Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth
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International Best Seller

"Being You is an exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text." (The Guardian)

Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to 21st-century science.

What does it mean to “be you” - that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood.

Now, internationally renowned neuroscience professor, researcher, and author Anil Seth is offers a window into our consciousness in Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Anil Seth is both a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness and one of most prominent spokespeople for this relatively new field of science. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness.

Seth has been interviewed for documentaries aired on the BBC, Netflix, and Amazon and podcasts by Sam Harris, Russell Brand, and Chris Anderson, and his 2017 TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 11 million times, a testament to his uncanny ability to make unimaginably complex science accessible and entertaining.

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MBTI, 你的職業性格是什麼?發現自己的優勢, 規劃最適生涯 (What’s Your Type of Career?)

唐娜．鄧寧 (Donna Dunning)
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解讀自己，接受自己，
找到最適合自己的生涯路！

全球500強HR都在用的MBTI分析系統，
這是一種沒有任何偏見的工具，
能指引你妥善利用自己的性格優勢，
在職涯中找到最準確的角色，
真正享受每個階段的工作與人生。

每個人的一生都會花費大量時間和精力在工作上，因此人人都希望憑自身偏好選擇工作，確保選擇的職涯能讓自己滿意。

大多數人都曾懊惱過自己在職場上沒能發揮，還不停被數落工作表現，甚至因為性格差異，導致溝通不良，在工作上與人有所衝突。會引發這些困擾，是因為大多時候你根本不了解自己的職業性格：
★你的職業性格是什麼？什麼工作最能讓你感到自在？
★以你的職業性格來說，如何能最有效減低壓力？
★你是適合領導或被領導？
★你在什麼領域最具競爭優勢？
★你和哪種性格類型的同事與主管最合拍、能形成互補或肯定不合？
★你適合團隊工作、還是單打獨鬥？
★中年後或在人生的每個階段，你的職業性格會產生怎樣的變化？

性格差異與生俱來，因此每個人的工作方式、喜歡的工作類型完全不同，你的需求、技能、興趣和局限都會影響你的選擇，唯有把放大鏡朝向自己，才能了解屬於自己的最佳工作方式，豐富職業選擇，隨時調整方向，化解人際矛盾。

這是一本適合每個職場上班族的書，全面的性格分類，深度剖析在不同情境下面對壓力、決策、人際關係時，你的性格特質會引導出怎樣的想法、態度、溝通方式、心理效用與行為。

性格╳職業類型
深度自我了解，對職涯方向更有掌控力：
4組性格偏好 →→ 16種人格類型 →→ 8種職業性格，
找出你的專屬性格代號，為自己打造準確的職業選擇方案！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Lost Hong Kong: A History in Pictures

Peter Waller
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Hong Kong is one of the world's most exciting cities and its story is one of almost constant change. From a sleepy fishing community, Hong Kong now a Special Administrative Region of China following its return from Britain to China in July 1997 has grown into one of the most significant financial and trading centres of the world.

Hong Kong Island itself has witnessed massive rebuilding over the years. The Kowloon peninsula and the New Territories have also experienced development, whilst the construction of the new airport saw the destruction of an entire island. Over the years photographers have recorded the changing face of Hong Kong its street scenes, buildings and people.

This new book, drawing upon images from a wide range of sources (most of which are previously unpublished) provides a pictorial tribute to this lost Hong Kong. Once familiar, but now long-gone, scenes are recorded offering a tantalising glimpse into an era that in chronological terms may be relatively recent, but which today seems to be a distant age, given the astonishing rapidity of change over more than 100 years.

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樹的微宇宙：樹木隱藏的微小線索如何揭開大自然的祕密 (How to Read a Tree)

崔斯坦．古力 (Tristan Gooley)
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世界上沒有兩棵相同的樹
它們的差異是在訴說更大的世界
★美國獨立出版年度大獎Foreword INDIES自然類決選入圍★

樹木渴望告訴我們許多事。
它們會告訴我們土地、水源、人類、動物、天氣和時間的故事。
它們還會告訴我們自身的生活，點點滴滴、酸甜苦辣。
樹木述說著故事，不過只有那些懂得閱讀的人才能聽到。

比如這棵「彆扭之樹」：
「河邊那棵高大的楊樹，在南側擁有更粗大的樹枝，樹枝數量也更多，整個樹冠也在好幾十年間，受到盛行的西南風形塑。但是，當我抬頭望去時，便能看見樹木正在對抗一種不是每天都會見到的風。
「這是一棵彆扭的樹，它的外觀因強大的東北風而扭曲。風向將樹冠吹往盛行風的反方向。楊樹正在低聲說著——壞天氣就要來了。
「我在打雷前先一步回到山谷，坐在一根柏樹樹樁上，並帶著感激的笑容，從衣物上拍掉刺柏的針葉。⋯⋯」

自然領航員崔斯坦．古力，
以數十年自然觀察經歷與豐富的自然知識，
帶你成為專業的樹木偵探，
展開一場樹木與自然生態間的解謎遊戲。

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The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

Adam Welz
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New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“Exquisite.”-DAVID WALLACE-WELLS | “At once an elegy and an exhortation.”-ELIZABETH KOLBERT | “A book that goes deeper than any before into the meaning of the climate breakdown for all the rest of creation.”-BILL McKIBBEN | “Celebratory and heartbreaking.”-DAVID GEORGE HASKELL

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.

The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain--and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.

Although we can never really know what a creature thinks or feels, The End of Eden invites the reader to meet wild species on their own terms in a range of ecosystems that span the globe. Combining classic natural history, firsthand reportage, and insights from cutting-edge research, Adam Welz brings us close to creatures like moose in northern Maine, parrots in Puerto Rico, cheetahs in Namibia, and rare fish in Australia as they struggle to survive. The stories are intimate yet expansive and always dramatic.

An exquisitely written and deeply researched exploration of wild species reacting to climate breakdown, The End of Eden offers a radical new kind of environmental journalism that connects humans to nature in a more empathetic way than ever before and galvanizes us to act in defense of the natural world before it's too late.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

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冰室情味 : 形塑香港的飲食文化遺產

阮志
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提到香港飲食，人們首先想到的往往是“茶餐廳”，殊不知，歷史更早的“冰室”也是不可忽略的香港特色。

● 菠蘿油、蛋撻、多士、絲襪奶茶、紅豆冰……
● 安樂園、蘭香閣、九龍冰室、檀島咖啡、鴻運冰廳……

這些耳熟能詳的名字串聯成冰室的香港記憶，這裡有美味，更有人情……
● 溯源冰室百年歷史——由冰的發明到冰室的興起，透過豐富的歷史資料研究，講述港式飲食的變遷史
● 珍藏冰室懷舊時光——上百張老照片、數十家傳統冰室發展介紹，廣泛記錄香港、澳門、台灣、廣州等地的冰室發展
● 捕捉冰室裏的溫情故事——在飲食與人群之間的交往互動中，透過冰室的飲食設計、語言、影視、信仰等文化故事，展現冰室的人文關懷與冰室文化的精神遺產

名人推薦
● 內容相當豐富，對香港的冰室文化做了不少的資料搜羅，深入敘述了冰室文化的演變，是一本不可多得的著作。——香港咖啡紅茶協會主席 黃家和
● 全面、踏實、深入地闡述了香港冰室和茶餐廳的發展，是一本難得一見的好書，我誠意向讀者及飲食同業們推薦。——飲食文化作家 方曉嵐

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