Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.

Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, The Week (UK) ...

"A wild and dishy memoir of the bravado, debauchery, idealism, and recklessness of start-up tech culture during the height of Silicon Valley." —Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor

"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress ...

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HK Tech 300 is a large-scale flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme organised by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) for aspiring entrepreneurs among CityU students, alumni, research staff and others to launch start-ups and ignite their entrepreneurship journey. READ MORE

字型城市--香港造字匠

郭斯恆
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本書不是要從專業的字體設計角度，來解構中文字體或字型結構的工具書，也不是中文字體設計理論專書，要教人如何設計中文字體；而是從人文關懷和香港本位出發，以了解本土造字匠的工藝美學和社會轉變之間所產生的關係。我們希望從多角度去了解和記錄我們所身處的城市和本土美學，透過走訪並聆聽每一個造字匠的成長背景，從他們個人的經歷帶出造字工匠的工藝或技術與日常生活的關係。看畢本書，希望大家能重新觀察我們的城市，從細微之處了解和欣賞我城當中的字型美學和功能。

這本書將分成三個範疇──字型與交通、字型與工藝和字型與信息。透過七位造字匠的訪問，以大量資訊圖像、實地拍攝及航拍等，圖文並茂地記錄製作過程，以及香港的字型美學與功能。香港雖然是彈丸之地，但我們的造字工匠，也一直默默地為香港作出貢獻。

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Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson
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The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life.

In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.

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長安客

北溟魚
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長安的大雨天，杜甫睡在青苔與積水裡，李白困在翰林院的書堆裡打瞌睡，小旅館裡王維正為少年時的詩作標注年齡，李商隱在下雨的春天登上高樓，中年白居易從夢中驚醒，慢慢想起來，這是元稹去世的第八個秋天……

最偉大的唐代詩人們，他們的作品已經是不朽的經典，有的更是被後人貼上了 “詩仙”“詩聖”的標籤。詩句於他們而言是用來炫耀才華，交換功名，鋪展開自己人生地位與財富的籌碼。詩人們懷揣著夢想來到長安，希望能做官，買房，為國家效力，成為時代的英雄。那時候他們都年輕，都擁有卓絕的詩才，光明的未來仿佛觸手可及。然而命運最叛逆，從不輕易滿足人的心意。

本書集歷史、傳記、詩歌評論等多重元素於一體，可以說是一本大唐版《人類群星閃耀時》。用八個故事，串聯起大唐由盛轉衰直至滅亡的一段歷史，從詩人的眼裡看見時代與命運，講年輕人在大城市裡的夢想、艱難和漂泊。那些不朽的詩篇來自他們無數歡欣和至暗的時刻。通過這些故事，你或許能重新認識這些詩人，就像重新認識一位元老朋友，在人生的某一時刻，他曾有過和你同樣的悲喜。

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

Scott Barry Kaufman
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A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs - and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life.

When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.

Kaufman's new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment - not by striving for money, success, or "happiness," but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization. While self-actualization is often thought of as a purely individual pursuit, Maslow believed that the full realization of potential requires a merging between self and the world. We don't have to choose either self-development or self-sacrifice, but at the highest level of human potential we show a deep integration of both. Transcend reveals this level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.

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共享經濟如何讓人變幸福? : 利他•分享•在地化, 我們已進入第四消費時代

三浦 展
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後Covid-19的經濟發展必然趨勢──共享的新世代消費模式
利他．分享．在地化，我們已進入第四消費社會

《下流社會》作者三浦展提出「第四消費社會」，倡議「共享經濟」

◤21世紀大趨勢──簡樸生活、與人共享，追求人生意義的消費
「購物使人幸福的時代，已經結束了。」真正能帶來幸福的不是物質，而是「聯繫」——人和自我、他人、社會、自然的聯繫。在三浦展看來，進入第四消費時代的日本社會，告別購物使人幸福，重新思考消費的意義，人們關心的不再是消費什麼，而是和誰一起消費。

◤「第四消費社會」的五大趨勢
趨勢1：從個人意識到社會意識，從利己主義到利他主義。趨勢2：從私有主義到分享意識。趨勢3：從追求名牌到追求簡單、休閒。趨勢4：從崇尚歐美、嚮往都市到在地化意識的社會。趨勢5：「由物質到服務」的真正實現，對人更為重視。

◤消費行為成為尋找自我、思考生命意義的媒介
被譽為日本消費社會研究第一人的三浦展，經三十年觀察提出讓人變幸福的趨勢報告：想在第四消費社會生存下去，我們必須如何轉變思維，企業應該做什麼？我們不再是單純購買商品、滿足自我的利己消費者，消費行為成為尋找自我、思考生命意義的媒介。

◤生活方式、真正的服務、人際關係的充實感
我們不再追求經濟快速發展和效益最大化，而是享受簡約生活；不再終日奔波、蝸居在大都市，而是重新發現地方的特色和自然的力量；不再拚命工作賺錢，為了名利汲汲營營，而是為了幫助他人、共享快樂、獲得內心的平靜與幸福。年輕人不再是單純的物質主義，而是越來越強烈地在意生活方式、真正的服務、人際關係的充實感。他們選擇租借而不是占有，或者是那些隨著時間的流逝，反而會帶來更多的滿足感的物品。

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