Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

Gloria Mark
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**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023**
**A "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" MUST-READ BOOK FOR JANUARY**

Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from "the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking" (Cal Newport).

We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we're interrupted by others.

In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including insights such as:
Why multitasking hurts rather than helps productivity
How social media and modern entertainment amplify our short attention spans
What drains our mental resources and how to refuel them
The four types of attention that we experience every day and how to recognize them

While the concept of “flow” has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in the digital world: kinetic attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find health and wellness in our everyday lives.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

香港老舖記錄冊

馬基諾,詹穎宜,陳容笙
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香港文化兼收並蓄，一邊吸收華洋文化之精粹，一邊醞釀自身的特質與風格；既保留傳統的智慧和手藝，亦引入創新的意念和技術，豐富而且多元。

香港可謂「麻雀雖小，五臟俱全」，在山與海之間匯聚了四方八面的人，大家憑著雙手為生活打拚，造就了各式各樣的店舖與行業，為大街小巷帶來生氣，為香港帶來多姿多彩的社會經濟面貌。

經歷歲月沉澱的店舖盛載著豐富的歷史和文化，訴說行業和社會的變遷，不少更加體現非凡的手藝和優質的出品，值得我們從不同角度了解、欣賞和支持。除此以外，老舖的舖面及招牌刻畫街道面貌，裝潢及包裝體現本地美學，店舖出品及人情風俗塑造港人生活方式。

若要承傳香港文化，不可忽略本地老舖。先由記錄開始，隨後整理資料，詳細撰文介紹；《香港老舖記錄冊》一書，收錄二十八篇記錄香港老店文章，覆蓋不同行業，結合案頭研究和親身訪談，筆者希望透過文字和照片為老店留下記錄，亦希望喚起大家對於老店的關注。

(摘錄自logos.com.hk)

Someone Else's Shoes

Jojo Moyes
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“Very few authors have the power to make you laugh on one page and cry on the next. Moyes is one of them.” —The New York Times
"A compelling, full-of-heart novel about the power of female friendship." —Kirkus

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope—she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp—in the bleakest point of her life—has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag—she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

夜晚的潛水艇

陳春成
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★《亞洲週刊》2020年度十大小說
★ 豆瓣讀書2020年度中國文學（小說類）Top1

從微物與唯物中尋求出路。一張照片，一枚錢幣，一把鑰匙，一個音符，一隻筆，一罈酒，都可能是電光石火的契機，突破此刻此身的限制，朝向另一星空或深海開放……

◎特別推薦——

陳春成的文字清晰典雅，在年輕世代作家中並不多見。他的故事天馬行空，字裡行間在在顯示鍛鍊的痕跡。世界文學和傳統典故巧妙糅合，「舊山河和新宇宙」奇特接軌。而他工整的筆觸其實處理著一個又一個危機：從集權暴政到精神耗弱，從歷史崩毀到記憶錯亂，淒迷的夜，詭異的夢，救贖懸而未決……《夜晚的潛水艇》含蓄蘊藉，而又每每閃爍幽光。在一個文字漫漶、人人競相表態卻又言不及義的時代，這樣的書寫何其難得。知其白，守其黑，在洞穴裡，在古甕中，在匿園裡, 在深海下，「我附體在某個角色身上，隨他在情節中流轉，他的一生就是我的一世。」九篇小說，無數輪迴。藏身其間，陳春成幻化為小說中的人物，幽幽的將他的文學潛水艇駛向下一個時空。——王德威（美國哈佛大學講座教授）

◎關於本書——

虛構是我最接近自由與狂歡的樣式。

寫作於我即是快馬、長槍、大碗的酒和阻絕兵馬的群山，是內在的狂歡，平息後即歸於日常。——陳春成

1966年波赫士在烏拉圭外南大西洋投下一枚錢幣，啟動了1998年一個中國少年的夢中潛航；公元4876年秋天的一場《紅樓夢》餘孽大搜捕，隱隱回應著明萬曆十四年春夜，神宗皇帝憂鬱的啟悟；文化大革命熱火朝天的時分，福建山裡一個和尚琢磨著如何藏匿一塊明代流下來的石碑；1957年深夜的列寧格勒傳來薩克斯風聲音，是誰有這樣膽子吹奏著違禁樂器……

陳春成的小說風格，開啟了一個世代的新視野。
彷彿鳥棲樹，魚潛淵，一切穩妥又安寧，夜晚這才真正地降臨。

《夜晚的潛水艇》是陳春成的首部短篇小說集。九個故事，筆鋒游走於舊山河與未知宇宙間，以瑰奇飄揚的想像、溫厚清幽的筆法，在現實與幻境間闢開多條祕密的通道：海底漫遊的少年、深山遺落的古碑、彌散入萬物的字句、雲彩修剪站、鑄劍與釀酒、鐵幕下的薩克斯、藍鯨內的演奏廳……

潛入故事深處，感知體內的星雲旋動、草木蔓發；以詞語的微光，探照記憶的海溝。關於藏匿與尋找、追捕與逃遁……

陳春成創作的主角們，身體都潛伏著夜行性動物的習性，他們皆善於躲藏，他們深信值得人沉迷一生的事情太多了，每個洞穴都充滿誘惑。他撰寫的每篇小說幾乎都以古典文學作為基調，再澆灌以現代手法，融會後撰寫出迷人的文學。

陳春成的小說世界，是可供藏身的洞窟，懸浮於紙上的宮殿，航向往昔的潛艇……。他以作品隱喻文學中想像力的重要性，於小說情節摻入推理的元素，每一篇小說各自發展出出色的格局，刻畫令人驚豔。

透過《夜晚的潛水艇》，我們得以理解，當我們在面對現實世界時，方法並非只有一個；我們除了可以如實描摹世界外，應該還有能力再建構另外一個精神世界。

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Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency

Barnabas Calder
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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent never explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liverpool, to China's booming megacities. He reveals how every building - from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house - was influenced by the energy available to its architects, and why this matters.

Today architecture consumes so much energy that 40% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and running of buildings. If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change then now, more than ever, we need beautiful but also intelligent architecture, and to retrofit - not demolish - the buildings we already have.

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典藏世界圖書館 : 從古文明至21世紀的絕美知識殿堂巡禮 (The Library: A World History)

詹姆斯．坎貝爾 (James W.P. Campbell)
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＃全世界最完整的圖書館建築史!!!＃

有些圖書館旨在收藏世界上的每一本書，
有些圖書館的存在就是被世人欣賞、讚嘆！

本書涵括了人文×歷史×建築
是獻給每個愛書人的圖書館百科

從書寫文字的出現到當下的科技世代
從廢墟挖出的古代圖書館到鋼筋森林的現代圖書館

總計21個國家×82座圖書館
跟著建築師，一起深入探索千年歷史藏書聖殿的變遷

圖書館不僅僅是儲藏書籍的「建築」，
從古至今，知名圖書館的建築設計，都在頌揚閱讀和學習的重要性。
作者與攝影師踏遍21個國家，造訪了82座圖書館，
在諸多圖書館中研究它們的歷史，更有幸探訪許多鮮少開放給大眾的圖書館。
經由圖書館建築的變化，一窺人類與書寫文字多變的關係，
體認不管在何處，圖書館都絕非滿是灰塵的文件儲藏室，
而是文化與文明的象徵。
希望這本書不只能為對圖書館和建築史有興趣的人解惑，
也能滿足熱愛書籍、想要進一步了解儲藏它們的美麗建築的讀者。

「圖書館是由想像構成的空間，而想像就是創造的一種。」
在腦中創造激盪出無限可能，讓我們得以重回童年或穿越到幻想中的世界。
人類建造出形形色色的建築，用來閱讀、冥思、作夢和讚頌新知，
只要這些活動有其價值，相應的建築就會不斷誕生。

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