Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Timothy Ferriss
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Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book―a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.

From the author:

...... time is our scarcest, non-renewable resource. With a renewed sense of urgency, I began asking myself many questions:

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want?
How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?
How could I be kinder to myself?
How could I better say “no” to the trivial many to better say “yes” to the critical few?
How could I best reassess my priorities and my purpose in this world?

To find answers, I reached out to the most impressive world-class performers in the world, ranging from wunderkinds in their 20s to icons in their 70s and 80s. No stone was left unturned.

This book contains their answers―practical and tactical advice from mentors who have found solutions. Whether you want to 10x your results, get unstuck, or reinvent yourself, someone else has traveled a similar path and taken notes ...... Among other things, you will learn:

More than 50 morning routines―both for the early riser and those who struggle to get out of bed.
How TED curator Chris Anderson realized that the best way to get things done is to let go.
The best purchases of $100 or less (you'll never have to think about the right gift again).
How to overcome failure and bounce back towards success.
Why Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton believes that the best art will always be the riskiest.
How to meditate and be more mindful (and not just for those that find it easy).
Why tennis champion Maria Sharapova believe that “losing makes you think in ways victories can’t.”
How to truly achieve work-life balance (and why most people tell you it isn’t realistic).
How billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz transformed the way he engages with difficult situations to reduce suffering.
Ways to thrive (and survive) the overwhelming amount of information you process every day.
How to achieve clarity on your purpose and assess your priorities.
And much more.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

超級導覽員趣說博物館

河森堡
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大英博物館多達八百萬件館藏意謂著有99%根本看不到！
羅浮宮裡大氣磅礡的《勝利女神》雕像一度被塞在頂樓樓梯間？
大都會藝術博物館那一座完好無缺的埃及神廟竟是埃及人免費贈送的？
當年被留在南京機場帶不走的司母戊鼎到底是何來頭？

大英博物館、羅浮宮、大都會藝術博物館、故宮、東京國立博物館、梵蒂岡博物館、烏菲茲美術館、荷蘭國立博物館、梵谷博物館、中國國家博物館，以及羅塞塔石碑、《蒙娜麗莎》、童子切安綱、《創世紀》、《富春山居圖》、《最後的審叛》、《向日葵》、《快雪時晴帖》、《維納斯的誕生》、《女史箴圖》……，十一間博物館與它們的鎮館之寶背後，實在有太多說不完的精彩故事。

博物館保存的每一件文物，都是人類文明的「證據」。
每一座博物館，都是一間裝滿人類文明紀錄的檔案室。

各式各樣的藏品見證了那些已經消失卻曾經無比璀璨的文明。在博物館裡，你可以看到人類怎樣一步步從遠古走到今天。

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The Wild Iris

Louise Glück
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms

Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

"Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither 'confessional' nor 'intellectual' in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry. . . . What a strange book The Wild Iris is, appearing in this fin-de-siecle, written in the language of flowers. It Is a lieder cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form." (Helen Vendler, The New Republic)

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

香港當舖遊蹤 = Excursions in Hong Kong Pawnshops

徐振邦
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本書以當舖為中心，分五個部分介紹關於當舖的知識，包括當舖的設計、當押流程、當舖營運與管理手法、當舖的現代化以及與當舖發展有關的故事，書中亦穿插著香港當舖的特點和香港個別當舖的發展歷史。作者在書中還引用了舊時香港報章上關於當舖的專欄文章，並在書中穿插大量有關當舖的照片，在書的結尾亦單獨開出兩章，將曾經在報刊上刊出過的與當舖有關的漫畫以及作者本人收集的當票票頭做一展示。本書內容豐富，文字輕鬆易讀，是了解香港當舖的必備讀物。

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Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper

Arlene Fink
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Providing readers with an accessible, in-depth look at how to synthesize research literature, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper is perfect for students, researchers, marketers, planners, and policymakers who design and manage public and private agencies, conduct research studies, and prepare strategic plans and grant proposals. Bestselling author Arlene Fink shows readers how to explain the need for and significance of research, as well as how to explain a study’s findings.

Offering a step-by-step approach to conducting literature reviews, the Fifth Edition features new research, examples, and references from the social, behavioral, and health sciences, expanded coverage of qualitative research, updated and revised meta-analysis procedures, a brand new glossary of key terms, double the number of exercises, and additional examples of how to write reviews.

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校服歲月 : 圖說香港校服史

陳美怡
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‧穿長衫的男生，從甚麼時候開始改穿恤衫西褲上學？
‧上世紀的制水問題如何影響校裙長短？
‧工業發展潮流、披頭四、嬉皮士風等，如何影響了校服造型？
‧香港電影和電視劇集歷年呈現了怎樣的校服形象？

由大襟裝、長衫、工人褲、水手服到白色連身裙……我們學生時代都穿過的校服，記載的不只是每個人的青春歲月，還有香港的百年歷史。由時裝設計師陳美怡，聯同香港教育博物館合著的《校服歲月：圖說香港校服史》，參考逾千舊照、校刊、文獻，以及訪問校服供應商、各校師生校友等，再結合香港歷史的發展、世界時尚潮流的影響，從中推敲校服的演變方向，以及背後的文化意義。

本書既以年代為縱、款式風格為緯，清晰展示香港校服自開埠至今的發展脈絡；各章亦附多篇小故事，以輕鬆角度為校服史補白。尤其可貴的是，本書不但收錄多張老照片，還有超過四百張手繪插圖，通過一頁頁的視覺盛宴，帶你重新發現我們早已視為日常的校服之美。

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