大數據 : 「數位革命」之後, 「資料革命」登場 : 巨量資料掀起生活、工作和思考方式的全面革新 (Big Data)

麥爾荀伯格 (Viktor Mayer-Schonberger) 、庫基耶 (Kenneth Cukier)
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汽車烤漆的顏色能告訴你，這輛二手車的故障率高低嗎？
市政府要怎樣清查，才能迅速找出有致命危險的人孔蓋？
從谷歌的搜尋字眼，怎麼預測流感疫情的蔓延？

要回答這些問題，關鍵就在於巨量資料（俗稱大數據）。
「巨量資料分析」是一門新興科技，能夠解讀和預測無數的現象，
包括預測機票的價格、好萊塢新片的票房、你家裡的青少年是否未婚懷孕！
也能協助診斷早產兒的健康情況，探查收入高低與幸福快樂的相關程度，
幫忙規劃快遞的送貨路線、電動車的充電站應該設置在哪裡，
還能用來發展自動導航的無人駕駛汽車、
以及「從駕駛人的臀部形態判斷是否為車主」的防盜系統，
也能夠快速進行多種語文的互譯……

兩位最頂尖的大數據專家，真正掌握到巨量資料思維的精髓，
在這本書裡，清晰曉暢的解釋了巨量資料是什麼，
它將如何改變我們的生活，對經濟、社會和科學會帶來什麼影響，
我們又能夠做些什麼，趕搭上這波新潮流，
同時也懂得保護自己，避免個人資料和隱私受到侵害。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
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#1 New York Times Best Seller
Named a Best Book of 2017 by Barnes & Noble and Amazon

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy.

Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

香港音樂的前世今生 : 香港早期音樂發展歷程 (1930s-1950s)

周光蓁
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「將來我們這批人不在時，你要問也問不了。這些歷史是不可以沒有的，不可以沒有的。」
這是著名女高音費明儀臨終前的寄語。

本書正是費女士等十位香港音樂界和政界名人，通過口述訪談，娓娓道出他們在二戰前後鮮為人知與音樂結緣的經過。從Uncle Ray郭利民、林樂培、沈鑒治、費明儀、盧景文、何承天、東尼·卡比奧、蕭炯柱、黎小田、羅乃新的珍貴憶述，勾畫出香港音樂的前世與今生。

那是沒有大會堂的日子。他們音樂人生的起步，從1930到1950年代，見證香港從經濟大蕭條，到日佔後重建，慢步走出南隅、邁向國際。

十個口述個案，帶出很多值得我們思考的課題：一個人的音樂成就，是先天還是後天所決定？學習音樂是手段還是目的？成功是否贏在起跑線？音樂與功課是互補還是相剋？

再又：所謂中西音樂文化匯集於香江的具體表現是甚麼？政府與民間的音樂有何互動？音樂和音樂人在戰爭大時代有怎樣的經歷？業餘時期的香港音樂文化是怎樣的？香港是個文化沙漠嗎？

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

by Jennifer Riel,‎ Roger L. Martin
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Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking

When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need? In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and superior answer. This is integrative thinking.

First introduced by world-renowned strategic thinker Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and his longtime thinking partner Jennifer Riel vividly illustrate how integrative thinking works, and how to do it.

The book includes fresh stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving, as well as practical tools and exercises to help readers engage with the ideas. And it lays out the authors' four-step methodology for creating great choices, which can be applied in virtually any context. The result is a replicable, thoughtful approach to finding a "third and better way" to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade‐offs.

Insightful and instructive, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

打開狄波諾的思考工具箱：從「水平思考」到「六頂思考帽」，有效收割點子的發想技巧 (Serious Creativity)

愛德華．狄波諾 (Edward de Bono)
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「水平思考」、「6頂思考帽」創意大師
愛德華．狄波諾Edward de Bono
——最完整的水平思考工具與應用大全——
 教你不用靈感也能創新！

創造力是可以學習的。
我們不必成為天才，或仰賴無可捉摸的靈感，只要用對方法！

愛德華．狄波諾是當代最重要的思考大師，在思考訓練的推動上不遺餘力。
我們總認為創意是專屬於某些領域的事，總習慣遇到問題才來想辦法解決；
但狄波諾告訴我們：
每個人都可以養成創意思考的態度，在沒問題中找問題，在一切順利時進行改善。
只要掌握好方法，你就可以在邏輯和分析思考之外，另闢一條創意思考的思路。

本書囊括水平思考法最重要的工具與技巧，
幫助你掌握「六頂思考帽」、「隨機輸入法」、「概念扇」等思考工具，以及在組織中的應用方法。
從發想到收割創意，讓你和你的團隊展現真正有效率和效益的創造力！

六頂思考帽──戴上不同顏色的帽子，一次只用一種角度看事情，得以避免爭辯，更有效地討論問題！
創造性暫停──打斷例行思考的流暢運轉，才能注意到被疏忽的事物！
聚焦──聚焦在一些沒有人願意思考的問題上，即使是小創意，也能產生驚人成果！
質疑──拒絕接受現行做法必然是最佳做法，繼續尋找可行的替代方案！
刺激──藉由設定腳踏石，扭轉現行的方式思考，找出真正的新做法！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Swimming in Hong Kong

Stephanie Han
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Stephanie Han’s award-winning stories cross the borders and boundaries of Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. This is an intimate look at those who dare to explore the geography of hope and love, struggle with dreams of longing and home, and wander in the myths of memory and desire.

Stephanie Han’s Swimming in Hong Kong was the finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction as well as the Spokane Prize. She is City University of Hong Kong’s first English literature PhD.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)