Big Data Revolution: What Farmers, Doctors and Insurance Agents Teach Us about Discovering Big Data Patterns

Rob Thomas, Patrick McSharry
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Exploit the power and potential of Big Data to revolutionize business outcomes

Big Data Revolution is a guide to improving performance, making better decisions, and transforming business through the effective use of Big Data. In this collaborative work by an IBM Vice President of Big Data Products and an Oxford Research Fellow, this book presents inside stories that demonstrate the power and potential of Big Data within the business realm. Readers are guided through tried-and-true methodologies for getting more out of data, and using it to the utmost advantage. This book describes the major trends emerging in the field, the pitfalls and triumphs being experienced, and the many considerations surrounding Big Data, all while guiding readers toward better decision making from the perspective of a data scientist.

Companies are generating data faster than ever before, and managing that data has become a major challenge. With the right strategy, Big Data can be a powerful tool for creating effective business solutions – but deep understanding is key when applying it to individual business needs. Big Data Revolution provides the insight executives need to incorporate Big Data into a better business strategy, improving outcomes with innovation and efficient use of technology.
• Examine the major emerging patterns in Big Data
• Consider the debate surrounding the ethical use of data
• Recognize patterns and improve personal and organizational performance
• Make more informed decisions with quantifiable results

In an information society, it is becoming increasingly important to make sense of data in an economically viable way. It can drive new revenue streams and give companies a competitive advantage, providing a way forward for businesses navigating an increasingly complex marketplace. Big Data Revolution provides expert insight on the tool that can revolutionize industries.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

書於竹帛 : 中國古代的文字記錄

錢存訓 著
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作者依據大量的傳世文獻和考古文物資料，用自己的語言向讀者娓娓講述中國古代文字及其載體和書寫工具的演變史。書中的一些真知灼見：甲骨文字彙、文字書寫的傳統順序等論斷，都給予一種新鮮的觀念。而不斷增補的新的考古資料，又使此書在學術上一直處於研究前沿。因此，本書可作為普通讀者欲了解中國古代書籍史的參考書，也可作為一般學者修習圖書目錄和書籍史的參考書。同時書中包含的中國古代文化傳播和繼承的信息，亦為研究中國文化史、科技史、考古學等學科提供治學資料。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

City Voices : Hong Kong Writing in English, 1945 to the Present

Edited by Xu Xi and Mike Ingham
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City Voices is the first showcase of postwar Hong Kong literature originating in English. Fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from more than 70 authors are featured to demonstrate 'the rich variety and vitality of the city's literary production'. Together with work from established authors, both bilingual writers who choose to write in English and expatriate authors who have made Hong Kong their home, a section of 'New Voices' introduces the work of unknown and young writers who are part of today's surge of new creativity.

'As the first anthology of Hong Kong prose and poetry written in English, City Voices is a groundbreaking collection that propels readers from the early writing of the 1950s through the creative surge of the 1990s into today. City Voices has poignant, gorgeous, stunning, disturbing, exhilarating writing and is cause for celebration.' - Arthur Sze, author of seven books of poetry, including The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998

'This most necessary and wildly ambitious collection is as boisterous and packed with voices as a Hong Kong street. With an unruly grace, City Voices boldly asserts the rich variety and vitality of the city's literary production, past and present. What a delight to find within these covers not only some old favorites but so many new, exciting writers and poets, whose contributions will leave the reader longing for more.' - David Wong Louie, author of The Barbarians Are Coming and Pangs of Love

'This anthology, containing selections from Hong Kong writers both famous and newly discovered, lays the soul of Hong Kong bare. In writings by turn humorous or dark, we get a look at the secret life of what is arguably the world's most interesting and cosmopolitan city. If you thought Hong Kong was a city devoted only to making money, shopping, and eating well, City Voices will open your eyes and put you in the presence of a scintillating literary community. Hong Kong has a soul and this anthology proves it.' - Robert H. Abel, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the author of Riding a Tiger

'What shape will Hong Kong literature take in the hands of Mother China? This seminal anthology of Hong Kong literature in English hints at myriad possibilities: the city becoming more Chinese and less British, or mainland China becoming more Hong Kong, or perhaps an explosion of multi-cultural sensibilities in this theatre of the South China Sea? While the upcoming acts of history might tickle our exotic imaginings, it is worthwhile to see how this was all staged to begin with. Here is an anthology brilliantly collected by two who are themselves literary pioneers, Xu Xi and Mike Ingham, of work originally composed in English, or if not, self-translated to English - perfect for those of us who question the authenticity of translation - an anthology that offers a multi-genre vision from writers who live there or have lived there, writers who are all active observers and participants in Hong Kong's march through history.' - Bino A. Realuyo, editor and author, The Umbrella Country

(Excerpt from hkupress.org)

魯平口述香港回歸

魯平 口述; 錢亦蕉 整理
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詳細地敘述了香港回歸過程中的林林總總，中央政府與英國政府的談判、“一國兩制”的提出、國務院港澳辦在香港所做的工作、對歷屆港督及第一屆特首的評價、回歸慶典的經過等等。

由前國務院港澳辦公室主任，前香港基本法起草委員會副秘書長魯平口述，便於讀者了解當時一些鮮為人知的內幕，了解中央政府在解決香港問題上的良苦用心。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

Marcia Reynolds 
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You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth. Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone—the moment when the mind is most open to learning—to prompt people to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limitations.

Drawing on recent discoveries in the neuroscience of learning, Reynolds shows how to ask the kinds of questions that short-circuit the brain’s defense mechanisms and habitual thought patterns. Then, instead of being told, people see for themselves the insightful and often profound solutions to what is stopping their progress. The exercises and case studies will help you use discomfort in your conversations to create lasting changes and an enlivened workforce.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人性能達到的境界 (The Farther Reaches of Human Nature)

馬斯洛 (Abraham H. Maslow) 著
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馬斯洛在探討人性能夠達到多高境界的新問題時，他深深意識到傳統科學否認人的價值的極其危險性和全部科學非道德技術化的嚴重後果。他發現傳統科學具有太多的懷疑論、太冷酷、非人性。他認為傳統科學一直宣稱它只關注事實的認識，而不是“一種意識形態，或一種倫理或一種價值體系，它不能幫助人們在善惡之間作出選擇”。當涉及到人性對事實的認識時，科學常常表現出一種對潛能、對理想可能性的盲目性。馬斯洛要求科學不能排斥價值，要從人性事實的研究中給人們提供生命的意義和理想。

本書共分四章:
第一章 探索生命的需要
第二章 創造人性的境界
第三章 實現自我的價值
第四章 體驗人生的幸福

(摘錄自dangdang.com)