The Midnight Library: A Novel

Matt Haig
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A WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK GUARANTEED TO LIFT YOUR SPIRITS”

A New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!

"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?"

A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

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自願被吃的豬 : 100個讓人想破頭的哲學問題 (The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten)

朱立安．巴吉尼 (Julian Baggini)
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吃下自願被你吃的豬，有錯嗎？
吃下自願被你吃的人，有罪嗎？

▍100個哲學問題就像100個哲學版「數獨」，保證讓你想破頭蓋骨，卻又捨不得轉頭！▍

英國哲普作家朱立安‧巴吉尼
暢銷長銷十餘年，最膾炙人口的經典作品

本書已售出14種語文版權，亞馬遜網路書店佳評如潮。
直接以眾人日常生活中都會遇到的問題，挑戰你的邏輯、判斷，道德底線。

★ 派駐國外，雇主付你低於當地勞工的薪資又怎樣？反正比你在本國的薪水高！
★ 即使人民自願被洗腦，且此舉可降低犯罪率，政府仍不該洗腦人民，因為這是對個人自由與尊嚴的侵犯──真的嗎？但教育不也是一種緩慢的洗腦？

在生命的旅途中，你可能會遇到類似的場景：

1.你去領錢。提款機吐出好多錢，比你要領的還多，但是你的帳戶一切正常。嘿嘿，銀行不知道出錯了，除了銀行，沒有人有所損失。這是天上掉下來的禮物嗎？──〈凱子提款機〉
2.你是官員。一部偉大的藝術作品誕生了，拍攝手法一流，內心刻畫深邃。可是，劇情驚世駭俗，甚至歌詠種族屠殺與強暴婦女。該不該禁止這部電影上映？──〈偉大藝術與道德恥辱〉
3.你是消費者。滿街都是「便宜的好咖啡」，真是好康。不過，為什麼會這麼便宜？是因為店員薪資過低、咖啡農被嚴重剝削嗎？你是不是助紂為虐？──〈便宜也有好咖啡〉
4.你是三級貧戶。看過《佐賀的超級阿嬤》之後，你發誓絕不浪費任何食物。有一天，你心愛的貓咪被車撞死了，但牠還是一塊完整的肉，該不該煮來吃？──〈吃吧，不要浪費〉
5.你是國家元首。聲名狼藉的商人想要改變形象，願意捐款拯救卡奴，減少燒炭自殺的現象。條件是：頒授國家最高榮譽勳章給他！這是賄賂，還是行善？──〈賄賂無罪，受餽有理〉

人生經常面臨許多抉擇，也經常遇到許多令人不解的現象，而且都找不到答案。沒錯，這些就是哲學問題。你可以選擇不面對哲學，卻無法逃脫哲學問題的糾纏。
在本書中，英國暢銷哲普作家巴吉尼設計了100種場景，引導出100個哲學問題。他會帶你思索這些問題，提出各種可能的解答；一旦面對這些似曾相似的場景，或許能讓你找到最恰當的解決方法。

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The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

Jamil Zaki
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“In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will stay in your heart forever.”—Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

Empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States was suffering from an “empathy deficit.” Since then, things seem to have only gotten worse.

It doesn’t have to be this way. In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait—something we’re born with or not—but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort. He also tells the stories of people who embody this new perspective, fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. We meet a former neo-Nazi who is now helping to extract people from hate groups, ex-prisoners discussing novels with the judge who sentenced them, Washington police officers changing their culture to decrease violence among their ranks, and NICU nurses fine-tuning their empathy so that they don’t succumb to burnout.

Written with clarity and passion, The War for Kindness is an inspiring call to action. The future may depend on whether we accept the challenge.

Praise for The War for Kindness

“A wide-ranging practical guide to making the world better.”—NPR

“Relating anecdotes and test cases from his fellow researchers, news events and the imaginary world of literature and entertainment, Zaki makes a vital case for ‘fighting for kindness.’ . . . If he’s right—and after reading The War for Kindness, you’ll probably think so—Zaki’s work is right on time.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“In this landmark book, Jamil Zaki gives us a revolutionary perspective on empathy: Empathy can be developed, and, when it is, people, relationships, organizations, and cultures are changed.”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

100個漢字裡的中國

劉葉翎,段慶峰
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本書選取100個與中國傳統觀念相關的核心漢字，按人自身、人與自然、人與社會的邏輯線索，通過解讀漢字的本源、流變，將與漢字有關的文化知識融會貫通其中，從而挖掘出漢字背後傳遞出的人文精神、生活智慧，由此對生活進行引導。

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The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt

Sinan Aral
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A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • “The most important book of the year . . . a lively, engaging masterpiece.”—Erik Brynjolfsson, bestselling co-author of The Second Machine Age

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED

MIT professor Sinan Aral isn’t only one of the world’s leading experts on social media—he’s also an entrepreneur and investor, giving him an unparalleled 360-degree view of the technology’s great promise as well as its outsize capacity to damage our politics, our economy, and even our personal health.

Drawing on two decades of his own research and business experience, Aral goes under the hood of the biggest, most powerful social networks to tackle the critical question of just how much social media actually shapes our choices, for better or worse. Aral shows how the tech behind social media offers the same set of behavior-influencing levers to both Russian hackers and brand marketers—to everyone who hopes to change the way we think and act—which is why its consequences affect everything from elections to business, dating to health. Along the way, he covers a wide array of topics, including how network effects fuel Twitter’s and Facebook’s massive growth to the neuroscience of how social media affects our brains, the real consequences of fake news, the power of social ratings, and the impact of social media on our kids.

In mapping out strategies for being more thoughtful consumers of social media, The Hype Machine offers the definitive guide to understanding and harnessing for good the technology that has redefined our world overnight.

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電影港義：香港電影的60堂人生課

港唔斷戲 (著)
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人氣電影專頁「港唔斷戲」
60套香港電影＝60堂人生課
導演：陳詠燊／黃浩然　
新生代演員：余香凝／吳肇軒／岑珈其／李任燊／周祉君／陳漢娜／陳家樂／郭漢柱／張建聲／梁雍婷／麥芷誼／麥子樂／游學修／廖子妤／蔡頌思／談善言／盧鎮業 撐場推薦

從《行運一條龍》學說「對不起」；
《逆流大叔》的真香港人精神；
都市男女的《十二夜》愛情輪迴；
《大隻佬》萬般帶不走的因果；
不認命的我城，終究《樹大招風》……
光影中哭過笑過領悟過， 大銀幕上是他也是你和我。 那些印在腦海中的對白、真真假假的情節、揮之不去的殘影……
人生如戲，我們在香港電影中成長。
這是屬於香港人的 60 堂電影人生課。
「感謝香港電影！世界上有無數優秀的電影， 但任憑弱水三千，我只取一瓢飲。」
－港唔斷戲

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