The Industries of the Future

Alec Ros
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This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon. From refugee camps in the Congo and Syrian war zones, to visiting the world's most powerful people in business and government, Ross's travels amounted to a four-year masterclass in the changing nature of innovation. In The Industries of the Future, Ross distils his observations on the forces that are changing the world. He highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains how countries thrive or sputter. Ross examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including robotics, artificial intelligence, the commercialization of genomics, cybercrime and the impact of digital technology. Blending storytelling and economic analysis, he answers questions on how we will need to adapt. Ross gives readers a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, now and tomorrow.

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二手時間 (Secondhand Time)

S.A. 阿列克谢耶维奇 (Svetlana Alexievich) 著
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《二手時間》是2015年諾貝爾文學獎獲得者阿列克謝耶維奇的最新作品。通過口述采訪的形式，講述了蘇聯解體後，1991年到2012年二十年間的痛苦的社會轉型中，身處關鍵歷史時刻的普通人的生活，以及他們為夢想破碎付出的代價。在書中，從學者到清潔工，每個人都在重新尋找生活的意義。他們的真實講述同時從宏觀和微觀上呈現出一個重大的時代，一個社會的變動，為這一段影響深遠的歷史賦予了人性的面孔。

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The Politics Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)

Paul Kelly, consultant editor
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From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today — Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more — The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought.

With easy-to-follow graphics, succinct quotations, and accessible text, The Politics Book is an essential reference for students and anyone wondering how politics works.

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走讀周有光 : 漢語拼音之父

陳光中 著
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周有光（1906年1月13日－2017年1月14日），中國著名語言學家，“漢語拼音之父”。

《走讀周有光》力求在追尋周有光百年人生軌跡的過程中，探求一個中國知識份子思想演化的脈絡；把一個人和一個家庭的命運投射在歷史與社會的大背景下，與讀者一起領略諸多更深層次的感悟。

讓我動心的，並不僅僅是他的健康長壽，也不僅是他的筆耕不輟。人活百歲，如今並不稀奇；壽而能文，古來也不乏其人。我所真心敬佩的，是周有光的勇氣－－那種藐視俗流、敢說真話的勇氣，以及豁達樂觀的人生態度。

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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell; with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
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A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016"

From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century’s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it

Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!”

It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism.

Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters—fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships—and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.

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走路, 也是一種哲學 (A Philosophy of Walking)

斐德利克・葛霍 (Frédéric Gros) 著
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2015開卷好書獎

走路是一個哲學行動、一種心靈經驗。
走路不用學習，不必技術，也無須花費；我們只需要身體、空間、時間這三個元素。越來越多人喜歡走路，享受當中的恩賜——平靜、滿足，與大自然合而為一。然而，是不是有什麼東西是在走路時才能感受得到，讓人在內心重新發現自己，聽見自己的聲音?

為何哲學家都愛走路?
京都有哲學之道，海德堡有哲學家步道，為何哲學家都愛走路?
當尼采寫出「腳趾頭都豎起來傾聽」這樣的文句，他的意思是什麼？
從流浪到朝聖，從自然到文明，從漂泊到啟蒙行進：法國哲學教授斐德利克．葛霍從文學、歷史與哲學中汲取「走路」素材，化為細膩文字，呈現於此，於是韓波的奔逃渴望，尼采散步時的思緒奔放，甘地和他的反抗政策，康德在柯尼斯堡的日常散步，班雅明與他的巴黎晃遊，梭羅的冬日森林漫步，以及天主教徒的朝聖之路全都一一躍然紙上，開展出一段走路時的動與靜、人與自然、身體與心靈的無聲對話。

二十五篇智性散文，訴說所有關於「走路」的奧妙與樂趣。

《走路，也是一種哲學》不但是一本思想精煉、文字優美、引人遐思的哲學散文，葛霍更以妙筆生花的文字，在扉頁之間為走路的藝術做出扣人心弦的定義。在科技時代裡，人類也許只有憑藉雙腳，才能擁有真正的思考。當我們邁出步伐，在身體的動與靈魂的靜之間沉澱思緒，將能從孤獨中體驗「走路」的哲學之趣。

• 一本難以歸類的好書，書中思想燦爛猶如晨光照耀。—— 法國L’Express週刊
• 令人讚嘆的小巧之作，就連最足不出戶的懶蟲也會被深深打動。——法國《世界》日報 (Le Monde)
• 這部優雅之作啟發了我們對「走路」這個常被忽略的主題的思索—— 出版人週刊 (Publisher's Weekly)
•「一種對簡樸生活的肯定，對簡單事物的喜悅。澄淨、簡潔、精細，行文優美至極。」——英國《觀察家》週報(Observer)

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