勇於思考的魔力 (Magic of Thinking Big)

大衛‧施瓦茲 (David Joseph Schwartz)
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「為20世紀美國最傳奇的勵志經典，本書從1959年首印至今，一直非常暢銷，影響了美國幾代人，並被翻譯成數十種文字，風靡全球。很多企業的營銷人員幾乎更是人手一冊，作為每日必讀的自我激勵“聖經”。人們一直把本書與戴爾‧卡耐基、拿破侖‧希爾的勵志經典並列，很多評論家甚至認為本書的影響超過前兩者的作品，因為施瓦茲的著作值得細細讀幾年，而不僅僅是流行一時。

本書認為成功者和其他人的區別在於自信心、積極的思考和自我強化鍛煉。作者因此提供了許多具有實際指導意義的建議、技巧及原則，它們將使你具備勇於思考的神奇力量，從而帶給你夢寐以求的成功、快樂和滿足感。書中每個技巧都用活生生的趣聞逸事加以說明，讀起來輕鬆愉快。你所看到的，不僅僅是應該做什麼，更重要的，你將學會如何把每個原則應用於現實。

 (摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words

Edited by Lisa Rogak
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Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a revered, and occasionally controversial, worldwide business icon for more than three decades.

Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary, and painted by some as a tyrannical, less-than-scrupulous empire builder, Gates has had an unignorable impact on the growth of digital technology in daily life over the past 30 years. Even his sharpest critics have to acknowledge the obvious: Gates helped spearhead one of the greatest revolutions in modern history by seizing on the importance of software to the rise of the personal computer, along the way turning an arcane, specialized technology into a commonplace tool for the office and home.

Gates has long been ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest men--which gave him a name recognition far greater than that of most CEOs--and businesspeople of all stripes have looked to him as a role model, using his words and business strategies to help create, inspire, and grow their own companies. After he stopped running Microsoft's day-to-day operations in 2008 to devote himself full-time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a kinder, gentler Gates began to emerge. As a result, people actively involved in the philanthropic world, whether in professional, part-time, or personal capacities, began to develop a new appreciation for the man.

Bill Gates’s second act is no less compelling than his first. And whether you’re interested in his personal life or looking for inspiration to drive you forward in your own business endeavors, Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words has much to offer. As the tech giants who distinguished the turn of the 21st century shape public life in ways that outstrip the efforts of the previous century's titans of industry, we look to figures like Gates for inspiration as one of America's greatest business icons. This book will surely feed the world's curiosity about one of the most important leaders of the digital age.

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上海的美麗時光

陳子善 著
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作者陳子善為上海人，對昔日的「遠東第一大都市」懷有深厚的感情，本書正是他梳理和解讀現代上海、文學上海文字的結集，分「上海羅生門」和「文化上海」兩輯。從徐志摩到邵洵美、從郭建英到木心、從張愛玲到東方蝃蝀，還有上海的咖啡館、上海的名人故居、上海的舊書店……，上個世紀三、四十年代的「春申舊事」奔流作者筆端，歷史的、摩登的、多元的上海透過本書重新走近我們。

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Subject: Shanghai

China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History

Tom Miller 
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By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like?

Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities.

Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.

 (Excerpt from amazon.com)

中國古典文學之美

艾華
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「弱水三千，我獨取一瓢飲。」本書即取其韻文部仿，分詩經、楚辭、漢賦、詩歌、詞曲戲劇各篇。 

將其淵源、名稱、演變，作有系統之介紹說明。有難解之處，加以注音並解釋。 凡作品具有文學價值、可讀性甚高，不論真偽如何，一概予以保留，作為欣賞。 

對於一個初入門者，本書不啻是最好的敲門磚，因為所有的問題，均為你釐清，整理有序，一目了然，可以直接鑽研專書，節省不少摸索的工夫。尤其是喜歡中國文學，又不得其門而入者，譬如唐詩在中國文學佔一重要地位，而唐詩三百首又是大家耳熟能詳，但何謂古體？樂府？近體？律絕？ 

在本書內，均有詳細的說明，一解心中疑惑，增加對詩歌的瞭解。

(摘錄自三民網路書店)

Media in Hong Kong : Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005

Carol P. Lai
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This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule.

Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews and specific case-studies, it provides an illuminating analysis of the dynamics of political power and its relationship with media censorship.

Overall, this book is an impressive discussion of the evolving face of the Hong Kong media, and is an important contribution to theoretical debates on the relationship between political power, economics, identity and journalism.

 (Excerpt from amazon.com)