Fat: The Secret Organ: The Surprising Science behind the Most Misunderstood Part of the Body

Mariette Boon, Liesbeth van Rossum
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The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times

Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ.

Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so little about how it really works. In Fat, expert doctors and obesity researchers Dr Mariëtte Boon and Professor Liesbeth van Rossum present the ground-breaking research which explodes many of the myths and prejudices surrounding body fat and will make us completely rethink our relationship with it.

Making use of the cutting-edge research in this specialist field, this fascinating and entertaining book will explain how fat generates important hormones, communicates with our brains and is, indeed, essential for staying alive. Informative yet accessible, Fat: The Secret Organ is important reading, not only for people who have struggled with their weight, but for everybody who is serious about their health.

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香港北魏真書

陳濬人, 徐巧詩
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」「出版大獎」及藝術及設計類「最佳出版獎」

「香港北魏真書」設計研究計劃，總結長達六年的北魏書法研究和字體設計創作歷程。本書收錄了南北朝魏碑、清代書法家趙之謙到四十至七十年代盛行香港的北魏招牌書法源流和藝術價值，訪尋香港北魏書法家區建公、蘇世傑墨寶故事，還有於不同年代遍佈香港城市街道和日常生活的北魏體應用實例，首次專訪獨步香江的貨車北魏體設計者楊佳。

字體設計師陳濬人，以設計思維分析北魏歷史文化和創作精神，利用電子向量曲線和字體設計原理演繹當代香港北魏真書，設計案例多達二十多項。還有與多位設計創作人包括麥震東、譚智恒、柯熾堅和許瀚文的對談系列，探究字體在城市和設計文化中的重要角色。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Future Foods: How Modern Science Is Transforming the Way We Eat

David Julian McClements
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We are in the midst of an unprecedented era of rapid scientific and technological advances that are transforming the way our foods are produced and consumed. Food architecture is being used to construct healthier, tastier, and more sustainable foods. Functional foods are being created to combat chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. These foods are fortified with nutraceuticals or probiotics to improve our mood, performance, and health. The behavior of foods inside our guts is being controlled to increase their healthiness. Precision nutrition is being used to tailor diets to our unique genetic profiles, microbiomes, and metabolisms. Gene editing, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence are being used to address modern food challenges such as feeding the growing global population, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, and improving sustainability. However, the application of these technologies is facing a backlash from consumers concerned about the potential risks posed to human and environmental health.

Some of the questions addressed in this book are: What is food architecture? How does sound and color impact taste? Will we all have 3D food printers in all our homes? Should nanotechnology and gene editing be used to enhance our foods? Are these new technologies safe? Would you eat bug-foods if it led to a more sustainable food supply? Should vegetarians eat themselves? Can nutraceuticals and probiotics stop cancer? What is the molecular basis of a tasty sustainable burger?

David Julian McClements is a Distinguished Professor in food science who has used physics, chemistry, and biology to improve the quality, safety, and healthiness of foods for over 30 years. He has published over 900 scientific articles and 10 books in this area and is currently the most highly cited food scientist in the world. He has won numerous scientific awards for his work. The aim of this book is to highlight the many exciting advances being made in the science of foods, and to show their application for solving important problems related to the modern food supply, such as tackling chronic diseases, feeding a global population, reducing food waste, and creating healthier and tastier foods.

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格差社會

橘木俊詔
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本書用科學而翔實的數據，向讀者展示了貧富差距擴大、階級固化嚴重的日本格差社會現狀。

青年失業、老年人無法領取養老金、單親家庭無以為繼、地方經濟低迷等正在成為威脅日本社會穩定的巨大隱患。

格差是如何形成，陷入其中的人們該怎樣掙扎存活，之後的政策之路要怎麼走？作為日本格差研究第一人的作者開放視野，對比世界其他發達國家，吸取經驗教訓，理性而誠懇地向政府建言獻策，希望通過稅制和社會保障制度的改革，實現經濟至上的同時兼顧人權平等。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden universe of fungi, “one of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you” (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk).

“Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing . . . a remarkable work by a remarkable writer, which succeeds in springing life into strangeness again.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.

In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.

Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.

Praise for Entangled Life

“Entangled Life is a gorgeous book of literary nature writing in the tradition of [Robert] Macfarlane and John Fowles, ripe with insight and erudition. . . . food for the soul.”—Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

阿德勒教你面對人生困境：如何面對無法躲避的人生課題，減少多餘的痛苦，堅強活下去的心理學

岸見一郎
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對於活得很痛苦的人來說，阿德勒的話語代表希望。
因為阿德勒不要你追溯過去尋找原因，
而是告訴你接下來應該怎麼做！

引起廣泛共鳴的阿德勒「個體心理學」精髓，
透過岸見一郎清晰扎實的理論與實踐的調和，
交織他自身的人生體驗與哲學，
成為岸見一郎至今寫得最好的一本書。

這本書告訴你：
即使過去無法改變，「現在」以及「未來」也可以改變。
掙脫心理創傷，帶著強烈的意志、勇氣與希望，
堅強努力，好好過完自己的人生吧。

阿德勒說：
其實我們是在這個地球上放鬆休息。
活著很辛苦沒錯，但我們其實可以不用過得那麼嚴肅，
並感受活著的喜悅。

敢與人生的課題一決勝負的人，內心反而不會感到焦躁。
而不管現實狀況如何，只要面向未來，同時活在此時此刻，
就越來越沒有必要擔心未來的事。

樹木不會移動，若隔壁的大樹擋到它，
它便難以獲得足夠的日照，無法長得高大。
但人可以移動，只要我們願意，
我們可以離開陰影，移動到有日照的場所。

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