The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion―Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

Peter Wohlleben
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The second book in The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben. Book one, The Hidden Life of Trees, and the third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, are available now.

 "Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us." —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields.

Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up.

In this, his latest book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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減塑生活 : 與塑膠和平分手, 為海洋生物找回無塑藍海 (How to Give Up Plastic)

威爾．麥卡拉姆 (Will McCallum)
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3月3日是聯合國的世界野生動植物日(World Wildlife Day)，在這個節日，讓我們思考日常生活中如何減塑，為海洋生物找回無塑藍海。

塑膠的殺傷力驚人，海洋首當其衝，
愛海洋不只拒絕一根吸管，你還可以做得更多！
作者邀所有愛海洋的讀者，一起行動。

「那我們可以做些什麼？」
這本書正提供最佳解答。

海洋中的塑膠垃圾有一天會比所有魚類還要多？
這已不是假設，我們必須採取行動，避免這一天的加速到來。
本書榮登英國亞馬遜環保暢銷書第一名，
全球最實用手冊——由英國綠色和平海洋部主任
收錄最新研究和建議，
以實用、有趣和簡易方法教你日常生活減用塑膠！

作者威爾．麥卡拉姆是英國綠色和平海洋部主任，他不僅收錄最新研究與實用建議，以及相關領域科學家的軼聞，還有全球各地社區的成功案例，使這本書能成為一本實用手冊，教導人們如何在自家、社區和工作場所，開始終結對塑膠製品的依賴。書中提出的建議從用環保杯買咖啡等簡單動作，到較鮮為人知的方法：例如用洗衣袋裝衣物，減少洗衣過程中衣物纖維釋出等，無所不包。此外，本書也引導讀者一同監督大型機構如企業和政府等，迫使他們擴大施行減塑措施，為生活帶來最大的改變。

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The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success

Euny Hong
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"A must-read for anyone interested in the art of intuitively knowing what others feel." --Haemin Sunim, bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down and Love for Imperfect Things

Improve your nunchi. Improve your life.

The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how.

Have you ever wondered why your less-skilled coworker gets promoted before you, or why that one woman from your yoga class is always surrounded by adoring friends? They probably have great nunchi. The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need is your eyes and ears. Sherlock Holmes has great nunchi. Cats have great nunchi. Steve Jobs had great nunchi. With its focus on observing others rather than asserting yourself--it's not all about you!--nunchi is a refreshing antidote to our culture of self-promotion, and a welcome reminder to look up from your cell phone.

Nunchi has been used by Koreans for more than 5,000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from one of the world's poorest to one of the richest and most technologically advanced in half a century. And it's why K-pop--an unlikely global phenomenon, performed as it is in a language spoken only in Korea--is even a thing. Not some quaint Korean custom like taking off your shoes before entering a house, nunchi is the currency of life. The Power of Nunchi will show you how the trust and connection it helps you to build can open doors for you that you never knew existed.

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鼠疫 (The Plague) (La Peste)

卡繆 (Albert Camus)
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《異鄉人》作者/存在主義大師/諾貝爾文學獎得主/二十世紀法國文豪卡繆
在遍地鼠屍、鼠血橫流、屍臭沖天的疫病封鎖現場
直視人類恐懼、深入存在之輕與生命之重的小說創作

這些散布在歷史當中的一億具屍體，不過就是想像中的一縷煙罷了。
然而，在那縷沒有重量的輕煙裡，卻閃現著為生存而奮戰最根本的理由！

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
一天，李厄在樓梯平台上踢到一隻死老鼠。當晚，李厄上樓回家，忽然看見走廊角落竄出一隻大老鼠，步伐有些不穩，隨後在原地打轉，最後倒地從微張的嘴吐出血來。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
就從這天開始，各處冒出猝死的老鼠屍體，緊接著是鄰人紛紛暴斃。政府只得將發生疫情的奧蘭市全城封鎖，連信件都不得流通。來自外地的旅人被困在這座不屬於自己的城市，而當地市民與外地親人的重逢也顯得遙遙無期。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
這是高八度的喪鐘鐘聲，還是喚醒人心之善的低喃？在孤絕禁錮而束手無策的絕望情境中，你是否仍願為幸福做出最後一絲努力？

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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein
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#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.

These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.

With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

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書寫的人

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關於發呆，韓麗珠說，那是蘊釀寫作力量的舉動。

而有發呆習慣的駱以軍則說：「常在開車時，握著方向盤陷入胡想而傻笑，被我妻子責備。」

不同的書寫的人，有著不同的書寫狀態。

在耍太極和游泳之間的董啟章，與矛盾共處的王貽興，習慣了在地鐵與下班的路上寫詩的關夢南……他們隱藏在文字背後的書寫狀態，到底是怎樣的？

本地備受期許的文學雙月刊《字花》，每期均會邀請不同的書寫的人與編輯進行筆談，於「書寫的人」欄目中暢論文學、風花雪月。多年下來，筆談者眾，如今結集出版，儼然構成一幅瑰麗的文學風景。

除了董啟章、駱以軍、王貽興、關夢南，還有劉芷韻、陳志華、可洛、江瓊珠、陳麗娟、葉愛蓮、朗天、韓麗珠、謝曉虹、張大春、孟浪、健吾、李維怡、楊照、袁兆昌、鄧小樺，二十位橫跨老中青，覆蓋中港台的「書寫的人」，與編輯及讀者一起，分享他們書寫的故事。

(摘錄自 cp1897.com.hk)