The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

William D. Nordhaus
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The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions.

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.

Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change.

Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.

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渺小一生 (A Little Life)

柳原漢雅 (Hanya Yanagihara)
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2015年曼布克獎決選小說 (A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST)
榮獲2015年科克斯評論文學獎 (THE KIRKUS PRIZE)
入選2015年3月美國獨立書商協會選書
Goodreads 讀者討論排行榜的文學小說第一名
Buzzfeed 2015年春季 14 本話題熱門書冠軍
廣受各大媒體好評：Vogue時尚雜誌、紐約時報、紐約客、華盛頓時報、全國公共廣播電台網書評、華爾街日報、科克斯評論、出版人週報

四個大學好友，畢業後來到紐約闖蕩，
在這個花花世界各擅勝場，也嘗盡了傷痛與歡愉……

從青春年華到人生終曲，在生命最深的那個黑洞，
纏人的回憶是吸音的彈簧，而友誼是上方唯一的光亮，與垂下的救命索。

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The Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur
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The World Mental Health Day (WMHDAY) is celebrated throughout the world on the 10th of October. Regular readers for pleasure report fewer feelings of stress and depression. The Sun and Her Flowers, filled with heartfelt and beautiful poetry, is one of mood-boosting titles.

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

你的善良必須有點鋒芒：36則讓你有態度、不委曲，深諳世故卻不世故的世道智慧

慕顏歌
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善良，是一種選擇
但善良不該等同妥協或吃虧
缺乏標準的善良
會為難自己，又慣縱了他人
就因為你很善良，底線應該更高
你當善良，且有力量

作者慕顏歌是一名心理諮詢師，她慧黠又有態度的觀點與文字，經常一語道破世道困境，為千萬人指引迷津，屢屢成為網路瘋傳的金句語錄。她最直指人心的觀點，就是在這時代，為「善良」寫下新的定義，破解許多人心中長久的兩難糾結。她認為，想要讓別人看見你的良善，你得用自己的光彩照亮自己。善良是一種選擇，不要習慣了容忍和退讓，結果慣縱他人，為難自己。

本書收錄36段人生場景，層層剝開36種隱藏在內心深處的心理與生活真相。作者在這些情境中，或苦口婆心、或當頭棒喝，解析引導，讓我們看穿人際的困境，重拾力量，找到適切的出口 ......

她提醒大家，越是善良的人，待人底限要越高。散發出鋒芒的人，才能兼顧人情與智慧，真正活得自在！

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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell
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**Winner of the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize**
**Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction**
**Finalist for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize**

“This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has found support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world’s biggest businesses.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence.

Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not just for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions, O'Connell presents a profound, provocative, often laugh-out-loud-funny look at an influential movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

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暗時間

劉未鵬
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劉未鵬說：「寫博客這件事情給我最大的體會就是，一件事情如果你能夠堅持做8年，那麽不管效率和頻率多低，最終總能取得一些很可觀的收益。而另一個體會就是，一件事情只要你堅持得足夠久，『堅持』就會慢慢變成『習慣』。原本需要費力去驅動的事情便成了家常便飯，雲淡風輕。」 

這本《暗時間》便是從劉未鵬8年的博客文章中精選出來的，主要關於心智模式、學習方法和時間利用，《暗時間》的書名便來自於此。

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