Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death

Jenny Kleeman
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A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex, and death

In Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience - birth, food, sex, and death - Kleeman examines the people who are driving some truly amazing, and perhaps worrying, innovations. We are on the brink of seismic changes in the ways we live and die, from babies grown in artificial wombs to lab-produced meat; from sex robots able to hold polite conversation, and otherwise, to being able to choose to end our days with the perfect, painless, automated death. Our journey from cradle to grave is developing in ways which involve more and more technology and less and less human interaction. Might these advances in technology serve to rob us of our humanity?

In this book, Kleeman takes a profound look at what the future might have in store and asks some provocative questions along the way. Kleeman places these scientists front and center and asks what is driving and motivating them. Are they entrepreneurs in it for the greater good of human advancement, or might there be more sinister - i.e. monetary - motivations in play?

Kleeman is a skilled and subtle interrogator and travels with the listener on a fascinating exploration of the changes afoot and their implications for who we are as a society - and as human beings. It’s an immersive, eye-opening, and hugely entertaining journey into a world of extraordinary visionaries on the front line of a social revolution.

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設計幸福：經濟學×心理學×行為科學，實現理想人生的務實思維 (Happiness by Design)

保羅．多倫 (Paul Dolan)
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※諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、《快思慢想》作者丹尼爾．康納曼親為本書作序※

倫敦政經學院行為科學家保羅．多倫，
結合經濟學、心理學與行為科學的研究洞見，
告訴你真正持久又簡單的幸福之道。

市面上有許多作品探討如何獲得幸福快樂，
但行為科學家保羅．多倫將「幸福」這個抽象概念，
轉變成一道可衡量與改變的科學原則：愉悅—目標原則。
諾貝爾經濟學獎得主丹尼爾．康納曼曾經試圖測量人們的幸福感受，
而保羅．多倫則將康納曼的實驗延伸，
因為康納曼的實驗只測量受試者的「愉悅」量表，
忽略受試者對於「目標」的需求。
因為測量愉悅，就像是拍下一張張照片的當下瞬間，
但關於幸福感，則應考量人們的長期感受。
他在書中提出諸多實驗結論，告訴讀者如何設計務實行動計畫，
採取「行為的輕推」，養成能確實獲得長期幸福的習慣。
此外，他也試圖釐清諸多導致人們無法過得幸福的思維謬誤 ......　

與其強逼自己洗心革面徹底過著截然不同的生活，
不如學習做自己的幸福設計師，讓幸福得來更容易。

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Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future

Richard Susskind
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In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.

For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.

This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future - for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.

Written in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is currently provided.

Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.

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筆遇

沈祖堯, 潘誦軒合著
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《筆遇》是一個徹頭徹尾的奇遇。

一位學者教授和一個少年學生在一次中學畢業典禮上相遇，雖然年齡相隔三十多載，雖然背景閱歷大不相同，兩人更相距千里。一個身處香港，主理大學和醫療；一個留學悉尼，主修法律。透過文字，藉著書信，他們還交換了兩代對人生、時事、社會和家庭的看法。如今相識四年，做過大學校長的已經離開了領導的崗位，做大學生的亦將畢業找出路了，兩人仍然遙遙相距，但已經成為好友知己。很多事情都不用掛在嘴邊，反而用筆墨紙張，寫幾句鼓勵和慰問，來得更受用。

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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

Temple Grandin
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers

A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.

With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.

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別跟內心怪獸拔河：接納與承諾治療的生活法則

湯國鈞, 黃志明
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這幾年面對社會不斷的變化，一波接一波的疫情，還有在年初第五波疫情下的恐懼和緊張，相信任何人都會想尋找到快樂。但現實生活告訴我們，快樂並非唾手可得，人生不如意事十常八九，如果生活真的無法如意，要如何活？

本書以接納與承諾治療為主題（Acceptance and commitment therapy，簡稱ACT），向大眾建議一種心理健康模式和生活智慧，透過行動實踐，活出有意義的美好生命，同時亦能獲得更深刻和長遠的快樂。

接納與承諾治療，有一個核心信念：認為痛苦經驗根本是人生無可避免的一部分，因此接納往往比抗拒或逃避痛苦來得更為合適，對心理健康更為有用。這個療法包含六個元素：接納，是指接納人生的痛苦和不愉快經驗，包括：開放接納經驗、脫離思想糾結；學習活在當下：覺察的自我、與此時此刻連結；承諾以價值為本，以目標為前進方向：確立價值和人生方向、承諾實踐行動。這些都可以有效建立心理彈性，人擁有心理彈性，當面對困苦、艱難或不如意時，就可以有內在資源去承載；並以承諾實踐人生重要的價值為目標，堅持活出有意義的生命。

本書介紹接納與承諾治療內六個向度的內容和實踐練習，幫助讀者即使面對困難，仍能重新聚焦自己的人生方向，即使在難處中仍有力朝人生目標走去，能獲得心靈的滿足，可以過內在豐盛的生活。

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