Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Fareed Zakaria
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New York Times Bestseller

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?

Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold.

Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.

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沒有退路, 才有出路

李尚龍
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《你的努力要配得上你的野心》百萬暢銷作家李尚龍重磅力作
★打破佛系厭世代的迷思，人生很難，裝睡的人生只會更難
★15個重塑自我的有效方法，帶你突破迷茫困局，成為更好的自己

長路漫漫，別左顧右盼。
只管向前走，闖出自我成就的大道！

上班累得像狗，回家只想躺平耍廢，哪有時間精進自我？
・無所事事是因為你沒做好時間管理
把碎片時間累積起來，關掉沒必要的手機通知、晚點再回訊息，主動而持續地善用會議前、塞車時、睡前、等車的空檔，你將獲得驚人的成長。

・越多斜槓，越可能是未來想要的人才
先學會做一隻蒼蠅，蒙頭亂撞、什麼都碰，最後總能找到成長的出口。學會跨界，多幾個斜槓，為更好的未來做準備；你這麼年輕，你該擁有更廣闊的世界。

長大後是否越來越不懂愛、不擅溝通、老友交流只剩按讚？
・學會做一個「相處舒服」的人
你可以幽默風趣，也可以認真誠懇，重要的是學會面對他人、接受自己、處理情緒。無論科技如何改變，社群軟體怎麼更新，你都要抓住「讓對方舒服」這個原則。

・為生命做減法，決定你想要的人際關係
人的長大，就是和新的朋友說你好，和過去熟悉的人和事說再見。離別是人生的主題，堅強是一輩子的功課，只求拚命盡興地珍惜彼此，以後無怨無悔。

總說著明天再努力，但你憑什麼輕易放過自己？
・別甘於平庸，越出眾的人越自律
自律的人，才擁有自由選擇的資格：選擇美好體態的自由，選擇理想學校的自由，選擇夢想職業的自由。所以別拖延了，從今天起成為一個自律的人，為自己展開更多可能。

這是一本寫給「迷茫患者」的生存指南，
「拖延患者」的自救手冊，
「社交障礙患者」的行動方法。
別把命運給的苦當成你必須承受的難，現在開始決定自己的一生，才能擁抱真正的自由

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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Angus Fletcher
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A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling any scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind. Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere—from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others—each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature’s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.

Wonderworks reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most powerful developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui—all while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found all throughout literature—from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare’s plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives. An easy-to-understand exploration of the new literary field of story science, Wonderworks teaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class. Based on author Angus Fletcher’s own research, it is an eye-opening and thought-provoking work that offers us a new understanding of the power of literature.

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北歐式的自由生活提案 (Less is More)

本田直之
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在都市上班，在悠閒的鄉間過生活
少一點物慾，換來更多的時間，更多的興趣
不替公司賣命，而是提升自己的能力和人脈
拋棄追求名利的舊觀念，擁抱自由生活的幸福
其實，我們都很想試試看……

用質物來感受幸福的時代已經結束了。
從物質獲得的滿足只能維持瞬間，但從經驗，以及從經歷所得到的知識，卻會留一輩子。

為何北歐各國的「幸福指數」居於世界排行的前幾名呢？
生活富裕的日本為何又只居於第81名呢？

為了找出答案，作者本田直之前往「幸福排行榜」前幾名的北歐各國，採訪當地民眾，他發現，唯有拋開物質至上主義的傳統價值觀，改而追求工作、居住、生活上的自由，才能達到真正的快樂......

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Digital Art

Christiane Paul
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“Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line.” ―Publishers Weekly

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but the emergence of entirely new forms such as internet and software art, digital installation, and virtual reality has forever changed the way we define art.

Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s to the present day and looks ahead to what the future may hold. She discusses the key artists and works in the genre, drawing a distinction between work that uses digital practices as tools to produce traditional forms and work that uses them to create new kinds of art. She explores the broader themes and questions raised by these artworks such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, and issues surrounding the collection, presentation, and preservation of digital art.

The third, expanded edition of the popular resource investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained prominence in recent years, including interactive public installation, augmented and mixed reality, social networking, and file-sharing technologies.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

" Art Machines: Past · Present " Exhibition 「藝術機器: 過去 · 現在」展覽
Date: until 23 May 2021 (Closed on Mondays)
Time: 10am to 7pm
Venue: Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, 18/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Admission: Free of charge, prior registration required for visitors BOOK A VISIT

The " Art Machines: Past · Present " Exhibition explores the relationship between artistic creation and tools, showing us the technology is not an impediment to the making of art but a condition of its possibility. It showcases artworks from four disciplines: Rube Goldberg machines and kinetic sculpture, computer graphics and animation, computer installation art and sound art. READ MORE

村上春樹詞典 : 一本書讀懂村上春樹世界

中村邦夫, 道前宏子
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第一本村上春樹【詞典+插畫】入門導讀書
完整收錄｜全作品、創作角色、關鍵字等詞彙，
享受圖解閱讀村上春樹的無限魅力！

1979年，村上春樹以《聽風的歌》踏入日本文壇，
其獨特又新穎的寫作風格，迅速引發注目，
爾後更以《挪威的森林》聲名大噪，成為舉世聞名的當代作家。
數十年來筆耕不輟的他，不只擅長寫小說，
隨筆、遊記、評論、翻譯等領域，亦創作甚豐。
作品被譯為50多種語言，更掀起一股名為「村上春樹」現象。

不同於一般坊間的評論集，
本書以淺顯易懂的詞語，搭配手繪風格的插圖，
帶領讀者一窺村上的奇思妙想，
書中沒有瑣碎的文章，每個詞語篇幅短短的，越讀越有況味，
穿插其中的專欄，更是專為鐵粉整理出的行家級知識，
從料理、電影、裝訂等主題討論，全方位分析村上作品的意象，
無論是入門新手或重度村上迷都能再次從中得到啟蒙！

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