曹雪芹風箏藝術

孔祥澤, 孔令民, 孔炳彰
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《曹雪芹風箏藝術》被評為2006年度「世界最美的書」

文學巨匠曹雪芹及其《紅樓夢》，早已是家喻戶曉，盡人皆知。 但很少有人知道，曹雪芹還寫過一部名為《南鷂北鳶考工志》的書，專門講述了風箏的「紮、糊、繪、放」四藝，從而創立了「曹氏風箏」這一民間工藝品。 《曹雪芹風箏藝術》，第一次向世人介紹了作為演出者的曹雪芹和「曹氏風箏」藝術。

曹雪芹是中國最偉大的文學家之一，也是一位傑出的演出者。 他的佚著《南鷂北鳶考工志》和他創制的曹氏風箏藝術是曹雪芹留給後人的珍貴的藝術遺產。

(摘錄自中國人民大學新聞學院)

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan
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Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.

Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.

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0.8的生活哲學

張笑恆
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《0.8的生活哲學》是你在人生中尋得平衡的密碼。本書以故事和理論相結合的形式，讓您在百忙之中，能夠靜下心來細細審視自己、沉澱自己、關愛自己，猶如夏日午後的那杯綠茶，清淡而沁人心脾，教你享受和諧的人生、健康的生活、活著的快樂。

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom
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Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful—possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.

But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation?

This profoundly ambitious and original audiobook breaks down a vast track of difficult intellectual terrain. After an utterly engrossing journey that takes us to the frontiers of thinking about the human condition and the future of intelligent life, we find in Nick Bostrom's work nothing less than a reconceptualization of the essential task of our time.

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郭鶴年自傳

郭鶴年
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榮獲亞洲週刊2017十大好書

郭鶴年，首次親身述說最真實的故事！

郭鶴年是香港以及馬來西亞企業家，出生於柔佛新山，以經營白糖業起家，有「亞洲糖王」之稱。書中講述他創立以亞洲為基地的郭氏集團故事，是一部多姿多彩的家族歷史，當中亦包括郭鶴年童年的成長回憶，以及與其父母及兄弟於亂世中的生活。此外，書中亦有詳述其管理企業和做生意的獨特見解──從1949年開始，如何帶領郭氏集團發展成為當今多元經營的跨國企業。讀者從書中了解華人移民東南亞，在英國殖民統治下的生活，在第二次大戰時期日軍鐵蹄下經歷的歲月，也可了解中國和亞洲經濟騰飛的歷程。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The Stolen Bicycle

Ming-Yi Wu
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Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize

 A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father’s stolen bicycle and soon finds himself ensnared in the strangely intertwined stories of Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, the soldiers who fought in the jungles of South-East Asia during World War II, and the secret world of butterfly handicraft makers in Taiwan. The result is both a majestic historical novel and an intimate meditation on memory, family and home. Wu’s writing has been compared to that of Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, W.G. Sebald and Yann Martel.

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