季羨林談人生

季羨林
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人生的意義與價值、緣分與命運、做人與處事、容忍、成功、知足、朋友、毀譽、壓力、長壽之道、倫理道德……學術大家季羨林先生結合多年來的生活體驗，暢談對人生的感悟。 ……此書充滿了季羨林的智慧之言。

(摘錄自香港書城)

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the World

Edited by Lavinia Spalding 
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Since publishing A Woman's World in 1995, Traveler’s Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series The Best Women's Travel Writing that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman's perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland. Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil. Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia. Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert. Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India. Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea. Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador. . .and much more.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

世間的名字

唐諾
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這一次，不談書，不寫導讀，還原為散文家唐諾自身。
近取諸身：哥哥、同學與編輯；
遠取諸物：富翁、網球手與拉麵師傅。
深度就在表面，名字即是實相。
是最具企圖，也最深情的一次命名。

這一次，將以下身分打碎和泥重塑：編輯、球評、推理小說導讀、業餘古文字愛好者、專業讀書人、博學雜食者、小說家的教練、大導演的諍友……，還原為書寫者唐諾自身，專注如刺蝟，通達似狐狸，言志兼抒情，雄辯亦溫柔。在台灣，很久沒有看見這種「強悍而美麗」的大散文，旁徵博引卻不枯燥乏味，冷眼嘲諷底下有著一副熱心腸，時而深沉曲繞，不厭其煩再三辯證；時而直抒胸臆，用起大白話，字字句句鑿進你心坎底。

這一次，不談書，不特地談一本書；不評論作家，不為他人作嫁；不依傍一種主義，不主張一樣學說；主角不是班雅明、不是卡爾維諾、不是朱天文，也不是波赫士（雖則總如暗夜中忽明忽滅地螢火蟲縈繞不去），眾神退散，撥雲見日，走來的是這樣一個謙卑之人：「是為了看懂，多看懂一些，而不是成為。」──〈棋士〉。

這一次，是唐諾最無邊界、無框限的一次書寫。雕刻時光，近取諸身：如〈哥哥〉、〈同學與家人〉、〈少尉〉、〈編輯〉、〈小說家〉。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

A Journey into Matisse's South of France

Laura McPhee 
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For more than 50 years the passionate pursuit of color led Henri Matisse to visit some of the most enchanting villages in southern France. Travelers and art lovers will delight in this mix of art, history, biography, and travel guide that covers southern France and explores the teal skies, emerald hills, red soil, and indigo seas beloved by the artist. The journey begins in Paris and then moves to the fashionable port of St. Tropez, the fishing village of Collioure, chic and voluptuous Nice, and the rustic refuge of Vence, and ends in the luxurious resort of Cimiez. The author identifies the villas and studios where Matisse lived and worked in each location and discusses how his art responded to the palette and ambience of each local landscape.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Creator
Henri Matisse
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寫給大家的西洋美術史

蔣勳 著
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……「中國美術史」是對自身傳統文化的了解，「西洋美術史」則是打開一扇通向世界的窗口。借助這一扇窗口，眺望和瀏覽世界不同文化的美的觀念、材料、技法；借助這一扇窗口，省思人類共同的美的嚮往與創造。

「西洋」是一個頗籠統的名稱。「西洋」似乎已經專指歐洲，特別是西歐的範圍。

因此，這本書也以地中海區域的古代開始寫起。無論是北非的埃及、南歐的希臘、西部亞洲的波斯，乃至於義大利、西班牙、法國......，大多圍繞著地中海區域發展。

地中海四周的文化活動，雖然民族不同，政權不同，社會結構也不同，但自上古時代開始，不乏彼此的交互影響與傳承，形成一脈相成的歐美美術的來源……

(摘錄自書中序─打開世界的窗口)

East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea

Edited by Yau Shuk-Ting Kinnia 
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How do East Asian cultural heritages shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian cultural heritages – “traditional” elements including martial arts, music, landscape, aesthetics, stage performances, and legends – and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

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