First Person Singular: Stories

Haruki Murakami
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“Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street Journal

A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.

The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.

Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

生時間 : 高績效時間管理術 (Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day)

傑克‧納普, 約翰‧澤拉斯基 (Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky)
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你可曾在夜深人靜時納悶，我今天到底做了什麼？可曾夢想「有朝一日」可以著手什麼計畫、展開什麼行動──但那「有朝一日」永遠不會到來？

我們都努力為要事騰出時間。我們信心滿滿地開啟每一天──然後時間就被接連不斷的會議、沒有盡頭的email和永無休止的社群媒體動態吞沒。有時彷彿疲憊不堪和注意力不集中已成為我們的預設狀態。要是你可以跳出倉鼠輪、開始掌控你的時間和專注力，該有多好！

身為Google Ventures「設計衝刺」（design sprint）的開創者，傑克‧納普和約翰‧澤拉斯基已透過重新設計「工作週」，協助數百支團隊解決重要問題。根據從設計衝刺汲取的教訓，他們花費數年以自己的習性和慣例進行試驗，尋找將活力、注意力和時間最佳化的方式。現在，他們已將最有效的策略歸納成一個四步驟的日常架構──精華、雷射、提振活力、反省──任何人都可以用來有系統地設計自己的每一天。

「生時間」不是關於提高生產力或給更多待辦事項打勾，也不是提出像是扔掉智慧型手機或發誓戒除社群媒體等不切實際的解決方案。「生時間」提供的是一套可量身訂作、有87個迷你策略的選單，包括：

●擬辦清單
●讓自己不方便
●不要一早就上線
●把盤子中央公園化
●把自己鎖在外面
●……還有其他更多

如果你希望一天之中有更多自由時間可以運用，《生時間》是你必讀之作，它能協助你開始以真正重要的事情為中心，刻意設計你的日子。假以時日，你必能讓你的生活歸你所有。

「《生時間：高績效時間管理術》是魅力四射的宣言──也是大膽無畏、打造聰明長久習慣的DIY指南。如果你想要完成更多（而不發瘋），請讀這本書。」──查爾斯‧杜希格（Charles Duhigg），暢銷作家，著有《為什麼我們這樣生活，那樣工作？》（The Power of Habit）、《為什麼這樣工作會快、準、好》（Smarter Faster Better）

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel
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A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020
A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020
A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020
A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020

The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization and led to deep distrust of both government and our fellow citizens - leaving us morally unprepared to face the profound challenges of our time.

World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy fosters among the winners and the indignities it inflicts on those left behind. And he offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity, and more affirming of the dignity of work. The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful vision of a new politics of the common good.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

邏輯謬誤鑑識班:訓練偵錯神經的24堂邏輯課

冀劍制
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＊新版增加32頁「習題解答」，幫助你訓練更犀利的邏輯思考能力！

當你身處邏輯謬誤的「犯罪現場」，
你能馬上偵測出錯在哪裡，用的是什麼手法嗎？
每個人天生都有偵測錯誤與邏輯推理的能力，
因此，有時你會聽到有些話就是感覺「怪怪的」，好像「有陷阱」！
這時就代表你的偵錯神經已經開始運作。
然而，如果不特別經過訓練，你的防火牆就會出現漏洞，
於是輕則人云亦云，重則信假為真、上當受騙。

 ...... 本書以常發生在我們身邊、隨處可見的謬誤為例，
從政治宣傳、宗教迷信、廣告用語，甚至到我們日常生活的對話。
內容也由淺到深，從認識謬誤的各種型態，訓練推理能力，
到抓出隱藏型謬誤，最後克服情緒障礙與直覺的誤判，
就像從偵錯思考的初級班、中級班，進階到高級班和研究班，
之後，只要一有可疑的狀況出現，你的偵錯神經就會自動啟動，避免受騙上當。

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做自己的情緒管理師：20個負面情緒管理法

香港心理學會輔導心理學部
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【榮獲2021第三屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類「出版獎」】

全書分為四個章節：第一章焦慮家族：焦慮、恐懼、強迫、羞怯、緊張、沒有安全感，第二章抑鬱家族：抑鬱、沮喪、悲傷、孤寂感、麻木，第三章憤怒家族：憤怒、憎恨、矛盾、內疚，第四章困惑家族：沒有希望感、失望、無助、悶/無聊、空虛

介紹以上的情緒特徵，並有「自測表」自我篩檢測驗是否有相關的困擾、應對方法、有甚麼可預防和注意等等。

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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones--"a tour de force” (New York Times).

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same interviewer, or the same customer service agent makes different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.

In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show the detrimental effects of noise in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. Yet, most of the time, individuals and organizations alike are unaware of it. They neglect noise. With a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions.

Packed with original ideas, and offering the same kinds of research-based insights that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment—and what we can do about it.

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