Monday, May 25, 2020

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham
online access from EBSCOhost Ebooks
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

你看港街招牌

李健明
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

在電腦字體盛行的今天,
我們要如何欣賞手寫字招牌的美?

說起香港街道特色,怎能不想起頭頂上五花八門的招牌?
然而你有留意到招牌已漸漸被拆卸嗎?
本地招牌製作者李健明為了保育手寫招牌字的文化,
開展了「李伯伯街頭書法復修計劃」。
經常帶領招牌導賞團的他,今次將透過「招牌佬」的視覺,
用文字記下屬於香港的招牌故事!

細說「李漢港楷」的創作歷程!
簡述招牌製作的工藝知識!
帶你散散步,隨處發掘本地招牌的故事!
揭露招牌上的視覺巧思和秘密!

讓我們抬頭欣賞招牌美學!

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, May 18, 2020

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Erin Meyer
online access from Ebook Central Academic Complete
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out.

In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, held on May 21, is a United Nations–sanctioned international holiday for the promotion of diversity issues.

文具物語——寫於時空書桌的歷史

鍾燕齊
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」生活及科普類別的「最佳出版獎」

人類透過文具記載了數千年歷史,

是時候說說文具本身的故事了……

文具歷史,源遠流長。

本書由上世紀香港淪陷時期說起,時日軍佔港,東洋色彩文具湧至;六十年代太空人登陸月球,文具開始沾上太空風;塑膠工業於戰後蓬勃發展,深深影響新一代文具製造及設計。

一直緊守崗位的文具店,也隨著時代節拍而漸起變化……

香港的文具業發展,將何去何從?

此書精選四十至九十年代各家廠商的經典文具近1000件,包括毛筆、鉛筆、顏色筆、橡皮擦、駁筆桿、卷筆刀、筆盒、考試盒、書包等等,以及珍貴的文具廣告資料,全面呈現文具發展的歷代沿革,並展示工業發展及社會進步帶來的設計及製造技術!

以文具的演變看時代的變遷,探討老文具的存在及傳承價值,及香港文具設計的未來。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)


Monday, May 11, 2020

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

A Best Book of the Year 2019: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? ...

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

更大的訊息 : 與大衛・霍克尼的跨世紀的藝術對話 (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney)

馬丁.蓋福特 (Martin Gayford)
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

大衛.霍克尼(David Hockney)是英國史上繼盧西安.弗洛伊德(Lucian Freud, 1922~2011)之後,第二位被英國女王頒發功績勳章的藝術家。世人稱之為「最受歡迎的在世畫家」(The World’s Most popular living painter)。其作品風格綺麗,廣受愛戴。然而,不僅如此,他也是一位言語犀利、對藝術充滿獨到見解的思想家。

本書記錄了霍克尼與知名藝評家馬丁.蓋福特(Martin Gayford)長達十五年的對談,從這些生動的訪談之中,霍克尼以特有的熱情、智慧與幽默感,暢談他一生追尋的繪畫意義。世界如何透過藝術家之眼,呈現在平面的畫布上,不只是畫家的課題,而是個哲學議題。

霍克尼指出,繪畫的本意就是讓人更加、更加清楚地觀看世界。繪畫的媒材──從洞穴壁畫到iPad,是否讓人類的觀看改變?人類所製造出來的各種圖像,如何與真實世界連繫?科技和文明是否一再撼動藝術家的創作方式?我們能否再次學會如何單純享受「觀看」之樂,徹底欣賞一張臉龐、一次日出,或是一棵樹?

在這本妙趣橫生的書中,藝術大師們如梵谷、卡拉瓦喬、維梅爾、莫內、畢卡索,都是作者與霍克尼的絕佳話題,他們睿智風趣的談話也觸及霍克尼的私人生活,與對家鄉的濃烈情感。與霍克尼來往的同輩藝術家如攝影大師卡蒂爾.布列松,或大製片家比利.懷德,也是他熱愛提及的人物。

這本書無疑是霍克尼的一幅自畫像,更是本世紀最有影響力的、關於人類創造力與世界本質的探索之作。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


「觀景・景觀——從泰納到霍克尼」(A Sense of Place: from Turner to Hockney)展覽是香港藝術館首次與英國倫敦泰德現代美術館(Tate Modern)合辦,展期至2020年5月27日,共展出76件泰德現代美術館藏品。展品包括David Hockney的《華特附近的巨樹群》(Bigger trees near Warter),這五米高的傑作成為藝術館閉館四年後重開最觸目展品之一。READ MORE

Monday, May 4, 2020

Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success

Derek Roger, Nick Petrie
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS.

If you’re like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it’s not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress—and how we should “manage” it—is just plain wrong.

STRESS IS A CHOICE.

It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It’s a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry and fret and agonize over the work you need to do—instead of just doing it.

WORK DOESN’T HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

This book offers a radically different approach to stress. It’s about being resilient. Flexible. Mentally awake and in the moment. It’s about changing your mindset to keep things in perspective instead of adding fuel to the fire with negative thoughts. The techniques you’ll find in this book are powerful, practical, and proven to work—without stress.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

家國之間——五四在香港百年回望

陳學然
check holdings in CityU LibraryFind
check resources on the same subject in CityU LibraryFind

1919年,中國內地爆發五四運動。運動在內地如火如荼之際,香港卻因港英政府嚴管,只有零星市民聲援反日救國,未有在香港引起波瀾。「五四運動」雖然在1919年乃至1920年代對香港沒有造成巨大衝擊,但由於「五四」有學生運動、愛國、反強權、反外敵的多種特質,故在往後的不同年代,「五四運動」的旗幟不斷為人所高舉,或用以爭取國家、文化認同,或用以批判社會病痛;無論是抗日、反共、反國民黨、專上學生的「認中關社」運動甚至是保衛釣魚台運動,「五四」都沒有缺席,一直出現於香港歷史發展的進程中。

本書是一部五四在香港的發生史、紀念史及詮釋史。作者充分利用報章、文集、雜誌等史料,解說「香港的五四」如何同異於「國家的五四」,了解不同政治陣營或思想立場的人在不同年代如何利用及反思五四運動,折射出時人的心態,從而洞察在時代變局下,香港華人對國家認同的心態變遷之跡。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)