of London
One of the Best Science Books of 2020 - The Guardian

From ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life

These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a political rumor, we say it went viral. But how does virality actually work? In The Rules of Contagion, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explores topics including gun violence, online manipulation, and, of course, outbreaks of disease to show how much we get wrong about contagion, and how astonishing the real science is. Why did the president retweet a Mussolini quote as his own? Why do financial bubbles take off so quickly? Why are disinformation campaigns so effective? And what makes the emergence of new illnesses - such as MERS, SARS, or the coronavirus disease COVID-19 - so challenging?

By uncovering the crucial factors driving outbreaks, we can see how things really spread - and what we can do about it. Whether you are an author seeking an audience, a defender of truth, or simply someone interested in human social behavior, The Rules of Contagion is an essential guide to modern life.

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零時差攻擊 (This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race)

妮可·柏勒斯 (Nicole Perlroth)
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年度《金融時報》和麥肯錫年度最佳商業圖書獎！
《書單》：年度最重要的一本書！

從駭客、學者、異議分子、影子經紀人到各國政府高層與外國傭兵
史上首度完整揭發即將引發第三次世界大戰的終極軍火真面目

網路安全記者深入「零時差漏洞」交易現場的第一手報導
駭客、巨富、強權，與比核武更致命的終極武器！

當所有的民生基礎設施都壟罩在戰爭的陰影之下，
這是一場沒有大後方的戰爭，每一個人都無處可逃。
「知識即權力」在資訊時代得到印證，
面對這場祕密失控的軍備競賽，我們該何去何從？

《紐約時報》資深網路安全記者以緊湊淺白的筆法，解釋駭客與政府高層交易的內幕，希望讓更多人了解這枚正在導向第三次世界大戰的致命炸彈。當高度機密的國安問題與個人隱私產生衝突、俄國政府能跨國操弄烏克蘭選舉、中國政府能任意出入他國國防資料庫、美國失去了壟斷網路軍火的霸主地位──作者試圖探究：隨時隨地可能一觸即發的「零時差攻擊」真的將帶來世界末日嗎？面對如此無所不能的危險武器，有可能透過法律來規範已然失控的交易嗎？

本書出版後令重量媒體、美國學者、專家、企業資安顧問讚不絕口。《紐約書評》盛讚：「本書作者穿越全球網路武器貿易的地下世界，寫就一部生動而充滿挑釁意味的數位攻擊史！」

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Ray Dalio
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes—and to offer practical advice on how to navigate them well.

A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.

In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history. He reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

華頓商學院最受歡迎的談判課 : 上完這堂課, 世界都會聽你的 (Getting More)

史都華．戴蒙 (Stuart Diamond)
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★博客來、誠品、金石堂冠軍書！華爾街日報、今日美國報暢銷書No.1
★《商業周刊》特別報導，價值100萬的談判課
★Google全球教育訓練指定教材，各大企業與學校機關指定讀物
★戴蒙教授專程撰寫新版序言，問候台灣讀者！原則不變，案例更新、更切合當下現況
★全球最優秀學生拚命競標、財星五百大企業主管爭相說讚的談判課，如今掌握在你手裡。

人生無處不是談判，每次你都能爭取更多──
▍陳瑞燕上了課，讓飛機掉頭回來載她。
▍拉馬克上了課，說服公司加薪35000美元。
▍拉提爾上了課，超速被攔下卻沒被開罰單。
▍薩維亞羅夫上了課，說服5歲女兒自動打掃房間。
▍戴蒙教授更善用談判，請動最好的醫師開刀救他一命！

12個教戰技巧，3萬學生親身實證，140萬讀者口碑盛讚！
全球暢銷140萬冊，華頓商學院連續20年最受歡迎的課程菁華完整公開

每一年，只有最優秀的學生才能進入華頓商學院，當川普、巴菲特和伊隆．馬斯克的校友。史都華．戴蒙教授的談判課，連續20年都是華頓商學院最搶手的課程，他的學生更稱他為「學術界的搖滾巨星」！本書是這堂課的課程菁華。

戴蒙教授強調，無論是要求店家折價100元，還是要求廠商降價1萬元，所使用的談判工具都是一樣的。意思就是，當你學會戴蒙教授的談判技巧，在生活各面向你都能爭取更多！他所教過的3萬個學生都獲得他的真傳，在各行各業如魚得水。

如果你想在商場上取得更好的交易條件、希望在人際關係中獲得更多的主導權、想讓家庭關係與親子關係更融洽，戴蒙教授的談判技巧，將帶給你超乎想像的優勢！

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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

John A. List
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A leading economist answers one of today’s trickiest questions: Why do some great ideas make it big while others fail to take off?

“Brilliant, practical, and grounded in the very latest research, this is by far the best book I’ve ever read on the how and why of scaling.”—Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and New York Times bestselling author of Grit

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Men’s Journal

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one—whether you’re growing a small business, rolling out a diversity and inclusion program, or delivering billions of doses of a vaccine.

Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale.

In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea. Drawing on his original research, as well as fascinating examples from the realms of business, policymaking, education, and public health, he identifies five measurable vital signs that a scalable idea must possess ...

By understanding the science of scaling, we can drive change in our schools, workplaces, communities, and society at large. Because a better world can only be built at scale.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

改變人生的正向心理學 : 尋找快樂, 追求夢想

Lo’s Psychology
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快樂是什麼？影響個人幸福感的因素有什麼？
你有夢想嗎？你有勇敢去追夢嗎？還是仍在猶豫不決？
如何轉變思維角度，讓成長心態注入你的思維及生命當中，在追逐理想的旅途中發光發熱？
「拖延症」的根源是什麼？有什麼方法可以幫自己戒掉「拖延症」？
一大堆的壞習慣阻擋著你追夢？如何應對？
如何運用正向心理學知識令你活得更精彩？

這不是一本心靈雞湯，也不是一本心靈勵志書。本書以專業的正向心理學理論和大家一起探討快樂、思維心態、時間管理、對抗「拖延症」、追夢等問題，希望為大家注入勇氣和能量，和大家一起尋找快樂和追求夢想。

現在的你或者不相信自己能找到快樂，或者不認為自己能實現夢想。但心理學告訴我們，每個人都可以改變，「能夠改變」正是令我們活得更好的契機，也可以讓我們逐步拉近與夢想的距離，勇敢地追尋你的夢想吧﹗

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

Zena Hitz
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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning

In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought.

Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us.

Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

成長思考力 : 創造人生良性循環的七個行動法則

赤羽雄二
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讓成長不再是「偶發的結果」，而是「精心準備下的必然」。

成長不是結果，而是持續進化的過程。
《零秒思考力》系列暢銷作者最新提案，
協助你立定目標，藉由一步步的行動，人生完美再升級。

人在成長的時候，可以「真切」體會到活著的感覺。
一旦有所成長，便能達成過往無法做到的事，也能發現至今無法察覺的問題，更能獲得過去的自己所無法企及的觀點。
這些可以為我們帶來自己正真切地活著的感覺。

如何才能成功建立自信，並且持續成長？
為了達成，我們應該如何制定計畫，並實際付諸行動？

擁有十多年專業顧問經驗，一手打麥肯錫韓國分公司，日本顧問大師赤羽雄二見證許多菁英獲得更好的人生發展，也看到很多所謂成功人士，其實早已停止成長、對自己完全失去自信。離開校園後，不論公司或是上司、前輩，都不會教你如何繼續成長，市面上的商管類、勵志類書籍也很少聚焦在人生及職場最核心的重點，亦即「成長的方法」。本書將具體提出協助你打破心理障礙，促進成長的七個行動法則。

行動1：果斷降低難度
關鍵在於設定簡單的目標，即使途中停擺也要持續朝目標邁進。

行動2：堅持不痛苦的努力，能令人感到快樂的努力
捨棄「辛苦的努力」和「痛苦的努力」。重點是「持續努力」，所以要尋找相對輕鬆的努力方式。

行動3：設法建立自信
將「自信」轉化為可強化自身能力的思考方式，運用「A4筆記訓練法」及升級版的「靈感筆記」，獎勵努力的自己並提升自信。

行動4：創造良性循環
良性循環並非偶然的結果，而是由自己主動去創造。

行動5：培養樂觀的思維方式
能否正向思考取決於個人想法，悲觀的人當然也能夠轉變為正向思考的人。

行動6：下工夫保持狀態
徹底掌握了解自身的最佳狀態，將努力效益最大化。

行動7：借助他人的力量，與同伴一起成長
與同伴共享彼此的創意和資訊，找出有效達成目標的方法。一起成長，所有人都受益。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity

Mychailo Wynnyckyj
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In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil society. Most prominently, they established a new Ukrainian identity: territorial, inclusive, and present-focused with powerful mobilizing symbols.

Driven by an urban "bourgeoisie" that rejected the hierarchies of industrial society in favor of a postmodern heterarchy, a previously passive post-Soviet country experienced a profound social revolution that generated new senses: "Dignity" and "fairness" became rallying cries for millions. Europe as the symbolic target of political aspiration gradually faded, but the impact (including on Europe) of Ukraine's revolution remained. When Russia invaded-illegally annexing Crimea and then feeding continuous military conflict in the Donbas-Ukrainians responded with a massive volunteer effort and touching patriotism. In the process, they transformed their country, the region, and indeed the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

孤獨世紀：衝擊全球商業模式，危及生活、工作與健康的疏離浪潮 (The Lonely Century)

諾瑞娜．赫茲 (Noreena Hertz)
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我們正處在人類有史以來最「孤獨」的時代。
正面對決衝擊全球的「疏離浪潮」，首部全方位解析「孤獨危機」的趨勢觀察大作！
◎2021新領導力必讀選書
◎《金融時報》最佳讀物

這股疏離浪潮正劇烈影響著你我，
不只衝擊身心健康，更重創了全球的經濟、政治、商業…… 接下來怎麼辦？解方何在？
從哪些社會現象與線索可以找到對抗孤獨的轉捩點？
全球知名的新一代思想家諾瑞娜，將提供你全方位的深度考察與解決方向。

2030年之前，全球將有40%的人口是獨居（相當於34億人）。
而我們每天平均查看手機221次，年用量將近1200小時（50天），
深陷數位氣泡裡的人們，孤獨感已達到史上最高點！

迄今，我們尚未警覺這個「孤獨危機」有多龐大──
．對身體──比缺乏運動更傷，危害等同於酗酒，比肥胖嚴重2倍。孤獨等同每天抽15根菸……
．對心理──超過130項研究都發現孤寂感與自殺、自殺意念或自殘有關聯……
．對社會福利──社會孤立每年將消耗美國聯邦醫療保險近70億元，超過治療關節炎的金額，幾乎追上治療高血壓……
．對經濟──零工經濟興起，工作者不但要應付讓人士氣低落的監控形式，多半也會陷入低薪、工作不穩以及勞工權利低落的危機……
．對政治──美、歐以及全球的分歧和極端主義崛起。而實證研究指出，孤寂和右翼民粹主義關係緊密……

幸好，這一切並非無解。

作者親身走訪全球趨勢現場，提供全方位深度考察，積極為這個迫切的危機尋找答案。她分析市場興起的陪伴、群體體驗與服務等「孤獨商機」，以及教育界、學界、政商、醫療界的專業見解，提出我們能夠強化人際連結的具體方案。對抗孤獨世紀的解藥，最終只可能是許多個「我」願意站在彼此身邊，成為「我們」，無論對方是誰。如果想在即將瓦解的世界裡團結起來，這是不能妥協的要求。

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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls

Mitali Perkins
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The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us.

Award-winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories--escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds.

Blending personal narrative, accessible literary criticism, and spiritual and moral formation, Perkins delves into novels by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts" that illuminate the virtuous, abundant life we still desire. These novels are not perfect, and Perkins honestly assesses their critical frailties and flaws related to race, culture, and power. Yet reading or rereading these books as adults can help us build virtue, unmask our vices, and restore our hope. Reconnecting with these stories from childhood isn't merely nostalgia. In an era of uncertainty and despair, they lighten our load and bring us much-needed hope.

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