The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order—and helping us to see how it might be otherwise—The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires.

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消失的記憶 舊香港的光影故事

勇先
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【香港人，同笑同哭的光影記憶】

香港過去一段段的光影故事，一齣齣的本土電視劇和電影，除了陪伴我們成長，也是我們的香港記憶。

本書嘗試以文字作為放映機，帶著我們一幕幕回看上世紀香港的影視作品，字裡行間泛起的光影記憶，與幾代香港人同笑同哭，走過多少高山低谷。看著本書的舊香港光影故事，彷彿又回到那年那天我們最美好的時光，在迷失中，還是記得最愛的那個——香港。

作者前作《消失的記憶 101個即將遺忘的香港故事》長期高踞香港誠品書店及獨立書店暢銷書榜，本書為2024年推出全新作品，獲得香港大學香港研究課程 朱耀偉教授專文推薦。

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MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

James Rickards
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“Essential reading” – Forbes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security

In November 2022, OpenAI released GPT-4 in a chatbot form to the public. In just two months, it claimed 100 million users—the fastest app to ever reach this benchmark. Since then, AI has become an all-consuming topic, popping up on the news, in ads, on your messenger apps, and in conversations with friends and family. But as AI becomes ubiquitous and grows at an ever-increasing pace, what does it mean for the financial markets?

In MoneyGPT, Wall Street veteran and former advisor to the Department of Defense James Rickards paints a comprehensive picture of the danger AI poses to the global financial order, and the insidious ways in which AI will threaten national security. Rickards shows how, while AI is touted to increase efficiency and lower costs, its global implementation in the financial world will actually cause chaos, as selling begets selling and bank runs happen at lightning speed. AI further benefits malicious actors, Rickards argues, because without human empathy or instinct to intervene, threats like total nuclear war that once felt extreme are now more likely. And throughout all this, we must remain vigilant on the question of whose values will be promoted in the age of AI. As Rickards predicts, these systems will fail when we rely on them the most.

MoneyGPT shows that the danger is not that AI will malfunction, but that it will function exactly as intended. The peril is not in the algorithms, but in ourselves. And it’s up to us to intervene with old-fashioned human logic and common sense before it’s too late.

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弱勢者視角下的香港未來

羅金義
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香港自20世紀中後期以後，憑着優越的地理位置和開放的政策，逐步發展成為東方之珠、大都會、國際金融中心。這些美譽突顯了香港的繁華，成為了無數人的向往。然而，在這座燦爛輝煌的城市背後，也有着晦暗、貧困的一面，存在着不少弱勢社群。

香港有哪些「弱勢社群」？少數族裔、殘障人士、低收入貧窮戶、病弱長者、新移民家庭；又或是同性戀者、跨性別人士，以至相對於成年人的青少年。他們面對生活上各種各樣的困難及有形無形的歧視、面對融入社會的挑戰、面對惡劣的生活環境，以至氣候變化也給他們帶來額外的威脅。當我們說香港正面對種種的困境及挑戰，也就是生活在這裏的人的困境及挑戰；而這種困境，我們必須要從社會上弱勢社群的視覺去解讀，方可窺見問題的根本。

「享天下之利者，任天下之患」。香港在璀璨的背後，隱藏着許多社會問題。本書輯錄了十二篇文章，涉及貧弱、青年、少數族裔、社區發展等不同議題，逐一從弱勢社群視角分析詳述。到底弱勢者正面臨什麼困境，社會又該如何幫助他們，社會政策範式應予何種轉移？作為香港的一分子，作者期望讀者大眾都能關注正視這些議題。

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My Life in Medicine A Hong Kong Journey

Yuen Kwok-Yung
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From humble beginnings in Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-Yung rose to international prominence as an academic, physician, and microbiologist. As an advisor to governments, he and colleagues made discoveries that helped the world cope in often controversial ways with unprecedented threats to public health, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In this compelling memoir, Dr. Yuen weaves personal stories with those from his extraordinary medical careers to take readers on an inspiring journey about perseverance, courage, faith, and the ongoing peril of infectious diseases.

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7天改不了社會

關志健
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在很多人心中，社會工作者都有一把公義的尺。尤其剛畢業的社工，充滿理想，矢志扶助弱勢社群，甚至期望改變社會面貌。然而人的改變，大多不是立竿見影；改變整個社會不同範疇的「有色眼鏡」，也殊不容易。

本書由1 0 0篇短小的文章組成，內容既涉及社會工作的基本概念、介入方法、服務使用者的需要，也有專業發展及持續學習等領域。作者透過書中生活化的例子和小故事，為讀者打開社會工作的大門，並領略到微小改變所帶來的力量。

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