Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History

Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu
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Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies.

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你可能學錯了：94招打破大腦慣性，認知心理學專家教你精準學習、輕鬆記憶 (Outsmart Your Brain)

丹尼爾．威靈漢 (Daniel T. Willingham)
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★美國教師、學生、家長一致推崇！出版即售出17國版權★
★《恆毅力》作者安琪拉．達克沃斯絕讚好評！★

美國學習權威親授，一生受用的高效學習法
讓你用最小程度的努力，獲得最大的成果！
讀完這本書後，你會因為發現自己可以不再徒勞而大笑。

「這是一本能夠幫助任何人掌握頂尖學習策略的最佳之作。」
——安琪拉．達克沃斯（Angela Duckworth），暢銷書《恆毅力》作者

為何學習新事物如此困難？
常常花費了大量的時間與心力，最終成果卻不成正比。
忘掉你原以為自己所知道的一切吧！

在一次偶然的機會中，「美國最強學習導師」丹尼爾‧威靈漢向 500 名教師發表演講，意識到原來學生們都在用錯誤的方法學習。經過二十年的科學研究，他總結出了這套革命性學習指南，針對14種常見的學習困境對症下藥，讓所有學習者用94招克服挫折、享受學習樂趣。

　 　　▍我們哪裡學錯了？原來大腦應該這樣學！
　　✽不要印下講義去上課？
　　✽五花八門的筆記法其實沒用？
　　✽用螢光筆畫重點是多餘的？
　　✽刪去法對答題可能沒幫助？
　　✽如何設定目標並確實達成？
　　✽如何戰勝拖延症？

　　▍這本最紮實的大腦精準學習法，適用於：
　　◎自身學習方法不見成效的學生
　　◎想幫助子女提高成績的家長
　　◎想有效向學生傳達授課內容的教師
　　◎想取得工作或進修成果的社會人士

　　學習是一趟趟旅程，而我們一生都在路途中，
　　這本書是地圖和裝備，將帶你抵達每個人生階段中所設定的目的地。

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Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information

Beth Morling
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Research Methods in Psychology, a text loved by instructors and students, provides the best learning experience for both future consumers and producers as they evaluate all facets of research. Award-winning author Beth Morling has thoroughly updated her groundbreaking text with fresh examples, revised ethics and statistics coverage, and a new section on qualitative methods. The new Fifth Edition is designed to support students as they practice being research consumers, learn how to produce research, and actively engage with their reading.

Highlights of this Edition’s new content:

- Supports the success of all students through active learning and assessment
- More inclusive content includes: coverage in Chapter 1 that addresses the historical lack of diversity in psychological research and the advantages of having a more diverse range of participants, new examples by BIPOC researchers―including the Okonofua et al. studies covered extensively in Ch 12, and a new section on diversity in psychological samples and in psychological scientists in Chapter 14
- Entirely revised coverage of animal research in Chapter 4
- New sections introducing qualitative methods and its role in psychological research in Chapters 1 and 6
- New revision of the statistics coverage in Chapter S2, including both the new statistics (confidence intervals and effect size) and the NHST
- New coverage of generative AI in Chapter S3, including how to use it effectively and ethically, as well as citation guidelines

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平均數的誤解：正確的計算，卻帶來錯誤決策！商業人士如何解讀數據 (The Average is Always Wrong)

伊恩．雪帕德 (Ian Shepherd)
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◎公司對媒體宣稱，年終平均6個月，基層員工群起反彈：哪有這麼多？
◎客戶滿意度達84％──聽起來很棒，但抽樣可能一開始就沒找上給差評的人。
◎優衣庫最在乎的數字不是熱賣品，而是哪些衣服試穿後又被放回──用意是？

◎商業人士該如何解讀數據？

企業經常參考「客戶平均光臨次數」、「平均消費金額」，
但如果樣本中有極端值，計算出來的平均數反而會誤導你。

例如：「某商品的平均庫存期為3週」，看起來很合理，
但其中或許有分店高達20週，如果只看平均數，便難以發現問題。
所以你必須參考中位數和標準差。

‧分店業績大幅提升，是因為行銷策略奏效了？
評估成效不應單看店鋪銷售額成長，而是利用對照組，
把採取行銷策略與未採取的門市拿出來比較，才能判斷。

◎什麼樣的數據才有參考價值？

客戶滿意度達84％──聽起來很棒，真的嗎？
除了請客戶直接評分（但他可能出於禮貌而填高分），
也可以調查淨推薦值：客戶是否會向朋友推薦（這個比較準確）。
還可以問一個具體的問題：「你今天找到想買的東西了嗎？」

‧你可以不懂演算法，但要利用它：
優衣庫（UNIQLO）的每件商品都有「RFID電子標籤」，
一籃商品放上自助結帳機，就能自動感應客戶買什麼。
還能用來追蹤，有多少比例的衣服被拿進試衣間試穿後，又被消費者放回架上。
這才是商品開發人員最該參考的指標。（都試穿了為何不買？）

商業人士該如何解讀數據？什麼時候不該只看平均數？
對簡單的表面數據稍加挖掘，才不會被各種「均值」誤導。

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Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won

Oliver Bullough
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From the bestselling author of MONEYLAND and BUTLER TO THE WORLD, a revelatory new anatomy of global money laundering, the crime that makes crime pay

Without money laundering, few crimes of acquisition would be worth the trouble. South America's drug cartels would be stuffed without it, as would Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and a whole bestiary of human (and animal) traffickers the world over.

And yet, estimates of the dirty portion of world GDP have held steady at 2%-5% for decades. All efforts at legislation, diplomacy, prosecution and compliance have been a complete flop. It's not a lack of will to stamp it out. It's a lack of insight. So join bestselling investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a perspective-altering adventure through the flipside of the global economy.

In the criminal world, cash is still king (in fact, crime might now be the main thing cash is good for, and even why it still exists). Barter is pretty good too: vast, continent-wide exchanges of everything from luxury handbags to baby eels support a triangular drug trade linking Europe to the Far East. Cryptocurrencies flow through paper ledgers that would make a Florentine merchant feel at home.

And the system works. Whether you're a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are more secure and more impenetrable than they have ever been. There has never been a better time to be a criminal. It's time that changed.

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策略思考：一種稀有又精湛的心智工作原則 (How to Think Strategically)

葛雷格．吉森斯 (Greg Githens)
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《策略思考》無疑是我讀過最受用的書之一。葛雷格帶領讀者一步步瞭解策略思考的大小技能，引導讀者精進思考，遠離乏味與空泛的思考。──The Adept Group 總裁暨執行長保羅．歐康納（Paul O’Conner）

一個永不褪色的心智工作技藝，
一個從歷史到現代社會中，區分「平庸」或「優秀」領導工作者的重要能力標準……
好的策略思考，取決於反直覺的智力運用方法───

你一定聽過「要有策略」，卻很可能長期誤解如何思考策略，
你一定想達成很多目標，卻很可能敗在執行或規畫的冗餘。

你一定知道「策略思考」，或者「某種想法必須要更有策略性」，但究竟什麼是策略思考，思考和一般性的思考有何不同，它如何練習乃至達成更佳的成效？

若想發展這種敏捷的心智、帶來策略性的影響，這本書就是最理想的入門書。它將幫助讀者瞭解「策略」的意涵，以及如何打造有效、有力且聰明的策略。

能幹的策略思考者能容忍模糊性、察覺微弱信號、定義組織所面對的核心挑戰，並設計出具備致勝策略邏輯的有效對策。本書將提供許多策略性思考者的實例，並描述如何建構出致勝的策略邏輯。透過這些例子，讀者將獲得能應用在任何組織以及個人生活的精微技巧。

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