Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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From the Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economics 2019, along with economist Michael Kremer, for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". READ MORE

Two practical visionaries upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.

Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer tby Abhijit Banerjee (Author), Esther Duflo (Author)hese questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

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香港六七暴動始末——解讀吳荻舟

程翔
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榮獲第十二屆香港書獎

本書共分三部分：探討有關六七暴動的幾個概觀問題，解讀吳荻舟《六七筆記》，並附有吳荻舟遺文。全書的重點是吳荻舟。

吳荻舟長期領導中共在香港的地下黨，掌握中共對香港的政策，他留下來的筆記，反映了當年中共在港的活動，具有重要的歷史價值。「香港六七暴動」的官方檔案尚未解密，吳荻舟筆記提供了暴動期間的內情和一手線索。讀者可以看到：暴動的左傾思想根源、發動暴動的動機和目的、暴動的組織指揮系統，以及總理周恩來在暴動中的角色等，還可以看到吳荻舟對整件事的反思等。

吳荻舟並沒有《六七筆記》這樣的一本書，這是他女兒吳輝發現父親的一本筆記本，裏面記載的都是香港六七年暴動期間中央的內部討論。《六七筆記》是一本工作筆記，不是完整的文章，需要詳加解讀。

本書在前人研究成果的基礎上，對六七暴動以下幾個方面有不少新的發現：在六七暴動的成因、中共同英國秘密協定不反對香港由英國接收、中共一直在香港保存着兩個地位平行的地下組織，一個是已經半公開的「香港工作委員會」，另一個是迄今仍然保密的「香港城市工作委員會」（這個「城工委」外界一無所知）。此外，還有很多所謂「二、三、四線」組織。第四，沙頭角槍擊事件是中央軍委直接部署、由解放軍正規部隊執行的。第五，英國解密檔案對六七暴動研究提供新角度。

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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.

The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so.

By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are.

Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


“Stars Without a Heaven: Children in the Holocaust” Exhibition 
Date: 16-31 October 2019
Time: Monday to Sunday, 8:30am-11:00pm.
Venue: Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong
Admission: Free of charge
For enquiries, please email to lb@cityu.edu.hk
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收集夢的剪貼簿 (House of Day, House of Night)

奧爾嘉．朵卡萩 (Olga Tokarczuk)
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作者獲得2018年度的諾貝爾文學獎。

非線性小說的傑作，入圍2004年IMPAC都柏林國際文學獎決選，獲1999年波蘭尼刻文學獎

我在做夢，我覺得時間走得沒有盡頭。沒有以前，也沒有以後……
新魯達位於歐洲的心臟地帶，曾是個身分不明的地方，過去屬於波蘭、德國、捷克、奧匈帝國，現歸屬波蘭，語言與邊界的更迭造成此地生活的特異性。

敘事者與她的先生Ｒ搬來這裡居住，她是一個收集夢的人，收自己的夢與他人的夢，她發現了這個地方藏著許多祕密，藉由與奇特的鄰居老婆婆瑪爾塔的交往，從中得知許多當地的奇聞軼事、過往的歷史，以及生活的見解。

夢的獨白與對白穿插在文本中，交疊錯綜著現實生活的風俗民情刻畫、自我對話的哲思、歷史訊息的隱藏符碼、超現實的神話傳奇軼聞等，將整體交織成一部層次豐富、思維飽滿的多稜鏡，提供各個面向的觀照。因此，穿過敘事者的意識層，可以發現這部小說的主角其實是夢，夢掩藏著也承載著人的生存意義，敘事者試圖從中獲得什麼，端視讀者從中讀到了什麼，這是一部有著高度互動性、可撕黏性的文本。

情節以非線性剪接的方式呈現，接連出現的夢，彷彿呼應著榮格的「同步性」，將一幕幕非偶然的偶然，排演出一場多重意義的群舞：時間的秩序、空間的界線、意識的刻度、情感的對位、信仰的永恆、生活的本質、死亡的勝利……

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success

Wendy Laura Belcher
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“Wow. No one ever told me this!” Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Belcher made it her mission to demystify the writing process. The result was Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, which takes this overwhelming task and breaks it into small, manageable steps. For the past decade, this guide has been the go-to source for those creating articles for peer-reviewed journals. It has enabled thousands to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields.

With this new edition, Belcher expands her advice to reach beginning scholars in even more disciplines. She builds on feedback from professors and graduate students who have successfully used the workbook to complete their articles. A new chapter addresses scholars who are writing from scratch. This edition also includes more targeted exercises and checklists, as well as the latest research on productivity and scholarly writing. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks is the only reference to combine expert guidance with a step-by-step workbook. Each week, readers learn a feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. Every day is mapped out, taking the guesswork and worry out of writing. There are tasks, templates, and reminders. At the end of twelve weeks, graduate students, recent PhDs, postdoctoral fellows, adjunct instructors, junior faculty, and international faculty will feel confident they know that the rules of academic publishing and have the tools they need to succeed.

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失治之城 : 掙扎求存的香港 (A City Mismanaged: Hong Kong's Struggle for Survival)

顧汝德 (Leo F. Goodstadt)
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作者顧汝德為前中央政策組首席顧問，曾為港英政府出謀獻策，本書聚焦房屋供應、醫療和教育等普羅讀者最關心的民生福祉，提供相關的數據及文獻，全面分析香港管治制度崩壞的主要因由。

從土地大缺失、「劏房」貧民窟湧現、公營醫療「爆煲」、到中港融合的錯誤定位，點出歷任行政長官及其治港班子的一連串災難性的失策及弊政，如何危害香港人的財產、生活素質以至人命安全。

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