Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary

Geoffrey Cain, Ed Catmull, Dan'l Lewin
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The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a Legend

In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his life and career, but the future of technology itself.

For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997, Jobs wandered the business wilderness with his new venture, NeXT. It was a period of spectacular failures, near-bankruptcy, and brutal humiliation. But out of this crucible of defeat emerged the visionary leader who would go on to create the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, transforming Apple into the most valuable company on earth.

Drawing on previously unpublished materials and new interviews with the key players, Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobs's "lost decade"—the formative years that shaped the icon we thought we knew. With unprecedented access to unbroadcast footage of Jobs in NeXT meetings, private company documents, and interviews with his closest colleagues, Cain offers the definitive account of how failure transformed a brash wunderkind into a true business genius.

This is the story of how Steve Jobs learned to lead, how he discovered the power of discipline, and how a spectacular failure became the foundation for one of the greatest comebacks in business history. It is nothing less than the missing piece in the legend of Steve Jobs.

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篳路藍縷 成就傳奇：中國香港田徑總會走過75載

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田徑被譽為運動之母，在香港，幾乎每個人在求學時期都接觸過這項運動；而對於一代又一代熱愛田徑的人來說，田徑場更承載着他們為夢想奮鬥的身影。

本書透過不同年代田徑人的故事，細說香港田徑的發展軌跡，並記錄中國香港田徑總會自1951年創立之初的篳路藍縷。從創會前輩到幕後教練、裁判，再到國際舞台上的健兒—這些故事，見證了田總如何引領世代田徑人發揮所長，成就今日香港田徑的面貌。本書也回顧了多項極具代表性的賽事：中環鬧市的「香港國際金一哩」、環繞水塘的「大路之王」越野賽、以彌敦道為起點的「渣打香港馬拉松」、在機場上演的「三跑道系統十公里賽」，以及在灣仔運動場首辦的「高露潔女子運動會」等，每一場賽事都展現出田徑人的無私付出，為香港田徑注入最真摯的人性溫度。

本書不只是一本香港田徑發展史，更是一群熱愛田徑的人用人生交織成的故事集，見證着「田總」75年來如何與每一位田徑人共同成長。

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I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

Joanna Stern
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

What happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?

You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unimagined by humankind. The AI future is going to be unlike any other technological revolu­tion. But what does that really mean? And will AI truly make life better?

To find out, award-winning journalist Joanna Stern surrendered her life to artificial intelligence for one year. The results are both hilarious and unsettling.

I Am Not a Robot is like a time machine trip to the very near future, where AI promises to be your doctor, chauffeur, teacher, masseuse, coworker, thera­pist, financial planner, chef, housekeeper, and even . . . romantic partner. Your colleague might be using ChatGPT to write emails at work, but Joanna used AI tools and robots to do household chores, to manage her health, and to transport her family on vacation. If there was a decision to make or a task to do, she let AI go first. Along the way, she conducted exclusive interviews with the tech leaders building this future, then reported back from the front lines as your funny, no-nonsense tour guide.

Of course, tech’s sunny promises never tell the whole story, and that’s what Joanna is here to share. Filled with illustrations and photographs, this book offers less hype, more clarity, and as little jargon as humanly (or robotically) possible. It’s an AI guide for ordinary people—not the tech bros who tried to sell you a cruise to the metaverse or an NFT of a cartoon monkey.

This book is not the definitive story, because we’re only a few years into the AI revolution. But after a year of living as a human lab rat, Joanna deliv­ers one of the clearest—and funniest—pictures yet of what’s really happening and what it means for you.

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如果國家是100人島:東大生讓經濟學變好玩的秒懂筆記

Mugitaro
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地表最有趣的經濟學讀本！
把國家變成100人島～
從黑猩猩政府舉債、熊貓發行股票，
讀懂「景氣循環、股價、物價、利率&匯率」的經濟原理！

★東大生獨創「100人島」趣味故事，複雜的經濟學理論「一讀就懂」！
★日本Amazon讀者破百則五星好評！

每次閱讀經濟新聞，讀到「殖利率」「債市」「炒匯」「通膨」總是暈頭轉向，為什麼經濟學總是如此難以理解呢？
原因是總體經濟學規模實在太廣泛，涉及概念又太抽象。
為了解決這些困難，東大學霸＆日本人氣YouTuber「Mugitaro」，把國家濃縮成100人島嶼，用七大篇島嶼故事情境劇，來譬喻世界經濟的運作原理，只要讀完這本書，再看財經時事必定就能「一看就懂」，甚至能提出個人見解，並運用在自己的理財計畫和工作領域！

▎美國島→關於【低利政策】
美國島政府希望培養出更多創業家狸貓，大象主張降低利率，以降低狸貓的借貸成本；長頸鹿則主張對創業家減稅，誰的方法才有效呢？

▎日本島→關於【貨幣擴張】
日本島政府想要增加島上貨幣供給，有兩種方式：第一，由黑猩猩政府發行國債；第二，由斑馬私人銀行借錢給島民（放貸），這兩者可能產生何種效果和危機？

▎希臘島→關於【債務危機】
希臘島和日本島都不斷發行國債，來籌集政府運作資金，為什麼最終前者宣布破產，後者卻能夠持續負債、不致崩潰呢？

▎俄羅斯島→關於【固定匯率】
俄羅斯島堅持把匯率固定在「1盧布＝1美元」，在外匯市場不斷拋售美金，卻依然阻止不了盧布貶值，根本原因是什麼？

▎辛巴威島→關於【通貨膨脹】
某一年，辛巴威島上的地瓜產量銳減、售價飆高，政府決定印製大量鈔票發給島民，結果發生惡性通膨。究竟，通膨的根本原因是印製太多鈔票？還是物資供給不足？

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Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong: Settlement and History

Patrick H. Hase
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How have places in Hong Kong evolved since well before the 19th century? Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong is a vital book, showing us how its various suburban settlements came into being. Such is a history of immense interest as well as unending fascination.

Since arriving at Hong Kong more than half a century ago, Patrick Hase has been researching its local history, with a particular focus on the market towns and villages in the New Territories. Due to a lack of written documentation for the study of these communities, much of his research was conducted through oral interviews with village elders in the 1980s and 1990s. Hase sought their memories of the villages in their youth, as well as their grandparents’ accounts of the communities prior to the age of high technology, urbanization, and modernization.

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陪伴與觀看：宋詩中的伴侶動物書寫

游佳霖
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宋代人喜歡養動物，並對牠們極盡寵愛，透過與伴侶動物的相處也更加了解這些動物的特性。宋詩獨有的日常性增加了這些伴侶動物在詩中出現的機會，文學作品與繪畫中處處可見伴侶動物的身影。宋人描寫他們如何與伴侶動物相處，也常以動物為喻，表達自己的情志。與伴侶動物的相處親暱，所以觀察到的動物形象往往有與前人不同之處，本書欲探討伴侶動物在宋人生命歷程中的意義，透過宋人和動物間的觀看與陪伴勾勒出屬於宋人的生活情調。

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