Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Frans De Waal
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A New York Times Bestseller 
Winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 

Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it—from dogs “adopting” the injuries of their companions, to rats helping fellow rats in distress, to elephants revisiting the bones of their loved ones—show that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Frans de Waal opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected.

“A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones.” - Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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多給自己5% (5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results)

邁克．亞登 (Michael Alden)
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小小5％堅持如同滾雪球，可以帶來超過百倍的成功。這是一本實用的指南，不要求你顛覆一切，來個大轉彎。事實上，採取簡單的行動，反而能帶來驚人成效。不同於一般自勵書籍只停留在「想」的階段，本書直接提供辦得到的具體方法。不論你處於人生什麼階段，絕對都能替自己、替家人、替同事和主管、替自己的事業，多帶來5％的進步。

不用卯足全力，只需多盡一點力
你可能聽過，把大目標拆成數個小目標，更容易達成。不過，小目標依舊得夠大，才不會淪於瑣碎，還得夠簡單，才不會讓人容易放棄。本書把目標拆得剛剛好：多努力5%就好。不需耗費太多力氣，但立刻就能看到成效。

不限領域、不限階層，你可以不一樣
本書各章針對一項特定的人生關鍵領域，解釋多5％將如何帶來巨大差異。你不必一次全盤接受，只要依據自己的情況，從最迫切需要改變的領域開始。書中每一個數據、每一則故事，都各自解釋一項重點......

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg
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The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across the globe, from the United Nations to Capitol Hill and mass street protests, her book is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.

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Earth Day (April 22)
Every April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the 1970 birth of the modern environmental movement. Earth Day's mission is to build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet. READ MORE

讀書的價值

森博嗣
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閱讀，支撐著非凡的想像力和產出
閱讀，不僅可能改變你的思維方式，甚至改變你的工作、生活與人生

為什麼在今天這個時代，書依舊無法被取代？
《全部成為F》人氣推理小說家森博嗣
帶你窺探閱讀的本質

本書集結他對閱讀價值的體驗和思考，
他認為，讀書最大的價值，就在於「自己」選書的過程，
不是閱讀別人推薦的書、也不特意去看暢銷書，
享受自由閱讀、深度思考的愉悅。

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聯合國教科文組織(UNESCO)自1995年起，把4月23日定為「世界閱讀日」(World Book & Copyright Day)，希望藉著這個重要的日子，推廣閱讀和寫作，以及宣揚版權意識。

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
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2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

Picked as a book of the year by Fortune magazine

'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times

USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products—and for the innovators aspiring to make them.

It seems like magic when some new gadget seems to know what we want before we know ourselves. But why does some design feel intrinsically good, and why do some designs last forever, while others disappear? User Friendly guides readers through the hidden rules governing how design shapes our behaviour, told through fascinating stories such as what the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island reveals about the logic of the smartphone; how the pressures of the Great Depression and World War II created our faith in social progress through better product design; and how a failed vision for Disney World yielded a new paradigm for designed experience.

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第七感：啟動認知自我與感知他人的幸福連結 (Mindsight)

丹尼爾．席格 (Daniel J. Siegel)
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第七感是每個人都有的內在潛能，
是培養EQ（智商）與SQ（社商）的真正基礎，
也是開啟認知自我與感知他人的神祕鑰匙。

即刻開啟你的第七感，獲得連結幸福人生的關鍵力量！
「鍛鍊第七感，對我們的人際關係、家庭生活、婚姻、職場以及領導統御方面，都有很大的幫助。」──《EQ》、《SQ》作者，丹尼爾．高曼　高度推薦

• 有時你會變得不合理地生氣或不安，並且難以平靜下來嗎？
• 有沒有想過為什麼你不能停止你的行為，無論你怎麼努力？
• 你和你的孩子（或父母、伴侶或老闆）是否陷入了看似不可避免的衝突模式？

我們要如何發展出一種能力，而能認知到自己的某個想法──而不只是擁有一個想法──並認知到這是自己的內在心智活動，而不至於被它掌控？
我們要如何能獲取所有關於心智的豐富寶藏，而不是只能受制於反射反應？我們要如何引導自己的思考與感受，而不是被它們驅使？
我們又如何能瞭解他人的內心，真正理解他們「到底在想什麼」，並且更有效地給予同情的回應？

對大腦運作方式有基本的瞭解，將有助於瞭解自己有多大的改變潛能！
人類的五種感官知覺，讓我們得以探索外在世界；而第六感，讓我們得以察覺自己內在的生理狀態。第七感，是一種向內觀看的能力。統合外在與內在的世界，進一步認知內心、反思自我。開啟第七感的力量，邁向自我蛻變、打開與他人的幸福連結。

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Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.

Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.

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城市地標 : 殖民地時代的西式建築

陳天權
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文物建築是城市的標誌，亦是歷史的活見證。今天香港僥倖留存下來的文物建築已成為珍貴的文化遺產，但隨著城市發展，它們大多隱沒於高樓大廈之間，逐漸被人遺忘。回歸前後，社會上掀起本地史熱潮，市民對舊建築擁有一份情懷，特別是滿載集體回憶的地標；政府亦意識到要保育有集體回憶的歷史建築，推出活化閒置歷史建築的計劃，令它們得以重生。

本書以香港歷史發展為脈絡，串連殖民地時期各主要地區的主要西式建築，包括行政、軍事、法治、醫療、商廈和會所等不同類別，當中絕大部分是法定古蹟或評級建築，目的是希望引起大眾注意這些地標，從而了解香港如何走過這百多年的路。

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