Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future

Richard Susskind
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In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.

For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.

This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future - for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.

Written in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is currently provided.

Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.

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筆遇

沈祖堯, 潘誦軒合著
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《筆遇》是一個徹頭徹尾的奇遇。

一位學者教授和一個少年學生在一次中學畢業典禮上相遇，雖然年齡相隔三十多載，雖然背景閱歷大不相同，兩人更相距千里。一個身處香港，主理大學和醫療；一個留學悉尼，主修法律。透過文字，藉著書信，他們還交換了兩代對人生、時事、社會和家庭的看法。如今相識四年，做過大學校長的已經離開了領導的崗位，做大學生的亦將畢業找出路了，兩人仍然遙遙相距，但已經成為好友知己。很多事情都不用掛在嘴邊，反而用筆墨紙張，寫幾句鼓勵和慰問，來得更受用。

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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers

A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.

With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.

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別跟內心怪獸拔河：接納與承諾治療的生活法則

湯國鈞, 黃志明
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這幾年面對社會不斷的變化，一波接一波的疫情，還有在年初第五波疫情下的恐懼和緊張，相信任何人都會想尋找到快樂。但現實生活告訴我們，快樂並非唾手可得，人生不如意事十常八九，如果生活真的無法如意，要如何活？

本書以接納與承諾治療為主題（Acceptance and commitment therapy，簡稱ACT），向大眾建議一種心理健康模式和生活智慧，透過行動實踐，活出有意義的美好生命，同時亦能獲得更深刻和長遠的快樂。

接納與承諾治療，有一個核心信念：認為痛苦經驗根本是人生無可避免的一部分，因此接納往往比抗拒或逃避痛苦來得更為合適，對心理健康更為有用。這個療法包含六個元素：接納，是指接納人生的痛苦和不愉快經驗，包括：開放接納經驗、脫離思想糾結；學習活在當下：覺察的自我、與此時此刻連結；承諾以價值為本，以目標為前進方向：確立價值和人生方向、承諾實踐行動。這些都可以有效建立心理彈性，人擁有心理彈性，當面對困苦、艱難或不如意時，就可以有內在資源去承載；並以承諾實踐人生重要的價值為目標，堅持活出有意義的生命。

本書介紹接納與承諾治療內六個向度的內容和實踐練習，幫助讀者即使面對困難，仍能重新聚焦自己的人生方向，即使在難處中仍有力朝人生目標走去，能獲得心靈的滿足，可以過內在豐盛的生活。

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Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development

Ryan Leak
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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Experience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don't need to know all the answers—but you do need to ask the right questions.

Whether you're a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there's no one more important to lead than yourself. If you're not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development—and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.

Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions—and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you. Leveling Up helps you focus on the person you're becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include:

◆ What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question)
◆ What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
◆ Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
◆ What's my definition of success? (The Vision Question)
◆ Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question)
◆ Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question)

Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you.

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博物館裏的極簡中國史

張經緯
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博物館里的每件文物都不再是靜止不動、沉默無語的，它們將因為你頭腦中鋪設的知識脈絡而活躍起來，伴隨你一同探索古代中國的奇妙世界：你可以通過玉器了解中國史前文明的「滿天星鬥」，借助青銅重器探索周代的江南，可以從東漢時期的壁畫中解開鮮卑族崛起的秘密，還可以從唐代的茶葉與瓷器故事中發現「茶馬古道」的蹤跡……

《博物館里的極簡中國史》跳出歷史敘事的套路，用文物背後的信息拼接出鮮為人知的歷史真相，用開放的多學科視角刷新我們的固有認知，串聯起一條簡明新穎的中國史脈絡。

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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

Dennis Baron
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“If you want to know why more people are asking ‘what’s your pronoun?’ then you (singular or plural) should read this book.” ―Joe Moran, New York Times Book Review

Heralded as “required reading” (Geoff Nunberg) and “the book” (Anne Fadiman) for anyone interested in the conversation swirling around gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns, What’s Your Pronoun? is a classic in the making. Providing much-needed historical context and analysis to the debate around what we call ourselves, Dennis Baron brings new insight to a centuries-old topic and illuminates how―and why―these pronouns are sparking confusion and prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, and even statehouses. Enlightening and affirming, What’s Your Pronoun? introduces a new way of thinking about language, gender, and how they intersect. 20 black-and-white illustrations

"An entertaining and thoroughly documented account of two centuries’ worth of attempts to solve the problem of the English language’s “missing word”.... [Baron] digs deeply into the legal and cultural implications of pronoun usage.... [His] ‘annotated historical lexicon’ of more than 250 gender-neutral pronouns [is] a gold mine for readers who delight in the strangeness of language, as well as a clear demonstration of the thorniness of the issue. This easygoing, comprehensive guide will appeal to progressive word geeks." ― Publishers Weekly

"A thorough history of pronoun debates.... Guggenheim fellow Baron examines what seems like a contemporary question with a historical lens. In this primer, he reveals a centuries-long search for a singular gender-neutral pronoun in English, dispelling persistent myths that such a quest is a recent effort or the product of politically correct motivations.... The author's playful tone imbues the text with friendly sensitivity, and readers will appreciate his decades of research and meticulous attention to documents and sources. The result is a book that reflects the transformational capacity of language. A lively book for language lovers, those confused about uses of they/them, and anyone curious about writing while gendered." ― Kirkus Reviews

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我在故宮修文物

綠妖
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重重的宮門 隔絕了浮世喧囂
他們在這裡修著過了時的文物
一筆一筆臨摹《清明上河圖》 一件一件組裝宮廷鐘錶零件 一片一片拼回青銅碎片
不求名利與聞達 只想解開時間留下的謎

12位文物修復師 靜默地將日子獻給修復工作
在從前慢的時光中 找到安身心的力量

北京故宮裡藏著一群身懷絕技卻又平凡無奇的工匠，他們在昔日的「冷宮」裡修復價值連城的的歷代文物，這些被歲月腐蝕的鐘錶、古書畫、青銅器、木器等，在他們的巧手下有了新生命，彷彿時光再現。

原先是一部首次以現代化眼光、生活化手法，揭露北京故宮文物修復師日常的大型紀錄片，2016年初一推出即風靡全中國，無數年輕人更被深深打動，重新思考該如何看待工作與人生，甚至將修復師視為職業選項之一。本書以紀錄片精神為本，再經深度採訪與寫作，收錄更多鏡頭外的故事：12位修復師親身講述其學藝的心路歷程，對工作、對人生的感悟，以及故宮生涯的回顧。

「一群深宮大院中的修復師，以數代傳承的手藝智慧，喚醒長年靜置破敗的藝術品及器物，如同推開一扇回溯記憶的窗，讓古老世界的魅力繼續傳唱。」──亞洲大學現代美術館副館長 蔡舜任

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香港城市大學、中國旅遊集團有限公司，及保利藝術博物館於7月4日至10月31日合辦「盛世聚首　天寶芳華：圓明園獸首暨文物展」，展出圓明園海晏堂其中四尊獸首銅像，並慶祝香港特別行政區成立26周年暨中旅集團成立百年華誕。閱讀更多

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The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

Dorie Clark
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Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.

It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. How can we break out of the cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives that we all seek? Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives. As top business thinker and Duke University professor Dorie Clark explains, we all know intellectually that lasting success takes persistence and effort. And yet, so much of the relentless pressure in our culture pushes us toward doing what's easy, what's guaranteed, and what looks glamorous in the moment.

In The Long Game, she argues for a different path. It's about doing small things over time to achieve your goals - and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard. In The Long Game, Clark shares unique principles and frameworks, as well as her own instructive experiences, to show how you can tap the same 24 hours everyone has - but leverage them in more efficient and powerful ways to break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and career.

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後九七香港粤語流行歌詞研究

朱耀偉, 梁偉詩
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本書是《香港流行歌詞研究：七十年代中期至九十年代中期》續篇《後九七香港粵語流行歌詞研究》的新生版,新增朱耀偉教授的「再版後記」，簡單論述由2015年至今的粵語流行曲的傳承，特別是「這兩年香港流行樂壇重現活力似有迴響，Mirror及一眾新人冒起，看來否極終於泰來。粵語流行曲能否再攀亞洲頂峰還要拭目以待。」不過，朱教授亦指出：「若以詞論詞，過去十年的確新人輩出，但是否如流行樂壇般可以號稱『改朝換代』則似有商榷餘地。」然而，作者「一直相信回望粵語流行曲的光輝歲月並不是老餅懷舊，要用當天的尺度衡量今日的詞作，而是仍然憧憬不同的可能性。與其留戀往日奢求用既有模式複製舊光輝（其實這才真的是懷舊？），何不展望明天以無邊想像開啟新秩序。」

本書沿用《香港流行歌詞研究：七十年代中期至九十年代中期》所訂定的研究框架，進一步追蹤1997年前後「香港粵語流行歌詞」的變化軌跡。當中擬設了1997為講述香港流行歌詞嬗變的分水嶺──回顧了「資深詞人」（即出道於一九九七年以前的詞人）在歌詞創作上的後續發展、風格變化。同時亦整理出「後九七詞人」（即出道於一九九七年或以後的詞人）的崛起和風格走向，務求為1997年至今的香港流行詞壇，全面透析其地形風貌、氣候格局。

作者朱教授在2015版的序中曾說：「這一代香港流行詞人告訴我們，只要念念不忘，像他們般有一口氣點一盞燈，十年又十年之後，那天涯總會為你我移開……有一口氣點一盞燈的情懷與姿態，念念不忘必有迴響的信念，說的就是傳承。我們也懂了。」

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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

Brian Fagan
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationships with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationships with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna.

Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors' camp and found companionship to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys, and camels to the industrial age, when some animals became commodities, often brutally exploited, and others became pets, nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes. Through an in-depth analysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan shows how our habits and our very way of life were considerably and irreversibly altered by our intimate bonds with animals. Among other stories, Fagan explores how herding changed human behavior; how the humble donkey helped launch the process of globalization; and how the horse carried a hearty band of nomads across the world and toppled the emperor of China.

With characteristic care and penetrating insight, Fagan reveals the profound influence that animals have exercised on human history and how, in fact, they often drove it.

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人生不是一夜干 : 獲得幸福與成就、解決困境與煩惱, 都不是一蹴可幾的事, 需要累積微小改變、耐心等候

齋藤茂太
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獻給想要前進卻停滯不前的人們

◆心靈醫生的66則處方籤——
跑不動就慢慢走，走不動就停下來；就算躺平也沒關係。
◆《孤獨力：一個人也可以好好過》作者另一撫慰人心力作

很少有人不為煩惱所苦。當人處於煩惱而茫然時，總會看不到前方的路；又因為看不到前方的路，往往會更加煩惱，不知如何是好。

「心靈名醫」齋藤茂太以他個人的經歷，以及超過半世紀心理臨床治療所見的千百種案例，淬鍊出這本深具撫慰力量的66則人生格言。

他認為，人總會遇到煩惱，陷於「人生的雨季」裡，但要相信雨水能為萬物帶來朝氣，也終有停止之時。而在雨停之前，我們雖然做出改變以解決煩擾，但也需要給予耐心，畢竟任何改變不像醃漬一夜干只需一晚就能看到成果，是必須等待。

茂太醫生的人生智慧，在日本不僅給予職場人心靈撫慰，更給予許多因為挫折或煩擾無法前進的人們溫柔的支持。許多讀者推崇他的作品是「一個溫柔的肩膀讓人依靠」，更提到「當不想盡力而為時，是這本書讓你知道自己仍然值得掌聲」。

茂太醫生的暖心話語，是這個躁動、紛擾的時代，我們都需要的一帖心靈良藥。

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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

Tim Higgins
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A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller

'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary' --The Times'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster.

Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers for more than a century.

But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics repeatedly taking the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse.

Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three?Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds... and changed the future.

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好城市的空間法則： 給所有人的第一堂空間課，看穿日常慣性，找出友善城市的101關鍵要素 (101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School)

維卡斯.梅塔 (Vikas Mehta)
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認識友善城市、日常空間＆場所精神的 101 課

以事件為基礎的文化只能收割一次，以日常為基礎的文化日日都有回報。

城市生活品質不只是城市規劃師的事！
你的都市生活是你的選擇，還是無意識的慣性？

都市設計並非建築的「放大版」
「空間」才是優先考慮的對象
給所有人的第一堂日常空間教育課

像城市規劃師一樣思考，重新審視自己的城市
教你看穿城市日常空間規則
找出友善城市、優質空間體驗的關鍵要素

本書濃縮城市規劃師的思考方法與實戰心得，提供大家快速參照的經驗法則。本書焦點放在都市主義最尋常的一些面向：對所有的都市場所而言，最根本的問題始終是一般人在尋常生活裡的「日常經驗」。例如：可以讓人賺錢的好設計，比較可能實現；維護街道安全的關鍵，是市民，而非警察局；讓行人順路穿越公園，會是互動好設計，我們愛看人卻又不想被看，這之間需要巧妙的安全感設計。

本書告訴我們：
●都市居民已經習慣了靠近和熱鬧，也珍視這種特質。
●當一條街甚至一棟建築是「多孔的」，會給人充滿魅力與希望的感覺，讓人願意親近。
●路上的建築物或店家若未讓我們察覺裡面「有東西在等我們」，那我們就不會費事進入。
●有些公共設施成為蚊子館，可能是因為無法讓人清楚看到對面的出口，「我們一進入，就會找出口」是人性本能。
●城市的一切相比於郊區鄉間總是「特大號」，並非鋪張浪費，而是出於「尺度、比例」的人性直覺需求。
●郊區居民走垂直線，都市居民走平行線──郊區的土地是根據目的做規劃，因此郊區經驗通常是選擇性的、單一變數的、以目的地為導向的；都市的經驗則是連續的、斜線的、偶然的。它是同時一起，而非一次一件。

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong
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A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2022

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied

“A magisterial history.”—​Paul Krugman

Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.

Economist Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

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草枕：獨旅天地的終極美學，夏目漱石最具詩境經典小說集

夏目漱石
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日本大作家飄然百年的紙上桃源
啟發動畫大師宮崎駿無數次的美學鉅作！
獨旅天地的終極美學，夏目漱石最具詩境經典小說集

「這證明了漱石在藝術上的本領於何處。」──谷崎潤一郎

行旅在外，結草為枕。
只盼能在非人情的天地逍遙片刻。

〈草枕〉描寫一位逃離俗世的畫師走進田野的旅途所見，在深山野嶺開啟一段「非人情」之旅，並在途中邂逅了一位神祕的女子……藉畫師所見所聞，漱石在〈草枕〉抒發大量對藝術觀、人生觀以及美學的思想獨白。在遲暮的春色中，帶領不安迷茫的人心，感受廣闊天地之美以及全然孤獨的狂喜。字句間展現出飽和的「和、漢、洋」藝術涵養，是夏目漱石前期重要的代表作品。

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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell
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The Best-Selling Leadership Book of All Time Just Got Better!

HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition.

Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He removed dated stories and replaced them with fresh ones that apply to today’s world of business.

What Maxwell didn’t change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor.

Readers new to Maxwell, as well as lifelong fans will want to get this new edition of the leadership book that has sold millions of copies in the United States and around the world.

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不便利的便利店

金浩然
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人生就是會有很多不便利、不舒服，
這間有點慘澹的便利店，卻為我們撐起了閃閃發光的空間……

艱難時刻的光亮之書
一間便利店，接通了我們的幸福人生

★韓國年度最受歡迎小說

這間有點不便利，卻讓人想一再前往的便利店，
藏著能在艱難生活中給你安慰的各樣物品。

買一送一的喜悅、三角飯糰模樣的悲傷，
以及一萬元所帶來的四次歡笑，
充滿特別的故事與奇妙商品組合的便利店，時時歡迎您！

◎便利店「幫人生加值」小語
※我問，支持妳的力量究竟是什麼？
她說，人生本來就是不斷解決問題，既然都要解決問題，那就努力選還可以的問題來解。
※便利店是個人們來來去去的空間，無論店員還是客人，都只是短暫停留的過客。便利店就像間加油站，讓人們用物品或金錢為自己加值。
※為什麼開心？因為炸雞？因為爸爸的陪伴？其實無論是什麼都沒關係，因為能一起吃雞的就是家人。
※人生就是關係，關係的根本就是溝通。我發現只要我們能跟身旁的人交心，幸福其實離我們不遠。
※巴布狄倫的外婆曾經告訴他，幸福不是在通往目標路途上的某樣東西，而是那條路本身就是幸福。你所遇見的每個人，都在苦苦掙扎著與什麼對抗，所以你必須親切待人。

韓國讀者口碑推薦
‧這是一本我想推薦給所有人的人生之書。你讀的時候，很可能一會兒哭一會兒笑，但不知不覺間心頭就暖呼呼了。
‧擦肩而過的人，竟然可以成為彼此生活前進的支撐。一本讓我看到人生力量的書。
‧我的眼角掛著淚，嘴邊帶著笑。多虧這本書，讓我熬過疫病籠罩的日子。
‧哭著，笑著，心也跟著暖了。
‧場景不陌生、人物不陌生，就連裡面的衝突也不陌生，但是人們彼此表達善意卻是這個冷陌時代最需要的態度。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps

Marina Khidekel
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This revolutionary guide to real change introduces microsteps—tiny, science-backed changes that will help you get your life back on track.

​Live the life you want, not the life you settle for.

Helping people build healthy new habits that improve their lives is more important than ever. Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global to do just that--Thrive's specific mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential. Science continues to show that we don't have to sacrifice our well-being in order to succeed; in fact, it turns out that well-being is critical to peak performance.
Learning to thrive means:

• Moving from awareness to action - from knowing what to do to actually doing it
• Embracing solutions that appeal to wisdom, wonder, intuition, reflection, and are steeped in science
• Taking the time to rest and recover in order to fuel and maximize productivity, both personal and professional
• Making the mindset shifts and habit changes that supercharge performance in ways that truly matter to us

Eschewing trendy self-care fixes or the latest health fads, Your Time to Thrive is the revolutionary guide to living and working based on Microsteps--tiny, science-backed changes. By making them too-small-to fail, we can incorporate them into our daily lives right away, and begin building healthier ways of living and working. This book is a Microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

閱讀電影與電影閱讀 : 深度解讀及分析著名的中外電影

曉龍
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透過電影提升學生閱讀興趣的影評結集，是學生及電影從業員必備的電影導賞天書

如果觀眾只看電影，忽視了創作人透過此故事表達自己的人生觀的意圖，就浪費了創作人藉著影片傳送的訊息的一番苦心。作者精選了62套電影，環繞著人際關係、生命價值、感情世界、社會探索，分別從縱向及橫向的角度進行思考和分析。資深影評人兼中學教師曉龍透過影像獨特的力量，帶學生閱讀世界的真善美，加深讀者對電影的認識，提升觀影水平！此書的後半部分被命名為《電影•閱讀》，作者以電影及其改編的原著小說為本，比較電影與小說的異同，探討電影與小說的關係，還對小說改編為電影的成果進行跨文本的分析。

本書獲電影界和教育界人士好評，電影愛好者必讀！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud
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The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Amazon.com Review
A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time."

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


Europe in a Comic Strip Exhibition showcases thirteen comic strip pages illustrating the great moments that have built Europe that we know today, with the objectives of introducing major events in European history at a glance, and appreciating comic art from a cultural and historical perspective. The exhibition is being held from 5 May to 16 June 2023 at Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. READ MORE

城市如何文化

茹國烈
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城市是什麼？
文化是什麼？
城市如何文化？

本書探討城市文化，提出「文化系統」、「文化指數」、「文化地圖」及「文化空間」等概念，解構城市文化的各種要素。作者選取了十四個著名城市，深度考察它們怎樣成為獨特的文化都市。最後，作者走訪香港各區，探索各自的文化特質，對香港未來的城市文化發展規劃提出建議。香港如何「文化」？讀者可以透過本書，與作者共同思考未來香港的城市文化發展。

(Excerpt from mybookone.com.hk)

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily

"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair

“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire

"Exhilarating.” —New York Times

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

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52赫茲的鯨魚們

町田苑香
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52赫茲的鯨魚，是世界上最孤獨的鯨魚。其他鯨魚無法接收到牠發出的高頻率叫聲。雖然有很多同伴，但其他同伴聽不到牠的呼喚，牠也聽不到其他同伴的聲音。就像總是無比孤單、無人理解，無人在乎的我一樣⋯⋯

沒有人能理解、無法將內心呼喊、求救傳達出去的你，並不孤單。「我會傾聽你那無法傳達給任何人的52赫茲的聲音。」

日本九州一處偏遠的海邊小鎮。斷絕所有一切，獨自移居此地的貴瑚，在某個下雨天遇到了跟自己一樣散發孤單感的一名少年……兩個人相遇，踩著憂慮，一步一步向著未來前進……

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
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The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects

“This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”—Frank Gehry

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example:
• Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.
• Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.
• Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
• Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
• Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.”
• Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
• Know that your biggest risk is you.

Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

創業軍師 : 年輕創業家的博弈論 (Startup Theory)

溫學文, 余樂明
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可能是全香港最受年輕人喜愛的創業電視節目，首次結集成書。

書中訪問了20位年輕創業家，分享他們的創業經歷，如何面對高低起伏。他們未必是最成功最發達的生意人，但絕對是一班擁有創業夢想，並能夠將之實踐的年輕創業鬥士。

「你的夢想是什麼？」

本書輯錄了20個創業故事，都是以初創及青年創業為主線，從這些故事當中，看到年輕創業家的衝勁及熱情，要知道，速度是Startup的最強武器，亦是唯一的武器。起動要快，發展要更快，改變要更更更快，就像天下武功唯快不破。

創業路上不能停步，一定要不斷有突破才能保持動力；而突破，往往是在被逼入牆角，無路可退時激發出來的。

在向這班年輕創業家致敬之餘，更希望大家能從中學習到他們的營商智慧。

(摘錄自cosmosbooks.com.hk)

80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom : Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Stan Skrabut
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What is the impact of chatGPT on your classroom? Should you be concerned? Should you use it or not?

In the book, "80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning," Dr. Stan Skrabut, an instructional technologist and designer, explores these topics and much more. He presents different ways to incorporate chatGPT into the classroom, including preparation for classes, providing instructional assistance, creating assessments, developing study aids, and using chatGPT for computer programming. The book also covers how students can use chatGPT for writing assistance, research, and personalized learning.

Stan provides practical examples and suggestions to help educators fully utilize chatGPT's capabilities while addressing potential concerns and criticisms. The book aims to show that AI can enhance teaching and learning and encourages educators to embrace this technology in the classroom. See what the uproar is about!

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

原子習慣 : 細微改變帶來巨大成就的實證法則 (Atomic Habits)

詹姆斯・克利爾 (James Clear)
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每天都進步1%，一年後，你會進步37倍；
每天都退步1%，一年後，你會弱化到趨近於0！
你的一點小改變、一個好習慣，將會產生複利效應，
如滾雪球般，為你帶來豐碩的人生成果！

一出版立刻風行全球，
企業界、運動界、教育界、瘦身界都在用的習慣養成實作指南！

本書作者詹姆斯‧克利爾在高二的一場棒球賽中意外被球棒擊中臉，嚴重受傷，甚至被實施人工昏迷。經過好幾個月的治療，雖然痊癒出院，可以重新踏上球場，後來也進入大學棒球隊，卻只能坐在板凳席，幾乎沒有上場機會。

然而，在頭部嚴重受傷之後的第六年，他被選為他所就讀大學的最佳男性運動員，並且入選ESPN的全美明星陣容——整個美國僅有33人獲得這項殊榮。

從運動生涯幾乎結束，到入選全美明星陣容，甚至在畢業時獲得學業方面的總統獎章，他是怎麼做到的？一切只因他認識且善用了「原子習慣」的力量！

◎有效建立永久良好習慣的系統化「行為改變四法則」
雖然知道習慣很重要，但你經常為了自己的壞習慣苦惱，想要戒除卻力不從心？或者，你想養成好習慣，卻老是半途而廢？其實，問題不在你身上，而是你遵循的行為改變系統出了問題！

作者從生物學、心理學及神經科學中擷取菁華，結合自己親身實踐的經驗，創造出簡單易懂、容易執行的「行為改變四法則」。這套法則可運用於學業、工作、家庭、健康、財富、人際關係等人生各個面向，有效幫助你打造好習慣、戒除壞習慣。

◎風行各界的習慣養成指南
本書作者是世界知名的習慣養成專家，經常受邀到各界演講，例如NFL、NBA、MLB的球隊，以及美國運通、麥肯錫、美林證券、奇異公司、本田汽車、思科系統、IKEA等知名企業。

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Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

Gloria Mark
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**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023**
**A "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" MUST-READ BOOK FOR JANUARY**

Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from "the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking" (Cal Newport).

We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we're interrupted by others.

In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including insights such as:
Why multitasking hurts rather than helps productivity
How social media and modern entertainment amplify our short attention spans
What drains our mental resources and how to refuel them
The four types of attention that we experience every day and how to recognize them

While the concept of “flow” has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in the digital world: kinetic attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find health and wellness in our everyday lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

香港老舖記錄冊

馬基諾,詹穎宜,陳容笙
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香港文化兼收並蓄，一邊吸收華洋文化之精粹，一邊醞釀自身的特質與風格；既保留傳統的智慧和手藝，亦引入創新的意念和技術，豐富而且多元。

香港可謂「麻雀雖小，五臟俱全」，在山與海之間匯聚了四方八面的人，大家憑著雙手為生活打拚，造就了各式各樣的店舖與行業，為大街小巷帶來生氣，為香港帶來多姿多彩的社會經濟面貌。

經歷歲月沉澱的店舖盛載著豐富的歷史和文化，訴說行業和社會的變遷，不少更加體現非凡的手藝和優質的出品，值得我們從不同角度了解、欣賞和支持。除此以外，老舖的舖面及招牌刻畫街道面貌，裝潢及包裝體現本地美學，店舖出品及人情風俗塑造港人生活方式。

若要承傳香港文化，不可忽略本地老舖。先由記錄開始，隨後整理資料，詳細撰文介紹；《香港老舖記錄冊》一書，收錄二十八篇記錄香港老店文章，覆蓋不同行業，結合案頭研究和親身訪談，筆者希望透過文字和照片為老店留下記錄，亦希望喚起大家對於老店的關注。

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Someone Else's Shoes

Jojo Moyes
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“Very few authors have the power to make you laugh on one page and cry on the next. Moyes is one of them.” —The New York Times
"A compelling, full-of-heart novel about the power of female friendship." —Kirkus

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope—she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp—in the bleakest point of her life—has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag—she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.

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夜晚的潛水艇

陳春成
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★《亞洲週刊》2020年度十大小說
★ 豆瓣讀書2020年度中國文學（小說類）Top1

從微物與唯物中尋求出路。一張照片，一枚錢幣，一把鑰匙，一個音符，一隻筆，一罈酒，都可能是電光石火的契機，突破此刻此身的限制，朝向另一星空或深海開放……

◎特別推薦——

陳春成的文字清晰典雅，在年輕世代作家中並不多見。他的故事天馬行空，字裡行間在在顯示鍛鍊的痕跡。世界文學和傳統典故巧妙糅合，「舊山河和新宇宙」奇特接軌。而他工整的筆觸其實處理著一個又一個危機：從集權暴政到精神耗弱，從歷史崩毀到記憶錯亂，淒迷的夜，詭異的夢，救贖懸而未決……《夜晚的潛水艇》含蓄蘊藉，而又每每閃爍幽光。在一個文字漫漶、人人競相表態卻又言不及義的時代，這樣的書寫何其難得。知其白，守其黑，在洞穴裡，在古甕中，在匿園裡, 在深海下，「我附體在某個角色身上，隨他在情節中流轉，他的一生就是我的一世。」九篇小說，無數輪迴。藏身其間，陳春成幻化為小說中的人物，幽幽的將他的文學潛水艇駛向下一個時空。——王德威（美國哈佛大學講座教授）

◎關於本書——

虛構是我最接近自由與狂歡的樣式。

寫作於我即是快馬、長槍、大碗的酒和阻絕兵馬的群山，是內在的狂歡，平息後即歸於日常。——陳春成

1966年波赫士在烏拉圭外南大西洋投下一枚錢幣，啟動了1998年一個中國少年的夢中潛航；公元4876年秋天的一場《紅樓夢》餘孽大搜捕，隱隱回應著明萬曆十四年春夜，神宗皇帝憂鬱的啟悟；文化大革命熱火朝天的時分，福建山裡一個和尚琢磨著如何藏匿一塊明代流下來的石碑；1957年深夜的列寧格勒傳來薩克斯風聲音，是誰有這樣膽子吹奏著違禁樂器……

陳春成的小說風格，開啟了一個世代的新視野。
彷彿鳥棲樹，魚潛淵，一切穩妥又安寧，夜晚這才真正地降臨。

《夜晚的潛水艇》是陳春成的首部短篇小說集。九個故事，筆鋒游走於舊山河與未知宇宙間，以瑰奇飄揚的想像、溫厚清幽的筆法，在現實與幻境間闢開多條祕密的通道：海底漫遊的少年、深山遺落的古碑、彌散入萬物的字句、雲彩修剪站、鑄劍與釀酒、鐵幕下的薩克斯、藍鯨內的演奏廳……

潛入故事深處，感知體內的星雲旋動、草木蔓發；以詞語的微光，探照記憶的海溝。關於藏匿與尋找、追捕與逃遁……

陳春成創作的主角們，身體都潛伏著夜行性動物的習性，他們皆善於躲藏，他們深信值得人沉迷一生的事情太多了，每個洞穴都充滿誘惑。他撰寫的每篇小說幾乎都以古典文學作為基調，再澆灌以現代手法，融會後撰寫出迷人的文學。

陳春成的小說世界，是可供藏身的洞窟，懸浮於紙上的宮殿，航向往昔的潛艇……。他以作品隱喻文學中想像力的重要性，於小說情節摻入推理的元素，每一篇小說各自發展出出色的格局，刻畫令人驚豔。

透過《夜晚的潛水艇》，我們得以理解，當我們在面對現實世界時，方法並非只有一個；我們除了可以如實描摹世界外，應該還有能力再建構另外一個精神世界。

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Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency

Barnabas Calder
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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent never explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China's booming megacities. He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.

Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent architecture, and to retrofit - not demolish - the buildings we already have.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

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典藏世界圖書館 : 從古文明至21世紀的絕美知識殿堂巡禮 (The Library: A World History)

詹姆斯．坎貝爾 (James W.P. Campbell)
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＃全世界最完整的圖書館建築史!!!＃

有些圖書館旨在收藏世界上的每一本書，
有些圖書館的存在就是被世人欣賞、讚嘆！

本書涵括了人文×歷史×建築
是獻給每個愛書人的圖書館百科

從書寫文字的出現到當下的科技世代
從廢墟挖出的古代圖書館到鋼筋森林的現代圖書館

總計21個國家×82座圖書館
跟著建築師，一起深入探索千年歷史藏書聖殿的變遷

圖書館不僅僅是儲藏書籍的「建築」，
從古至今，知名圖書館的建築設計，都在頌揚閱讀和學習的重要性。
作者與攝影師踏遍21個國家，造訪了82座圖書館，
在諸多圖書館中研究它們的歷史，更有幸探訪許多鮮少開放給大眾的圖書館。
經由圖書館建築的變化，一窺人類與書寫文字多變的關係，
體認不管在何處，圖書館都絕非滿是灰塵的文件儲藏室，
而是文化與文明的象徵。
希望這本書不只能為對圖書館和建築史有興趣的人解惑，
也能滿足熱愛書籍、想要進一步了解儲藏它們的美麗建築的讀者。

「圖書館是由想像構成的空間，而想像就是創造的一種。」
在腦中創造激盪出無限可能，讓我們得以重回童年或穿越到幻想中的世界。
人類建造出形形色色的建築，用來閱讀、冥思、作夢和讚頌新知，
只要這些活動有其價值，相應的建築就會不斷誕生。

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response

Ellen Vora
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From acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind—and what we can do to overcome it.

Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans—a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck-up” problem—that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology—the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body.

In The Anatomy of Anxiety, holistic psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora offers nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of anxiety and mental health, suggesting that anxiety is not simply a brain disorder but a whole-body condition. In her clinical work, Dr. Vora has found time and again that the symptoms of anxiety can often be traced to imbalances in the body. The emotional and physical discomfort we experience—sleeplessness, brain fog, stomach pain, jitters—is a result of the body’s stress response. This physiological state can be triggered by challenging experiences as well as seemingly innocuous factors, such as diet and use of technology.

The good news is that this body-based anxiety, or, as Dr. Vora terms it, “false anxiety,” is easily treated. Once the body’s needs are addressed, Dr. Vora reframes any remaining symptoms not as a disorder but rather as an urgent plea from within. This “true anxiety” is a signal that something else is out of balance—in our lives, in our relationships, in the world. True anxiety serves as our inner compass, helping us recalibrate when we’re feeling lost.

Practical, informative, and deeply hopeful, The Anatomy of Anxiety is the first book to fully explain the origins of anxiety and offer a detailed road map for healing and growth.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

日本世代標籤 : 團地族、橫出世、低溫世代、乙男蟻女、蛇顏男、刀劍女、絆婚......昭和、平成令和START!124個看穿日本一世紀社會變化的世代標籤事典

茂呂美耶
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經典解讀日本文化標籤創意——《乙男蟻女》十年大翻修進化版！

真的好想去日本玩耍！
先來看看日本文化觀察專家茂呂美耶
梳理二十代到八十代的看穿日本當代社會文化，世代關鍵標籤小百科

Miya流的釋義、最在地的直擊觀察、條理分明的解讀法
最實地考察、深刻到位的人文趨勢、流行文化

★ 經典的日本鹽男、醬油男，演進到今日是蛇顏男！你是哪一派？你是小栗旬還是松田龍平派？
★ 如同寶可夢一樣有進化型，草食男超進化之後是認為自己一點都不寬鬆的「達觀世代」！
★ 新派日系女子登板——是要當個新型的大人女子、大叔女子？或是擁有女子力的魅力女？
★ 90年代前很流行的全職媽媽「公園登台」和「鑰匙兒童」，在職業婦女增加，以及小孩課後活動甚至比大人還多，已成為時代遺跡的死語。

從世代標籤，窺看日本男女的生活個性、文化學習零時差——

愛上男不是愛上哪個男人，是很會談戀愛的男人；大人女子不是指成年女生，而是代表你已經不是年輕女孩，但也還不是歐巴桑的三四十代女子；夫源病是指讓日本高齡女性患上不明頭痛、頭暈、耳鳴，甚至是自律神經失調的隱忍婚姻疾病；乙男不是家中第二個男孩，而是手巧又專業的粉紅系男孩；蟻女不是工作認真的女孩兒，而是小巧又可愛的袖珍女。還有高麗菜捲男、蘆筍培根男、保留君、歐巴桑軍團、導航姬、歷女……五花八門的時代標籤，不斷增生！

這些，都是代表日本近代至當代社會發展的重要語彙，你也許聽過，說不定還常常使用，認真搞清楚它們的來由與涵義之後，只能大喊「太妙啦～好厲害！」，日本人真的很有趣，非常會下標籤！

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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Tiago Forte
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“One of my favorite books of the year. It completely reshaped how I think about information and how and why I take notes.” —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive

A revolutionary approach to enhancing productivity, creating flow, and vastly increasing your ability to capture, remember, and benefit from the unprecedented amount of information all around us.

For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough.

Now, this eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals.

Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.

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道從此入 : 清代翰林與香港

梁基永
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清代翰林是通過重重科舉考試而成的社會頂尖精英群體，除了學術地位，在社會上有超然的光環。香港本是海濱小地方，也沒出過本土翰林，然而清代翰林與香港，卻有着千絲萬縷的聯繫。從乾隆朝開始，這裏就留下翰林名士足跡。辛亥民國建立之後，一眾清遺民南渡香港，以翰林為首的這班遺民，為香港帶來了最早的正統文脈，也翻開香港文化史精彩的第一章。更罕為人知的是，影響中國一千多年的翰林歷史，原來是在香港終結的。

本書講述乾隆以來，一班狀元探花宰相為什麼先後作客香港，翰林們又是怎樣創立香港的正統儒學與傳統文化教育。許多人物與珍貴史料屬於首次發表。

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