實戰圖解麥肯錫金字塔原理 : 120個圖解+21個表達場景,職場必勝四力一學就會,思考力.寫作力.演說力.問題解決力

郭力
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你想要提高思考力、寫作力、
演講力和問題解決力嗎？

本書一次滿足你4個願望

全圖解／實案解說／易學易懂／隨學隨用／乾貨滿滿!!

本書適合所有希望提高
思考力、寫作力、演講力和問題解決力的讀者閱讀。

金字塔原理是麥肯錫專家芭芭拉‧明托
所提出的結構化思考、寫作及表達技術，
它能幫助人們快速提升
邏輯思維能力和歸納總結能力，
無數人的職場競爭力因而大幅提升。

本書運用圖解和案例的方式，
詳細、具體地介紹了
如何運用金字塔原理幫助我們
解決寫作、演講、商業演示和
解決問題等方面的問題，
進而提升我們的職場競爭力。

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Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers

Eric Potterat, Alan Eagle
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Learn how to perform at your very best, from the psychologist who has advised elite military operators, Olympic medalists, big wave surfers, neurosurgeons, cliff divers, first responders, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, professional athletes and coaches, Fortune 500 business executives, and CIA analysts.

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders.

These stars perform across a wide variety of fields, but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly, stay focused, and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. They may have superb physical and intellectual traits, but it is the stuff going on above the neck and between the ears that makes them excellent. The difference between settling and achieving, between good and great, between contentment and fulfillment, is based entirely on their mental approach.

This approach isn’t innate; it is 100% learned. The world’s top performers aren’t born that way, they learn excellence. So can everyone else, and Dr. Eric Potterat can teach us.

One of the world’s leading performance psychologists and a retired US Navy Commander, Dr. Potterat has spent over three decades helping thousands of top performers from the military, sports, first responder, and business worlds improve. He served as the lead psychologist for the US Navy SEALs and the Los Angeles Dodgers, and has consulted with the US Women’s National Soccer team, the Miami Heat, Red Bull athletes, NASA astronauts, and dozens of Olympic medalists.

In Learned Excellence, Eric distills the insights he’s learned into five mental disciplines for high performance—Values & Goals, Mindset, Process, Adversity Tolerance, and Balance & Recovery. Illustrated with numerous stories and quotes, Learned Excellence features clear principles and practices that anyone can use to raise their game.

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與成功有約 : 高效能人士的七個習慣 （30週年全新增訂版）(The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

史蒂芬‧柯維 (Sean Covey)
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30年卓越經典　全球暢銷4,000萬冊
成功學大師史蒂芬．柯維 歷久彌新的人生經營策略

為什麼七個習慣會持續影響人們的生活？
我想是因為七個習慣幫助人們發現最好的自己與生活。──史蒂芬．柯維

父親總是說，他並未發明這些習慣，因為它們是源於普世原則或自然法則，譬如責任感、正直、豐盛及更新。
各位閱讀時可以感覺到，他現身於字裡行間，肯定你的價值和潛力，教導你如何在工作中、家庭裡，做個更有效能的人。 ──西恩．柯維

史蒂芬．柯維提出高效能成功人士的七個習慣，引領人們打破網路時代疏離的人際關係，以七個習慣重新學習與人相處共事，他告誡我們人生是團隊運動，只有深諳「眾人」藝術的人，才能獲得最大的機會與無限的成就。

《與成功有約：30週年全新增訂版》是史蒂芬之子西恩融會貫通父親的成功心法且經多年實踐後，在原版《與成功有約》的基礎上，針對現代人的工作與生活型態，增添實用的新見解，讓七個習慣更容易落實在日常生活中。西恩並在書中分享父親的生活故事，讓讀者一窺成功學大師如何力行七個習慣。

在這令人迷茫不安的動盪時代，七個習慣幫助你找回生活，重新得到選擇的權力，探索並發現自己最深刻的人生目的，獲得創造未來的工具。七個習慣是所有人一輩子的功課。

　　七個習慣，與成功有約
　　1 主動積極 → 擴大影響力
　　2 以終為始 → 釐清人生定位
　　3 要事第一 → 找到目標與方法
　　4 雙贏思維 → 創造最大價值
　　5 知彼解己 → 維繫人際和諧
　　6 統合綜效 → 化解衝突、找到出路
　　7 不斷更新 → 改變自己與他人的人生

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I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World

Justin Jones-Fosu
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Start building bridges instead of barriers! This essential guide offers a simple 5-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.

Divisions are on the rise around the world, and 2024 may well be a peak year. We’re losing the ability to disagree without dehumanizing. There is a deep need for this practical and accessible guide to having challenging conversations in any situation, from the workplace to the classroom to the dinner table.

It’s not about saying the right words at the right time but something vastly deeper. In this book, you’ll discover the 5 pillars of respectfully disagreeing:
● Challenge your perspective
● Be the student
● Cultivate your curiosity
● Seek the gray
● Agree to respect

But this is not a weighty tome. Each chapter features a cartoon, and Justin Jones-Fosu tackles this serious subject with a playful and compassionate tone. For example, he writes “I have become more and more intentional in my desire to respectfully disagree with others (except those who think putting ketchup on eggs is wrong…there is no hope for respect there).”

With a wide range of examples and exercises throughout, this is a timely and reader-friendly handbook to disagreeing with someone’s ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity.

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習慣紅利 : 從工作管理到人生管理, 從微小改變到人生蛻變

艾爾文
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★暢銷作家艾爾文首本知識型自我成長作品！
★貫通人生五大領域，受用一生的人生改變法則！
★心理學X行為經濟學，你最需要的全方位習慣養成書！

艾爾文很早就認知到「習慣」對人生有重大影響，
於是他從各類科學研究著手，對習慣的鑽研已超過十年以上，
從探索理論到實作方法，他逐步累積一套系統性步驟，並將其應用在自己身上，
成為親身體會透過微小習慣的改變，走向人生蛻變的最佳實證。

從他學生時代考研究所的經驗，再到竹科工程師時期透過習慣累積帶得走的能力，
讓他即使離開穩定的高薪工作都能不慌亂、穩步朝著想要的人生方向前進，
先是出版了理財書籍，再跨領域成為心靈勵志書作家，更兩度成為年度十大暢銷作家。

習慣紅利帶來的效益，不只體現在艾爾文的生活與工作上，
在他想斜槓到不同工作領域時，更產生了莫大助益！
二〇一七年開始經營YouTube影音頻道的他，絲毫沒有影片製作、腳本企劃經驗，
更別說從沒碰過專業影音剪輯軟體，此外還要在鏡頭前侃侃而談。
但不出一個月，他的頻道已上軌道，九個月後訂閱人數更突破十萬，至今早超過七十萬大關。

為何他能在不同領域間轉換自如、看似毫不費力？其實就是「習慣紅利」的力量！
他早已養成系統化做事的習慣，知道用最少的時間完成最重要的事，
發展頻道的同時，寫作、出版與其他原本工作都按計畫進行著。

看似微小且無形，卻一直牽動著人生，這正是習慣帶來的影響。
就算一開始只是微小的付出，長久卻能帶來巨大的改變，正是累積習慣紅利的好處。
而這些微小習慣將會引導養成更多好習慣，最終成為改變人生的核心習慣；
無論是生活習慣、工作習慣、金錢習慣等領域都將出現明顯的成效。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds

Ryan Holiday
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what’s right—even when it isn’t easy

For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re so unhappy.

In Right Thing, Right Now., Holiday draws on fascinating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models, listeners learn the transformational power of living by a moral code and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences of an ill-formed conscience.

The Stoics never claimed that living justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the alternative—sacrificing our principles for something lesser—was considered only by cowards and fools. Right Thing, Right Now. is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a manual for living virtuously.

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隱形澳門:被忽視的城市與文化

李展鵬
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認識澳門過去與未來的必讀專著！
從世界回望本土，以澳門思考台灣

於大航海時代站上世界舞台的澳門
從默默無名的小漁村，歷經華洋共治、葡國殖民到成為中國行政特區
加上港式文化的浸潤影響，形成混雜而異質的文化面貌
因之，閱讀澳門可以讓我們追溯世界的歷史與跨國的交流連繫
從澳門人的本土覺醒，亦能提供文化、傳統、認同、根源等觀念的省思與辯證

● 「兩岸三地」「中港台」──隱含在這些區域概稱當中的澳門，究竟為什麼一直以來都被「隱形」？
●除了葡式蛋塔的可口與大三巴的景觀，澳門還有什麼文化？
●這座人口約60萬的城市，每年迎接超過3000萬的旅客，對當地的社會與人民生活造成什麼影響或價值扭曲？
●相較於香港追求獨立與本土運動的方興未艾，比鄰的澳門相對顯得安於現狀，
究竟他們是怎麼看待自己的身分？新一代的澳門人是否也逐漸凝聚新的本土認同？
●澳門的賭場經驗，對台灣設立「博弈特區」能提供什麼樣的借鏡或警醒？

此書會從澳門長期不被看見的「隱形狀態」談起。作者身為土生澳門人，累積了過去十年對澳門的觀察與思考，全書分為四章。第一章「大三巴背後的故事」談歷史與文化，除了簡述澳門的特殊歷史以外，也從建築、城市結構、葡國菜，以及港澳的微妙關係去討論澳門的混雜文化；第二章「三千萬遊客的一夜情」談開放賭業市場之後的巨變，從二○一六年天鴿颱風曝露的問題、政府派錢的措施、旅遊業的過度發展、城市空間的變異，談到階級社會的浮現；第三章「遲來了數百年的初戀」談身份認同，討論「我愛澳門」這論述的出現，以及本土身份如何在建立在懷舊情緒及排外心態之上；第四章「自己的故事自己說」談本土創作，分析電影、繪畫及戲劇這三種作品如何反映了過去十多年澳門人對城市問題的思考、對本土身份的探索。

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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

Thomas R. Cech
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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist unveils the RNA age.

For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaking discoveries, the biochemist Thomas R. Cech and a diverse cast of brilliant scientists have revealed that RNA―long overlooked as the passive servant of DNA―sits at the center of biology’s greatest mysteries: How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old? In The Catalyst, Cech finally brings together years of research to demonstrate that RNA is the true key to understanding life on Earth, from its very origins to our future in the twenty-first century.

A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA’s spectacular powers, to Cech’s own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health. We learn how RNA―once thought merely to transmit DNA’s genetic instructions to the cell’s protein-making machinery―may have jump-started life itself, and how, at the same time, it can cut our individual lives short through viral diseases and cancer. We see how RNA is implicated in the aging process and explore the darker depths of the supposed fountain of youth, telomerase. And we catch a thrilling glimpse into how RNA-powered therapies―from CRISPR, the revolutionary tool that uses RNA to rewrite the code of life, to the groundbreaking mRNA vaccines that have saved millions during the pandemic, and more―may enable us to improve and even extend life beyond nature’s current limits.

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金牌法則:奧運金牌教練寫給所有人的逐夢指引 帶領你開創世界一流的人生 (The Golden Rules)

鮑伯.波曼(Bob Bowman), 查爾斯.巴特勒 (Charles Butler)
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在追求卓越的熱情下
你可以把自己的天賦和夢想帶到更遠大的地方

本書作者鮑伯．波曼是奧運金牌紀錄保持人麥可．菲爾普斯的游泳教練，早在菲爾普斯10歲時，他就發現這個從小不被看好的過動兒擁有強大的潛力。波曼把所有熱情全都奉獻給他的運動員，鼓勵選手為自己夢想的目標奮戰。因為對他來說：每個人都可以做得更好！每一個人！

無論你的人生目標是什麼，此刻是為了什麼而努力，也許你想獲得升遷、順利畢業、追求更好的生活，也許你想成為醫生、總裁、工程師、音樂家或最棒的父母，在拿起這本書的同時，恭喜你，你找對方向了！

波曼用畢生熱情培養出史上最偉大的奧運選手，這是他寫給各行各業人士關於如何追尋夢想、實現自我的一本書。波曼與我們分享，他是如何運用這10條法則，在每天的努力下，幫助自己與他人追求人生的各種里程碑：
●打造願景，化不可能為可能
●冒險才能面對更大的挑戰
●設定短期目標，創造長期成功
●建立團隊，少有冠軍是孤獨的
●點燃對夢想的熱情，並保持熱情
●當時機到來，帶著自信表現

在逐夢的過程中，你會看見追求卓越的價值與收穫。那是什麼呢？不是獎牌或紀錄，而是夢想所生的回憶。

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Killer Visual Strategies: Engage Any Audience, Improve Comprehension, and Get Amazing Results Using Visual Communication

Amy Balliett
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Considered "One of the Best Marketing & Sales Books of 2020" by the prestigious Porchlight Business Book Awards, this is the essential guide to harnessing the power of visual communication.

Visual communication has changed.

Because 91% of today's audiences prefer visual content as their first form of information delivery. And a staggering 94% of first impressions of a brand or product will be based entirely on the design of that visual content. That's why we need to use visual storytelling to help us establish and strengthen relationships, engage distracted audiences, and bring clarity to complexity.

Killer Visual Strategies examines how visual communication has transformed how brands connect with their customers and colleagues alike.

In addition to providing actionable rules to follow for creating high-impact visual content, Killer Visual Strategies also explores the latest trends, including visual search, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR), as well as what lies ahead in this dynamic field!

Applicable to a wide range of professions where visual content is now vital to sharing a message, you can expect Killer Visual Strategies to deliver:
·Best practices for modern visual communication
·Inspiration from outstanding and groundbreaking visual examples
·The latest trends in visual communication
·A comprehensive breakdown of how it affects marketing, sales, design, HR, and more!

Killer Visual Strategies is the evolution of visual communication as a fundamental part of how a story is told.

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請問松浦彌太郎：將心安放的基本

松浦彌太郎
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不求一定幸福，但求「時常」活得像自己。
松浦彌太郎打造日日好日的55個習慣。
關於───人際關係、愛、生活、工作、成長。

寫給活在局勢動盪的現今，種種不安、焦慮盤據於心的你。

明明渴望幸福，卻遲遲無法邁開腳步嗎？
其實，值得我們用一生追求的，絕非成功，或是得到他人的認可，
而是對自己來說，所謂正確的基本──
「這麼做比較好，或是相信這麼做才是對的。」

「安心」是什麼？
松浦彌太郎說：「所謂安心，就是每天都能發現喜悅，對任何事物心懷感謝。夜晚好眠，覺得明天又是美好的一天。」

「不追求最好，也不擔憂最壞」
求的是一種安適、安心、安穩的感覺。
透過基本的習慣，培養「時常」的力量，讓它成為你的生存之道。

請將10個基本「時常」，放入你的生活清單吧────
幸福──只要常保笑容，每天都能確實前行。
人際關係──隨時都能分道揚鑣，卻不想就此疏離。
愛──接受對方的一切，彼此溫柔地關注。
富足──充分吟味而入手，是對物品的感謝之情。
生活──體驗專注與放鬆、成功與失敗、支配與順從。
健康──心越是疲倦，越會逞強。
安心──不企求，不計較得失，不算計利害。
學習──抱持疑問，持續思考。
工作──為了幫助有難的人而行動。
成長──主動宣示，打破禁錮自己的殼。
明天──相信是最強的力量，相信自己，就能找出答案。

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Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein
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This “smart and fun read, and a valuable way to revitalize your life” (Walter Isaacson) deftly explains how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate and reset our brains for the better.

Have you ever noticed that what is exciting on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even passionate relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. As easy as it is to stop noticing what is most wonderful in our lives, it’s also possible to stop noticing what is terrible. People get used to dirty air. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before.

Now, neuroscience professor Tali Sharot and Harvard law professor (and presidential advisor) Cass R. Sunstein investigate why we stop noticing both the great and not-so-great things around us and how to “dishabituate” at the office, in the bedroom, at the store, on social media, and in the voting booth.

This groundbreaking and “sensational guide to a more psychological rich life” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author), based on decades of research, illuminates how we can reignite the sparks of joy, innovate, and recognize where improvements urgently need to be made. The key to this disruption—to seeing, feeling, and noticing again—is change. By temporarily changing your environment, changing the rules, changing the people you interact with—or even just stepping back and imagining change—you regain sensitivity, allowing you to identify more clearly the bad and more deeply appreciate the good.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

外出用餐 : 一部橫跨兩千年的外出飲食文化史 (The Restaurant)

威廉．席特維爾 (William Sitwell)
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從兩千年前的龐貝城酒館，到中世紀法國高級餐廳；
從墨西哥塔可餅機的改良，到日本迴轉壽司輸送帶的發明……

當餐廳不只是餐廳，外出用餐不只是填飽肚子這麼簡單──
庶民飲食╳政治角力╳帝國秩序╳移民經濟
飲食偏好╳餐桌禮儀╳待客之道╳文化禁忌

飲食早已成為一個民族或地區文化的象徵，不同菜肴在歷史上的變遷也悄悄記錄了不同文化的交融，小小的餐館也是人類歷史的博物館。

現代人對於外出用餐已習以為常，只因為餐廳本身已不只是最原始的「用餐」功能，它提供了更多的社交應酬、商業談判、生活所需、情感調劑等實際功能。從更深層的一面來探討，外出用餐與餐廳的存在意義，反映了當代社會、及與其對應的歷史、經濟、文化發展等關係。

餐廳的出現不只被視為是飲食場地的變化、不只是被當成空間工具，更重要的是同時標示著一個國家、甚至是帝國的衰敗或成功。例如龐貝城的外出用餐場景，象徵羅馬帝國的願景、幅員遼闊和繁榮富庶。第二次世界大戰後的英國餐廳則充分顯示了戰爭衝突的恐怖和國力瓦解是如何殘害該國的美食文化和味覺。

而現代世界的交通便利和旅行發達，意味著餐廳已足夠成為人們旅行的理由。餐廳就像博物館、藝術、夜店或海灘，成為人們沉浸於各種文化的絕佳選項。英國作家尼古拉斯．蘭德（Nicholas Lander）就曾說：「菜單代表最便宜的旅行方式。」

由此可知，外出用餐已是一種文化現象。人們會被誘惑進餐廳是因為他們肚子餓，而人們尋找餐廳也為了其他理由：碰面、社交、做生意、與愛人發展浪漫關係，甚至將它當成政治角力的場所。這些訪客會餓著肚子去餐廳，但追求經驗的渴望和需要，卻遠比飢餓本身更為複雜。

作者席特維爾以「餐廳」為引，點出了我們忽略的歷史細節、生活細節，講述了一部有關全球社會發展的歷史，深入探討長達二千年的飲食歷史，從最基本到最複雜的飲食形式，追溯外出用餐文化的起源，揭示世界各地不同的社會如何發現外出用餐的樂趣，同時也追溯流行如何形塑我們外出用餐的方式。

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

“Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!” –Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.” (The New Yorker)

It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.

The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.

What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is.

We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world.

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這個動盪的世界

龍應台
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和平的希望像個肥皂泡泡，一吹就破？
走過東柏林、莫斯科、加薩走廊、耶路撒冷、哈瓦那
龍應台親歷「現場」的活生生的文字
讓你看見，原來殘酷和暴力，都有脈絡來源……

三十年前我在現場見證冷戰的結束。
今天卻目睹冷戰死灰復燃，甚且漫天烽火。
難道三十年前的抉擇和期待，都太天真了嗎？

◆從動盪走向動盪
今天的世界何其動盪：俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭，哈馬斯突擊以色列，以色列摧毀加薩走廊……
可是三十年前，柏林圍牆崩塌使百萬人欣喜淚流。蘇聯帝國解體而二十萬人在莫斯科沸騰。以色列的母親們，聚集街頭，為和平祈禱。
強烈的吶喊和期待，對證今天的殘酷，差距為什麼如此巨大？
龍應台當年親歷現場的文字，今日讀來如同預言，讓此刻許多難以理解的事情，頓時分明起來。
然而同時，龍應台的文字，總能讓人在最大的殘酷之中看見人最謙卑、最樸素的情感。

將二十一世紀前夕走過歷史「現場」的文章重新整理出來，作者提出一個深沉的問題：
「會不會是因為，在我們為某一種價值的肯定施放煙火、滿城歡騰的時候，我們忘記了一件事：在一個特定結構中，一部分人的獲得，往往是另一部分人的失去，某一種價值的肯定，往往是另一種價值的否定；三十年後，那些被我們忘記了、忽略了、甚至踩在腳下的人，緊抱著他慘痛失去了的價值，衝上前來，造成新的暴力？」

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What Went Wrong with Capitalism

Ruchir Sharma
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A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and soaked America in debt.

Capitalism didn’t fail, it was ruined...

What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s account is not like any you will have heard before. He says progressives are right, in part, when they mock modern capitalism as “socialism for the rich.” For a century, governments have expanded in just about every measurable dimension, from spending to regulation and the scale of financial rescues when the economy wobbles. The result is expensive state guarantees for everyone—bailouts for the rich, entitlements for the middle class, welfare for the poor.

Taking you back to the 19th century, Sharma shows how completely the reflexes of government have changed: from hands-off to hands-on, from doing too little to help anyone in hard times to today trying to prevent anyone suffering any economic pain, ever. Trading sins of omission and indifference for excesses of spending and meddling, governments from the United States to Europe and Japan have pumped so much money into their economies that financial markets can no longer invest all that capital efficiently.

Inadvertently, they have fueled the rise of monopolies, “zombie” firms, and billionaires. They have made capitalism less fair and less efficient, which is slowing economic growth and fueling popular anger. The first step to a cure is a correct diagnose of the problem. Capitalism has been badly distorted by constant government intervention and the relentless spread of a bailout culture. Building an even bigger state will only double down on what ruined capitalism in the first place.

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彌敦道上 : 金光舊夢換新顏

編者： 鄭宏泰 , 周文港
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用港督名字命名的彌敦道（Nathan Road）乃九龍半島的大動脈，自修築至落成使用起，九龍半島日漸繁盛起來，成為車水馬龍的金光大道。

本書是關於彌敦道的故事，匯聚多位學者和歷史專家的文章，配以多幅歷史照片，從城市節奏、文化遺產、街角故事、衣食住行四個部份，呈現九龍半島特別是彌敦道的發展面貌、人情逸事及文化沉澱等方面一個多世紀以來的轉變。由尖沙咀地標東英大廈背後有關何東胞弟的謎團、新世界中心以至天星小輪的發跡故事，到彌敦道休憩公園東側防空隧道說起的懸案等等。走在彌敦道上，一步一故事。本書帶你重溫一遍金光舊夢，並藉此說明香港一路走來的不凡經歷。

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Secrets of the Octopus

Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle IV
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Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.

This new book—written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus, along with Warren Carlyle, founder of Octonation, and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures.

The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic television special—narrated by Paul Rudd and airing for Earth Day—this beautifully illustrated book explores the alluring underwater world of the octopus—a creature that resembles an alien lifeform, but whose behavior has earned it a reputation as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.

This magical journey into the world of the octopus will reveal how the large and capable brain of these creatures occupies their whole body–not just their heads—and they can actually adjust their genetic makeup to respond to the demands of the environment. It will allow readers to watch them change shape and color in order to camouflage themselves more effectively than any other species. And it will divulge how octopus mothers give their all in order to bring forth a new generation.

With this offering, acclaimed author Sy Montgomery—known, thanks to her bestselling book, as the “octopus whisperer”—returns to the species she knows and loves, offering current and compassionate stories about the scientists on the front lines of octopus research and conservation.

For all animal lovers—and especially those drawn to this magical marine being—this will be a book to relish, for both its fascinating imagery and its charming storytelling.

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錦程 : 中國絲綢與絲綢之路 (Chinese Silk and the Silk Road)

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說到絲綢，馬上就會聯想到中國。中國是世界上最早發明蠶桑絲綢的國家；絲綢是中國文明的一個重要組成部分，並通過絲綢之路，西傳至中亞、西亞，直達歐洲。「絲綢之路」有兩個關鍵字：「絲綢」和「路」。一百多年來，中外學者對絲綢之路的中外文化交流進行了大量的研究，但專門針對絲綢之路上出土的絲綢和紡織品—即「絲路之綢」的研究卻並不十分豐富。

本書專門對絲綢之路的出土紡織品進行總體介紹；作者把中國絲綢的發展、藝術、工藝等通過絲綢之路的變化一一呈現，特別通過漢唐時期不同種類紡織品的技術與風格特點，勾勒東西方紡織科技的交流過程，以及中國紡織科技在這一時期的演變脈絡，讓讀者對「絲綢之路」的文化交流、「絲路之綢」的工藝發展，以至彼此間的聯繫有更深入的認識。

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" A Passion for Silk the Road from China to Europe” exhibition held at the Indra and Banga Gallery of the City University of Hong Kong from April 11 to September 1, 2024. READ MORE

正於香港城市大學舉行的《絲織繁華：從中國到歐洲之路》展覽，匯集了一百五十件來自中國、印度、 法國及意大利的各類珍貴絲綢文物。這些展品為我們提供了一個獨特的視角，探討中國歷經多個世紀的絲綢織造技藝，以及其在文化中的重要地位。閱讀更多

日期: 2024年4月11日至9月1日 （逢星期一休館）
時間: 上午10時 – 下午7時
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates

A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.

None of us are prepared.

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.

In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? Is it possible to contain the threat of AI?

This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

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活了100萬次的人生腳本 : 看清內心小劇場, 重整內在四種人格模式, 終結自我情緒內耗

吉塔・雅各 (Gitta Jacob)
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──每個人，都會在這本書中看見自己的身影──
為什麼有人活得愉悅自在，有些人卻痛苦不已？
讓德國最具影響力的心理學家帶領你重塑內在人格、跳脫框架，
在餘生懂得真正地善待自己。

在某些情境下，我們不自覺就會表現出不安、焦慮、恐懼……你有問過自己這種感覺是從何而來嗎？為什麼我們沒辦法用另一種方式來應對？為什麼我們的人生總是反覆犯下相同錯誤，彷彿從未學到教訓。這讓人無比挫折，也使人感到痛苦、悲傷、絕望、無助……但這是為什麼？為什麼這種只會帶來傷害的行為如此難以擺脫，甚至無法改變？其實，每個人的思考模式、情緒反應與行為都無意識地遵循了某種模式，而產生特定的應對策略，所以才會一次又一次落入同樣的情緒陷阱。

你可以告別反覆上演的負面情緒與創傷，
不再經歷一犯再犯的錯誤。
霸氣奪回人生的主導權，活出最滿意的自己。

在本書的協助之下，讀者將了解自我內在人格地圖的四大部分，並學會如何妥善分配角色。在這過程，你將跟著指引看見隱藏在內心已久的創傷、衝突與心結，重新理解真實的自我與情緒來源。藉由安撫受傷的內在小孩、擺脫內在法官殘酷無情的貶低聲音，建立更強大的成人自我，成熟地修正錯誤的應對策略，從此不再輕易受過去創傷與情緒擺布、反覆陷入同樣的泥淖。

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Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

Amy C. Edmondson
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Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.

After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.

With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth. You’ll never look at failure the same way again.

“Amy Edmondson, one of our finest business minds, offers a bold new perspective on human fallibility. With a graceful mix of scientific research and practical advice, she shows how to transform failure from an obstacle to a steppingstone — from a weight that holds up back to a wind that propels us forward. Right Kind of Wrong is guidebook for our times.” -- Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive

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馬斯克傳 : Elon Musk不設限全公開

華特．艾薩克森 (Walter Isaacson)
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馬斯克唯一不設限、全公開傳記
權威傳記作家艾薩克森重磅力作

兩年深度跟訪，解密全世界最令人好奇，也最具爭議性的創新者——
是狂人還是造勢天才？是破壞者還是創新者？是混蛋還是英雄？

★第一視角觀察馬斯克獨有的英雄模式與惡魔模式
★深入解讀馬斯克旗下六大事業的商業與創新策略
★揭露AI、自動駕駛、太空探險三大尖端科技趨勢

「不管你喜歡與否，我們都生活在馬斯克創造的世界裡。」—《時代》

《賈伯斯傳》作者、最能捕捉天才腦中靈光的艾薩克森，跟隨馬斯克長達兩年，跟他一起開會、走訪工廠，採訪馬斯克本人、他的家人、朋友、同事和對手，寫出這部考證詳實、藏著驚人內幕的人生故事。寫作過程中，馬斯克從不掌控內容走向，也不要求在出版前先看過，甚至鼓勵他的對手、前員工跟作者談一談。

艾薩克森精闢描述馬斯克的成功與風暴，也探討了一個問題：驅動馬斯克的惡魔，是否也是創新和進步的推手？

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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Ha-Joon Chang
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Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics

For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.

Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom.

Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it—and better understand our world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

社會新鮮人面試教戰手冊：華爾街投行副總面試祕訣大公開

克里斯
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華爾街投行副總親授面試祕訣！
什麼樣的履歷會吸引人資主管的青睞？
面試時要怎麼表現才能得到工作機會？
深入淺出，一本就通！

本書將從如何寫好履歷開始，一個好的履歷才能讓你得到面試的機會，然而取得面試的機會。然而面試機會只是求職的第一步，本書下半場就是如何準備面試，在面試時應該如何應對進退，並且如何準備的問題，進而取得工作。

作者在英國倫敦曾和各大獵頭公司交手無數次，並累積不下三百次的面試實戰經驗。工作之後，作者角色從求職者變成面試官，本書是作者累積數年求職者及主考官的心得筆記，並在每次重新求職時都會反覆閱讀，並不時修正及加入新的心得。

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Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World

Cheuk Kwan
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An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world.

*A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST NEW BOOK*

*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE*

*A NEW YORK POST BEST NEW BOOK*

From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces. They are an insight into time, history, and place.

Author and film-maker Cheuk Kwan, a self-described “card-carrying member of the Chinese diaspora,” weaves a global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, labourers and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens worldwide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many of these communities: how Chinese immigrants have resisted—or have often been prevented from—complete assimilation into the social fabric of their new homes. In both instances, the engine of their economic survival—the Chinese restaurant and its food—has become seamlessly woven into towns and cities all around the world.

An intrepid travelogue of grand vistas, adventure and serendipity, Have You Eaten Yet? charts a living atlas of global migration, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人工智慧最後的秘密 : 權力、政治、人類的代價, 科技產業和國家機器如何聯手打造AI神話? (Atlas of AI)

凱特・克勞馥 (Kate Crawford)
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AI ≠ 人工 + 智慧
模擬人類微笑的Amazon彎曲箭頭背後，誰受益、誰為此犧牲？
為何Google不惜一切代價避免提到或暗示人工智慧？
從沙漠到海洋，從岩石到城市，從樹木到超大型企業，從跨洋航線到原子彈，
誰在AI後面？誰背叛了AI？

從神話到魔化，從地球、雲端到太空，破解AI背後的6個祕密，探索人工智慧的另一種可能！

當代AI研究先驅、微軟研究院資深首席研究員
第一手揭露人工智慧豐功偉業背後的陰暗面！

▌幽靈代價，我們為AI付出了什麼？

◎人工智慧既非人工的，也不是智慧的，那些看似萬能的智慧是如何「製造」出來的？
◎從內華達沙漠到內蒙古巨大的人工湖、從亞馬遜倉庫到太空殖民，直擊人工智慧帝國全景地圖！
◎人工智慧充滿隱藏成本，從自然資源和勞力到隱私和自由都是代價，深入了解我們為人工智慧付出了什麼？
◎人類為人工智慧制定的倫理架構非常失敗，程式碼和演算法並非致命毒藥，那麼到底哪裡出了錯？

本書作者凱特•克勞馥是當代對人工智慧的影響最深思熟慮的研究者之一，以人文主義者的眼光、藝術家的感知、科學家的嚴謹，揭露人工智慧真實的樣貌。她憑藉十多年的研究，揭示了人工智慧神話背後隱藏了什麼，從打造與支持人工智慧基礎設施所需的能源和礦物、剝削「自動化」服務背後的勞工，到人工智慧從我們身上取得的資料，破除人工智慧的迷思。

全書以地圖集的概念來看待人工智慧，提供我們重新閱讀世界的可能性。在人工智慧的地景中，我們會造訪礦坑、耗能資料中心裡長長的走廊、顱骨檔案庫、影像資料庫，以及日光燈照亮的物流倉庫，了解每一種分類都有自己的後果。世界上最富有公司的人工智慧系統正榨取各種資源，將人類的思考能力商品化，以服務當代科技的一瞬間。

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HBR Guide to Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review
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Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.

You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know you're taking the right path?

The answer is in how you think. The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from difficult problems to tough decisions to complex scenarios. By carefully observing the situation, gathering information, inviting other perspectives, and analyzing what's in front of you, you can move forward with confidence while building this crucial leadership skill.

You'll learn how to:

- Question your assumptions
- Keep an open mind to opposing viewpoints
- Sidestep cognitive biases
- Use data—when appropriate
- Grow comfortable with ambiguity
- Find innovative and creative solutions

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

城市的精神 : 何以城市認同在全球化時代如此重要 (The Spirit of Cities)

貝淡寧 (Daniel A. Bell) , 艾維納・德夏里特 (Avner de-Shalit)
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城市漫遊者的著地觀察，拋開政治理論模型，以實地生活、調查、訪談，消化大量資料後為十座熟悉的城市，各自找出城市的特色、城市的氣質、讓市民感到驕傲的核心價值，定調出「城市的精神」。
十座城市，十種精神。全球化文化同質性的最佳解藥。
經由認識陌生的城市，更加瞭解在地，認同我們居住的城市。
全球文化同質化的年代，「市民精神」可能取代國族或民族的認同。

什麼是城市的精神？

二十世紀八〇年代世界開啟了全球化，國與國之間的緊密聯繫，澈底改變了生活形態，附帶的文化同質化現象，使得國家的特徵逐漸消失，面貌模糊，民族性的差異也逐漸在彼此接納後下降。對於國家和民族的認同感逐漸下降之際，甚至有「世界公民」概念產生。人們有追求獨特性的渴望，依然擁有追尋理想價值的需求，城市，將成為理想的解答。

城市既能凝聚共識，也能彰顯價值，從雅典的城邦政治到當代的城市論壇，我們總是熱切地討論著：我們需要什麼樣的城市？我們的城市該如何發展？城市彷彿擁有生命，有著確切的人格和清晰可辨的特色，並且具有不可撼動的核心價值，維繫著它的發展，令人引以為傲，貝淡寧和德夏里特稱此為「城市的精神」。

各界好評

對於喜愛城市的人來說，他們的書是一段充滿激情、深刻並且鼓舞人心的探索當代城市體驗核心之旅。（城市之光咖啡館）

政治理論中少有新想法，貝淡寧和艾維納・德夏里特肯定有所創新，而且十分出色：培養「城市的精神」是全球文化同質化下的最佳解藥。在九座城市中，以個人軼事、歷史和理論反思的創新和引人入勝的組合作為例子，他們寫出了一本閃閃發光的書，也是政治理論中的新事物。（麥克・瓦爾澤，普林斯頓高等研究院榮譽教授）

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Material World : The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Ed Conway
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls “the ethereal world”—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates.

Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground up.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

名作要從最後一句開始讀 : 解讀古今東西文豪132部經典名著的結尾品味

齋藤美奈子 （Saito Minako)
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文豪在最後一句拚上老命？ 文豪也會蓋爛尾樓？
經典名作爆雷更有趣？

名作如人生，不讀最後一句，永遠不知道它有多精采
從《少爺》《雪國》到《傲慢與偏見》
帶你讀透古今東西文豪132部名作的經典結尾

你知道人生最美的○○，就在《少爺》的最後一句話？
為何那位唯美派名家的戀愛小說要以女人拉肚子收場？
哪位大師遺作結尾預言了全世界社畜跪下來的工作日常？

川端康成的結尾竟飄出了BL的味道；三島由紀夫結尾的草食系男子變肉食系，說的正是他自己？！谷崎潤一郎的結尾證明他果然是個變態；海明威的結尾則透露作家其實想當一隻貓……拿最後一句鞭文豪品味的樂趣，全都在本書裡！

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Career on Course: 10 Strategies to Take Your Career from Accidental to Intentional

Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Most careers unfold accidentally, haphazardly, and with too much serendipity. That means lost traction, lost years, and lost opportunities. But your career doesn't have to be that way! Career on Course unpacks the 10 steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional.

Drawing upon insights and best practices from three decades in professional and leadership development, Scott Jeffrey Miller shares his proven process for creating a plan that empowers you to take control of your career. Based on his own successes and failures, and those that he's watched from both high-performing and frustrated professionals, Scott shows you how to

· know your professional values
· develop your long-term plan
· define and build your brand
· and more

The most successful professionals are those who have clarity, have a plan, live in accordance with their values, and know how to pivot in the face of disruption. Whether you're just starting your career or you've found yourself stuck somewhere in the middle, this book will help you get your career on course.

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旅行的意義：帶回一個和出發時不一樣的自己 (Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel)

克雷格．史托迪 (Craig Storti)
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「《旅行的意義》針對人為何旅行、如何旅行以及旅行對人的影響等課題作了迷人、睿智而有趣的探索。我從未讀過類似的書。就如旅行活動本身，本書改變了我對世界的觀點，幫助我用新奇的角度去看熟悉的地景。」──2017《金融時報》（Financial Times）、《旁觀者》（Spectator）雜誌年度好書《狂風所在》（Where the Wild Winds Are）作者尼克．杭特（Nick Hunt）

「也許你去過泰姬瑪哈陵和萬里長城，但倘若你尚未讀過本書，你或許就不算真的旅行過。憑著深刻的經歷和洞見，克雷格．史托迪以清澄明晰、幽默感和宏大的歷史感指出旅行是何等重要。他以實例證明人可以超越單純的觀光，在任何新地域成為開明參與者的各種方法。對所有旅人，更別說跨文化主義者言，本書都是必讀之作。──美國國務院海外簡報中心（Overseas Briefing Center）前主任凡遜．席柏斯坦（Fanchon Silberstein）

「克雷格．史托迪令人折服地回答了『旅行為何重要』這個問題。他區分了旅行和觀光的不同，接著證明旅行能擔保人在出發和回來時不會是同一個人。數量豐富的引言生動闡明了他的觀點，讓這本引人著作的內容更顯充實。他的觀點是：旅行既是內在也是外在的旅程。」──跨文化教育訓練及研究協會（SIETAR）會長姍卓．M．富勒（Sandra M. Fowler）

你可以選擇當個觀光客，盡情享樂；
或者做一名旅人，讓旅行改變一生。

◤旅遊是為了觀光，旅行是為了理解
「旅行不在於去過多少地方，而是對造訪之處了解多少。」
「旅人不知道該往哪裡去（因為不重要），而遊客不知道自己去過哪裡。」──保羅．索魯
「旅人們會對於某些事心懷敬畏，或對某些事心生警覺；……他們時而覺得驚奇有趣，時而挫折、懊惱和著迷，但他們絕不會無感。」

本書是寫給那些想要深入了解旅行提供的各種機會，以及如何善加運用的人；那些想要充實自身人格，開拓心靈，帶回一個和出發時不一樣的自己的人；還有那些想要從旅行中學習的人。在本書中這樣的人被稱為嚴肅旅人。

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The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm
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The renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm has helped millions of men and women achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love. In this astonishingly frank and candid book, he explores the ways in which this extraordinary emotion can alter the whole course of your life.

Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts—a love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding.

In this classic work, Fromm explores love in all its aspects--not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also love of parents, children, brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, and the love of God.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

去書店買個好人生

千田琢哉著; 林詠純譯
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賣破340萬冊的暢銷作家，教你如何用一本書，創造無限複利效應！
日本一上市即緊急再刷！亞馬遜讀者4.4星好評：
「一回神才發現，這本書徹底扭轉了我的思維！」

讀吧！書裡什麼都有！
讀一本商業書，練就大師闖蕩業界的智慧。
讀一本勵志書，重拾與生活正面對決的勇氣。
讀一本暢銷書，你將理解背後趨勢及商機祕密。
當我們走進書店，即是踏上思維升級的逆襲之路。

本書作者千田琢哉，在成為著作等身的百萬級暢銷作家前，曾是個只看漫畫的問題學生，從未讀完半本書。某天他偶然迷上商業書，決心展開一場「紙上挑戰」，在大學期間讀完一萬本書。這些知識，為他奠定了日後展開財富自由的人生基礎。

作者透過閱讀，練就了在面臨職場、人際以及未來規畫等難題時，逐一拆解並克服的能力。本書不僅是獻給職場人士的自我投資指南，更提供你在人生卡關時，活得更好、更強大的行動方針。

本書將啟發並強化8大能力──
生存力／無論時代如何更迭，都能成為未來所需要的人才
行動力／根除拖延症，現在開始設計你的一生
溝通力／將知識與故事，轉換成加深及拓廣人脈的機會
學習力／不只有效吸收，更能學以致用
工作力／換位思考，養成任何職場都適用的能力
變現力／善用投資的智慧，邁向財富自由之道
成長力／主動而持續地激發潛力，不滿足於此刻的自己
選書與閱讀力／遇見100％的命定之書，發揮100％的最大效益

學歷是一陣子，學習是一輩子，如果覺得自己欠栽培，那麼拿起這本書也為時不晚，作者將用自身經歷，教會你如何栽培自己。──鄭俊德｜閱讀人社群主編

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)