Monday, December 30, 2019

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

快樂就是 ...... : 500個生活裡的小幸福 (Happiness Is . . .: 500 Things to Be Happy About)

麗莎‧史瓦琳 (Lisa Swerling), 拉夫‧羅拉薩 (Ralph Lazar)
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每一天,都是幸福的發現!

快樂就是……

一個週五的夜晚、一句來自陌生人的讚美、一首帶你回到往日時光的歌曲、一道清爽的陽光灑進你的窗、一口香甜的吻在狹小的車裡擺盪,甚至是一顆新鮮的檸檬!

可愛又充滿魅力的插圖佐以妙趣橫生的短句,重新拾回生活的熱情與甜蜜。

晴天讀了心情更美麗,陰天讀著覺得溫馨,雨天讀後揮別憂鬱;難過就翻一翻,開心時看一看!

陪伴你走過分分秒秒、度過春夏秋冬,永遠守候與提醒──

日常裡的簡單快樂,就是專屬於你的小幸福。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, December 23, 2019

Be With

Forrest Gander
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WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section―a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s―rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

心流 : 高手都在研究的最優體驗心理學 (Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

米哈里.契克森米哈伊 (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
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出版三十年暢銷不墜,
啟發《刻意練習》、《異數》與《深度工作力》等著作的心理學經典。
「羅輯思維」、「得到App」萬為綱老師:「過去三十年最引人入勝的心理學概念。」


心流,一個人全神貫注於某件事而渾然忘我的境界,
這經驗是那麼美好,以致有人為了擁有它不惜付出任何代價!

建基於十數萬筆經驗取樣研究,
提出「心流」概念並以科學方法探索的開創之作。
啟發心理學、神經醫學、社會學、運動學、人類學、宗教學……眾多研究,
影響近四十年個人生活優化與文化建構的經典。

本書將帶領讀者走一趟心靈之旅,
認識意識的運作,並學會駕馭之;
控制經驗反應在大腦裡的資訊,進而決定自我人生的模樣;
最終結合所有經驗,打造一個有意義的模式,
讓一個人可以駕馭生命,並感受到它的意義。

最美好的幸福時刻,
發生在一個人有意地將身體或心智能力發揮到極限,
進而完成某件具有難度或有價值的事的時候;
而真正能夠滿足人心的,是對自己的生命真實感到滿意。
最優體驗需要個人的努力與創造力,以及隨時隨地掌控意識的能力。
讓更多日常生活進入「心流」,你將擁有更快樂的人生。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, December 16, 2019

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates (Foreword)
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The instant New York Times bestseller.

From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.

“A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson

A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.”—Bill Gates, from the foreword

Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

無言老師──遺體捐贈者給我們的生死教育課

陳新安, 伍桂麟
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」社會科學類別的「最佳出版獎」

無言身教,無言感激

死亡是一個點,生命卻是一條線。在這條線上,遺體捐贈者選擇在離世後成為「無言老師」,延續生命的意義,帶領我們從死看生,活好當下。

我曾遇過一位病人,他的家人不多,當感到年齡大了,知道終有一日會離開人世,希望為社會做些事,例如貢獻在醫學教育上。他知道當「無言老師」能夠幫助醫學生,因這軀體能成為學生深入了解人體結構的重要教材,認識各個器官和人體奧妙。在整個過程中,希望讓學生明白如何尊敬一個人,無論是生是死,每個人都需要有尊嚴,需要受到重視。

如果各位正考慮或曾經考慮參加「無言老師」遺體捐贈計劃,我想在此呼籲,這個捐軀的行動十分有意義,因為這不單讓醫學生在解剖教學上有學習樣本,並且在學習過程中,學懂如何尊敬別人的遺體,以至學習尊重人的一生。
——沈祖堯教授

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)