More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

John Warner
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A veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.

In the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not much.

More Than Words argues that generative AI tools like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don’t challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking―discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page―and feeling―grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human.

More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with our relationship with writing. Newly updated with practical resources for teachers and students, this is the essential book for anyone writing in the age of AI.

"Warner offers smart commentary on the downsides of AI, particularly its ability to bypass critical thinking, and the suggestions on adjusting to the software’s increasing popularity are thought-provoking… This provides plenty of food for thought."―Publishers Weekly

“This book is essential reading for everyone—writers, students, teachers, parents, administrators—navigating the evolving landscape of AI writing tools and tech company hype. Warner makes a powerful case for the role of writing as thinking, writing as feeling, and writing as a human practice that will endure in the AI era. Warner’s clear-eyed wisdom about writing and teaching, and his engaging—and very human—voice, will leave readers inspired, informed, and optimistic about the future of writing.”―Jane Rosenzweig, director, Harvard College Writing Center

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頂尖大學的高效思考課：如何用創意解決難題？數學家校長的腦力特訓班 (Making Up Your Own Mind)

愛德華．柏格 (Edward B. Burger)
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※本書為改版書，原書名為：《從思考到解題：數學校長訓練大學生的創意鬥智小題庫》

【美國西南大學廣受歡迎的思考通識課&精華小題庫】
一門樂趣與痛苦並存，上過了二十年忘不掉，上完了受用一生的學分

最重要的心智本領就是運用創意，精進解決生活難題的能力──
但這要怎麼教，如何學？
數學家校長獻給每個不會動腦，害怕失敗，不敢挑戰困惑與深思的思考懶人……
經過高效思考的練習，你能學會：
※如何找到富有想像力的洞見或解方
※如何提高思考的敏捷度
※從此以更出奇寬廣的視野看待世界的很多事

學習的一大目的就是解決問題──更進一步說，如何運用創意解決問題，是我們一輩子受用的能力，除了專業知識之外，教你如何「習慣用新思維」分析並處理問題，正是本書作者寫作這本小書最大的期待！

你是否覺得每天困在「解題」的旋轉門中，大腦已經僵化，習慣相同的思考模式？這真的是學習的終極目標嗎？其實人生往後的難題才是真正的考驗，以往再多的解題練習恐怕到時候還是派不上用場。本書作者，同時也是數學教授的愛德華．柏格（Edward B. Burger）透過輕鬆有趣的內容，告訴我們如何運用簡單而有效的思考技巧，學習具創造力的解題技術，增進解決生活中實際問題的能力。

只要跟著這本書，就能透過饒富趣味的描敘式和視覺化難題反覆練習這些高效思考技巧。請切記：你的任務並非快速破解每道難題，而是盡可能運用多種不同的思考方式。隨著對難題的了解越深，你的思考模式就會隨之改變，進而能以更豐富的想像力和創造力面對日常生活。

書中包含許多能改變你思考模式的益智遊戲，是一門「高效思考課程」通識課精華，只要你願意學習，為生活中的各種問題尋找更理想的解方，必能享受閱讀本書的時光，並且獲益良多。

如何有效用腦？
這是我們從沒學過，卻一生都要用到的問題解決能力。
這本書的終極目標並非解題，正是透過各式難題練習高效思考。
掌握高效思考5元素＋刻意練習25道益智題，讓你的思考力突飛猛進！

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Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn about Human Nature from Shakespeare's Great Plays

Philip G. Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson
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2025 William James Book Award winner

Psychology According to Shakespeare explores Shakespeare’s remarkable insights into human nature through a modern psychological lens. The authors show how his plays portray mental disorders, personality, emotions, cognition, motivation, power, prejudice, and the conflict between reason and emotion. They argue that Shakespeare anticipated many concepts later developed in psychology, from nature versus nurture to social behavior and consciousness. By combining literature and psychology, the book demonstrates how Shakespeare’s observations of the human mind remain relevant today.

遊走香港屋邨誌

aikosan
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香港女生aikosan年前展開了一個「瘋狂企劃」，立志遊走全港逾250 個公共屋邨，邊走邊拍攝邊了解街坊日常，開始後愈覺驚喜處處，遂創立網誌「遊走香港屋邨誌」記錄和分享香港屋邨之美。這次她嚴選21個屋邨，帶大家用猶如去旅行的心情散步其中，一邊打卡拍美照，一邊深入了解你可能忽略了的社區故事。

漁光村：為清拆倒數中的房協最老屋邨留影
愛民邨：到「九龍華富邨」拜見冬菇亭元祖
勵德邨：欣賞港島一隅獨有的圓筒建築
廣源邨：一秒踏入英倫風紅磚「小鎮」
石圍角邨：探訪全港僅存的麥當勞叔叔像

屋邨起源歷史與趣聞＋手繪地圖＋特色景點推薦！
換個角度探索尋常屋邨，發現不平凡的人情與風景

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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

Jill Lepore
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
Best Books of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads
A New York Times New and Notable Title

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.” ―Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of... the Artificial State,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence, Lepore, profoundly disturbed by the technology revolution and by the soulless inundation of artificial intelligence, unfurls a new history for our own twenty-first century.

Building on an essay in The New Yorker in 2024, Lepore’s clarion call traces our increasing dependence on and strangulation by data. Political campaigns, awash in an avalanche of fake bots, have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms, while multinational media corporations dictate public discourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to a rapid end, replaced by billionaire technocrats reliant on autocracy and the tools of AI.

With Orwellian overtones, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State demonstrates how technology has corroded global democracy, leading to the destruction of both human community and capacity for self-government, creating a new form of AI government, a digital citizen’s assembly, where AI will recommend the course of action to humans in place of human-run legislatures. Especially sobering with this proliferation of “dizzying, ever-changing schemes, prophesies, and predictions” is that the Artificial State has come at the expense of the natural world, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity.

Deliberately alarming, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, despite its abundance of dire facts, is not a funeral dirge; rather, it’s an inspiring wake-up call, written in Lepore’s typically elegiac prose, which demonstrates that nothing about the Artificial State was inevitable, for it is a “government without consent, even government without humans.” It can, Lepore asserts, be dismantled. Other heinous systems, like feudalism, fascism, and slavery, have also been dismantled, but disassembly requires identifying the parts, tracing the sources. It requires telling a new history. This is the purpose of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.

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香港文旅科技大策略

胡恩威
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旅遊之所以為旅遊，恰在於它的不可複製性。東京淺草寺的籤文握在手中時的粗糙觸感，曼谷夜市炭火烤蝦的煙熏刺痛眼睛—這些細微感受構成了旅行的血肉。虛擬現實技術再精妙，終究是隔着一層玻璃看世界，而真正的旅行需要皮膚直接接觸空氣，需要肺部吸入異鄉的塵埃。過分強調科技的萬能，就會忽視培養感受真實文化的能力。真正的文旅融合，應當是用科技為真實體驗鋪路，而非用虛擬取代真實。這本書記錄了我對這些問題的零散思考。它們好像不成體系，但都指向同一個方向：在這個科技重塑一切的時代，文旅產業的未來，取決於我們能否跳出僵化固化思維的窠臼，找到那條科技與文化的共生之道。

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