The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

Dorie Clark
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Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.

It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. How can we break out of the cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives that we all seek? Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives. As top business thinker and Duke University professor Dorie Clark explains, we all know intellectually that lasting success takes persistence and effort. And yet, so much of the relentless pressure in our culture pushes us toward doing what's easy, what's guaranteed, and what looks glamorous in the moment.

In The Long Game, she argues for a different path. It's about doing small things over time to achieve your goals - and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard. In The Long Game, Clark shares unique principles and frameworks, as well as her own instructive experiences, to show how you can tap the same 24 hours everyone has - but leverage them in more efficient and powerful ways to break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and career.

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後九七香港粤語流行歌詞研究

朱耀偉, 梁偉詩
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本書是《香港流行歌詞研究：七十年代中期至九十年代中期》續篇《後九七香港粵語流行歌詞研究》的新生版,新增朱耀偉教授的「再版後記」，簡單論述由2015年至今的粵語流行曲的傳承，特別是「這兩年香港流行樂壇重現活力似有迴響，Mirror及一眾新人冒起，看來否極終於泰來。粵語流行曲能否再攀亞洲頂峰還要拭目以待。」不過，朱教授亦指出：「若以詞論詞，過去十年的確新人輩出，但是否如流行樂壇般可以號稱『改朝換代』則似有商榷餘地。」然而，作者「一直相信回望粵語流行曲的光輝歲月並不是老餅懷舊，要用當天的尺度衡量今日的詞作，而是仍然憧憬不同的可能性。與其留戀往日奢求用既有模式複製舊光輝（其實這才真的是懷舊？），何不展望明天以無邊想像開啟新秩序。」

本書沿用《香港流行歌詞研究：七十年代中期至九十年代中期》所訂定的研究框架，進一步追蹤1997年前後「香港粵語流行歌詞」的變化軌跡。當中擬設了1997為講述香港流行歌詞嬗變的分水嶺──回顧了「資深詞人」（即出道於一九九七年以前的詞人）在歌詞創作上的後續發展、風格變化。同時亦整理出「後九七詞人」（即出道於一九九七年或以後的詞人）的崛起和風格走向，務求為1997年至今的香港流行詞壇，全面透析其地形風貌、氣候格局。

作者朱教授在2015版的序中曾說：「這一代香港流行詞人告訴我們，只要念念不忘，像他們般有一口氣點一盞燈，十年又十年之後，那天涯總會為你我移開……有一口氣點一盞燈的情懷與姿態，念念不忘必有迴響的信念，說的就是傳承。我們也懂了。」

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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

Brian Fagan
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationships with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationships with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna.

Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors' camp and found companionship to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys, and camels to the industrial age, when some animals became commodities, often brutally exploited, and others became pets, nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes. Through an in-depth analysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan shows how our habits and our very way of life were considerably and irreversibly altered by our intimate bonds with animals. Among other stories, Fagan explores how herding changed human behavior; how the humble donkey helped launch the process of globalization; and how the horse carried a hearty band of nomads across the world and toppled the emperor of China.

With characteristic care and penetrating insight, Fagan reveals the profound influence that animals have exercised on human history and how, in fact, they often drove it.

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人生不是一夜干 : 獲得幸福與成就、解決困境與煩惱, 都不是一蹴可幾的事, 需要累積微小改變、耐心等候

齋藤茂太
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獻給想要前進卻停滯不前的人們

◆心靈醫生的66則處方籤——
跑不動就慢慢走，走不動就停下來；就算躺平也沒關係。
◆《孤獨力：一個人也可以好好過》作者另一撫慰人心力作

很少有人不為煩惱所苦。當人處於煩惱而茫然時，總會看不到前方的路；又因為看不到前方的路，往往會更加煩惱，不知如何是好。

「心靈名醫」齋藤茂太以他個人的經歷，以及超過半世紀心理臨床治療所見的千百種案例，淬鍊出這本深具撫慰力量的66則人生格言。

他認為，人總會遇到煩惱，陷於「人生的雨季」裡，但要相信雨水能為萬物帶來朝氣，也終有停止之時。而在雨停之前，我們雖然做出改變以解決煩擾，但也需要給予耐心，畢竟任何改變不像醃漬一夜干只需一晚就能看到成果，是必須等待。

茂太醫生的人生智慧，在日本不僅給予職場人心靈撫慰，更給予許多因為挫折或煩擾無法前進的人們溫柔的支持。許多讀者推崇他的作品是「一個溫柔的肩膀讓人依靠」，更提到「當不想盡力而為時，是這本書讓你知道自己仍然值得掌聲」。

茂太醫生的暖心話語，是這個躁動、紛擾的時代，我們都需要的一帖心靈良藥。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

Tim Higgins
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A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller

'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary' --The Times'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster.

Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers for more than a century.

But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics repeatedly taking the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse.

Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three?Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds... and changed the future.

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好城市的空間法則： 給所有人的第一堂空間課，看穿日常慣性，找出友善城市的101關鍵要素 (101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School)

維卡斯.梅塔 (Vikas Mehta)
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認識友善城市、日常空間＆場所精神的 101 課

以事件為基礎的文化只能收割一次，以日常為基礎的文化日日都有回報。

城市生活品質不只是城市規劃師的事！
你的都市生活是你的選擇，還是無意識的慣性？

都市設計並非建築的「放大版」
「空間」才是優先考慮的對象
給所有人的第一堂日常空間教育課

像城市規劃師一樣思考，重新審視自己的城市
教你看穿城市日常空間規則
找出友善城市、優質空間體驗的關鍵要素

本書濃縮城市規劃師的思考方法與實戰心得，提供大家快速參照的經驗法則。本書焦點放在都市主義最尋常的一些面向：對所有的都市場所而言，最根本的問題始終是一般人在尋常生活裡的「日常經驗」。例如：可以讓人賺錢的好設計，比較可能實現；維護街道安全的關鍵，是市民，而非警察局；讓行人順路穿越公園，會是互動好設計，我們愛看人卻又不想被看，這之間需要巧妙的安全感設計。

本書告訴我們：
●都市居民已經習慣了靠近和熱鬧，也珍視這種特質。
●當一條街甚至一棟建築是「多孔的」，會給人充滿魅力與希望的感覺，讓人願意親近。
●路上的建築物或店家若未讓我們察覺裡面「有東西在等我們」，那我們就不會費事進入。
●有些公共設施成為蚊子館，可能是因為無法讓人清楚看到對面的出口，「我們一進入，就會找出口」是人性本能。
●城市的一切相比於郊區鄉間總是「特大號」，並非鋪張浪費，而是出於「尺度、比例」的人性直覺需求。
●郊區居民走垂直線，都市居民走平行線──郊區的土地是根據目的做規劃，因此郊區經驗通常是選擇性的、單一變數的、以目的地為導向的；都市的經驗則是連續的、斜線的、偶然的。它是同時一起，而非一次一件。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)