What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

James Elkins
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Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium.

In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look.

Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.

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Oil Painting

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莫奈: 印象派 (Monet)

戴維.史彭斯 (David Spence) 著

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莫奈所處時代，世界有何不同？當時的社會與藝術如何影響他的創作？莫奈的親人和相知對他的藝術有何影響？從他的作品中追尋愛情、生活和死亡的線索。展示繪畫的真正內涵，理解畫作講述的莫奈的情況，了解他的繪畫方法。了解莫奈在世時人們對其作品的評價，以及作品對後世的影響。

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Creator: Claude Monet

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Monet - Music of His Time

In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

Terry Orlick
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Written in an easy-to-understand, instructive style, this second edition of In Pursuit of Excellence is the supplemental text for courses that cover basic sport psychology techniques. It covers the psychological concepts of concentration, winning, losing, and competing successfully. This sport performance book by internationally recognised sport psychologist Terry Orlick has undergone a complete revitalization. Better organized for easier reading, the second edition includes dozens of new examples taken from Orlick's real-life experiences with champion athletes and their coaches.

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倫敦的叫賣聲: 英國隨筆選譯

約瑟夫。阿狄生 (Joseph Addison) 等著;劉炳善譯
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《倫敦的叫賣聲》是約瑟夫．艾迪生著名的一篇散文，作為本書書名，文中描述18世紀當時倫敦街頭平凡無奇的景象，栩栩如生就在眼前，賣報紙、賣點心、賣牛奶…等吆喝聲，彷彿也吆喝著讀者來一場新舊世紀英國文學饗宴！

十六篇英國散文作品 ，橫跨新古典時期至現代主義時期的14位名家，喜愛英美文學的讀者一定不感陌生。透過劉炳善的譯注與介紹，帶領讀者一起潛入文人內心世界。

像是《格列佛遊記》的斯威夫特，親眼見到愛爾蘭人民遭受殖民者迫害，促成此篇震撼人心的政論名作《育嬰芻議》。蘭姆在《讀書漫談》一文中，從一位熱愛文學者的角度漫談各類書籍與閱讀之樂。夏綠蒂．勃朗特記錄了勃朗特三姊妹於文學創作艱辛的過程，文情並茂。伍爾夫作品用筆調輕鬆的散文，描繪其他作家與作品的文章等，發人深省。還有其他膾炙人口的作品，各具特色，歡迎跟著吆喝聲一起進來觀賞。

本書特色 1.本書精選英國散文16篇，多是出自18-20世紀文學大師的佳作，從斯威夫特到吳爾夫的二百年間14位英國作家。 2.按英國文學分期來看，本書囊括了新古典、維多利亞與現代主義時期作品。 3.由專研英國文學劉炳善教授翻譯並專文介紹作者與其作品特色。 4.作品皆能反映出文人們豐富的情懷，或幽默略帶譏諷的語調，值得細細品味。

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United Kingdom
London, England

Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business and Life: A Fable of Self-discovery

Stefan Swanepoel
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As a brutal business environment meets a soft economy, business leaders and managers are looking for sources of both inspiration and survival. This compelling new fable offers a riveting tale of life in Africa's Serengeti and what lessons it holds for today's beleaguered business people and struggling society.

The 1.5 million wildebeest rely on stubborn endurance and support from the herd to survive; the crocodile is opportunistic; the cheetah ruthlessly effective; the giraffe embodies grace, the lion a master strategist, the mongoose is a risk-taker, the elephant is an excellent communicator.

7 Questions This Book Tackles
1. Experiencing a challenge you wish to overcome?
2. Want to discover your hidden survival skills?
3. Still have a goal not yet achieved?
4. Interested to discover your instinctive strengths?
5. Can benefit from problem-solving thinking?
6. Know someone that has potential to excel?
7. Looking for a positive message to share?

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笑忘錄 (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

米蘭・昆德拉 (Milan Kundera) 著
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  《笑忘錄》一九七九年在法國出版，曾榮獲法國文壇最高榮譽之一的『梅第奇大獎』，是一部關於笑與忘、關於遺忘也關於布拉格、關於布拉格也關於天使們的小說。作品以1968年蘇聯軍隊入侵捷克斯洛伐克為時代背景，描寫了捷克不同階層知識分子的多舛命運。書中不同的章節一個接著一個，如同旅行的幾個不同階段，朝向某個主旋律的內在，朝向某種獨一無二情境的內在，而旅行的意涵已迷失在廣袤無垠的內在世界，我欲辯卻已忘言。作者在故事敘述當中，探討了人生中間記憶和遺忘的哲學關系；記憶，人們希望保持或者忘卻的內容，如同附帶歡娛和諷刺的笑一樣，是交相輝映的永恆主題。是米蘭•昆德拉奠定大師地位的關鍵代表作。

在這部批評界奉為具有超現實主義風格的現代派小說傑作中，昆德拉試圖打通小說、哲學和政治議論以及自傳之間的隔膜關系，籍以用罕見的政治正確的角度，探討人生、音樂、性、哲學、文學和政治等重大話題，用筆詼諧獨到，常常使閱讀者在沉重的閱讀中邂逅絕妙的幽默趣事，以致忍俊不禁。

小說在法國出版後引起西方輿論界高度關注，獲得當年法國最佳外國文學獎大獎。但是，它也給作者帶來了意想不到的災難——當時的捷克政府以此書在法國的非法出版為由，剝奪了昆德拉的捷克國籍。不過，這也從另一方面成就了昆德拉，使其成為國際馳名的小說家。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Czech Republic―Architecture and City Planning
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Place: Czechoslovakia [Historical Place]

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

Billy Collins
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Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows. / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth–the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, / the American poets gazing out / at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.”

Through simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most “serious” poetry: “By now, it should go without saying / that what the oven is to the baker / and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner / so the window is to the poet.”

In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.

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一首詩的故事: 100篇中國詩詞的動人故事

王盈雅 編著
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隱藏一段段真實故事的絕妙語言
訴說一縷縷鄉愁與相思的最佳獻禮
在詩．詞．歌．賦的轉角
覓得友情、親情、愛情、忠誠的蹤跡

你知道嗎？

所有被創造的偉大文學作品背後，都有一段鮮為人知、隱沒於荏苒韶光的真實故事。

從先秦時代到晚近清朝，傳頌下來那精采動人的詩詞故事，讓你低詠讚嘆詩詞意境的優美時 還能一探詩人的親身經歷，與隱含在其中那時間流沙輕瀉下仍清晰可聞的真摯情誼。

大時代的變動與悲嘆，不論是詩人的情感糾葛，或是對外物的執著衝突，都可以在本書嚴選的這100篇故事與詩詞中，淺酌低吟、回味再三。

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Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History As It Ought to Be Taught

David W. Barber
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David W. Barber has delighted readers around the world with Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings and other internationally bestselling books of musical humor. His bestselling Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and not-so-great) composers as you’ve never read them before — exploring their sex lives, exposing their foibles and expanding on our understanding of these all-too-human creatures. Filled with information, interesting facts and trivia, this hilarious history covers music from Gregorian chant to the mess we’re in now. From Bach’s laundry lists to Beethoven’s bowel problems, from Gesualdo’s kinky fetishes to Cage’s mushroom madness, Barber tells tales out of school that ought to be put back there. (Think how much more fun it would be if they taught this stuff.)

As always, Dave Donald had provided witty and clever cartoon illustrations to accompany the text.

(Excerpt from amazon.co.uk)

Composers
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Beethoven, Ludwig van

我的音樂往事

李歐梵 著
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作為一個音樂世家之子，李歐梵選擇了文學作終生職業；而作為一位享有國際聲譽的文學教授，他又偏偏將自己的靈魂安頓在古典音樂的海洋裡。在這本書中，我們看到的不是作為哈佛名教授的李歐梵，而是一個充滿真情摯意，醉臥音樂之鄉的“樂迷”。靜聆內心深處的旋律，追憶音符飄揚的人生歲月，與最偉大的音樂家們進行靈魂對話，將所熱愛的音樂與對音樂的熱愛鐫刻在人生邊上。在這本書中，你不僅可以欣賞到美妙的音樂和音樂故事，還可以感受到一種天籟般動人的靈魂的回音。

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Playlist: Classical Harmonies for Contemplation—Orchestral Music

Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image

Edited by Kam Louie
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This book contains thirteen essays on post-1997 Hong Kong culture by some of the world's best authorities on this topic today. The majority of the essays are on literature and film. As well as these two genres, some essays also explore new types of texts such as protest art.

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香江法政縱橫: 香港基本法學緒論

朱國斌
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香港作為中國獨特架構的一個行政區劃，是廣義中國法律之下的一個獨特法域，也是中西文化交匯後自成體系的文化場域。作者就香港回歸以來，其撰寫的公開發表的法律和政論性文章集結成冊，文章多發表在《法學研究》、《法學家》、《中外法學》、《明報》、《信報》、《大公報》、《東方日報》、《蘋果日報》、《香港經濟日報》、《信報財經月刊》、《紫荊月刊》等。儘管若干內容因時過境遷只有記錄歷史的意義，但大部分還是有現實意義並提出了一定的學術觀點。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)


本書內容針對香港基本法圍繞以下時政性論題展開：“一國兩法”、“人大釋法”制度及其論爭、“二十三條”立法論爭、“二五之爭”及其法理、京港關系與政治。

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God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

Natsu Onoda Power
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Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka [手塚治虫] (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry, creating narratives with cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent Japanese output. God of Comics chronicles Tezuka's life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics.

The book emphasizes Tezuka's use of intertextuality. His works are filled with quotations from other texts and cultural products, such as film, theater, opera, and literature. Often, these quoted texts and images bring with them a world of meanings, enriching the narrative. Tezuka also used stock characters and recurrent visual jokes as a way of creating a coherent world that encompasses all of his works.

God of Comics includes close analysis of Tezuka's lesser-known works, many of which have never been translated into English. It offers one of the first in-depth studies of Tezuka's oeuvre to be published in English.

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豐子愷漫畫選

畢克官 編
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在舊中國，豐子愷先生是最為群眾所熟悉的一位漫畫家。他的《子愷漫畫》深受讀者歡迎。他一生的作品，數量很多，僅出版的畫集就達四十餘部……

《子愷漫畫》在二十年代所以受到社會的重視，主要在於它的獨特性。這些漫畫取材新穎，表現手法別致，在當時美術園地裡別開生面，獨樹一幟，開拓了新的天地。我們知道，一九二五年前後，新文學陣營與復古派和鴛鴦蝴蝶派之間進行着激烈的論戰。以上海為例，當時除了少數報刊發表時事畫和政治畫外，美術市場主要是美人畫和形形色色低級庸俗的東西。中國人物畫多畫是古人，西洋畫則是靜物、風景和模特兒寫生，都遠離社會生活。在這樣的狀況下，突然有那麼一位畫家向人們展示出像 《花生米不滿足》、《阿寶兩只腳》、《瞻瞻的車》這樣率真而生動的兒童漫畫；像《都市之春》、《買粽子》、《紅了櫻桃綠了芭蕉》、《人散後，一鈎新月天如水》等充滿生活情趣又耐人尋味的作品，確實是令人耳目一新，感到親切……

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Practically Green: Your Guide to Ecofriendly Decision-Making

Micaela Preston
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Creating a green and healthy home might seem like an overwhelming task at times. Practically Green takes the practical approach to mindful living: Start small and go from there. Author Micaela Preston takes the guesswork out of green living by helping you make smart.

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共悟人間: 父女兩地書

劉再復, 劉劍梅
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本書榮列香港「2002年十本好書」（香港電台與香港康樂文化事務署合辦），金庸先生大力推薦。

我推薦的十本好書之一，是《共悟人間》。這是劉再復先生和他女兒劉劍梅小姐的通信集。兩人都是文字優美、見解獨到的當代作家。以溫馨可愛的情緒，表達深刻的思想，在我讀的時候，我像是在他美國科羅拉多家中的花園樹蔭下，跟他父女倆談論文學與人生。他們可愛的小妹妹小蓮沒有在書中出現，但我感到她仰起了頭在用心的聽。

即使你不認識兩位作者，看這本書也會樂在其中，因其中談及的是文學與人生，可以乾脆不把它當書信，而作為一般文章來看。 ——金庸

靈動澄澈的思緒，跳躍在父女往返的書信中。從《紅樓夢》與《桃花扇》的世界，談到現實人生的頓悟與徬徨，再從女性和母親的自處之道，談及文學藝術的認知與培養天下襟懷。父女倆的深沉思考、哲思湧現、靈犀相通，發揮了相濡以沫的溫馨情感，並將感情與理性熔於一爐。只要翻開本書，將會感受到心靈的巨大震撼，一種心領神悟的莫名感動。

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The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise

Myung Oak Kim, Sam Jaffe
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In 1953, South Korea was rated by the U.N. as the poorest country in the world. Five decades later, it is the fifteenth largest economy. Now, South Korea's decisions on how to manage its society and its role as a modern democracy while also establishing its policy regarding reunification with North Korea will determine where the country will go in the next fifty years. The New Korea examines the political, economic, industrial, and societal aspects of Korea today. Will it continue to enjoy an economic boom through new industries while competing against low-wage countries like China and India? Will it return to its role as a stomping ground for other powers? And what should Westerners pay attention to in terms of investment and business opportunities? As South Korea enters the most critical phase of its journey, it is crucial that we understand the factors involving its decisions and evolution. The New Korea is a fascinating account of what is and may become the state of this important region.


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半島唐風: 朝韓作家與中國文化

劉順利
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同屬漢文化圈的中國與朝鮮、韓國，一衣帶水，交通自古，文化交融源遠流長。箕子受武王之封，孔子向往“東國”；朝鮮使臣往來不斷，七百年間寫下洋洋灑灑《燕行錄》。崔致遠、李齊賢、樸趾源情系中華，《全唐詩》裡眾多朝鮮優秀詩家留下華章。

古代朝鮮作家學習、吸納中國文化，也以自己的智慧與領悟，豐富和發展了漢文化。王仁博士東渡日本傳授漢文化，眾多學人闡釋儒家經典、弘揚性理之學，大量寫作漢文詩歌與散文，造就了一個中國之外絕無僅有的漢文世界。

半島唐風，餘韻悠長。近現代朝鮮作家的文化抉擇，可資借鑒。願本書上領您去東鄰半島作一番文化之旅，領略浸潤著唐風古韻的朝韓古代文化的一脈馨香，品味中國與朝鮮、韓國人民間彌足珍貴的友好情懷……

本書引領讀者去東鄰半島做一番文化之旅，領略浸潤這唐風古韻的朝韓古代文化的一脈馨香，品味中國與朝鮮、韓國人民間彌足珍貴的友好情懷。

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The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul

Walter Everett
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The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles.

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Topic: The Music of The Beatles

傷花怒放: 搖滾的被縛與抗爭

郝舫 著
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《傷花怒放:搖滾的被縛與抗爭》是西方垮掉一代文化最優秀的作品。近500幅稀缺歷史圖片，規模宏大，材料豐富，從搖滾與革命，搖滾與極權，搖滾與高雅，搖滾與民族，搖滾與秩序，搖滾與性，搖滾與宗教，搖滾與毒品幾個方面講述了搖滾在發展歷程上的被縛與抗爭。

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Genre: Pop and Rock
(An impressive array of Scandinavian rock and pop music, jazz, indie-pop and folk/accoustic pop)

Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

David W. Galenson
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From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators - from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst - responded not only by creating dozens of new forms of art, but also by behaving in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their predecessors. Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art presents the first systematic analysis of the reasons for this discontinuity. David W. Galenson, whose earlier research has changed our understanding of creativity, combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art that will give readers a far deeper appreciation of the art of the past century, and of today, than is available elsewhere.

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畢加索畫傳

周時奮 著
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……凡是知道畢加索名字的人，絕大多數並不知道他的作品。這是一個太奇特的畫家。他用一生的作品來描述一個畢加索，因為他的所有作品，幾乎就是他自己坦率的自傳，他繪畫的主體始終都是他自己、他的情人、他的朋友、他的崇拜者，總之，這一切構成了畢加索的精美細膩而又傷感的個人世界。因此不了解畢加索奇特的經歷，確實無法理解他的作品。

畢加索的目光是質詢，是以一個陌生者的目光對著一個異已世界的深深質詢。在這種質詢中，有著懷疑、驚奇和深藏的驚恐，並且把這樣的驚奇與驚恐一併傳遞給我們。畢加索以他開創的立體主義繪畫聞名於世，然而，他並不僅僅是一位立體主義畫家，他始終隨著他自己的時代，從立體主義轉向新古典主義，又轉向超現實主義、表現主義，幾乎在他涉足的每一個美術流派領域裡，他都取得了輝煌的成就。

(摘錄自amazon.cn)

Self-promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead

Nancy Ancowitz
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All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In Self-Promotion for Introverts, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet strengths, articulate their accomplishments, and launch an action plan for gaining career advancement. You will learn how to:

• Promote yourself without bragging— when networking, on job interviews, and at work

• Use your quiet gifts (writing, researching, and listening) to your advantage
• Be a commanding presenter, despite your quieter nature
• Formulate your best plans, set goals, take action— and even find a better job
• Featuring exclusive advice from Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and marketing guru Seth Godin, Self-Promotion for Introverts helps you progress inward, outward, and onward.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)



烏合之眾: 大眾心理硏究 (The Crowd)

古斯塔夫. 勒龐 (Gustave Le Bon) 著
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本書是一本當之無愧的名著，他極為精致地描述了集體心態，是在社會心理學領域已經寫出的著作中，最有影響者。本書還具有持久的影響力，是群體行為的研究者不可不讀的文獻。

勒龐認為，現代生活逐漸以群體的聚合為特征。在《烏合之眾》一書中，他指出，個人一旦進入群體中，他的個性使湮沒了，群體的思想佔據統治地位；而群體的行為表現為無異議、情緒化和低智商。

本書共三卷，包括群體心理；群體的意見與信念；不同群體的分類及其特點。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story

Jerry Weissman
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Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly…discover common ground… and, together, decide to act.

In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! He teaches presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all and tell compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for the audience.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

心理定向與成功 (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)

卡羅爾.德韋克 (Carol S. Dweck) 著
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本書作者通過20多年的心理學研究，發現心理定向對我們整個心理世界產生著重要影響。心理定向分為固定型心理定向和發展型心理定向，兩種心理定向在童年期和成年期就逐步顯現出來，並在我們確立人生目標、處理工作和人際關系、培養孩子及發揮自己的潛能等諸多方面起著完全不同的作用。

作者詳細闡述了怎樣利用成長型心理定向，在音樂、文學、科學、體育、商業等領域，獲得卓越成就以及在我們生命的不同階段，怎樣改變自己的心理定向，獲取成功。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Innovating Women: Contributions to Technological Advancement

Edited by Pooran Wynarczyk, Susan Marlow
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This book focuses on the challenges facing women who seek to create innovative entrepreneurial ventures, whilst also celebrating their scientific activities and contribution to technological advancement, society and economic development as a whole. It investigates and demonstrates the innovative and inventive achievements of women in the knowledge based society. It is almost universally accepted that scientific activities and discoveries are the most important sources of productivity growth and increased material welfare. Throughout history, women have been making significant contributions to scientific discoveries, innovation and inventions. However, they do not feature prominently in the inventive and innovative literatures except as exceptional examples. Current literature on scientific activities and discoveries, various facets of R&D or the management of technological change and scientific activities tends to ignore the gender dimension. This book seeks to redress this balance and contribute to current research and debate.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

孩子你慢慢來

龍應台 著
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「誰能告訴我做女性和做個人之間怎麼平衡？我愛極了做母親，只要把孩子的頭放在我胸口，就能使我覺得幸福。可是我也是個需要極大的內在空間的個人……女性主義者，如果你不曾體驗過生養的喜悅和痛苦，你究竟能告訴我些什麼呢？」——龍應台

……做為華人世界最有影響力的一枝筆，龍應台的文章有著不讓鬚眉的開闊豪氣，然而讀過《孩子，你慢慢來》的讀者更要歎服她的文字裡蘊含能量深情的一面。這本書是龍應台作為一個母親的真實心聲，赤裸表達她個人與母職衝突的當時心境，熱切傳達出她對生命起步最樸質的愛，對母親這個角色的重新擁抱。這本書不是對母職傳統的歌頌，它是真正熱愛生命的作家才能寫出的生活散文。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Aptitude, Personality and Motivation Tests: Analyse Your Talents and Personality, and Plan Your Career

Jim Barrett
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More and more companies are using tests to vet job applicants and assess staff. To perform their best under test conditions, candidates need to practice their skills.

Prospective test-takers, as well as people looking for guidance on career choices, will find useful advice in the new edition of Aptitude, Personality and Motivation Tests. Filled with new and improved practice tests, it will help build a profile of the reader’s personality, skills, and abilities, helping readers prepare for the real tests, find their ideal career, plan a career change, or simply explore their potential.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

再談大學生活的要事

高彥鳴 著
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…… 《「新生」十件要事》是透過十個具體的建議，來啟發大一同學們對大學生活作出適當的計劃和安排。而本書的內容，則注重年青人在成長的過程中經常面對的一些問題，如提昇自信心、培養時間管理及溝通能力等。因此，我希望這二十篇文章能夠激發所有的大學生和剛畢業不久的同學的深思和成長。

(摘錄自書中 “著作緣起”)

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen
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For individuals in every walk of life and in every stage of change, this compact, no-nonsense book captures both the heart--and the "how"--of successful change. Organizations are forced to change faster and more radically than ever. How are companies faring in meeting these challenges--and what can we learn from their experiences? In this powerful follow-up book--organized around Leading Change's revolutionary eight-step change process--Kotter and co-author Dan Cohen reveal the results of their research in over 100 organizations in the midst of large-scale change. What they found may surprise you. Although most organizations believe change happens by making people think differently--Kotter and Cohen say the key lies more in making them feel differently. They introduce a new dynamic--"see-feel-change"--that sparks and fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that charge their emotions. Through true stories from real people, the authors present a play-by-play of challenges encountered, mistakes made, and lessons learned through each of the eight steps of change--and offer tips and tools readers can apply within their own organizations.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

中國人, 日本人, 韓國人= Chinese, Japanese, Korean

金文學 著; 金英蘭 譯
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中國、日本、韓國（當然是整個朝鮮半島）被稱為東北亞，三個國家的人有許多共同之處，也有很多地方根本不同，甚至正好相反。本書作者金文學是生長在中國的朝鮮族人，在中國上大學時學的是日本文學專業，在日本讀碩士和博士，他通中日韓三國語言，現在主要研究比較文學、比較文化和文化人類學，本書用隨筆的方式描寫和比較中日韓三國人，較有新意。

（摘錄自商務網上書店）

The The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win

Jeffrey Hollender, Bill Breen
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How to create a company that not only sustains, but surpasses-that moves beyond the imperative to be "less bad" and embrace an ethos to be "all good" .

From the Inspired Protagonist and Chairman of Seventh Generation, the country's leading brand of household products and a pioneering "good company," comes a one-of-a-kind book for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents everywhere. The Responsibility Revolution reveals the smartest ways for companies to build a better future-and hold themselves accountable for the results. Thousands of companies have pledged to act responsibly; very few have proven that they know how. This book will guide them. The Responsibility Revolution presents fresh ideas and actionable strategies to commit your company to a genuine socially and environmentally responsible business and culture, one that not only competes but wins on values.

• Points the way for innovators and influencers to generate trust by becoming transparent, elicit people's passion and creativity, turn customers into collaborators, transform critics into allies, rewrite the rules and reinvent business

• Shows how to build a socially and environmentally responsible yet genuinely good company and an authentic brand

• Drawing on groundbreaking interviews with real-world change leaders, Hollender and Breen present lessons and insights from the "good company"' parts of big companies like IBM and eBay, trailblazers like Patagonia and Timberland, and emerging dynamos like Linden Lab and Etsy

The Responsibility Revolution equips people with the tactics, models, and mind-sets they need to compete in a world where consumers now demand that companies contribute to the greater good.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人生十論

錢穆 著
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本書匯集了作者討論人生問題的三次講演，一為“人生十論”，一為“人生三步驟”，一為“中國人生哲學”。作者從中國傳統文化入手，徵諸當今潮流風氣，探論“心”、“我”、“自由”、“命”、“道”等終極問題，而不離人生日常態度，啟發讀者追溯本民族文化傳統的根源，思考中國人在現代社會安身立命的根本。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)


……所論人生皆從中國舊傳統舊觀念闡發，但亦未見其與現時代之新潮流新趨勢有所違背。主要不在稱述古人，乃在求古今之會通和合。讀者淺求之，亦可得當前個人立身處世之要。深求之，則可由此進窺古籍，知得中國古人所講一套道理，仍未與現代局勢有大相反大隔離。做人為學，自信此書皆可以啟其端，為一普通入門書。不分老幼，不分職業，試一閱讀，宜至少在其日常生活上可有益。

（摘錄自商務網上書店）

How to Write Dissertations and Project Reports

Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers
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How to write Dissertations & Project Reports provides all of the tips, tools and techniques that you need to choose, research, write and present successful dissertations and research projects, including:

• How to structure and plan your writing proposal
• How to undertake experimental work and field research
• How to read and analyse information, and take notes effectively
• How to interpret, analyse and present numerical and research data
• How to improve your academic writing style, use of conventions and vocabulary
• How to cite references and avoid plagiarism
• How to review, proof-read and present your dissertation or project for maximum impact & results

(Excerpt from amazon.co.uk)

處世的頂尖智慧 (Dealing with People You Can't Stand)

里克.布林克曼(Rick Brinkman) , 里克.基爾希納(Rick Kirschner) 著
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你無法忍受的人是指那些不按你意思去做的人、做你不想要他們做的事的人，而且你不知道要如何應付的頭痛人物。現在，你再也不用受他們的氣了！雖然你不能改變頭痛人物，不過，你可以用一種能讓他們改變自己的方式來和他們溝通，你就能在他們有不好的行為時，知道該怎麼應付他們。

本書將幫助你辨識並組合有效的溝通要素。

其實，和問題人物的溝通，就好像打電話一樣，如果想要電話接通，你撥的號碼順序就必須完全正確。即使只漏掉一個數字，你的電話就無法接通。如果事後才想到撥區域號碼，你的電話就會接錯線了。要是知道電話號碼、撥號的方法也正確、和你無法忍受的人進行完全的互動是可能的！

不幸的是，總有一些頭痛人物，無論你怎麼做，就是不願意接你的電話。面對這些並不多見的情況，你可以把應付無法忍受的人，想成是到了溝通健身房，頭痛人物會幫助你鍛鍊出溝通肌肉，並激發出你的溝通潛能，也許以後，這可能正是你在另一個時空，維持一次更有價值的關係所需要的力量。

面對人際問題，我們希望你的注意力能集中在以下四個主要領域：

１．首先，我們要看一下使人變得難纏的各種原因，碰到有人大吼大叫時，有人會不發一語，有人會發動反擊。這些有趣的差別正說明了不同的行為動機導致的差異。一旦你了解這些差異，就比較不會把這些棘手的行為當作是純粹個人的問題了。

２．再來，我們將檢視基本的溝通技巧，這將有助於化衝突為合作，轉情緒為理性，將暗中的計劃變成開誠佈公的對話。其實，在你平時與人相處時已經用上了這些基本技巧，但是在應付頭痛人物時，卻往往未能使用出來。我們會把溝通的過程說明白，讓你在遇到人們表現最糟的時候，可以活用這些技巧。

３．接下來，我們把焦點放在處理你無法忍受的十種棘手行為特定策略上，你將學會正確使人停止發牢騷、攻擊，發脾氣和不守信用。

４．在本書接近尾聲時，我們將論及如果你受不了自己時又該怎麼辦。到那時候，也許你已經看出自己也有些令人頭痛的行為，這一章會幫助你辨識並改變自己難纏的行為，因為你愈容易與人相處，要應付的棘手人物就愈少。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different: Principles for Breakthrough Success

Carmine Gallo
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…When it comes to innovation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is legendary. His company slogan "Think Different" is more than a marketing tool. It's a way of life--a powerful, positive, game-changing approach to innovation that anyone can apply to any field of endeavor.

These are the Seven Principles of Innovation, inspired by the master himself:
1. Do What You Love.
Think differently about your career.
2. Put a Dent in the Universe.
Think differently about your vision.
3. Kick Start Your Brain.
Think differently about how you think.
4. Sell Dreams, Not Products.
Think differently about your customers.
5. Say No to 1,000 Things.
Think differently about design.
6. Create Insanely Great Experiences.
Think differently about your brand experience.
7. Master the Message.
Think differently about your story.

By following Steve Jobs's visionary example, you'll discover exciting new ways to unlock your creative potential and to foster an environment that encourages innovation and allows it to flourish. You'll learn how to match—and beat—the most powerful competitors, develop the most revolutionary products, attract the most loyal customers, and thrive in the most challenging times. Bestselling business journalist Carmine Gallo has interviewed hundreds of successful professionals--from CEOs, managers, and entrepreneurs to teachers, consultants, and stay-at-home moms—to get to the core of Steve Jobs's innovative philosophies. These are the simple, meaningful, and attainable principles that drive us all to "Think Different." These are The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

天工開物・栩栩如真

董啟章
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華人世界難得一見之百萬字三部曲長篇小說──「自然史」三部曲之第一部‧二聲部小說。這也是香港新生代著名小說家董啟章以數年時間完成的「自然史」三部曲之第一部，是「自我」探尋、確立之書。

日常的物件，構造出不尋常的人生。從物件的發展史——收音機、電報、電話、車床、衣車、電視機、汽車、遊戲機、錶、打字機、相機、卡式錄音機和書——，展現出人與物共生的歷程和圖景。

三代人的書，構造出V城三代人的歷史。從阿爺董富收藏的《天工開物》，和爸爸董銑鑽研的《萬物原理圖鑑》，到「我」利用文字工場的想像模式創造出來的《栩栩如真》——關於少女栩栩的「人物世界」——；通過小說，尋找通往所有可能世界的路徑。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder
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Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth, and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.

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