Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Ron Friedman
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National Best Seller

For fans of Atomic Habits, Deep Work, and Peak comes a game-changing approach to mastering new skills and succeeding faster.

For generations, we’ve been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: reverse engineering.

To reverse engineer is to look beyond what is evident on the surface and find a hidden structure. It’s the ability to taste an intoxicating dish and deduce its recipe, to listen to a beautiful song and discern its chord progression, to watch a horror film and grasp its narrative arc.

Using eye-opening examples of top performers - from Agatha Christie to Andy Warhol, Barack Obama to Serena Williams - and groundbreaking research on pattern recognition, skill acquisition, and creative genius, Friedman reveals the staggering power of reverse engineering and teaches you how to harness this vital skill for yourself.

You’ll learn how to take apart models you admire, pinpoint precisely what makes them work, and apply that knowledge to develop novel ideas, methods, and products that are uniquely your own. Along the way, you’ll meet the culinary detective who exposes top-secret recipes, the burglar who can visit a bank and recreate its blueprints, and the celebrated artist who reverse engineered his way to the top of his profession without any formal education.

You don’t have to be a genius to achieve greatness, but you do need a method for getting there. Bursting with unforgettable stories and actionable strategies, Decoding Greatness is an indispensable guide to learning from the best, improving your skills, and sparking breakthrough ideas.

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何以金庸 : 金學入門六大派

邱健恩
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建基文本 探討文學 延伸文化

本書涵蓋金庸小說總貌概述、金庸小說的故事情節結構分析、金庸小說中應用的各種文學技巧特點、金庸小說版本研究初探、十五部金庸小說概述 ，以及淺析「金庸文化」。

作者邱健恩是香港文化博物館特約研究員，幫助博物館策劃金庸相關展覽，他的寫作特色是資料搜集扎實，文字平易近人，非常易入口。這本小書建基文本、探討文學、延伸文化，希望做到小而有趣、多樣、扎實，締造一種良好的輕閱讀氛圍。

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CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra
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New York Times Bestseller
Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2,400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.

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比小說還離奇的12堂犯罪解剖課 (Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime)

薇兒．麥克德米 (Val McDermid)
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英國犯罪小說天后薇兒．麥克德米親炙法醫與鑑識科學最前線
從調查者、被害者與加害者的多重角度，窺見犯罪偵查堂奧！

「這些科學家所分享的故事，從犯罪現場到法庭的曲折旅程，將是你聽過最引人入勝的故事之一。同時提醒我們：事實往往比小說更驚異。」

本書各章節分別切入當今法醫與鑑識科學的各種主要技巧，從火災現場取證、血跡、DNA分析、臉部重建、人體解剖學、法醫人類學及昆蟲學的應用，到最新的電子鑑識技術等。麥克德米在各項技術發展中都觸及一個主題：「鑑識是一門在科學與人性中間遊走的學問。」在安全、控制度高的實驗室中發展出來的技術與知識，如何理解、回應被害人家屬的需求與心情；如何推測、設想加害者的動機與方法；如何在法庭交鋒中，贏得陪審團的理解與共識（但並不是百分之百保證成功）。如同科學方法是一門持續演進的知識，法醫與鑑識科學中永遠會有某些主觀成分，可能左右詮釋走向──例如，專家對於指紋是否相同一事確實可能有不同詮釋，因而導致庭審結果迥異。

★入圍得獎紀錄 ★
2016年安東尼獎（Anthony Award）最佳非小說得獎作
2016年愛倫坡獎（Edgar Award）最佳犯罪實錄入圍作

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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone
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A Washington Post Notable Book

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

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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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