Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell
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A Best Book of the Year 2019: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? ...

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

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更大的訊息 : 與大衛・霍克尼的跨世紀的藝術對話 (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney)

馬丁．蓋福特 (Martin Gayford)
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大衛．霍克尼（David Hockney）是英國史上繼盧西安．弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud, 1922~2011）之後，第二位被英國女王頒發功績勳章的藝術家。世人稱之為「最受歡迎的在世畫家」（The World’s Most popular living painter）。其作品風格綺麗，廣受愛戴。然而，不僅如此，他也是一位言語犀利、對藝術充滿獨到見解的思想家。

本書記錄了霍克尼與知名藝評家馬丁．蓋福特（Martin Gayford）長達十五年的對談，從這些生動的訪談之中，霍克尼以特有的熱情、智慧與幽默感，暢談他一生追尋的繪畫意義。世界如何透過藝術家之眼，呈現在平面的畫布上，不只是畫家的課題，而是個哲學議題。

霍克尼指出，繪畫的本意就是讓人更加、更加清楚地觀看世界。繪畫的媒材──從洞穴壁畫到iPad，是否讓人類的觀看改變？人類所製造出來的各種圖像，如何與真實世界連繫？科技和文明是否一再撼動藝術家的創作方式？我們能否再次學會如何單純享受「觀看」之樂，徹底欣賞一張臉龐、一次日出，或是一棵樹？

在這本妙趣橫生的書中，藝術大師們如梵谷、卡拉瓦喬、維梅爾、莫內、畢卡索，都是作者與霍克尼的絕佳話題，他們睿智風趣的談話也觸及霍克尼的私人生活，與對家鄉的濃烈情感。與霍克尼來往的同輩藝術家如攝影大師卡蒂爾．布列松，或大製片家比利．懷德，也是他熱愛提及的人物。

這本書無疑是霍克尼的一幅自畫像，更是本世紀最有影響力的、關於人類創造力與世界本質的探索之作。

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「觀景・景觀——從泰納到霍克尼」(A Sense of Place: from Turner to Hockney)展覽是香港藝術館首次與英國倫敦泰德現代美術館（Tate Modern）合辦，展期至2020年5月27日，共展出76件泰德現代美術館藏品。展品包括David Hockney的《華特附近的巨樹群》(Bigger trees near Warter)，這五米高的傑作成為藝術館閉館四年後重開最觸目展品之一。READ MORE

Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

Derek Roger, Nick Petrie
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FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS.

If you’re like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it’s not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress—and how we should “manage” it—is just plain wrong.

STRESS IS A CHOICE.

It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It’s a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry and fret and agonize over the work you need to do—instead of just doing it.

WORK DOESN’T HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

This book offers a radically different approach to stress. It’s about being resilient. Flexible. Mentally awake and in the moment. It’s about changing your mindset to keep things in perspective instead of adding fuel to the fire with negative thoughts. The techniques you’ll find in this book are powerful, practical, and proven to work—without stress.

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家國之間——五四在香港百年回望

陳學然
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1919年，中國內地爆發五四運動。運動在內地如火如荼之際，香港卻因港英政府嚴管，只有零星市民聲援反日救國，未有在香港引起波瀾。「五四運動」雖然在1919年乃至1920年代對香港沒有造成巨大衝擊，但由於「五四」有學生運動、愛國、反強權、反外敵的多種特質，故在往後的不同年代，「五四運動」的旗幟不斷為人所高舉，或用以爭取國家、文化認同，或用以批判社會病痛；無論是抗日、反共、反國民黨、專上學生的「認中關社」運動甚至是保衛釣魚台運動，「五四」都沒有缺席，一直出現於香港歷史發展的進程中。

本書是一部五四在香港的發生史、紀念史及詮釋史。作者充分利用報章、文集、雜誌等史料，解說「香港的五四」如何同異於「國家的五四」，了解不同政治陣營或思想立場的人在不同年代如何利用及反思五四運動，折射出時人的心態，從而洞察在時代變局下，香港華人對國家認同的心態變遷之跡。

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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Frans De Waal
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A New York Times Bestseller 
Winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 

Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it—from dogs “adopting” the injuries of their companions, to rats helping fellow rats in distress, to elephants revisiting the bones of their loved ones—show that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Frans de Waal opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected.

“A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones.” - Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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多給自己5% (5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results)

邁克．亞登 (Michael Alden)
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小小5％堅持如同滾雪球，可以帶來超過百倍的成功。這是一本實用的指南，不要求你顛覆一切，來個大轉彎。事實上，採取簡單的行動，反而能帶來驚人成效。不同於一般自勵書籍只停留在「想」的階段，本書直接提供辦得到的具體方法。不論你處於人生什麼階段，絕對都能替自己、替家人、替同事和主管、替自己的事業，多帶來5％的進步。

不用卯足全力，只需多盡一點力
你可能聽過，把大目標拆成數個小目標，更容易達成。不過，小目標依舊得夠大，才不會淪於瑣碎，還得夠簡單，才不會讓人容易放棄。本書把目標拆得剛剛好：多努力5%就好。不需耗費太多力氣，但立刻就能看到成效。

不限領域、不限階層，你可以不一樣
本書各章針對一項特定的人生關鍵領域，解釋多5％將如何帶來巨大差異。你不必一次全盤接受，只要依據自己的情況，從最迫切需要改變的領域開始。書中每一個數據、每一則故事，都各自解釋一項重點......

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