Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth
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*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*
*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*
**The Sunday Times Bestseller**

Economics is broken, and the planet is paying the price.

Unforeseen financial crises. Extreme wealth inequality. Relentless pressure on the environment. Can we go on like this? Is there an alternative?

In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth lays out the seven deadly mistakes of economics and offers a radical re-envisioning of the system that has brought us to the point of ruin. Moving beyond the myths of ‘rational economic man’ and unlimited growth, Doughnut Economics zeroes in on the sweet spot: a system that meets all our needs without exhausting the planet.

The demands of the 21st century require a new shape of economics. This might just be it.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

在學術界謀生存

李連江
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學術界是怎樣的江湖？在其中要如何生存？作者以二十多年在學術界探索的親身經歷與清醒思考，揭開學術圈的生存法則和注意事項、規則與潛規則，分享學習研究的方法與捷徑。所涉及內容包括選題、研究方法、論文寫作、期刊發表、英語學習、學者生涯等等，皆是當下年輕學者或學生切實面對、卻往往無路可循甚至誤入歧途的問題。

作為出色的政治學研究者和教授者，作者不僅清楚了解研究的方法與訣竅，也深知當下年輕學者的問題和苦惱。全書既有生存之「道」，又有生存之「術」，誠懇直率，不弄玄虛，傾囊相授，令人讀來豁然開朗，不僅適用於社科、人文領域，對所有想進入或剛進入學術圈的研究者都極有啟發。

「在這本書中，李老師始終以資深學者罕見的平視視角，為我們講了許多心底話和良心話。」──田雷（香港中文大學政治學博士，華東師範大學法學院教授）

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You Are a Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself, and Do It Now

Tiffany Pham
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Ranked in Top 10 Bestselling Business Books in the US by Wall Street Journal

As the founder of Mogul--praised by Sheryl Sandberg as the #1 millennial platform--Tiffany Pham created a global technology and media empire by the age of 27. As living proof that the old rules of success no longer apply, Tiffany writes the new rules for following your passions and forging your own path in an age of disruption.

Traditionally, the word "mogul" has been attributed to men. But Tiffany Pham has redefined it--now, when you Google the word, the top search result is the company she founded: Mogul. The platform enables millions of women, across 196 countries, to connect, share information, and access knowledge.

So how did a young woman--who arrived in the United States without speaking a word of English--turn a dream of connecting women into a fulfilling career and highly profitable company that has changed so many lives?

Tiffany chronicles her path to becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs of her generation, and offers specific, actionable advice that covers everything from overcoming self-doubt, to pursuing side-hustles, to crushing it at life and work by over-delivering, all while remaining your authentic self. You will learn how to negotiate job promotions, secure and balance multiple career roles, hire and manage teams, and become a mogul yourself. The book also features strategies and insights from ten of the most powerful moguls worldwide, including Nina Garcia, Star Jones, and Rebecca Minkoff.

You Are A Mogul addresses the new reality that few of us will work for one company for our entire career and that there is no one straightforward formula for a "good life"--personally or professionally. To succeed, we have to be agile, flexible, and strategic. You Are A Mogul is an indispensable road map to the kind of life and career that is demanding and challenging--but also exciting and full of opportunities, if you know where to look.

"Becoming an entrepreneur is tough and I encourage all who are on the journey to be self-aware and use resources to help your hustle match your ambition. You Are A Mogul is one of those tools."
—Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder & CEO of VaynerMedia and New York Times Bestselling Author

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

給教育局局長的二十封信

謝振康
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香港首位中學生從學生角度點評教育制度、考試及升學漏弊。作者代表學生發聲，意見大膽有見地，給離地的教育決策者當頭捧喝！ 前高官及名人如張炳良、劉鳴煒、何駿傑激讚此書，絕對是從事教育工作及管理人士的「學生心聲天書」！

(摘錄自hkbookfair.hktdc.com)

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do?

Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.

And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.

Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.

The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

不如去闖：年輕不是迷茫的藉口

李柘遠
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18歲，挑戰第一個不可能的任務，
以90天的行動計畫突圍，全額獎學金錄取耶魯。

22歲，以行動打破迷茫，
用To-do list實踐目標，成功入職高盛投資銀行。

24歲，放棄投行明星分析師的光環與高薪，
衝出舒適圈為熱愛而努力，創立旅遊品牌「牛游果」

25歲，在創業中場重新充電，考取哈佛商學院。

在這個不缺少夢想的時代，
他說：「成功需要的是更多的自勵心×規畫力×執行力。」

作者李柘遠以行動和實踐完成夢想，
堅持不只呈現在嚴謹的計畫中，也在每一次的行動裡，
本書不僅是他進入世界級名校、全球五百大知名企業的教戰守則，
更以四十篇個人故事，講述在耶魯、高盛、創業和哈佛的見聞，
提供了年輕人可以實踐夢想的完整計畫。

如果你還在：
思考生命的意義，懷疑自己懷疑人生。
對那些人生勝利組，各種羨慕嫉妒恨。
說是很會說，但就是遲遲無法行動……

他說：「與其在起點抱怨，不如從現在開始，闖出1的驚喜。」

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A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus
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A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest...

In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

規模的規律和祕密：老鼠、小鳥、雞、大象，和我們居住的城市，隱藏規模縮放的規律， 掌握其中驚奇的祕密，也同時掌握企業和地球的未來 (Scale)

傑弗里‧魏斯特 (Geoffrey West)
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1.比擬《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》的科普大作。試圖提供一切事物一個生物性理論。

2.以打破傳統學科界線的方法，解決長期的全球永續問題。本書以複雜科學立論，這是一門新興學科，橫跨數學、物理學、動力學、統計、電腦科學、生物學、生態學領域，企圖以此解釋生命問題：包括生命起源、生物演化，以及經濟演化等等。

3.一本充滿令人興奮觀念的大書。本書極具原創性與重要性，內含看似彼此無關的主題的驚人洞見，例如老化與死亡、睡眠、代謝、城市、能源使用、創造力、公司，甚至人類生存的永續問題。如果你對世界的真正運作方式感到好奇，絕對不要錯過這本書。

4.對於現代社會與經濟、新創公司、大型企業與城市發展的基本科學法則，提出非常強有力的全新見解。企業執行長、技術專家、市長、都市領導人與任何想理解形塑我們複雜組織的世界背後的簡單法則，一定要讀這本書。

規模比例大小，很有事！
宇宙世界運作的祕密全都和規模有關，
它背後神奇的縮放法則顯示，規模主宰了一切生命的存在與消亡，
從細胞到城市，從企業到環境生態系統，從千分之一秒到一千年，
本書帶你在生命的複雜中尋找簡單與一致。
　　
•當城市與公司的規模加倍時，會發生什麼事？
•如果一棟建築物、一架飛機、一個經濟體或一隻動物的尺寸減半呢？
•如果某城市的人口變成兩倍，道路會不會也大約變成兩倍、犯罪率也變兩倍、專利也變兩倍？
•如果某公司的銷售加倍，獲利會不會也跟著加倍？
•如果某隻動物的體重減半，需要的食物是不是也只要一半？ ......

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