承教・城傳 : 九龍學校的故事

李子建, 劉瑩, 陳智德, 香港教育博物館
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1860年中英簽訂《北京條約》，揭開了九龍發展的序幕，市區急速擴展，人口增長，教育需求亦大增。不少早年扎根於香港島的辦學團體洞悉對岸的教育需要，紛紛跨海拓展教育服務，作育英才。其後，辛亥革命、民國新政府成立、新文化運動，以及抗日戰爭等家國大事相繼發生，不少國內知識分子來港從事教育工作，除港島外，亦有大批國內民眾和學校遷徙至九龍各區。

世代更迭，人事遞嬗。如今，走進九龍半島，城市面貌雖已經歷幾番轉變，但仍能隱約從彌敦道、太子道、上海街、大埔道等最早發展的道路和歷史建築，細味新舊城區如何互相交融，從而尋覓各區的歷史延續。現存或停辦的學校，在不同年代，分佈於九龍各處，亦一同譜寫社區歷史，見證城市和教育的變遷。

本書涵蓋九龍早期城市發展、教育歷史、人物訪談、藝術教育及文學等多方面的內容，引領讀者重遊熟悉的街道、景點，窺探時代變遷的足跡，並追溯九龍各校的藝術教育如何營造社區文化藝術氛圍。

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A Thousand Brains : A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins
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A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

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為工作而活 : 生存、 勞動、 追求幸福感、一部人類的工作大歷史 (Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time)

詹姆斯．舒茲曼 (James Suzman)
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傳統經濟學思維告訴我們：「工作即謀生！」
但本書要你跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面理解工作的意義！

★★《人類大歷史》作者哈拉瑞盛讚！★★

原始社會物資匱乏，人類祖先卻能悠閒過活，每週只要工作15小時？
反觀現代社會技術發達，我們卻加班過勞、甚至害怕被未來AI取代！

是人類主宰工作，還是工作支配了生活？
大量湧現的工作真有存在意義嗎？
我們今天是否為了滿足社會的期待，導致人們為了忙碌而忙碌？

●織雀勤奮築巢、也勤奮拆巢，這看似無意義的工作竟是演化所需？
●狩獵採集者從不擔心糧食匱乏，為什麼改當農夫後卻拼命囤積糧食？
●為什麼有人的職業是遛狗？學校裡的行政人員人數怎麼會超越教職員人數？
●古代人習慣把工作轉嫁給水牛和奴隸，現代人為何害怕被機器人搶走飯碗？

綜觀人類三十萬年的歷史，我們幾乎從來不曾像今天這樣，把工作看得如此重要。那麼，人類是從何時開始將工作視為生活的核心？

■跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面解讀人類工作的意義！
■當工作成為義務，人們卻創造更多無意義的工作，把自己推入窮忙的火坑？

本書結合人類學、考古學、生物學、物理學和經濟學等多學科的觀點，從人類誕生一路談到AI時代，解讀不同時代驅使人類工作的動力。本書也點出，我們今天之所以把工作看得比狩獵採集祖先還要重要，就在於我們的工作模式與工作觀，隨著文明變革發生了多次改變。然而，如果我們曾經不為工作而活，那麼如今的我們究竟是為了自己而工作，還是甘願被工作綁架？

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The Secrets of Us

Lucinda Berry
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.

Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.

Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.

Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.

But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.

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不輸給雨 : 宮澤賢治短篇作品選

宮澤賢治
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啟發宮崎駿、手塚治虫、藤子不二雄等眾多動漫創作家的思想源泉
收錄宮崎駿動畫《龍貓》的靈感來源作品——〈橡子與山貓〉
日本國民作家宮澤賢治經典作品
在困難重重的世界，溫暖撫慰善良的心靈短篇

宮澤賢治是日本的國民作家，熱愛自然，熱愛生命。他的作品充滿了想像力和對生命的善意，是無數現代藝術家的靈感源泉。

《不輸給雨》《橡子與山貓》《要求多多的餐館》《奧茨貝爾和大象》《貓的事務所》《夜鷹星》《拉大提琴的戈什》……七篇治癒心靈的經典作品，給疲乏的心靈以慰藉，給善意以鼓舞，給想像力以自由。

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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan
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Foreign Affairs The Best of Books 2021

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others.

This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy may be going.

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