上一堂最生動的國際關係 : 20部經典電影, 告訴你世界原來是這個樣子

蔡增家
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敘利亞男童艾倫，為何會死在土耳其海灘上？
為什麼美國擊斃賓拉登，恐怖主義仍舊方興未艾？
為什麼歐巴馬當選總統，美國種族問題反而激化？
催生緬甸成為民主國家的翁山蘇姬，卻不太具備人道精神？
墨西哥人為何感嘆「離天堂太遠，離美國太近」？

透過電影探索世界，提升你的國際觀與競爭力！

國際觀是什麼？大前研一這樣定義：「知道世界發生什麼事，並且對這些事有提出觀點的能力。」

藉由重大國際事件沿革與國際情勢發展解析，配合相關經典電影作品簡介，諸如《亞果出任務》《以愛之名：翁山蘇姬》《美味情書》《追風箏的孩子》等，告訴你如何掌握絢爛螢幕背後的真實世界，形塑看世界的觀點。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
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One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

每天最重要的2小時 : 神經科學傢教你5種有效策略, 使心智有高效率表現, 聰明完成當日關鍵工作 (Two Awesome Hours)

喬許．戴維斯 (Josh Davis)
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Amazon.com商業理財／個人成長類百大暢銷書

本書結合神經科學和心理學的研究，引據十數項研究成果與大量文獻結論，提出5種有效策略，配合人體生理系統的最適運作狀態，我們每天至少都能創造出2小時的高效率心智狀態：

• 辨識每個決定點：妥善利用做完一件事或被打斷後的5分鐘，想一下後續該處理哪件事；別擔心「浪費時間」的問題，想趕快做事的急迫感，有時會讓我們先把時間誤用在不重要的事上，消耗我們的心力。

• 管理心智能量，善用好情緒與壞情緒：所有事都會消耗心智能量、引發情緒，學會在心智疲勞之前，先集中精神做最重要的事。全球流行天后碧昂絲（Beyoncé）說：「緊張，讓我表現得更好」；正面情緒是養分，但負面情緒不必然是毒素，正、負面情緒都可以用來提升工作表現與成果。

• 停止對抗分心，學會放自己一馬：專注是成功的要素，但人類的注意力系統天生善於留意分心事物，這是演化的生存必要策略之一。學會讓心思漫遊，東想西想、作作白日夢，對提升創意和思考未來都有幫助。

• 妥善利用身心關連性：掌握運動和飲食的訣竅，能讓你表現得更出色。適量、溫和的運動可以提升專注力和心智能量，吃什麼、怎麼吃、一次吃多少，也會影響你的表現。咖啡因有助於提升效率，但不是喝多就有用，少即是多，無效時小睡10分鐘更好。

• 打造對自己有益的工作環境：辦公環境中的噪音、光線和桌邊雜物，都會影響你的工作效能。斷斷續續的談話聲，是專心工作的頭號勁敵，但戴耳機聽音樂並非最佳解方。較昏暗的光線可催生創意，辦公空間大一點，則有助於多冒點險、展現領導自信。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro (石黑一雄)
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.

The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

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未來簡史：從智人到神人 (Homo Deus)

尤瓦爾·赫拉利 (Yuval Noah Harari)
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進入21世紀後，曾經長期威脅人類生存、發展的瘟疫、飢荒和戰爭已經被攻克，智人面臨著新的待辦議題：永生不老、幸福快樂和成為具有“神性”的人類。在解決這些新問題的過程中，科學技術的發展將顛覆我們很多當下認為無需佐證的“常識”，比如人文主義所推崇的自由意志將面臨嚴峻挑戰，機器將會代替人類做出更明智的選擇。

更重要的，當以大數據、人工智能為代表的科學技術發展的日益成熟，人類將面臨著從進化到智人以來最大的一次改變，絕大部分人將淪為“無價值的群體”，只有少部分人能進化成特質發生改變的“神人”。

未來，人類將面臨著三大問題：生物本身就是算法，生命是不斷處理數據的過程；意識與智能的分離；擁有大數據積累的外部環境將比我們自己更了解自己如何看待這三大問題，以及如何採取應對措施，將直接影響著人類未來的發展。

(摘錄自amazon.cn)

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren 
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)