Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

Tim Minshall
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From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives – and the world around us.

We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from?

There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us – be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us.

From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, Tim Minshall traces these journeys to reveal the hidden world of manufacturing.

Charting how this world came to be, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world, exploring how it could offer us a path to a truly sustainable, more equitable future. In doing so, Minshall grants us the ability to make better choices for ourselves, our communities and the planet.

''This brilliant book shows that manufacturing is foundational to our lives, not only now but also if there is to be any hope for a sustainable future. I learned something new on every page.''
PROFESSOR DIANE COYLE, author of Cogs and Monsters

''Reading this book is like being given a personal tour of the world’s factories by a real-life Willy Wonka. Brimming with insight, curiosity and wit, Tim is a masterful storyteller of the manufactured world.''
DR ANNA PLOSZAJSKI, author of Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making

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港式日語：香港日文大搜查，懷舊、日常、新興300例

片岡 新,李燕萍
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本書精選了20世紀60年代至今香港社會使用頻率較高的300個港式日語，一方面加深本地讀者對中文母語的瞭解，另一方面提高日語愛好者的日語水平，以及為學者研究日新月異的香港語言問題提供參考借鑒。

選詞考究：根據30年來的語言調查研究，選出至今仍在使用並有代表性的港式日語。
分類細緻：按時序分成懷舊、常見和新興三類，並細分日常用語、飲食、娛樂、廣告、語法結構等。
插畫精美 ：圖文並茂，部分詞語配有生動有趣、形象可愛的插畫，幫助學習者輕鬆理解詞義和用法。
附贈錄音 ：由作者親自朗讀示範日語和粵語發音，帶領學習者體會純正、地道語感。

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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

Eva Dou
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“Authoritative… a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today.”–Financial Times

“There’s probably no better account of China’s rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company.”–The Wall Street Journal

ABOUT THE BOOK

The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.

On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world’s most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the global spotlight.

In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, and how he built a sprawling corporate empire—one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed, and national glory that Huawei helped to build—and that has also ensnared it.

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查毅超：管理平衡

香港城市大學城傳系列編輯委員會
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榮獲第五屆「香港出版雙年獎」商業及管理類出版獎

本書回顧了查毅超博士，在人生路上遇到的各種挑戰與考驗，如何尋覓最佳的平衡。

專訪香港科技園董事局主席查毅超博士，他同時是香港工業總會主席、福田集團控股有限公司董事總經理，被稱為「磅秤大王」。從小在工廠長大的他，自少對機械、工程感興趣。在美國畢業後回港接手家族生意，憑着獨到的眼光與技術革新公司，讓公司成為跨國企業。他更積極投入多個與工業及科技有關的公職，對香港貢獻良多。本書回顧了查博士如何由「廠佬」成為科技人，並藉着分享他待人處事的態度與平衝各方的智慧，讓年輕一代有所啟發。

(摘錄自cityu.edu.hk/upress)

The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE

The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds."

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未知的香港粗獷建築

彭展華
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榮獲第五屆香港出版雙年獎：最佳出版獎（社會科學)、2024 美國建築師學會香港特別嘉許獎狀、粵港澳大灣區書籍設計藝術展（2025）優秀圖書等獎項

由零開始，還原本地粗獷建築的精神面貌

多年來粗獷建築均被誤解，有人認為與城市空間格格不入，另外也有人批評混凝土外觀冰冷無味，殘破不堪。有人嫌它醜，更多人其實是一無所知。

粗獷主義（Brutalism）提倡「As Found」概念：追求真實的材料運用，如實地設計當下現況，讓建築呈現最客觀的現實。

1960至1980年代為戰後與經濟起飛之間的年代，香港開始與世界脈搏同步呼吸。本書介紹的20組香港粗獷建築及12位建築師的故事，展現出緊貼世界潮流的觸覺。前衛的設計，令本土的城市風景增添了國際化的色彩。同時也反映當時的人文風景：樸實無華，追求基本生活的精神。

長達三年的研究試圖填補歷史的空白，打開討論的大門，讓專業人士、保育專家和普羅大眾共同尋找這批建築的「未知的」命運：是「去」？或是「留」？

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