Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

Brad Stulberg
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A revelatory book on rethinking change and creating a rugged and flexible mindset amidst life's intensifying flux, from expert on sustainable excellence, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness.

From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule. Yet we endlessly fight it, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self.

Master of Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life’s constant instability.

Brad Stulberg, sustainable excellence expert, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness, offers a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and reorder—yes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with habits and practices to implement it. Along the way, Stulberg reveals:

• How to be in conversation with change instead of it happening to you.
• The importance of expectations
• Why cultivating a rugged yet flexible sense of self is key to a strong identity.
• How to take productive action during a challenge.
• The paradox of both making meaning and moving forward.

In the end, Stulberg reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to grow in its midst—ultimately helping us move forward better, stronger, and wiser than we were before.

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打造第二大腦:多一個數位大腦, 資訊超載時代的高效能知識管理術 (Building a Second Brain)

提亞戈．佛特 (Tiago Forte)
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矽谷強推的知識管理課終於成書！
教你最夯的「第二大腦」建構法

資訊超載時代，每天訊息收不完，大腦不夠用？
「第二大腦」幫你秒速思考、輕鬆歸納、高效輸出！

具體上要如何使用「第二大腦」呢？佛特提出簡明且直覺的CODE法，包括：
● 獲取（Capture）：不要當囤積資訊者！只獲取未來會對我有所啟發、用得上、有關連性的資訊。
● 組織（Organize）：將資訊有系統的存入PARA四個資料夾，專案（短期任務）、領域（長期任務）、資源（未來用得上的題材）、檔案庫（其他備而不用事項），就能一目瞭然、秒速管理。
● 萃取（Distill）：做筆記的同時摘要重點、去蕪存菁，落落長反而沒頭緒。
● 表達（Express）：把先前儲存的內容重新組合成你的新作品。

跟著「數位知識管理一哥」佛特一步步打造「第二大腦」，將平常的筆記、觀察、發現等數位化，進而可在app上搜索、組織和同步，備份到雲端硬碟善加保存，當你需要時，花最少的時間就能調出來。無論職場工作，專案管理、找新工作、學新技能、創業、管家都用得上。「第二大腦」將成為你最好的助理，也是最有用的思維工具，使你能夠達成渴求的任何目標。

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Advance: The Ultimate How-To Guide For Your Career

Gary Burnison
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The how-to guide for your career

Advance is extremely timely and topical in today's do-it-yourself career development world. Average job tenure has fallen to about four years on average and often only one or two years for younger professionals. These "career nomads" simply aren't around long enough to access career development from their employers. On the other end of the workplace spectrum, many employees find themselves stuck in one job without a promotion, without any raise to speak of, and with no opportunities to learn and grow.

In Advance, Burnison lays out a mosaic of "how-to" advice that applies every day and at every level―the skills and behaviors that help people navigate their careers and stand out among the crowd. He takes on a "Top 20" of career must-haves: managing for the first time, engaging in the "money conversation" with your boss, dealing with difficult bosses (without quitting), coping with coworkers (without losing your mind), making presentations (that don't put people to sleep), mastering digital communication (and avoiding emails that will get you fired), thinking globally (without leaving your office), taking an overseas assignment, meeting senior leaders for the first time (without putting your foot in your mouth), navigating political waters (without sinking your career), reading and fitting in with the culture, and more.

• Wisdom on taking your career to the next level
• Career development tips
• Guidance on being seen and heard
• Written by the CEO of one of the world’s largest management consulting firms

Whether you’re just starting your career, high up on the ladder, or “stuck” anywhere in between, Advance gives you the know-how to get on a path to where you want to go.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

如何用英文解釋中華文化:名勝古蹟x飲食文化x節日習俗x歷史脈絡

楊天慶
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當「傳統文化」遇上「現代英文」，
兩者會擦出什麼樣的火花呢？

歷史、民俗、飲食、建築、茶酒、服飾、天文……
中華文化博大精深，但要怎麼樣才能讓外國人明白其精髓？
別擔心！本書全方位地涵蓋了中華文化的各個層面，
從參訪名勝古蹟到去餐廳裡大快朵頤，嘗遍中華特色美食，
再坐下來品一壺好茶美酒，將傳統文化向外國朋友娓娓道來，
你只需要這一本——《如何用英文解釋中華文化》！

【吃飯皇帝大！英文裡的中餐文化】
你知道古代皇帝吃飯有哪些規矩嗎？
怎麼鑑別茶葉品質，沏上一壺好茶？
華人在飲酒會玩哪些有趣的小遊戲？

【流傳下來的民俗＆被屏棄的傳統】
傳統華人婚姻有哪些禮節？
為什麼說「男女授受不親」？
什麼是「裹小腳」？談裹腳風氣的興盛與沒落

【漢文化的起源與發展】
天干地支有什麼涵義？
十二生肖與二十四節氣分別有哪些？
中文字很難學嗎？誰創造了今日的漢文？

特別附錄：中華傳統經典中英對照，讓外國人了解文言文的奧妙！

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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell
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Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award

“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review

A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.

Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity.

Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.

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看不見的山徑 : 香港可持續山徑之初探

綠惜地球著
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遠足登高，攻頂觀景，行山多是舉目向上的活動，讓我們往往看不見腳下的徑。

山本來只是山，路都是人行出來的，可是山徑沒有我們想的那麼簡單。無論是前期的規劃及建造，或是山徑的復修與維護，又或只是使用，若忽略了對大自然的關顧，都可能讓這些路變成山的「傷痕」；親親大自然，卻在無形中傷害了大自然。

理想的山徑應是可持續的，山徑地表能承載需求，能自我復原，能融入自然景觀，能保護周遭環境。本書記錄了一群關心香港山徑保育的人，探索香港「可持續山徑」之路，由認識山徑歷史、規劃、設計、建造、維護以至教育，嘗試親手復修一條又一條受傷的山徑，希望找出能維持山徑之美歷久不衰的方法。原來人不止是把山徑行出來，守護山徑最重要的也是人。每個人可以有其角色，「手護」山徑，達至「無痕山林」，讓山徑可持續下去，長走長有。

讓我們首先看見山徑，再讓山徑以最自然的方法隱身於山野之中，取之自然，並回歸自然。先看見，後看不見，一起守護香港的山野。

(摘錄自cosmosbooks.com.hk)