You Are Here: A Novel

David Nicholls
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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Housekeeping "Book We're Most Looking Forward To" * An Independent Today "Best Fiction Books to Read" * A GQ Magazine (UK) "Best Book of 2024" * A Harper’s Bazaar (UK) "Best Novels to Read" * A Daily Record "Best Novel"

"Captivating [and] flawless...An affectingly hard-won romance. [Michael is] a sturdy and slyly amusing authority figure, … flailing amid the debris of a loving marriage gone sour. Marnie is a compulsively witty, winningly cranky near-agoraphobe...Both protagonists are prickly, smart and desperately yearning, but utterly guarded for understandably good reasons. Nicholls builds his own erotic and at times wrenchingly emotional suspense as the would-be lovers reveal past mishaps and surrendered dreams... As in the best romances, we cherish Michael’s and Marnie’s difficult personalities, and relish the unlikely process that might bring them together. The novel is sharp-tongued and irresistible."—New York Times Book Review

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . .

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house.

Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by.

When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for.

Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future . . . if they can survive the journey.

A hilarious, hopeful, and heartwarming love story—the novel beloved New York Times bestselling author David Nicholls calls “my funniest book yet”—You Are Here is a bittersweet and hopeful story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.

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擠迫之城的戀愛方法

黃怡
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要認識一座城市有簡單的方法，
就是去看民眾怎麼工作，愛戀與死亡。
──卡繆

地狹人稠、生活空間緊縮、行事節奏迅速，這一切形塑了香港獨特的價值觀，以及戀愛方式。生活在空隙中的人們如同打不死的蕨草，總能在最不可思議的狀況下變通、生存，並開出各種奇異之花。
本書以香港這座奇特之城為展開，作家在擁擠的城市裡，為虛構的戀人們裝置了不同的障礙賽和規則，觀察他們如何因應限制找到談情說愛的獨特方法，探知他們的逃避與迎合，生動地描寫了戀人的千姿百態，各種背景、性格和性取向的都盡錄其中。
情緒被動員起來的戀人們，在髮膚之間的距離裡便能引燃一場戀愛，上演一幕又一幕溫柔、狂野、信任、猜忌、寬容、嫉妒、期待、絕望、愛惜、冷淡的「感情思想實驗」。
「寫小說對我來說，常常是一種理解世界的方法，而愛情小說作為方法，讓我能以有時抒情、有時搞笑的角度重新審視這座城市的不同面貌。」──黃怡

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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Tae Kim
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Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews—including Jensen (as he is known) and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives—to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering competitors, including the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. Kim offers revelations at every step, among them:
An authoritative, myth-busting account of Nvidia’s founding in 1993.
How Nvidia managed to overcome early missteps that would have killed most start-ups.
The benefits of Nvidia’s flat organizational structure, which allows even low-level employees to contribute to the direction of the company.
How Jensen’s obsession with solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—the trend of entrenched market leaders falling to smaller, nimbler companies—drove him to reinvent his approach to corporate strategy.
How Nvidia saw the coming AI wave sooner than anyone else, and how it bet its future on a technology that had not yet arrived.

A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

“A captivating history of one of the world’s most important companies and what made it so great. Tae Kim deftly narrates Nvidia’s incredible achievements and instructive failures, and also captures the unique philosophies, motivations, and bets of its founders, scientists, and staffers.”—Matthew Ball, best-selling author of The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet

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解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集

蕭欣浩
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★ 文學跨界文化、飲食文學、都市生活的最新研究！

飲食圍繞日常，當中文化最容易被忽略。蕭欣浩博士花十年時間，研究香港飲食文學及文化，探討飲食的相關課題，結集成《解構滋味：香港飲食文學與文化研究論集》。

本書題材從古代的甲骨文、蘇軾的詩文，到上世紀五、六十年代的粵語片、茶餐廳文化，以至香港作家也斯的創作、内地作家蘇童的小說與台灣作家劉克襄的散文，探討飲食於不同時空的文化意義。蕭欣浩博士以學者兼廚師的身分，呈現一道道美食背後，文學、電影與文化構成的人間滋味。

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Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Customs and Rituals

Wei Liming
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Festivals are the carrier of the national soul and sentiment o f the Chinese people , and are also the essence of the national affinity and cohesion. The culture of festivals roots deeply in the people, and it thus shows its enormous vitality. In spite of the change of times, it has gradually become part of the heritages of the colorful Chinese culture. Some important ones, the four major festivals (the Spring Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival) in particular, are still widely celebrated among people. Chinas statutory festivals and memorial days include New Years Day, Womens Day, Tree-planting Day, Labor Day, Youth Day, Childrens Day, Armys Day, Teachers Day and National Day, and etc. Minority people in China boast various festivals and almost every nationality has her own major festivals. Typical examples are the Tibetan New Year Festival, Water-Splashing Festival for Dai people, and Torch Festival for Yi People, the Singing Carnival for Zhuang people and Nadam Fair for Mongolian people.

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私隱即權力 (Privacy is Power)

卡里莎．貝利斯 (Carissa Véliz)
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英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz話題新作
深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響

*「我同意相關的私隱條款」
*「我接受向第三者披露個人資料作促銷或宣傳用途」
*「使用本網站即表示同意接受所有cookies」
無意識的點擊背後，代表我們失去了什麼？

科技帶來社會進步的同時，也讓我們的個人資料無聲無息地外洩——社交平台、手機程式透過大數據了解我們的喜好，推送商品及服務廣告；電訊公司、銀行直接出售個人資料予第三方，宣傳我們根本沒必要的東西；演算法下大眾接觸到截然不同的新聞內容和政治訊息，於是各自活在自己的同溫層中⋯⋯我們的性格、興趣、行蹤乃至不欲人知的秘密，是否都透過科技暴露在某些人的眼皮底下？

英國牛津大學副教授Carissa Véliz深入探討科技和數據經濟對私隱權的影響，它們如何撩撥慾望、影響思考、左右決定，並造成差別化待遇，甚至社會對立？建立保護私隱的意識，就是自主的第一步。

從來沒有哪個時代如同今日人類被科技全面滲透，
而私隱則成為生活便捷性的高昂代價。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)