After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People

Dean Spears, Michael Geruso
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?

Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explaining why global depopulation is coming, why it matters, and what to do now.

It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better—better for the planet, better for the people who remain. This book invites us all to think again. Despite what we may have been told, depopulation is not the solution we urgently need for environmental challenges like climate change. Nor will it raise living standards by dividing what the world can offer across fewer of us. Spears and Geruso investigate what depopulation would mean for the climate, for living standards, for equity, for progress, for freedom, for humanity’s general welfare. And what it would mean if, instead, people came together to share the work of caregiving and of building societies where parenting fits better with everything else that people aspire to.

With new evidence and sharp insights, Spears and Geruso make a lively and compelling case for stabilizing the population—without sacrificing our dreams of a greener future or reverting to past gender inequities. They challenge us to see how depopulation threatens social equity and material progress, and how welcoming it denies the inherent value of every human life. More than an assembly of the most important facts, After the Spike asks what future we should want for our planet, for our children, and for one another.

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像哲學家一樣思考 : 27堂邏輯素養課Step by step 鍛鍊你駕馭AI的思辨力! (Think Like a Philosopher)

安．魯尼 (Anne Rooney)
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＼ 猴子愛吃香蕉，你也愛吃香蕉，所以你是猴子？ ／
＼ 殺人是錯的，墮胎即殺人，所以墮胎是錯的？ ／

你真的有在思考嗎？
還是只是在「被帶風向」而已？

釐清現況 →提出假設 →做出決策
27堂邏輯素養課，
Step by Step鍛鍊你駕馭AI的思辨力！

│指引善惡路徑、挑戰主流思想、最大化推理能力……
│哲學，原來可以拿來做這些學校不會教的事！

生命是由一連串的選擇組成，
在你決定要「做些什麼」之前，必須先掌握「我是怎麼想」，
以及「我為什麼會這麼想」。
這就是本書要教你的事：
你可以透過邏輯思考，利用哲學解決真實世界的難題！

│Google、蘋果公司與華爾街的投資機構……
│為什麼紛紛重金聘請哲學家，幫助員工解決問題？

本書要告訴你：
哲學家的思辨能力，如何幫助人類跳脫思維定勢？
只要養成「質疑固有想法」的能力，你就能進一步掌握及創造未來趨勢。

本書會提出大量的問題，測試你心中的那把尺。
一旦你開始思考，就會意猶未盡、難以停止，
最終你將答出「我是怎麼想的？」這個問題──所有一切皆根源於此！

│你唯一能確定的事，就是自己的無知；
│如果你比別人聰明，那是因為你承認自己的無知！

在哲學家的世界裡，
「未經審視、渾渾噩噩的生活不值得人過」。
本書將提出迥異於教科書上，逸趣橫生的哲學應用方式，
為跨領域的讀者帶來發人深省的嶄新觀點，
你將因此擁有全新視野，重新看待那些過去難解的生活謎題。

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The Craft of Research (Fifth Edition)

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald
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A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.

With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and government. 

Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to choose significant topics, pose genuine and productive questions, find and evaluate sources, build sound and compelling arguments, and convey those arguments effectively to others.

While preserving the book’s proven approach to the research process, as well as its general structure and accessible voice, this new edition acknowledges the many ways research is conducted and communicated today. Thoroughly revised by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, it recognizes that research may lead to a product other than a paper—or no product at all—and includes a new chapter about effective presentations. It features fresh examples from a variety of fields that will appeal to today’s students and other readers. It also accounts for new technologies used in research and offers basic guidelines for the appropriate use of generative AI. And it ends with an expanded chapter on ethics that addresses researchers’ broader obligations to their research communities and audiences as well as systemic questions about ethical research practices.

This new edition will be welcomed by a new and more diverse generation of researchers.

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GCEO思考圖譜

香港城市大學城商系列編輯委員會
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過去十年，全球經歷了新冠疫情，各地的政治、社會和經濟環境發生了重大變化。作為企業的CEO，一方面要面對外部的挑戰，包括日益緊張的地緣政治局勢、AI技術的普及、可持續發展等議題；另一方面還要應對內部挑戰，如提升員工技能、混合工作模式、新世代的新工作思維。故此CEO必須具備一些重要的特質和條件，以應對未來的環境變遷，例如卓越的分析思維、靈活及彈性的應變技巧、創新的視野、掌握AI和大數據的能力等，方可在高速變化的環境下突出重圍，讓企業能夠可持續發展，在全球化下的營商環境佔一席位。

香港城市大學商學院是全球頂尖的商學院，為了讓學生能夠開拓視野，準備未來的職業生涯，於2024年起開辦了CB3020 Advanced Business Seminar，邀請多位國際著名企業的領袖分享營商及管理經驗。有見及此，香港城市大學出版社特別策劃了「城商系列」(Global CEO Series)，深度回訪了這些獨當一面的成功領袖，期望通過文字，讓更多讀者尤其是Z世代能藉着他們的故事有所啟發，鼓勵他們在職業生涯上勇敢面對挑戰。

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Abundance

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive.” —Fareed Zakaria

“Spectacular…Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward…Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

“A raging political fad has taken over the Democratic Party….The Abundance movement cuts across the party’s ideological fissures….Democratic politicians are rushing to embrace the new mantra.” —The Wall Street Journal

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.

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讀建築的故事：建築詩人黎辛斯基探索人類史上百座經典建築的理念、技法與歷史 (The Story of Architecture)

黎辛斯基 (Witold Rybczynski)
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帶你走過建築的故事，探索人類歷史上最巨大、實用且傳世久遠的藝術品
◎英語世界最優秀的建築作家、國際建築大獎「文森斯庫里獎」得主
◎繼《讀建築》後時隔10年又一力作
◎跨越建築專業與大眾閱讀的最佳建築入門讀物

本書對廣大讀者來說易於理解，對在職建築師來說則充滿智慧。
——William Rawn 建築師事務所創始合夥人

建築物與人有著密切的連繫，唯有建築物中有人，建築物才能合理存在。
——黎辛斯基

建築是你我生活的一部分，每座建築都反映其時代的美學與技術，是建築理念與工法相互配合與角力的結果。建築詩人黎辛斯基以七十九歲高齡精選了影響深遠且現在還能看得見的經典建築，探索建築理念如何受到社會、技術、經濟和品味變化的影響，且反映人類對於美與秩序的追求，以及最重要的是，建築能持續供人使用的價值。

7000年來最具代表性的百大建築奇蹟
本書精選西元前5世紀到21世紀百大建築，包括你我耳熟能詳的萬神殿、聖母百花大教堂、桂離宮、阿爾罕布拉宮、林肯紀念堂、雪梨歌劇院等。從建造背景和技術知識帶領我們探索這些建築的形式結構及其轉變，比如：古希臘與古埃及的柱子、羅馬人發明的拱門、中世紀哥德式建築的創新、伊斯蘭建築的拼貼裝飾，以及文藝復興對古代建築的模仿。

建築是集合眾人之力的時代縮影，且影響久遠
這些乘載人類美感與文化的建築，是建築師、工匠、投資者等人合作與妥協的成果，其高昂的造價與巨大的勞動力需求，促進了社會的經濟發展。此外，這些偉大建築不只供人欣賞，建造於8世紀的大馬士革清真寺裡今日仍舊有人做禮拜、每年有無數人到羅浮宮參觀藝術品，紐約公共圖書裡依舊有人在閱讀研究。因為有使用者置身其中、親身體驗，建築的形式與細節得以持續為人欣賞，並在不同時代以復古之姿重生。同樣地，建築也保留足以見證的歷史痕跡，各時代的文化美學技術都以各種形式記錄在我們眼前的建築上。在本書中，讀者將能與作者一同暢遊、思索這些跨世紀、跨文化的建築為何能保存至今且影響著一代代的人。

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