Bruce Lee: A Life

by Matthew Polly
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“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate.” —The New York Times Book Review

The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.

Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon.

Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up...

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逆境商數AQ: 如何在逆境中打造成功人生

譚春虹
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這是一本關於成功的書，一本關於走出逆境、贏得成功的書。如果你曾經因為陷入逆境而失落、迷茫和痛苦，因為失敗而沮喪、頹廢、無法振作，那麼，你就讀讀這本書吧。

逆商也就是逆境智商，它是指人們在面對逆境或失敗時的反應能力，是一種不敗於任何逆境的生活態度和思考方式。

20世紀90年代中期，美國著名學者、白宮知名商業顧問保羅．史托茲教授首次提出「逆商」概念，並迅速在歐美普及開來。越來越多的人開始參加逆商測試，上百家著名公司新增了固定的逆商培訓專案。如今，逆商已經成為職場競爭的重要法寶。

本書以保羅．史托茲教授的逆商理論為基礎，總結了逆商的最新研究成果，詳細闡述了當人們遇到各種變動、失敗和挫折時，容易掉進哪些導致失敗的陷阱，並提供了實際有效的應付逆境的方法和提升逆商的技巧，教您學會運用逆商這一行之有效的工具去增強自己處理逆境的能力，使自己在急劇變動的社會環境中變得更有生產力、創造力和競爭力。

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated.

But as Cathy O’Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can’t get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he’s then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a “toxic cocktail for democracy.” Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.

Tracing the arc of a person’s life, O’Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These “weapons of math destruction” score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health.

O’Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it’s up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.

— Longlist for National Book Award (Non-Fiction)
— Goodreads, semi-finalist for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards (Science and Technology)
— Kirkus, Best Books of 2016
— New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2016 (Non-Fiction)
— The Guardian, Best Books of 2016
— WBUR's "On Point," Best Books of 2016: Staff Picks
— Boston Globe, Best Books of 2016, Non-Fiction

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

香港地區報 : 18區文藝地圖

鄧家宙; 繪者： Carmen Ng
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平日不以為意的城市風景，在極富想像力和細膩的插畫演繹下，也可變得大異其趣。本書以漫遊香港18區為主題，讀者可從插畫重新細味區內不同的古蹟、地標建築、文青據點及郊遊玩樂點，輕鬆地來個深度的風俗歷史文化遊。

　　十八份關於「香港地」的文藝號外！
　　從紙上重新發現
　　我城歷史和文藝風景的可愛！

本地年輕插畫家Carmen Ng，今次以0.03mm代針筆極細膩地重新勾勒香港十八區景點，網羅四百多個歷史文化古蹟、地標建築、文青藝術潮流據點及郊遊玩樂點，其水彩畫作充滿天馬行空點子，自成一格，更有香港史學會的鄧家宙博士之精練闡釋，如數家珍地把香港地景點背後的掌故和趣聞與畫作有機地結合，讓平日我們不以為意的城市風景，都變得大異其趣。

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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

by Kurt Andersen
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.

Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.

Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book.

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關於跑步，我說的其實是

村上春樹
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寫作滿三十年前夕
村上春樹透過談跑步，道出自己不為人所知的寫作觀。

25年前村上春樹開始他的第一次跑步。那是1982年的秋天，三十三歲那一年，寫完《尋羊冒險記》，村上先生因為戒煙而體重增加，為了減肥，開始了他的第一步。從那以後村上接連不斷地跑，他曾經跑完雅典的全程馬拉松，也參加波士頓馬拉松比賽，平日每天幾乎都跑上十公里，可以說除了寫作，跑步已經是他最在行的事。

村上在這本書《關於跑步，我說的其實是……》中藉著記錄整理自己的經驗與思緒，分享他在跑步中所理解的人生以及寫作觀。至於書名是什麼意思？其實這本書的日文原名就是以外來語思維所寫的（What I Talk About When I Talk About Running），這個名稱明顯是向他喜愛的美國小說家瑞蒙‧卡佛名作之一《當我們討論愛情》（What We Talk About When We Talk About Love）致敬。

村上說如果他可以選擇自己的墓誌銘，猜猜看他想寫上什麼？答案就在書裡。

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