懲罰貧窮 : 大數據橫行的自動化時代, 隱藏在演算法之下的不平等歧視 (Automating Inequality)

維吉妮亞・尤班克斯 (Virginia Eubanks)
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2019年莉莉安・史密斯圖書獎（Lillian Smith Book Award）
2018年麥加農中心圖書獎（McGannon Center Book Prize）獲獎作品

本書揭露高科技工具影響人權與經濟公平。
看似客觀中立的機器運算，
可能在學習人類提供的資料後，
再複製社會偏見與歧視，形成「自動不平等」！

進入數位時代以來，金融、就業、政治、衛生和公共服務、治安管理等領域的決策都經歷了革命性的變化。如今是由自動化系統而不是由真人來掌控哪些社區受到監管，哪些家庭獲得需要的資源，或是哪些人該接受詐欺調查。雖然人人生活在這種新的資料制度下，但侵入性及懲罰性最強的制度，卻完全針對窮人所設計。

政治學家維吉妮亞・尤班克斯在本書中，有系統地探究了資料探勘、政策演算法、預測性風險模型對美國窮人與勞工階級的影響。書中充滿了令人揪心、瞠目結舌的故事，例如印第安納州一名婦人因為癌症末期住院治療，錯過了重新認證補助資格的預約，被取消福利救濟；賓州的某個單親媽媽每天都擔心失去女兒的撫養權，只因她符合某種統計形象。

美國一直以來使用最尖端的科學與技術來遏制、調查和懲戒窮人。「數位追蹤」與「自動化決策系統」就像以前的郡立濟貧院以及科學慈善運動，讓中產階級看不到貧困，讓國家抽離了道德規範，做出非人道的選擇：誰能獲得溫飽、誰得挨餓受凍；誰有住房、誰依舊無家可歸；政府應該拆散哪些家庭。在這過程中，它們更削弱了民主，背叛了人們最珍視的民族價值觀。

也許，貧窮並非我們都需要馬上面臨的課題，但在演算法的使用之下，所有人都將無可避免地受到資源分配的影響。這本研究深入、慷慨激昂的好書來得正是時候！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER •WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

"Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.

These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

愛情的52種面貌:悸動、低泣與思念的心:西洋經典情詩選

陳湘陽編譯
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情詩，是每個與愛情碰撞之人的樹洞，
在這裡，找到屬於你的愛情的一首詩！

一見鍾情的悸動，想見而不能見的思念，
相擁相吻的甜蜜，和無法割捨忘懷的美好

多希望我記得那天，你初見我的每時每刻……－－羅塞蒂
東邊的天空沒有一線黎明╱能劃開你眼中烈火熊熊的夜－－E．A．羅賓森
愛情不尋自己開心，╱對自己沒有一絲在意，╱卻為別人獻出一切的好，╱絕望
地獄中蓋起天堂。－－威廉‧布雷克
時間不是解藥，你們都撒了謊。－－米蕾
我們的愛超越了愛。－－愛倫．坡

詩人渥茲華斯曾說：「詩是強烈情感的自然流露。」細讀前人的愛情詩，每首都是自身際遇刻骨銘心的寫照，把某個時空的情感用文字封存了下來，數十年、數百年後仍有餘溫。

本書從浩瀚的西洋詩歌作品之中，精心挑選52首經典情詩，透過優美的中譯與深入淺出的賞析，讓你品嚐愛情的千萬種滋味。

——英國文豪莎士比亞，把戀人比喻為夏日，用豐富的修辭深刻描寫愛情；
——伊莉莎白一世雖然貴為一國之君，面對戀人離去，只能透過詩句抒發內心的巨大衝擊；
——浪漫詩人濟慈，透過文字激情歌詠戀人，也抒發內心強烈的不安；
——情聖拜倫儘管縱橫情場，求歡遭拒時也只在文字間低泣；
——還有離群索居的狄金生，在詩裡直言為情瘋狂，對死生有感的羅塞蒂，描述被人遺忘的焦慮，才女普拉斯以譫語自白內心……

本書除了譯介經典情詩的文字之美，也帶你深入作品背後的創作和愛情故事。作品最末特別加註「一句話說完全詩主旨」、「作品適用對象」、評分指數、hashtag等格式，幫助你更快進入詩的世界。每首詩精選出一句戀愛金句，則鼓勵你把詩作連結到私人世界。

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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

Edward Chancellor
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The first book of the next crisis.

*Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award*

All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money.

In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law ' s ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century. We generally assume that high interest rates are harmful, but Chancellor argues that, whenever money is too easy, financial markets become unstable. He takes the story to the present day, when interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded - including the extraordinary appearance of negative rates in Europe and Japan - and highlights how this has contributed to profound economic insecurity and financial fragility.

Chancellor reveals how extremely low interest rates not only create asset price inflation but are also largely responsible for weak economic growth, rising inequality, zombie companies, elevated debt levels and the pensions crises that have afflicted the West in recent years - conditions under which economies cannot possibly thrive. At the same time, easy money in China has inflated an epic real estate bubble, accompanied by the greatest credit and investment boom in history. As the global financial system edges closer to yet another crisis, Chancellor shows that only by understanding interest can we hope to face the challenges ahead.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

微復原力：結合科學與正向心理的幸福生活習慣 (Micro-Resilience)

邦妮‧聖約翰 (Bonnie St. John), 亞倫‧海恩斯 (Allen P. Haines)
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不受壓力和負面情緒影響，也不再被情緒綁架；
短短五分鐘簡單調整身心狀態，隨時保有健康活力

邦妮•聖約翰是第一位在冬季殘障奧運拿下獎牌的非裔美國滑雪選手，退役後創立顧問公司，致力於幫助領導人與團隊引出最大的潛力與最佳表現。美國前總統小布希稱讚她是勇氣的化身，柯林頓總統指名她擔任白宮國家經濟會議人力資本議題諮詢委員，NBC新聞更稱邦妮是全美最激勵人心的女性，連微軟、IBM等財星500大企業都邀請她擔任領導人顧問。

看似亮麗成功的邦妮，她的人生並不順遂。出身貧困的非裔美國人，五歲因病截肢後裝上義肢，在家中曾遭到父親性侵，又要承受母親多次試圖自殺的壓力。邦妮在困境下依然勇往直前，活出自己的人生。

為了幫助更多人，她從個人經驗出發，結合科學與正向心理學的研究，發展出一套簡單順利克服人生逆境的有效方法叫做「微復原力」。

微復原力就是靠著重新訓練大腦，幫身體充電，改變生活方式，迎向挑戰。能讓我們從全新角度看生活，打破原本的思維模式，重新看待情境與問題。

◎微復原力包括五個面向
✓大腦重新聚焦　✓重設原始警報　✓轉念　✓恢復活力　✓提振精神

只要培養習慣善用這些技巧，就能量身打造適合自己、快速有效恢復活力的策略，並且迅速擺脫負能量。面對生活與工作的多重壓力，學會以習慣配合生理機制隨時善用微復原力的技巧，就能夠很快重新振作，迎向挑戰。

「本書提供帶來啟發的小故事，讀完後跟著一起做，就會有勇氣面對逆境，也有自信不管人生多曲折，都能好好面對與處理。」──凱文•卡洛（Kevin Carroll），作家、講者、變革推動者

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Doing Case Study Research : A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers

Dawson R. Hancock, Bob Algozzine, Jae Hoon Lim
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Now in a Fourth Edition, this how-to guide is an excellent starting point for anyone looking to begin case study research. The authors—all professors teaching graduate students in education and other professions—provide the structure, detail, and guidance needed for beginning researchers to complete a systematic case study. Improvements for this edition include more practical and detailed guidance for conducting a literature review, a more efficient and easy-to-understand reorganization of the case study examples, and updated citations throughout the text. As with previous editions, this succinct handbook emphasizes learning how to do case study research—from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating them. It shows students how to determine an appropriate research design, conduct informative interviews, record observations, document analyses, delineate ways to confirm case study findings, describe methods for deriving meaning from data, and communicate findings.

Book Features:
- Straightforward introduction to the science of doing case study research.
- A step-by-step approach that speaks directly to the novice investigator.
- Many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts.
- Questions, illustrations, and activities to reinforce what has been learned.

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