Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud
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The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

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A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time."

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Europe in a Comic Strip Exhibition showcases thirteen comic strip pages illustrating the great moments that have built Europe that we know today, with the objectives of introducing major events in European history at a glance, and appreciating comic art from a cultural and historical perspective. The exhibition is being held from 5 May to 16 June 2023 at Wofoo Foundation Gallery, Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. READ MORE

城市如何文化

茹國烈
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城市是什麼？
文化是什麼？
城市如何文化？

本書探討城市文化，提出「文化系統」、「文化指數」、「文化地圖」及「文化空間」等概念，解構城市文化的各種要素。作者選取了十四個著名城市，深度考察它們怎樣成為獨特的文化都市。最後，作者走訪香港各區，探索各自的文化特質，對香港未來的城市文化發展規劃提出建議。香港如何「文化」？讀者可以透過本書，與作者共同思考未來香港的城市文化發展。

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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily

"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair

“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire

"Exhilarating.” —New York Times

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

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52赫茲的鯨魚們

町田苑香
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52赫茲的鯨魚，是世界上最孤獨的鯨魚。其他鯨魚無法接收到牠發出的高頻率叫聲。雖然有很多同伴，但其他同伴聽不到牠的呼喚，牠也聽不到其他同伴的聲音。就像總是無比孤單、無人理解，無人在乎的我一樣⋯⋯

沒有人能理解、無法將內心呼喊、求救傳達出去的你，並不孤單。「我會傾聽你那無法傳達給任何人的52赫茲的聲音。」

日本九州一處偏遠的海邊小鎮。斷絕所有一切，獨自移居此地的貴瑚，在某個下雨天遇到了跟自己一樣散發孤單感的一名少年……兩個人相遇，踩著憂慮，一步一步向著未來前進……

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
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The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects

“This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”—Frank Gehry

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example:
• Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.
• Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.
• Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
• Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
• Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.”
• Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
• Know that your biggest risk is you.

Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

創業軍師 : 年輕創業家的博弈論 (Startup Theory)

溫學文, 余樂明
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可能是全香港最受年輕人喜愛的創業電視節目，首次結集成書。

書中訪問了20位年輕創業家，分享他們的創業經歷，如何面對高低起伏。他們未必是最成功最發達的生意人，但絕對是一班擁有創業夢想，並能夠將之實踐的年輕創業鬥士。

「你的夢想是什麼？」

本書輯錄了20個創業故事，都是以初創及青年創業為主線，從這些故事當中，看到年輕創業家的衝勁及熱情，要知道，速度是Startup的最強武器，亦是唯一的武器。起動要快，發展要更快，改變要更更更快，就像天下武功唯快不破。

創業路上不能停步，一定要不斷有突破才能保持動力；而突破，往往是在被逼入牆角，無路可退時激發出來的。

在向這班年輕創業家致敬之餘，更希望大家能從中學習到他們的營商智慧。

(摘錄自cosmosbooks.com.hk)