Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou
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Named one of the best books of the year by: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
The McKinsey Business Book of the Year

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes - now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor - by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

"The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion." (Bill Gates)

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fund-raising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes' worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

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輕鬆駕馭壓力 : 史丹佛大學最受歡迎的心理成長課 (The Upside of Stress)

凱莉．麥高尼格 (Kelly McGonigal)
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壓力能帶來正面能量？科學實證：這是真的！
重點不是擺脫壓力，而是你對待壓力的態度，
本書教你如何借力使力，成就更強大的自己。

全球熱賣1,500,000本，《輕鬆駕馭意志力》史丹佛人氣心理學家最新著作。
TED千萬人次點閱率，〈如何讓壓力成為你的朋友〉演講之深度專書。

史丹佛最受歡迎心理學家暨最高榮譽教學獎得主凱莉‧麥高尼格，全面顛覆你對壓力的想像，探討心理韌性（在壓力中成長）與思維模式（面對現實的正念能量）的連結，帶領讀者看見壓力的光明面、如何善加利用壓力帶來的好處，以及壓力可以激發同理心，讓我們成為更好的人。重點是，你如何看待壓力，將決定你人生的精采度。

◎考試、演講、簡報之前心跳加速是好現象？
A：緊張感其實是「你正準備大展拳腳」的證據，與其讓自己冷靜，不如透過深呼吸去感受身體的滿滿能量，能夠將焦慮將轉為力量，發揮最佳表現。

◎如何面對生病、手術、化療、等待檢驗結果的壓力？
A：請想像此刻有許多人同樣承受著痛苦或壓力，讓自己對那些人產生同理心，充分理解他們的感受，藉此提醒自己不是孤軍奮戰。

◎失去親人、感到孤立無援和龐大壓力時，該怎麼辦？
A：請允許自己「既勇敢又脆弱」，主動踏出第一步，以自身的痛苦做為連結點，將關注的焦點轉到別人身上，能得到更多支持的力量。　

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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

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對決病毒最前線:從流感、炭疽病、SARS到伊波拉, 資深防疫專家對抗致命傳染病的全球大冒險 (The Next Pandemic)

阿里‧可汗 (Ali S. Khan), 威廉‧派屈克 (William Patrick)
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—肉眼看不見的微小生物，才是對人類性命的最大威脅—
從流感、漢他病毒、伊波拉病毒、炭疽病恐怖攻擊到SARS
從非洲、南美、波斯灣、亞洲到美國，為阻止流行病大爆發
25年資深防疫專家與最狡滑無情敵人的精采交手
同時揭開讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐真相

阿里．可汗醫師長期於公共衛生領域擔任第一先遣部隊，在25年的公衛生涯中，歷經無數驚險。他的足跡遍及全球，由叢林前哨，到只有騎馬才能抵達的智利村莊，到遭檢疫隔離的擁擠亞洲都市，也到環境教人不寒而慄，由外勞宰殺羊隻的波斯灣各大屠宰場。他努力阻止伊波拉病毒、SARS、MERS，以及其他種種教人害怕的疾病。2001年華府遭生化武器恐怖攻擊時，他也直接參與防治工作，阻止炭疽病傳播，並在2005年卡崔娜颶風侵襲紐奧良之後，協助重建當地的公衛基礎建設。

面對傳染病人，僅有薄薄的口罩保護他；面對無名病毒，手上只有難以確定的有限資訊，卻必須馬上做出攸關生死的決定。他發現儘管造成疾病的是細菌或病毒，但導致疾病流行的卻常常是人。我們會犯錯，會把緊急事件政治化，而且從不考慮自己的行為會有什麼後果。

本書是內行專家的現身說法，也是第一手的災難報告。說明微生物與人類密切的關係，如何對抗舉世最致命的疾病，以及讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐。

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How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Massimo Pigliucci
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An engaging guide to how Stoicism - the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius - can provide lessons for living in the modern world

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that teaches us to act depending on what is within our control and separate things worth getting upset about from those that are not. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions. Should we get married or divorced? How should we bank in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever you are, Stoicism has something for you - and How to Be a Stoic is your essential guide.

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拒絕生病:無病生活從65件日常小事開始 (A Short Guide to a Long Life)

大衛.阿格斯 (David B. Agus)
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【紐約時報暢銷書《無病時代》實踐版】
「世界級頂尖癌症醫師」精心整理出
每天都能做得到的養命指南
教您不花錢！卻活得久、活得好！

轟動全美，未上市即空降美國AMAZON網路書店排行榜第一名！
出版後，席捲美國各大書籍排行榜，蟬連榜上長達半年！
在台灣也成為暢銷書的《無病時代》作者，良心醫生阿格斯博士，
以值得信賴的最新醫療科技為依據，介紹人人都能輕鬆實踐的65條健康法則，是一本給所有想健康活到老的人的最佳指南。

在這個每十人就有七人是死於慢性疾病的時代，你有把握三十年後的自己依然健康嗎？
健康資訊哪些是真的? 哪些是錯的? 你都知道嗎？這本書將改變你的錯誤認知，讓健康變成自然而然的結果。例如: 每天運動多久才是適量有益健康? 原來，只要讓心跳速率高出平常時候的50%，15分鐘的運動就足夠維持身體的健康狀態。

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