The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World

Adam Waytz
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An urgent yet hopeful analysis of the surge in dehumanization, and how we can reverse it.

The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. Thanks to social media, we can know a campaigning politician's platform; an avid traveler's restaurant recommendations; and the daily emotional fluctuations of our friends without ever even picking up the phone. According to social psychologist Adam Waytz, our increasingly human-free lives come with a serious cost that we've already begun to pay: the loss of our humanity.

Humans have superpowers. More than any other psychological stimulus, our presence can make experiences feel significant, inspire moral behavior, and encourage action. Recent studies suggest that we even have power over mortality - the survival rate of individuals with stronger social relationships has been found to be twice as high as those with weak relationships.

The Power of Human shows us how to rehumanize and harness these unique abilities to improve our lives, beginning with our jobs. The remedy for the dehumanized worker is twofold. Employers, Waytz argues, must instill humanity into work by capitalizing on distinctly human skills, especially sociability and variability. Meanwhile, workers need to put to rest the idea that you are what you do and instead detach their personal identities from their occupations. Waytz offers a similarly science-based method to counter the rising threat that technology poses to our humanity, outlining how we can design human-machine partnerships that optimize the strengths of both parties. Finally, he reveals how, by humanizing intimacy and conflict in unexpected ways, we can strengthen relationships with both our friends and enemies. Essential listening for individuals and institutions alike, The Power of Human explains how we can solve one of our time's biggest problems by better utilizing the influence we have on one another.

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疏離的人心:香港社會思潮評析

黃海
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香港回歸中國已20年有餘，但香港人心卻愈發疏離。到底有甚麼原因驅使香港人漸行漸遠？中央政府和香港特區政府又應如何回應社會訴求？《疏離的人心：香港社會思潮評析》正是對這種疏離心態的全面描述。

要了解疏離問題的癥結所在，必須從剖析香港近年的社會思潮入手。本書共八個章節，從不同角度探討香港現存的社會問題，研究範圍觸及香港傳統核心價值、政治及民主發展爭議、社會貧富懸殊問題、特區政府管治能力、日漸激烈的中港矛盾、近年冒起的本土主義以至分離主義思潮，以及「一國兩制」前景，藉此發掘人心歸向的主題。

近年有關人心背向的討論廣受注目，卻甚少有針對此重大議題的專著。香港面臨2047年後「二次前途」安排，本書正好讓關心香港社會和前景的社會人士及年輕一代，對香港思潮有更深入的了解。

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The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony With Your Brain

Terry Doyle, Todd D. Zakrajsek, Kathleen F. Gabriel (Foreword)
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Learning to learn is the key skill for tomorrow. This breakthrough book builds the foundation every student needs, from freshman orientation to graduate school.

The second edition of this bestselling student text has been considerably updated with the latest findings from cognitive science that further illuminate learning for students, and help them understand what’s involved in retaining new information.

Beyond updating every chapter with insights from new research, this edition introduces a range of additional topics – such as cognitive load, learned helplessness, and persistence – all of which provide students with immediately usable information on how to regulate their lives to maximize learning and fulfillment in college.

The premise of this book remains that brain science shows that most students' learning strategies are highly inefficient, ineffective or just plain wrong; and that while all learning requires effort, better learning does not require more effort, but rather effectively aligning how the brain naturally learns with the demands of intellectual work. This book explicates for students what is involved in learning new material, how the human brain processes new information, and what it takes for that information to stick, even after the test.

This succinct book explains straightforward strategies for changing how to prepare to learn, engage with course material, and set about improving recall of newly learned material at will. This is not another book about study skills and time management strategies, but instead an easy-to-read description of the research about how the human brain learns in a way that students can put into practice right away.

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大學不迷茫 : 願你的青春無所畏懼, 亦不留遺憾

李尚龍
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寫給年輕的你，最重要人生成長手冊
願你的青春歲月無所畏懼，亦不留遺憾！

無論你是將要進入大學，正在大學就讀，或是剛剛離開大學，
這十年都是你最重要的成長攀升期，
這世界從來不在乎你多麼努力，只在乎你努力的成效，
不要落入「你以為你在努力，其實你只是在浪費青春」陷阱中，
唯有獲得爆發式成長，才有機會邁向更精彩、更自由、更有意義的人生。

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Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All

Holland Michel Arthur
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The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens

Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this system—and its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stare—allow operators to track thousands of moving targets at once, both forwards and backwards in time, across whole city-sized areas. When fused with big-data analysis techniques, this network can be used to watch everything simultaneously, and perhaps even predict attacks before they happen.

In battle, Gorgon Stare and other systems like it have saved countless lives, but when this technology is deployed over American cities—as it already has been, extensively and largely in secret—it has the potential to become the most nightmarishly powerful visual surveillance system ever built. While it may well solve serious crimes and even help ease the traffic along your morning commute, it could also enable far more sinister and dangerous intrusions into our lives. This is closed-circuit television on steroids. Facebook in the heavens.

Drawing on extensive access within the Pentagon and in the companies and government labs that developed these devices, Eyes in the Sky reveals how a top-secret team of mad scientists brought Gorgon Stare into existence, how it has come to pose an unprecedented threat to our privacy and freedom, and how we might still capitalize on its great promise while avoiding its many perils.

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讚爭: 按讚已成為武器, 中國、俄羅斯、川普、恐怖組織、帶風向者、內容農場，如何操縱社群媒體, 甚至……不知不覺統治了你 (LikeWar)

P.W. 辛格 (P. W. Singer), 艾默生．T．布魯金 (Emerson T. Brooking)
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這就是21世紀最新的戰爭型態：讚爭。
不需要任何武器，只要你曾在網路上按了讚＋分享，你就參戰了。
不管你對這個「讚」是真有興趣或出自好玩，
有心人就是會一直對你「感興趣」。

本書作者P．W．辛格（P. W. Singer）和艾默生．T．布魯金（Emerson T. Brooking），是智庫機構「新美國」的戰略專家，以及美國外交關係協會研究員，他們親自走訪社群媒體公司、美國國防部與情報系統，了解「網路戰」到底怎麼進行？酸民如何養成？為什麼一開始的單純小摩擦，最後卻演變成「砲轟」、「找碴」，甚至是槍殺？有人該為此負責嗎？ 中國、俄羅斯、川普、恐怖組織、帶風向者、內容農場，又是如何操縱社群媒體？

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