香港粤語 : 二百年滄桑探索

張洪年
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粵語在香港作為一種有機體，有自己蓬勃的生命力，而且不斷地在變化。語言並不如想像之中那樣古板或死板。

1990年代，徘徊在柏克萊東亞圖書館的張洪年教授，無意中看到書架上有一本關於粵語的老書，一時好奇心動，順手抽下；站在昏黃的吊燈底下略略翻閱，接著就坐在圖書館地上，看了整個下午。這一回無心插柳，開拓了他後來二三十年的研究新路向。

《香港粵語：二百年滄桑探索》選輯了張洪年教授歷年所寫的一系列語言學文章，具體描述早期粵語的各種語言現象，解釋香港粵語從十九世紀到二十一世紀之間發生的種種變化。香港早期的粵語來自廣州，二十世紀中期以後逐步與廣州話分道揚鑣，漸漸自成一種語言。如今香港人口絕大部分以粵語為母語，社會上的活動都以粵語為主要溝通語言。香港的粵語雜用大量外來語，有的已經成了本地詞彙一部分，在語音和語法層面也發生了許多新變化。

然而，這些變化到底如何發生，幾時發生？變化的牽涉面有多廣，軌跡是否可循？我們能否在其他語言中，找尋到類似的發展？這種種問題，都是對語言發展歷史有興趣的人必須面對、尋求答案的重要切入點。作者希望能從眾多的語料之中，擬構出粵語在這新舊交替之際的發展軌跡，供後來者參考和討論。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Around the World in 80 Books

David Damrosch
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A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them

Featured in the Chicago Tribune's Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring 80 exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran, and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature.

To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together, these 80 titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle - from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today.

Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.

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昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統

吳國坤
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本書以電影個案形式，輔以當代歷史脈絡和社會現實，討論電影作為普及的藝術創作，電影作者如何直面電影的政治及社會功能，又怎樣面向觀眾。

第一部分「子不語：民國電影的聲色政治」以薛覺先、費穆等的電影為例，討論民國時代的電影檢查政策。第二部分「怪力亂神：香港電影的禁忌與圖謀」，涉及英治時代香港的政治審查和殖民文化政策，所討論的諜戰、神仙鬼怪、壓抑和愛慾，都是過往甚少討論的冷門題目。第三部「亂世浮華：表象與真實」，探究在社會緊張騷動和充滿政治禁忌的年代，電影如何通過製造鏡花水月式的鏡像世界來扣問社會議題。

本書的研究結合檔案資料的梳理，將電影文本與歷史文化脈絡化，採用綜合分析方法，回答當代歷史、政治和電影美學的問題。

本書的文章雖以香港電影為主，但牽涉的題目包羅萬象，充分展示了國坤多年來所下的功夫。他自承對於當今學院盛行的文化研究──「大多偏重西方理論和文本的局部分析」──不大苟同，而想「用電影研究來回應歷史」，從大量的電影資料中「探究其隱藏的政治、道德和歷史的潛文本」，我在此舉雙手贊成。──李歐梵

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron
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'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER

Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

'Each time I've learned something important and surprising about myself and my work ... Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love'-Elizabeth Gilbert

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走進大專院校圖書館 : 圖書館員視角下的大中華區高等教育 = Why the library? The role of librarians in the higher education systems of greater China

劉倩秀、盧敬之、周慶山、趙格華、卓文傑
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自從世界步入資訊時代，大專院校圖書館面臨「圖書館消亡論」的挑戰。學習模式逐漸從線下轉移到線上，紙本資源也不再是學生和教師吸收知識的唯一選擇。面對用戶習慣改變的衝擊，大專院校圖書館應該如何轉型並化危為機？

本書收錄三十篇訪問，採訪了內地、香港、澳門及台灣的大學圖書館重要從業人員，以受訪者豐富的工作經驗、相關學歷背景、創新業務等方面切入，探討兩岸四地大專院校圖書館的運作模式以及面對的困難，並藉由各地圖書館從業員的分享，了解不同大專院校圖書館如何針對用戶使用模式的轉變，不斷進行觀念和體制上的改革，以創意回應資訊時代的挑戰，科學地探索和規劃大專院校圖書館未來發展的新模式。

本書有助將要進入圖書館服務或正從事圖書館工作的同業，了解此領域專業工作的意義，並彰顯大專院校圖書館作為學校資訊中心和校園文化基地的重要地位。

「大學圖書館是知識寶庫，見它們如見大學：藏書、使用狀況、館內的氛圍，就是大學的底蘊。這一次大學圖書館之旅，也就是一次文化的旅程。」-- 呂大樂

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Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
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From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life,a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University and readers of their best-selling book, Designing Your Life ("The prototype for a happy life." —Brian Lehrer, NPR), that designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. And now more than ever, we all need creative and adaptable tools to cope with the chaos caused by COVID-19.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the book's new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it—and thrive.

Burnett and Evans's Disruption Design offers us a radical new concept that makes use of the designer mindsets: Curiosity, Reframing, Radical collaboration, Awareness, Bias to action, Storytelling, to find our way through these unchartered times.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future.

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