The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success

Euny Hong
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"A must-read for anyone interested in the art of intuitively knowing what others feel." --Haemin Sunim, bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down and Love for Imperfect Things

Improve your nunchi. Improve your life.

The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how.

Have you ever wondered why your less-skilled coworker gets promoted before you, or why that one woman from your yoga class is always surrounded by adoring friends? They probably have great nunchi. The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need is your eyes and ears. Sherlock Holmes has great nunchi. Cats have great nunchi. Steve Jobs had great nunchi. With its focus on observing others rather than asserting yourself--it's not all about you!--nunchi is a refreshing antidote to our culture of self-promotion, and a welcome reminder to look up from your cell phone.

Nunchi has been used by Koreans for more than 5,000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from one of the world's poorest to one of the richest and most technologically advanced in half a century. And it's why K-pop--an unlikely global phenomenon, performed as it is in a language spoken only in Korea--is even a thing. Not some quaint Korean custom like taking off your shoes before entering a house, nunchi is the currency of life. The Power of Nunchi will show you how the trust and connection it helps you to build can open doors for you that you never knew existed.

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鼠疫 (The Plague) (La Peste)

卡繆 (Albert Camus)
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《異鄉人》作者/存在主義大師/諾貝爾文學獎得主/二十世紀法國文豪卡繆
在遍地鼠屍、鼠血橫流、屍臭沖天的疫病封鎖現場
直視人類恐懼、深入存在之輕與生命之重的小說創作

這些散布在歷史當中的一億具屍體，不過就是想像中的一縷煙罷了。
然而，在那縷沒有重量的輕煙裡，卻閃現著為生存而奮戰最根本的理由！

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
一天，李厄在樓梯平台上踢到一隻死老鼠。當晚，李厄上樓回家，忽然看見走廊角落竄出一隻大老鼠，步伐有些不穩，隨後在原地打轉，最後倒地從微張的嘴吐出血來。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
就從這天開始，各處冒出猝死的老鼠屍體，緊接著是鄰人紛紛暴斃。政府只得將發生疫情的奧蘭市全城封鎖，連信件都不得流通。來自外地的旅人被困在這座不屬於自己的城市，而當地市民與外地親人的重逢也顯得遙遙無期。

吱吱吱……吱吱吱……
這是高八度的喪鐘鐘聲，還是喚醒人心之善的低喃？在孤絕禁錮而束手無策的絕望情境中，你是否仍願為幸福做出最後一絲努力？

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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein
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#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices.

These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.

With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

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書寫的人

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關於發呆，韓麗珠說，那是蘊釀寫作力量的舉動。

而有發呆習慣的駱以軍則說：「常在開車時，握著方向盤陷入胡想而傻笑，被我妻子責備。」

不同的書寫的人，有著不同的書寫狀態。

在耍太極和游泳之間的董啟章，與矛盾共處的王貽興，習慣了在地鐵與下班的路上寫詩的關夢南……他們隱藏在文字背後的書寫狀態，到底是怎樣的？

本地備受期許的文學雙月刊《字花》，每期均會邀請不同的書寫的人與編輯進行筆談，於「書寫的人」欄目中暢論文學、風花雪月。多年下來，筆談者眾，如今結集出版，儼然構成一幅瑰麗的文學風景。

除了董啟章、駱以軍、王貽興、關夢南，還有劉芷韻、陳志華、可洛、江瓊珠、陳麗娟、葉愛蓮、朗天、韓麗珠、謝曉虹、張大春、孟浪、健吾、李維怡、楊照、袁兆昌、鄧小樺，二十位橫跨老中青，覆蓋中港台的「書寫的人」，與編輯及讀者一起，分享他們書寫的故事。

(摘錄自 cp1897.com.hk)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou
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Named one of the best books of the year by: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
The McKinsey Business Book of the Year

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes - now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor - by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

"The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion." (Bill Gates)

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fund-raising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes' worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.

A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

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輕鬆駕馭壓力 : 史丹佛大學最受歡迎的心理成長課 (The Upside of Stress)

凱莉．麥高尼格 (Kelly McGonigal)
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壓力能帶來正面能量？科學實證：這是真的！
重點不是擺脫壓力，而是你對待壓力的態度，
本書教你如何借力使力，成就更強大的自己。

全球熱賣1,500,000本，《輕鬆駕馭意志力》史丹佛人氣心理學家最新著作。
TED千萬人次點閱率，〈如何讓壓力成為你的朋友〉演講之深度專書。

史丹佛最受歡迎心理學家暨最高榮譽教學獎得主凱莉‧麥高尼格，全面顛覆你對壓力的想像，探討心理韌性（在壓力中成長）與思維模式（面對現實的正念能量）的連結，帶領讀者看見壓力的光明面、如何善加利用壓力帶來的好處，以及壓力可以激發同理心，讓我們成為更好的人。重點是，你如何看待壓力，將決定你人生的精采度。

◎考試、演講、簡報之前心跳加速是好現象？
A：緊張感其實是「你正準備大展拳腳」的證據，與其讓自己冷靜，不如透過深呼吸去感受身體的滿滿能量，能夠將焦慮將轉為力量，發揮最佳表現。

◎如何面對生病、手術、化療、等待檢驗結果的壓力？
A：請想像此刻有許多人同樣承受著痛苦或壓力，讓自己對那些人產生同理心，充分理解他們的感受，藉此提醒自己不是孤軍奮戰。

◎失去親人、感到孤立無援和龐大壓力時，該怎麼辦？
A：請允許自己「既勇敢又脆弱」，主動踏出第一步，以自身的痛苦做為連結點，將關注的焦點轉到別人身上，能得到更多支持的力量。　

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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

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對決病毒最前線:從流感、炭疽病、SARS到伊波拉, 資深防疫專家對抗致命傳染病的全球大冒險 (The Next Pandemic)

阿里‧可汗 (Ali S. Khan), 威廉‧派屈克 (William Patrick)
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—肉眼看不見的微小生物，才是對人類性命的最大威脅—
從流感、漢他病毒、伊波拉病毒、炭疽病恐怖攻擊到SARS
從非洲、南美、波斯灣、亞洲到美國，為阻止流行病大爆發
25年資深防疫專家與最狡滑無情敵人的精采交手
同時揭開讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐真相

阿里．可汗醫師長期於公共衛生領域擔任第一先遣部隊，在25年的公衛生涯中，歷經無數驚險。他的足跡遍及全球，由叢林前哨，到只有騎馬才能抵達的智利村莊，到遭檢疫隔離的擁擠亞洲都市，也到環境教人不寒而慄，由外勞宰殺羊隻的波斯灣各大屠宰場。他努力阻止伊波拉病毒、SARS、MERS，以及其他種種教人害怕的疾病。2001年華府遭生化武器恐怖攻擊時，他也直接參與防治工作，阻止炭疽病傳播，並在2005年卡崔娜颶風侵襲紐奧良之後，協助重建當地的公衛基礎建設。

面對傳染病人，僅有薄薄的口罩保護他；面對無名病毒，手上只有難以確定的有限資訊，卻必須馬上做出攸關生死的決定。他發現儘管造成疾病的是細菌或病毒，但導致疾病流行的卻常常是人。我們會犯錯，會把緊急事件政治化，而且從不考慮自己的行為會有什麼後果。

本書是內行專家的現身說法，也是第一手的災難報告。說明微生物與人類密切的關係，如何對抗舉世最致命的疾病，以及讓時疫雪上加霜的驚恐和貪腐。

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