Around the World in 80 Books

David Damrosch
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A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them

Featured in the Chicago Tribune's Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring 80 exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran, and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature.

To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together, these 80 titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle - from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today.

Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.

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昨天今天明天：內地與香港電影的政治、藝術與傳統

吳國坤
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本書以電影個案形式，輔以當代歷史脈絡和社會現實，討論電影作為普及的藝術創作，電影作者如何直面電影的政治及社會功能，又怎樣面向觀眾。

第一部分「子不語：民國電影的聲色政治」以薛覺先、費穆等的電影為例，討論民國時代的電影檢查政策。第二部分「怪力亂神：香港電影的禁忌與圖謀」，涉及英治時代香港的政治審查和殖民文化政策，所討論的諜戰、神仙鬼怪、壓抑和愛慾，都是過往甚少討論的冷門題目。第三部「亂世浮華：表象與真實」，探究在社會緊張騷動和充滿政治禁忌的年代，電影如何通過製造鏡花水月式的鏡像世界來扣問社會議題。

本書的研究結合檔案資料的梳理，將電影文本與歷史文化脈絡化，採用綜合分析方法，回答當代歷史、政治和電影美學的問題。

本書的文章雖以香港電影為主，但牽涉的題目包羅萬象，充分展示了國坤多年來所下的功夫。他自承對於當今學院盛行的文化研究──「大多偏重西方理論和文本的局部分析」──不大苟同，而想「用電影研究來回應歷史」，從大量的電影資料中「探究其隱藏的政治、道德和歷史的潛文本」，我在此舉雙手贊成。──李歐梵

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron
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'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER

Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

'Each time I've learned something important and surprising about myself and my work ... Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love'-Elizabeth Gilbert

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走進大專院校圖書館 : 圖書館員視角下的大中華區高等教育 = Why the library? The role of librarians in the higher education systems of greater China

劉倩秀、盧敬之、周慶山、趙格華、卓文傑
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自從世界步入資訊時代，大專院校圖書館面臨「圖書館消亡論」的挑戰。學習模式逐漸從線下轉移到線上，紙本資源也不再是學生和教師吸收知識的唯一選擇。面對用戶習慣改變的衝擊，大專院校圖書館應該如何轉型並化危為機？

本書收錄三十篇訪問，採訪了內地、香港、澳門及台灣的大學圖書館重要從業人員，以受訪者豐富的工作經驗、相關學歷背景、創新業務等方面切入，探討兩岸四地大專院校圖書館的運作模式以及面對的困難，並藉由各地圖書館從業員的分享，了解不同大專院校圖書館如何針對用戶使用模式的轉變，不斷進行觀念和體制上的改革，以創意回應資訊時代的挑戰，科學地探索和規劃大專院校圖書館未來發展的新模式。

本書有助將要進入圖書館服務或正從事圖書館工作的同業，了解此領域專業工作的意義，並彰顯大專院校圖書館作為學校資訊中心和校園文化基地的重要地位。

「大學圖書館是知識寶庫，見它們如見大學：藏書、使用狀況、館內的氛圍，就是大學的底蘊。這一次大學圖書館之旅，也就是一次文化的旅程。」-- 呂大樂

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Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
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From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life,a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University and readers of their best-selling book, Designing Your Life ("The prototype for a happy life." —Brian Lehrer, NPR), that designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. And now more than ever, we all need creative and adaptable tools to cope with the chaos caused by COVID-19.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the book's new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it—and thrive.

Burnett and Evans's Disruption Design offers us a radical new concept that makes use of the designer mindsets: Curiosity, Reframing, Radical collaboration, Awareness, Bias to action, Storytelling, to find our way through these unchartered times.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future.

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小說課之王 : 折磨讀者的祕密

許榮哲
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「小說課之王」許榮哲代表作，精確剖析小說創作之謎
從閱讀、理解到創作，小說人的修鍊之路

「做為創作者，我們沒有選擇。是成為神的嚮往與執念，選擇了我們。」 ──許榮哲

「每篇好小說，都是這個世界的一個謎。」──魔幻寫實大師馬奎斯
簡單來說，謎就是魔術。
魔術之所以吸引人，是因為扭曲了現實。
可惜的是，魔術師不會為你解謎；同樣的，小說家也不會。
幸好我們還有許榮哲，他將帶你穿越蟲洞，解開折磨讀者的祕密。

也許你覺得我的小說之路太兒戲了，沒有天才的傳奇性。
但這正是我的目的，如果連我這樣的人，都可以藉由努力、自學，而走出一條小說之路，那你有什麼理由說你不行。
唯一不行的理由只有一個──你是個純粹的天才，你不需要加入星座，因為你自己就是星河。
萬一你真的是星河，請略過凡間的夜景，以及你正在看的這本書，努力發出自己的光。 ──許榮哲

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

城市文學獎2022
結合創作講座、比賽，推動香港中學生、大專生的寫作風氣
截稿日期為2022年6月1日（星期三）下午五時正

Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Andy Weir
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.

ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

疫苗戰爭 : 全球危機下Covid-19疫苗研發揭密, 一場由科學家、企業、政府官員交織而成的權力遊戲與英雄史詩 (The First Shots)

布蘭登・波瑞爾 (Brendan Borrell)
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──過去，最快推出臨床疫苗的時間是10個月──
──但是，這次世界的要求是：60天──

★ 莫德納、BNT、AZ、Novavax，全球疫苗競賽完整內幕揭露。
★ 訪談超過百名疫苗研發過程中的關鍵人物，匯集來自最前線的第一手資訊。

◤為何新冠肺炎疫苗的研發能如此快速？美國如何展開全面施打的計畫？
從未曾使用於疫苗上的mRNA技術，何以能在這次危機中異軍突起？◢

◤當這場世紀疫情席捲全球、帶來史無前例的衝擊之際，
來自各界的無名英雄眾志成城，寫下人類與病毒對抗的傳奇篇章。◢

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