Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Venki Ramakrishnan
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*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY*

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson

"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee

A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan

The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not only we but all our loved ones will die—and there is nothing we can do about it.

Or at least, there hasn’t been. Today, we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in understanding why we age—and why some species live longer than others. Could we eventually cheat disease and death and live for a very long time, possibly many times our current lifespan?

Venki Ramakrishnan, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and former president of the Royal Society, takes us on a riveting journey to the frontiers of biology, asking whether we must be mortal. Covering the recent breakthroughs in scientific research, he examines the cutting edge of efforts to extend lifespan by altering our physiology. But might death serve a necessary biological purpose? What are the social and ethical costs of attempting to live forever?

Why We Die is a narrative of uncommon insight and beauty from one of our leading public intellectuals.

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古典今情 : 跨越時空的經典閱讀與賞析

鄭吉雄
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落紅化作春泥，繁花重新綻放。人文丰采的新貌，印證古典精神的賡續；
舊土壤滋養靈根，新情懷得以孕育。血脈同源、新舊相接，文化綿延不絕。
放眼未來，運用新價值、新視野重新詮釋舊經典

古典為國學之本，無論深淺，都是千百年文化的沉澱，重要性自不待言，而當代讀者最需要的，是進入古典的途徑。本書精選中國傳統極具代表性的經典共十八種，敦聘香港各大學十八位前沿學者作解讀，俾引導讀者跨越時空，上下千載，掌握中國經典的精髓。他們如同領航人，拉近了讀者與莊嚴雋永的古典作品之間的距離。對於有興趣悠游於經典世界的讀者而言，這是一本既可親又可靠的入門讀本。

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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

Parmy Olson
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WINNER OF THE THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive - until now.

In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech Goliaths whose power is unprecedented in history. The story focuses on the continuing rivalry of two key CEOs at the center of it all, who cultivated a religion around their mission to build god-like super intelligent machines: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind.

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香港眾生七千年--四十古代歷史人物誌

香港古事記著 ; 倫@化外繪
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四十人，橫跨七千年，拼湊古代香港複雜而多元的圖像。

路過香港的末代宋帝趙昰；
殖民屯門的葡萄牙探險家區華利；
打鼓嶺「護圍英雄」劉阿牛；
陳抗官兵勒索、引發坑口大罷市的凌老師；
帶領信徒保衛西貢的和神父；
傳說預言香港陸沉的賴布衣……

四十位香港古代人物，有扭轉歷史的帝王將相，有反抗體制的俠客，更有平平無奇的「普通人」，雖然未有名留青史，卻是有血有肉，確確實實在古代香港存在過，反映著當時社會的面貌，組成香港歷史的一部分。

這是跨越七千年的四十篇人物誌。若想輕鬆一點，隨意挑讀篇章，都是有趣的故事；若想認真一點，順序讀完全書，理應會對香港古代史的輪廓有所了解。

重構香港眾生，探尋被遺忘的時空，窺見古代香港的輪廓。

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The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation

Timothy R. Clark
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This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas.

Perhaps the leader's most challenging task is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction. When this doesn't happen and it becomes emotionally expensive to say what you truly think and feel, that lack of psychological safety triggers the self-censoring instinct, shuts down learning, and blocks collaboration and creativity. Timothy R. Clark, a former CEO, Oxford-trained social scientist, and organizational consultant, provides a research-based framework to help leaders transform their organizations into sanctuaries of inclusion and incubators of innovation.

When leaders cultivate psychological safety, teams and organizations progress through four successive stages. First, people feel included and accepted; then they feel safe to learn, contribute, and finally, challenge the status quo. Clark draws deeply on psychology, philosophy, social science, literature, and his own experiences to show how leaders can, and must, set the tone and model the ideal behaviors--as he says, "you either show the way or get in the way." This thoughtful and pragmatic guide demonstrates that if you banish fear, install true performance-based accountability, and create a nurturing environment that allows people to be vulnerable as they learn and grow, they will perform beyond your expectations.

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超高齡紅利時代：人口未來學家帶你讀懂銀髮海嘯的危機與商機，打造長壽經濟的行動指南 (The Super Age)

布萊德利．雪曼 (Bradley Schurman)
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人口老化已是全球無法逆轉的超級大趨勢
等著我們的是停滯和衰退，還是一個更創新、更繁榮的新時代？
只有真正理解並擁抱超高齡時代的人，才能成為未來贏家！

超高齡時代靜悄悄地朝我們走來，人口老化已是全球無法逆轉的超級大趨勢，預計2030年，全球將有35個國家成為超高齡社會。

面對這樣的巨大轉變，如果我們沒有任何作為，恐將面臨經濟停滯、農村社區加速衰退等翻天覆地的災難。相反地，若能善用超高齡時代的優勢，像是人類將擁有更長壽、更健康的生活，以及更多的世代合作，那麼我們將大有機會從中挖掘全新市場，重塑新世界。

本書除了回顧人類一直以來看待老年的態度，也檢視了我們對青春的執迷，以及讓我們走到這一步的科學與社會成就。作者明確指出，企業若想要存活下來，就必須正視新時代的現實，重新思考龐大銀髮族的需求與渴望，為不同世代的受眾開發產品與服務。

打造超高齡時代的未來工程，你我都將參與其中。正面迎擊年齡歧視，把握潛在機會，做出個人生命、家庭、社區、事業與國家經濟需要的改變，建立一個更公義、更平等的未來。

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