Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

Stephen Guise
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What's A Mini Habit?

A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; its "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy. You will have no choice but to believe in yourself when you're always moving forward. The barrier to the first step is so low that even depressed or "stuck" people can find early success and begin to reverse their lives right away. And if you think one push-up a day is too small to matter, I've got one heck of a story for you!

Mini Habits is a strategy to create permanent healthy habits. Some categories include: exercise, writing, reading, thinking positively, meditating, drinking water, eating healthy foods, etc.

Mini Habits combines Stephen's life-changing experience above with science, logic, and humor. It rejects common self-help and habit formation advice in favor of smarter strategies that work with a modern, hectic lifestyle. Having mini habits enables you to move forward consistently, even on your worst days.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

坐看雲起時 : 一本香港人的教協史 = A People's History of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union

陸鴻基
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香港電台第十屆 「香港書獎」獲獎書籍 

本書作者，前香港教育學院（二○一六年正名為「香港教育大學」）副校長陸鴻基教授花了五年時間搜集資料、閱讀文獻、訪談及編撰，奉獻了不少時間和心力，最後完成了三卷有關香港教育史的重要著作，以深度和廣度而言，仍屬首次。

全書共分三卷：

• 卷一戰後的香港與教協崛興的背景：從二戰說起，探討戰後香港的政治、社會、教育發展與變遷，闡述促使教協成立的因由；

• 卷二爭取教師權益與教育改進：詳述教協成立後，對香港教育界， 包括學校、教師、學生等所作出的貢獻；

• 卷三教協與公民社會的形成和互動：闡釋在社會、政治及教育的巨變下，教協多年來參與的社會活動，並推動公民社會的發展。

本書為香港的教育史填補空白及留下了客觀紀錄，特別適合對香港的歷史及政治轉變、社會運動與教育發展有認識和感興趣的讀者。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (正義 : 一場思辨之旅)

Sandel, Michael J.
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International Youth Day 2017 (12 August) is dedicated to celebrating young people’s contributions to conflict prevention and transformation as well as inclusion, social justice, and sustainable peace.

 "For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. "In terms we can all understand," wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice "confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts."

Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets―Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.

Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise―an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

第3選擇 : 解決人生所有難題的關鍵思維 (The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems)

史蒂芬．柯維 (Stephen R. Covey)
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2017年國際青年日(8月12日)旨在慶祝青年人在阻止衝突、實現變革以及包容、社會正義、可持續發展中的貢獻。

「第3選擇」，解決人生所有難題的關鍵思維。即使在衝突不斷的年代，我們仍能瞥見美好的未來！

人生充滿難解、看似無解的問題。於是我們失望、決定放棄，或勉強接受一些最終還是會讓自己覺得很糟的妥協。

面對任何問題，大家慣用的第1選擇就是照「我」的方式，第2選擇就是照「你」的方式來進行。衝突點往往就在於，到底是你的選項比較好，還是我的。因此，不論選擇哪一方，都會有人覺得受傷或犧牲。柯維指出，這時不妨考慮第3選擇：超越你的或我的方式，設法找到更高明、更好的方法，讓雙方都能從衝突中找到一條出路，稱之為「第3選擇」（The 3rd Alternative），而這正是解決人類所有問題的鑰匙。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient

Jane McGoniga
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A remarkable life plan based on the game the author herself and hundreds of thousands of others have used to leap from trauma and setbacks to recovery and personal growth

You are stronger than you know. You are surrounded by potential allies. You are a hero to others. These three qualities are all it takes to become more resilient in the face of any challenge. SuperBetter will show you that accessing this power is as easy as playing a game.

In 2009, game designer and author Jane McGonigal got a bad concussion that wouldn't heal. She became anxious and depressed, even suicidal--a common symptom for concussion sufferers. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a game. The game became a blog. The blog became a digital game, then an online portal and a major research study, then a TED talk with 4.5 million views. Today more than 250,000 people have played SuperBetter.

But the ideas behind SuperBetter are much bigger than the game: we can cultivate the same powers of recovery and resilience simply by applying its core concepts in everyday life, by being "gameful" in the face of stress. Being gameful means bringing the psychological strengths you naturally display when you play games--such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination--to real world situations.

SuperBetter the book integrates seven basic rules into challenges the reader can undertake while reading, and explains the science behind the benefits. Playing by the seven rules begins to yield life-changing benefits in a matter of days, and eventually they become an ingrained skillset.

As inspiring as it is down-to-earth, SuperBetter is self-help for the rest of us. Grounded in rigorous research and powered by game design, it is nothing less than an accessible, real-time guide to living a better life.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

宮崎駿動畫的「文法」：在動靜收放之間

游珮芸 著
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日本文化研究者酒井信曾說：「宮崎駿是當代日本唯一的「國民」作家……不論男女老幼，只要是以日文為母語的人，都認得出其作品，並且透過此人的作品，回溯其記憶的思路，就能回顧「時代」的氛圍」，一語道破了宮崎駿在日本人心目中的地位。

宮崎駿作品不只在日本受到喜愛，在西方、東亞世界中，也獲得一致的肯定。與日本僅僅一海之隔的台灣當然也不例外，「龍貓」、「魔女宅急便」……，是許多台灣人成長過程中不可或缺的回憶。但除了娛樂之外，台灣觀眾又是如何看待宮崎駿的作品呢？
　　
在本書中，作者以台灣研究者的觀點，探究宮崎駿動畫的獨特性和跨越文化疆界受到台灣觀眾喜愛的根源；從其創作精神與日本傳統文化的關連、動畫角色的設定與動畫演出及動畫類型的連動性切入，窺見宮崎駿動畫的「文法」。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

第19屆香港動漫電玩節由7月28日至8月1日在香港會議展覽中心舉行。