Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong
online access from ProQuest Ebook Central Perpetual Titles
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2022

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied

“A magisterial history.”—​Paul Krugman

Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.

Economist Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

草枕：獨旅天地的終極美學，夏目漱石最具詩境經典小說集

夏目漱石
online access from HyRead ebook
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources by the same author in CityU LibraryFind

日本大作家飄然百年的紙上桃源
啟發動畫大師宮崎駿無數次的美學鉅作！
獨旅天地的終極美學，夏目漱石最具詩境經典小說集

「這證明了漱石在藝術上的本領於何處。」──谷崎潤一郎

行旅在外，結草為枕。
只盼能在非人情的天地逍遙片刻。

〈草枕〉描寫一位逃離俗世的畫師走進田野的旅途所見，在深山野嶺開啟一段「非人情」之旅，並在途中邂逅了一位神祕的女子……藉畫師所見所聞，漱石在〈草枕〉抒發大量對藝術觀、人生觀以及美學的思想獨白。在遲暮的春色中，帶領不安迷茫的人心，感受廣闊天地之美以及全然孤獨的狂喜。字句間展現出飽和的「和、漢、洋」藝術涵養，是夏目漱石前期重要的代表作品。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell
online access from ProQuest Ebook Central
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

The Best-Selling Leadership Book of All Time Just Got Better!

HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition.

Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He removed dated stories and replaced them with fresh ones that apply to today’s world of business.

What Maxwell didn’t change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor.

Readers new to Maxwell, as well as lifelong fans will want to get this new edition of the leadership book that has sold millions of copies in the United States and around the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

不便利的便利店

金浩然
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

人生就是會有很多不便利、不舒服，
這間有點慘澹的便利店，卻為我們撐起了閃閃發光的空間……

艱難時刻的光亮之書
一間便利店，接通了我們的幸福人生

★韓國年度最受歡迎小說

這間有點不便利，卻讓人想一再前往的便利店，
藏著能在艱難生活中給你安慰的各樣物品。

買一送一的喜悅、三角飯糰模樣的悲傷，
以及一萬元所帶來的四次歡笑，
充滿特別的故事與奇妙商品組合的便利店，時時歡迎您！

◎便利店「幫人生加值」小語
※我問，支持妳的力量究竟是什麼？
她說，人生本來就是不斷解決問題，既然都要解決問題，那就努力選還可以的問題來解。
※便利店是個人們來來去去的空間，無論店員還是客人，都只是短暫停留的過客。便利店就像間加油站，讓人們用物品或金錢為自己加值。
※為什麼開心？因為炸雞？因為爸爸的陪伴？其實無論是什麼都沒關係，因為能一起吃雞的就是家人。
※人生就是關係，關係的根本就是溝通。我發現只要我們能跟身旁的人交心，幸福其實離我們不遠。
※巴布狄倫的外婆曾經告訴他，幸福不是在通往目標路途上的某樣東西，而是那條路本身就是幸福。你所遇見的每個人，都在苦苦掙扎著與什麼對抗，所以你必須親切待人。

韓國讀者口碑推薦
‧這是一本我想推薦給所有人的人生之書。你讀的時候，很可能一會兒哭一會兒笑，但不知不覺間心頭就暖呼呼了。
‧擦肩而過的人，竟然可以成為彼此生活前進的支撐。一本讓我看到人生力量的書。
‧我的眼角掛著淚，嘴邊帶著笑。多虧這本書，讓我熬過疫病籠罩的日子。
‧哭著，笑著，心也跟著暖了。
‧場景不陌生、人物不陌生，就連裡面的衝突也不陌生，但是人們彼此表達善意卻是這個冷陌時代最需要的態度。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps

Marina Khidekel
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

This revolutionary guide to real change introduces microsteps—tiny, science-backed changes that will help you get your life back on track.

​Live the life you want, not the life you settle for.

Helping people build healthy new habits that improve their lives is more important than ever. Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global to do just that--Thrive's specific mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential. Science continues to show that we don't have to sacrifice our well-being in order to succeed; in fact, it turns out that well-being is critical to peak performance.
Learning to thrive means:

• Moving from awareness to action - from knowing what to do to actually doing it
• Embracing solutions that appeal to wisdom, wonder, intuition, reflection, and are steeped in science
• Taking the time to rest and recover in order to fuel and maximize productivity, both personal and professional
• Making the mindset shifts and habit changes that supercharge performance in ways that truly matter to us

Eschewing trendy self-care fixes or the latest health fads, Your Time to Thrive is the revolutionary guide to living and working based on Microsteps--tiny, science-backed changes. By making them too-small-to fail, we can incorporate them into our daily lives right away, and begin building healthier ways of living and working. This book is a Microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

閱讀電影與電影閱讀 : 深度解讀及分析著名的中外電影

曉龍
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

透過電影提升學生閱讀興趣的影評結集，是學生及電影從業員必備的電影導賞天書

如果觀眾只看電影，忽視了創作人透過此故事表達自己的人生觀的意圖，就浪費了創作人藉著影片傳送的訊息的一番苦心。作者精選了62套電影，環繞著人際關係、生命價值、感情世界、社會探索，分別從縱向及橫向的角度進行思考和分析。資深影評人兼中學教師曉龍透過影像獨特的力量，帶學生閱讀世界的真善美，加深讀者對電影的認識，提升觀影水平！此書的後半部分被命名為《電影•閱讀》，作者以電影及其改編的原著小說為本，比較電影與小說的異同，探討電影與小說的關係，還對小說改編為電影的成果進行跨文本的分析。

本書獲電影界和教育界人士好評，電影愛好者必讀！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)