User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
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2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

Picked as a book of the year by Fortune magazine

'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times

USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products—and for the innovators aspiring to make them.

It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last forever, while others disappear? User Friendly guides readers through the hidden rules governing how design shapes our behaviour, told through fascinating stories such as what the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island reveals about the logic of the smartphone; how the pressures of the Great Depression and World War II created our faith in social progress through better product design; and how a failed vision for Disney World yielded a new paradigm for designed experience.

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第七感：啟動認知自我與感知他人的幸福連結 (Mindsight)

丹尼爾．席格 (Daniel J. Siegel)
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第七感是每個人都有的內在潛能，
是培養EQ（智商）與SQ（社商）的真正基礎，
也是開啟認知自我與感知他人的神祕鑰匙。

即刻開啟你的第七感，獲得連結幸福人生的關鍵力量！
「鍛鍊第七感，對我們的人際關係、家庭生活、婚姻、職場以及領導統御方面，都有很大的幫助。」──《EQ》、《SQ》作者，丹尼爾．高曼　高度推薦

• 有時你會變得不合理地生氣或不安，並且難以平靜下來嗎？
• 有沒有想過為什麼你不能停止你的行為，無論你怎麼努力？
• 你和你的孩子（或父母、伴侶或老闆）是否陷入了看似不可避免的衝突模式？

我們要如何發展出一種能力，而能認知到自己的某個想法──而不只是擁有一個想法──並認知到這是自己的內在心智活動，而不至於被它掌控？
我們要如何能獲取所有關於心智的豐富寶藏，而不是只能受制於反射反應？我們要如何引導自己的思考與感受，而不是被它們驅使？
我們又如何能瞭解他人的內心，真正理解他們「到底在想什麼」，並且更有效地給予同情的回應？

對大腦運作方式有基本的瞭解，將有助於瞭解自己有多大的改變潛能！
人類的五種感官知覺，讓我們得以探索外在世界；而第六感，讓我們得以察覺自己內在的生理狀態。第七感，是一種向內觀看的能力。統合外在與內在的世界，進一步認知內心、反思自我。開啟第七感的力量，邁向自我蛻變、打開與他人的幸福連結。

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Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.

Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.

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城市地標 : 殖民地時代的西式建築

陳天權
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文物建築是城市的標誌，亦是歷史的活見證。今天香港僥倖留存下來的文物建築已成為珍貴的文化遺產，但隨著城市發展，它們大多隱沒於高樓大廈之間，逐漸被人遺忘。回歸前後，社會上掀起本地史熱潮，市民對舊建築擁有一份情懷，特別是滿載集體回憶的地標；政府亦意識到要保育有集體回憶的歷史建築，推出活化閒置歷史建築的計劃，令它們得以重生。

本書以香港歷史發展為脈絡，串連殖民地時期各主要地區的主要西式建築，包括行政、軍事、法治、醫療、商廈和會所等不同類別，當中絕大部分是法定古蹟或評級建築，目的是希望引起大眾注意這些地標，從而了解香港如何走過這百多年的路。

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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism

Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international success. Now, in Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a young man living each day with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of travel, and the difficulties of speech. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it’s raining outside. Acutely aware of how strange his behavior can appear to others, he aims throughout to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage society to see people with disabilities as people, not as problems.

... this book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets every challenge with tenacity and good humor. However often he falls down, he always gets back up.

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The thirteenth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2020. Autism Partnership Foundation organizes "Autism Awareness Actions" in April for generating public awareness of autism and fundraising to help more children with autism.

當綠葉緩緩落下 : 與生死學大師的最後對話 (On Grief and Grieving)

伊麗莎白．庫伯勒．羅斯 (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) ，大衛．凱斯樂 (David Kessler) 
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臨終關懷之母伊麗莎白.庫伯勒.羅斯（Elisabeth Kubler-Ross）在其《論死亡與臨終》《On Death and Dying》一書中指出了臨終前的五階段：否認（denial）、憤怒（anger）、討價還價（bargaining）、沮喪（depression）、接受（acceptance）。多年來，事實證明這些階段不只適用於面對死亡，也同樣適用於面對生命歷程中的各種災難。

在本書中，庫伯勒.羅斯與《用心去活》的合著者大衛.凱斯勒，重新檢視這五個階段，希望給予深陷悲傷的人更深的同理與受用的指導。兩位作者的洞見與忠告幫助讀者體認生命本應如此，並找到繼續活下去的勇氣。

本書中分別探討悲傷、縈繞的記憶、夢境、孤立、孩子、治療乃至性生活，融合了務實的智慧與靈性的探索，形塑出一條通往圓滿的道路。除了豐富的內文，另有精闢的前言探討家人長期臥病時所產生的預期性悲傷，在後記「悲傷的恩典」裡作者告訴我們，失落的意義與治療的力量實蘊藏在悲傷的過程裡。

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