Risk to Succeed: Essential Lessons for Discovering Your Unique Talents and Finding Success

Ricky Cohen
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NEW BUSINESS PARABLE FOR OUR TIMES

According to the laws of the jungle, a baby elephant can survive only if it stands on its own in the first few hours after being born.

These laws also apply to your own survival--and ultimate success--in the business world today.

From Ricky Cohen, educator, entrepreneur, and renowned CEO of The Conway Organization, comes an inspiring new business parable for our unprecedented times. It is the story of a young elephant named Bella who is not content to move with the herd. She longs to venture out on her own. Searching. Exploring. Making her way in the world. Soon she forms an unlikely friendship with a colorful butterfly named Cee, who teaches Bella the importance of taking risks and other essential lessons--timeless "laws of the jungle" that you can apply to every aspect of your life:

"Life begins with courage."
"Smart is the new rich."
"Stumbling is a gift."
"What you seek lies within you."
"Believe in life: Always."

and much more…

Whether you're an entrepreneur with a dream, a manager on the rise, or a leader with a vision, this charming and insightful parable will guide you on your way through life’s greatest journey. This is the way to Risk to Succeed.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

為什麼成功的人總成功 (The 7 Rules of Success)

費奧納．哈羅德 (Fiona Harrold) 著
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本書是英國當代著名的成功學教育學家費奧納•哈羅德的經典勵志作品。費奧納•哈羅德在其人生經歷中，曾接觸過大量的成功人士，與他們進行了面對面的交談，了解了他們的成功故事和成功法則。在本書中，費奧納•哈羅德通過親身經歷和切身體會，揭開了成功的神秘面紗，展示了成功背後的理念，提示了那些成功人士的成功策略和秘密，發現了現代成功人士所普遍遵從的7大法則：富有激情、相信自己、做得比別人多、冒更多的險、激勵他人、堅持不懈、慷慨，同時也探討了成功與快樂、成功與個人責任、成功與社會地位、成功與事業之間的關係。

(摘錄自amazon.cn)

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

Rebecca MacKinnon
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The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web’s empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. Sudden changes in Facebook’s features and privacy settings have exposed identities of protestors to police in Egypt and Iran. Apple removes politically controversial apps at the behest of governments as well as for its own commercial reasons. Dozens of Western companies sell surveillance technology to dictatorships around the world. Google struggles with censorship demands from governments in a range of countries—many of them democracies—as well as mounting public concern over the vast quantities of information it collects about its users.

In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it is time to fight for our rights before they are sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Every day, the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace make decisions that affect our physical freedom—but without our consent. Yet the traditional solution to unaccountable corporate behavior—government regulation—cannot stop the abuse of digital power on its own, and sometimes even contributes to it.

A clarion call to action, Consent of the Networked shows that it is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers people, and address the urgent question of how technology should be governed to support the rights and liberties of users around the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

萬古江河 : 中國歷史文化的轉折與開展

許倬雲 著
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《萬古江河》是許倬雲畢生智慧的結晶，也是他對中國文化發展問題的創新詮釋！

本書以江河流域的擴大比喻文化的進展，從中國文化發軔的地理空間開始談起，論及史前時期中國文化的多元發展與分合，然後再細述中國文化在不斷的衝突與融合中，一步步擴大進入世界體系的歷程。最後，全書以中國文化面對近代西方資本主義帝國壓力下的「百年蹣跚」為結束。

《萬古江河》近27萬言，涉及的內容極為豐富，有民俗生活、思想信仰、文學藝術、經濟社會的演變、科學技術的發展、文化的交流互動等，字裡行間既有高空鳥瞰式的宏觀洞見，又有具體日常生活的細微描寫。

更重要的是，本書不但擺脫了中國文化本位主義，也著重於庶民觀點及大區域文化的比較研究，每每以全球文化的高視點，來詮釋多元且複雜的中國文化發展歷程。其視野之開闊、思路之寬廣，實為相關著作中所僅見。

許倬雲耗時三年完成的這部大著作，雖是以精深學術為底子，但作者的文字風格極為暢達，也不直接引用史料原文，因此本書已跨越了歷史專業讀者群的範圍，非常適合一般讀者閱讀。作者在書中闡釋了上百個一般讀者想知道，但又不曉得到哪裡去問的文化議題，例如：台灣為什麼晚至近代才出現在中國歷史上、中古的老百姓吃些什麼、《金瓶梅》為什麼是有反叛精神的創作、長江文化和黃河文化有何差異、孔子的「仁」到底是什麼意思、中國為什麼沒有出現代西方的工業化……等。一如作者在自序中所言：「今日的讀者不同於舊時，在這平民的時代，大率受過高中教育以上者，都可能對歷史有興趣。」──而本書，即是為這一代中國人所撰寫的歷史。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Visualizing Russia: Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a National Past

Edited by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
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The Romantic search for a national past was a European Preoccupation in the first half of the nineteenth century. In Russia, this process led to the formation of the Russian Style that has until today so captivated the world's imagination. While the manifestations of this style are easily recognizable in gleaming gilt, vibrant colors, onion domes, peasant costume, and tsarist regalia, hardly anyone has realized the pioneering and defining role that Fedor Solntsev (1801-1892) played in the development of a Russian national aesthetic. This book rescues Solntsev from obscurity and celebrates his major contributions to the arts, archaeology, architecture, ethnography, icon painting, restoration work, and Russian nationalist ideology and also places his work in a general European context.

(Excerpt from books.google.com.hk)

俄羅斯美術隨筆

高莽
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何懷碩教授 推薦

俄羅斯的文化、思想、文學、音樂與繪畫一向在我心中有特別的份量。深刻、壯麗、雄渾與穿透心靈的力量，在歐洲只有貝多芬、歌德、莎士比亞、哈代、林布蘭、羅丹、孟克等等大師才能給我們一樣的震撼。俄國繪畫力量之強，在技巧上要歸功於他們對學生的訓練之嚴格。基礎訓練的素描之深刻、嚴謹而不板滯，因為內在神采的捕捉使它比印象派素描著眼於形式的追求要來得更富精神性的內涵。當代美術教育基礎訓練普遍放鬆，尤其西方後現代的新潮的影響，繪畫的式微令人懷憂。

俄羅斯繪畫在技巧之外，強調發揮文化的民族特色。──那些在時空推移中積澱而成的人文思想、生命態度、價值品味、生活風尚等等；吸收外來文化而不喪失自我；揚棄偏向於以技藝的巧變與視覺趣味的追求取代藝術表現人的心靈內在感受的形式主義。俄羅斯那個濃厚的人文主義的藝術傳統，應喚起當代藝術界的反省。

本書的作者高莽先生是年已八十的前輩。他的背景、經歷與修養，不但是最有資格寫這種書的藝術家，應該說現在再難以找到像高莽先生這樣的「內行人」了。高莽先生這本書不是美術史的寫法，也不是「畫冊」，而是一位對俄羅斯美術有深入了解，與許多俄國畫家為朋友，自己也是畫家、作家所寫的美術隨筆。其實這本書可以說是用親切的筆調寫近現代俄羅斯美術的「史論」隨筆。這本書可以引領你走進俄羅斯美術的天地中去嚐「鑊中一臠」。這本書會讓你打開另一扇窗，看到藝術世界中你知道最少的另一個廣闊豐美的花園。（詳見內文序）

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

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