Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre
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How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.

Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.”

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts.

McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

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金庸小說裏的中國文學

潘步釗
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本書一方面從中國傳統的文學體裁出發，提取金庸小說中的詩詞、散文、歌賦、對聯等內容，分析其與中國文學的內在關聯及文藝價值，同時從金庸小說中的人物形象、故事情節和時代背景切入，探究金庸的文學思想及其作品在中國文學發展脈絡中所處的地位和作用。語言通俗易懂，是品讀金庸作品和中國傳統文學不可多得的「小書」。

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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.

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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)

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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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