How to Write Reports and Proposals : Create Attention-Grabbing Documents That Achieve Your Goals

Patrick Forsyth
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Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. This book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade.

This fully updated 7th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips that will help you to write succinctly and with impact across different media. How to Write Reports and Proposals will give you the tools to put over a good case with style.

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種植生活 : 我的五十年城市耕種札記 (Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong)

梁雅達 (Arthur van Langenberg)
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這是梁雅達醫生跨越半世紀的綠色實踐手記，是專為香港寫作的蔬果種植實用指南。涵蓋種子選擇、土壤管理、花盆選擇、繁殖方法、灌溉與堆肥、病蟲害防護，以及各類蔬果的種植方法和食譜。

這更是一部糅合生態反思與生活哲學的作品。我們習慣各種消費的便利，追求即時滿足，食物從遠方而來，留下巨大的碳足跡。栽種自家蔬菜，讓我們知道食物的生命軌跡，有利健康的同時，減少對環境的破壞。 通過種植，我們把自然帶進生活，同植物一起感受生命的節奏。「每當一粒種子發芽，蛻去堅硬的外衣時，奇蹟亦隨之展開，它將逐步兌現你對它的期望，亦即是你對它的『信心』」。——生活的盼望不在遠方，而在親手耕耘的當下。

作者通過描述他的種植生活，呈現一個可以同時用視覺、嗅覺和觸覺去感受的色彩繽紛世界。書中有很多實用的小技巧，讀者大可選擇一些作為參考，開展自己的種植生活，或者在蔬菜瓜果之間，某天能種出一個更廣闊的生活空間。—林漢明，香港中文大學卓敏生命科學教授

梁醫生用50 年的本地種植經驗，介紹一個個適合香港種植的蔬果品種，以及種植過程中的小故事、小貼士，還有簡單實用的食譜，對喜歡種植的朋友，絕對是一本不可多得的書籍。此外，書中還旁及不少與種植相關的知識、議題和討論。文字雋永，趣味盎然，讓人愛不釋手。—劉婉儀，綠田園基金前總幹事

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

“More than a guide to better conversations, it’s a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of living. It’s a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their relationships and broaden their perspectives.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes (Summer Reading Pick)

As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”

And yet all around are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.

The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and, in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.

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前世今生九龍仔

梁觀誠
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介紹九龍仔的歷史，包括其城市規劃變化、地理特色、教育發展、社區生活等，並訪問了該區的居民，為九龍仔留下一個鮮活的歷史記憶。本書記述了較少人討論的九龍仔歷史，側面描述了香港在經濟、民生、教育的發展，同時記錄了九龍仔的口述歷史，從不同角度見證這區的變遷。 適合對香港歷史、地區發展感興趣的人士。

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James: A Novel

Percival Everett
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS

In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, and more.

"Genius"—The Atlantic "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own."—Chicago Tribune "A provocative, enlightening literary work of art."—The Boston Globe "Everett’s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful."—The New York Times

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. 

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

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香港傳統習俗事典 = The Hong Kong tradition handbook

史慧玲
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實用生活禮節指南 囍事俗例完全天書

中華文化五千年，習俗既多且繁，逐漸為現代人所淡忘。

如農曆年互相恭賀發財拜年外，還有何慶祝事宜與禁忌？

婚慶嫁娶的三書六禮、上頭回門拜祖先等俗例，也甚少人了解箇中意義。

編者史慧玲，中文大學歷史系碩士，曾任職記者、編輯、市場推廣及教師，對古蹟及民生有濃厚興趣，四出搜羅重要的傳統習俗文化，一一記下，揮筆成書。

《香港傳統習俗事典》內容包涵：嫁娶、節慶、祭典、生育、遷居、葬禮等生活上必遇的禮節問題，本書提供最精簡完備的意見，實用性及趣味性兼具。

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