Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie
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This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them.

It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children.

But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. In fact, the data shows we’ve made so much progress on these problems that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in human history. Did you know that:
- Carbon emissions per capita are actually down
- Deforestation peaked back in the 1980s
- The air we breathe now is vastly improved from centuries ago
- And more people died from natural disasters a hundred years ago?

Packed with the latest research, practical guidance, and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you’ve been told about the environment. Not the End of the World will give you the tools to understand our current crisis and make lifestyle changes that actually have an impact. Hannah cuts through the noise by outlining what works, what doesn’t, and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.

These problems are big. But they are solvable. We are not doomed. We can build a better future for everyone. Let’s turn that opportunity into reality.

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心理摩擦力 : 為何人們抗拒改變?不是你不努力, 是你不懂人性阻力 (The Human Element)

大衛．尚塔爾 (David Schonthal), 洛蘭．諾格倫 (Loran Nordgren)
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想要推動創新，都該先看這一本！
從科學和實務的角度清楚說明，
如何說服他人放下對現狀的執著。

你曾提出新點子，別人卻反應冷淡？
或是困惑「產品不錯，偏偏賣不動」？
身為主管想推新政策，員工卻很消極？

很多時候，問題不在於產品「不好」、說法「不漂亮」，更不是想推動的事情「不夠重要」，而是因為演化使人具有抗拒改變的傾向，也就是「心理摩擦力」。

兩位作者深入研究人類行為的心理成因，並透過行為設計，促成200多項創新產品與服務的推行。他們認為「子彈鑲上黃金可以增加價值，但無法減少風阻」，若希望產品（子彈）精準擊中目標，必須降低風阻，也就是4種心理摩擦力：

1、慣性
想像你在荒島上，發現了香蕉和一種新奇的橘紅色水果，為了活下去，你會吃哪一種？
經過演化，人類成了習慣的動物，偏愛熟悉的事物，也影響了他們挑選產品的動力……

2、惰性
有56%的路人願意填寫一份5題的問卷，請猜猜看，如果問卷改成20題，會有多少比例的路人願意填？
一般人會猜32%，但實際上，只有11%的人會寫！
人類對省力的渴望，決定了消費者會被推向你的產品、還是推開！

3、情感阻力
Tinder如何打敗Match.com？
Match.com雖然是市場先行者，卻因為無法讓使用者跳脫最大的恐懼——被對方拒絕的可能——讓Tinder有了可趁之機，它訴求「輕鬆一滑，便能匹配」，確保對象對你一定有興趣。
該如何找出隱藏的情感阻力，以區隔出獨特的市場定位？

　 4、反彈
如果學校要寫email向校友募款，哪種訴求的效果最好？是利他、利己，還是「利他+利己」？
研究顯示，前兩種訴求都有加分，但若兩者湊在一起，卻會有反效果，因為推得太用力，讓人感覺被逼迫，就會引發反彈。
而誰能夠確定新產品會不會激起反彈？

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Career Forward: Strategies from Women Who've Made It

Grace Puma, Christiana Smith Shi
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A USA TODAY bestseller, this groundbreaking, empowering guide for women—from former PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi—shows how to prioritize a career path, build professional value, and enjoy a full life both in and out of the workplace.

At a time when many long-held workplace structures and beliefs are changing, Career Forward is a beacon for women aspiring to achieve success and satisfaction in rewarding careers. Drawing on decades of experience reaching the top of Fortune 500 companies, Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi show women how to maximize their career journeys, get paid what they’re worth, navigate the shifts that occur in any company, build a leadership identity, and have a full life in and out of work.

The authors challenge negative stereotypes about female ambition, and urge women to be bold, follow their dreams, and seize the chance to lead “big” lives. The secret is to focus on career first, job second. Instead of chasing a better job title or a salary bump, the goal should be a long-range career path that leads to success. “Career forward” means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough—that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on “difficult” assignments, and work actively to broaden your skills.

Packed with personal anecdotes and wisdom from women who’ve been there, and featuring quizzes and checklists for self-evaluation, Career Forward provides a wealth of valuable lessons, including the value of thinking of yourself as a “growth stock” and, instead of chasing the elusive work-life balance, living a well-rounded 360-degree life that fully embraces both. Offering a refreshing response to anyone who wonders whether working hard is really worth it, Puma and Smith Shi’s emphatic answer is “yes,” because by correctly following the blueprint in Career Forward, the rewards will far outweigh the effort.

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哈佛商業評論推薦必讀AI趨勢

哈佛商業評論
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隨著ChatGPT引爆AI應用的無限可能，企業也進入AI轉型戰。當生成式AI顛覆商業遊戲規則，帶領組織AI轉型，學會與AI共事，才能不被市場淘汰。

本書收錄《哈佛商業評論》近期探討AI最重要的文章，從經營、行銷、轉型、人力資源、產品定價等各個面向探討所有經理人必須了解的AI趨勢，包括：
．ChatGPT如何改變機器與人類協作的工作方式
．正確應用AI行銷的方法
．成功採用機器學習的策略
．利用演算法為產品定價有什麼問題
．聰明使用機器人的策略
．如何培養員工的「數位心態」，加速企業轉型
．啟動AI轉型萬無一失的方法
．降低AI產品帶來的道德風險
．人工智慧啟動的新市場與新商戰模式

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!

Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily).

Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells.”

The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.

Filled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece on what it means to be human.

“In an account both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes” (The New Yorker).

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

韌性：不確定時代的精進法則

張曉萌, 曹理達
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當情緒失控時，如何戰勝焦慮？
當身處逆境時，如何提升復原力？
當認知卡關時，如何打破慣性思考？
上市後佳評如潮，銷售量突破14萬冊！

●「溫水煮青蛙」的假設為何是錯的？
●面對不利情況，什麼原因導致人們選擇放棄？
●越有錢的人真的會越快樂嗎？
●時間能撫平傷痛也會沖淡幸福感？
●如何運用「焦慮拆彈法」阻斷災難性思考？

面對瞬息萬變的世界，你經常擔憂、猶豫不決，因為種種不確定性感到焦慮嗎？

令我們焦慮的，往往來自內心失去掌控感，而不是外界的壓力。我們的大腦天生傾向關注負面情緒，容易陷入悲觀的自動導航模式，而「我必須完美」、「我必須討人喜歡」、「我必須負責」……其實都是自我操控的信念。

知名心理學者張曉萌曾經接觸上千位企業家，在他們身上看到心理素質強大的特質，因而開設了「韌性的打造」課程。提升韌性不等於吃苦，而是科學地「尋樂」，系統性改變認知和行為。她融合腦科學、心理學、行為學等前沿科學理論和團隊最新研究後提出了「韌性飛輪」模型，從自我認知出發，建立持續小贏的人生目標，發掘專注熱愛的潛能，並且提供可視化的工具幫助讀者在情緒管理、思考訓練、人際關係方面不斷進化，成就更好的自己！

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Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Chris Dixon
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon

“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney

“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, co-founder, OpenAI

The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation—a distinction he calls “the computer vs. the casino.”

With lucid and compelling prose—drawing from a twenty-five-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read” era, in which early networks democratized information. In the “read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.

Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone—internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs—who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.

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好公司都在找壞小孩：全球最大人力資源公司領導者輪廓調查。居要職、領高薪，好個性是標配，更要具備「壞小孩」特質。

妹尾輝男
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◎伊隆・馬斯克，古怪、善變、還語出驚人。但他把善變發揮成創意無限。
◎亞馬遜創辦人貝佐斯很固執，老跟人嗆「不」，但他也因這些「不做」而成功。
◎維珍集團創辦人布蘭森脾氣很暴躁，但維珍航空就是他一怒之下創立的。

特立獨行、不守常規、愛驚嚇別人、做事不計代價……
這些在正統學校裡不被認同的行為模式，總被人形容是「壞」。

但根據全球最大人力資源顧問「光輝國際」全球領導者輪廓調查報告發現，
想居要職、領高薪，「好個性」當然是標配，
但如果你還有些「壞小孩」特質，成就會更亮眼。

作者妹尾輝男，任職於光輝國際30年，
經手過至少八百件以上的高薪人才挖角案，
這些人的年薪都在新臺幣千萬元以上。

在這位資深獵頭顧問眼中，什麼樣的人能夠位居要津領高薪？
答案是你得「又好又壞」。

◎個性穩定是好事，但也願意嘗試風險。
◎守成很好，但要有開闊的心胸跟外部結合。
◎規則既是用來遵守，也是用來打破的。你得是會制定規格又能打破規則的人。

所以，好個性是標配，「壞小孩」特質會使你的成就更亮眼。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Ernest Scheyder
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An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder.

A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital building blocks. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change and powering crucial technologies. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of necessary materials, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access to sites around the globe has allowed him to gain unparalleled insights into a future without fossil fuels.

The War Below reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches.

With vivid and engaging writing, Scheyder shows the human toll of this war and explains why recycling and other newer technologies have struggled to gain widespread use. He also expertly chronicles Washington’s attempts to wean itself off supplies from China, the global leader in mineral production and processing. The War Below paints a powerfully honest and nuanced picture of what is at stake in this new fight for energy independence, revealing how America and the rest of the world’s hunt for the “new oil” directly affects us all.

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城牆 : 從萬里長城到柏林圍牆, 一部血與磚打造的人類文明史 (Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick)

大衛．弗萊 (David Frye)
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從羅馬帝國到蘇聯、從秦始皇到川普
城牆有多老，文明就有多久，人類的故事就是劃界的歷史！
美國BookAuthority權威書評網站評選2020年最佳歷史書籍！

古今東西的城牆總伴隨城市、國家與帝國的興起。每當有人說築牆是對人民的壓迫，總會有人呼籲要打造更新、更高、更長的屏障。

築牆熱潮在21世紀復興，號稱是為了防堵恐怖主義、大規模移民、非法毒品。在這個全球無國界的數位時代，各地卻出現70多座邊界壁壘，將人群分隔得更加徹底。

美國杜克大學歷史學博士大衛．弗萊結合史料文獻與考古經驗，帶領讀者漫步牆頭，走入這場古今城牆巡禮。爬梳5千年歷史長河中，城牆如何左右政經局勢、思想文化、日常生活，並形塑現代社會的樣貌。並思考在新保守主義盛行的當代，我們該如何自處？

「大衛．弗萊辯才無礙……擅長將史料和考古證據化為動人文章，他的書寫和城牆上留下的銘文一樣明晰。」──《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）

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Data Analysis for Social Science: A Friendly and Practical Introduction

Elena Llaudet, Kosuke Imai
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An ideal textbook for complete beginners—teaches from scratch R, statistics, and the fundamentals of quantitative social science

Data Analysis for Social Science provides a friendly introduction to the statistical concepts and programming skills needed to conduct and evaluate social scientific studies. Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics and coding and only minimal knowledge of math, the book teaches the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference while analyzing data from published studies with the statistical program R. It teaches not only how to perform the data analyses but also how to interpret the results and identify the analyses’ strengths and limitations.

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成功的條件：AI時代的5個大數據必勝法則 (The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success)

巴拉巴西 (Albert-László Barabási)
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這些課題不只是重要，而是極其重要！
誰能運用最先進的科學武器庫，
來告訴你如何降低機運的干擾、邁向成功？
唯有巴拉巴西。
——塔雷伯，暢銷書《黑天鵝效應》作者

用科學揭示成功定律第一人
天才科學家　巴拉巴西　最強力作
人人可用的成功方程式

你能想到的任何人，他們的成功之路都有跡可循
科學家從5大定律找出成功法則
選對成功公式，不用再祈禱幸運突然降臨

巴拉巴西主持的複雜網路研究中心（CCNR）積極探索各種主題，
想找出背後的數學邏輯和框架，
當他們把觸角伸到科學領域的影響力時，
從中發現了特定的成功模式。

令人吃驚的是，這些模式同樣能運用在體育、藝術、銷售等領域。
這表示成功可以量化，並且能用演算法預測。

例如，人們常說「競爭能提升表現」，可大數據告訴我們，
跟超級明星一同合作時，表現雖會大幅提高，
但與超級明星競爭時，我們卻容易失常。
這全是因為欽佩仰慕的心情影響了自己的能力。

《成功的條件》揭露多變社會中不變的定律，
只要依據自身目標與需求加以運用，
就能掌握先機、取得優勢，
在任何時代塑造成功的人生。

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Analytics Stories: Using Data to Make Good Things Happen

Wayne L. Winston
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Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problems

Analytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fields as diverse as sports, finance, politics, healthcare, and business, Analytics Stories bridges the gap between the oft inscrutable world of data analytics and the concrete problems it solves.

Distinguished professor and author Wayne L. Winston answers questions like:

Does a mutual fund’s past performance predict future performance?
What caused the Crash of 2008?
Can we predict where crimes are likely to occur?
How can we predict heart attacks in real time?
How can I use A/B testing to improve sales from my website?
How can analytics help me write a hit song?
How does Netflix recommend movies and TV shows?
Should I go to State U or Princeton?
Was Liverpool over Barcelona the greatest upset in sports history?

Analytics Stories illuminates the process of applying analytic principles to practical problems and highlights the potential pitfalls that await careless analysts.

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極簡商業課：60天在早餐桌旁讀完商學院，學會10項關鍵商業技能 (Business Made Simple)

唐納．米勒 (Donald Miller)
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商學院要教兩、三年的內容，本書找到最精華的部分……沒有一句廢話。──樊登

想賺錢、晉升、轉職、創業、事業成功……
只要在早餐桌旁花短短的時間閱讀本書，
就能輕鬆掌握最重要的商業技能，
成為公司搶著要的價值驅動型人才。

★Amazon網站破千名讀者4.7顆星推薦：
‧這本書成功地將大學商學院的知識濃縮成一本 60 天的入門書。
‧任何渴望在職涯上提升的企業主和員工，本書必讀。

即將踏入職場，不知道該具備哪些能力？
長久在一個工作，擔心沒有競爭力？
想轉換跑道，但怕經驗不夠、能力不足？
創業當老闆，砸錢裝修、行銷宣傳，但怎麼沒吸引到消費者？

商業能力的學習，不必太複雜，太複雜反而陷入理論的窠臼。
這本書以最簡單的商業能力基本功，讓你更有可能成功。

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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Kyle Chayka
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.

"[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what happens to it when it collides with the homogenizing digital reality in which we now live."—Ezra Klein

From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. The algorithm is present in the familiar neon signs and exposed brick of Internet cafes, be it in Nairobi or Portland, and the skeletal, modern furniture of Airbnbs in cities big and small. Over the last decade, this network of mathematically determined decisions has taken over, almost unnoticed—informing the songs we listen to, the friends with whom we stay in touch—as we’ve grown increasingly accustomed to our insipid new normal.

This ever-tightening web woven by algorithms is called “Filterworld.” Kyle Chayka shows us how online and offline spaces alike have been engineered for seamless consumption, becoming a source of pervasive anxiety in the process. Users of technology have been forced to contend with data-driven equations that try to anticipate their desires—and often get them wrong. What results is a state of docility that allows tech companies to curtail human experiences—human lives—for profit. But to have our tastes, behaviors, and emotions governed by computers, while convenient, does nothing short of call the very notion of free will into question.

In Filterworld, Chayka traces this creeping, machine-guided curation as it infiltrates the furthest reaches of our digital, physical, and psychological spaces. With algorithms increasingly influencing not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced, urgent questions arise: What happens when shareability supersedes messiness, innovation, and creativity—the qualities that make us human? What does it mean to make a choice when the options have been so carefully arranged for us? Is personal freedom possible on the Internet?

To the last question, Filterworld argues yes—but to escape Filterworld, and even transcend it, we must first understand it.

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消失的國界 : 戰火下的烏克蘭

相振為/ 三立電視
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從台灣人角度，第一手報導俄羅斯侵烏戰爭！
台灣唯一獲得烏克蘭官方許可進入拍攝的電視新聞團隊，
帶您看見戰火下依舊堅毅、勇敢的烏克蘭人民！

《消失的國界》勇奪2022年卓越新聞獎新聞節目獎
資深記者從台灣人角度解讀俄烏戰，看戰火下的人性、恐懼與真情。

採訪團隊深入烏克蘭首都基輔、南部大城敖德薩，實際感受生活在戰火下的恐懼、烏克蘭人民堅毅的抗敵意志與生命力，並把格局拉大到歐陸，觀察「非典型」的烏克蘭難民如何團結歐洲，對抗霸權威脅。

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The Design Thinking Quick Start Guide: A 6-Step Process for Generating and Implementing Creative Solutions

Isabell Osann, Lena Mayer, Inga Wiele
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A brief, beautiful introduction to Design Thinking that inspires business creativity and innovative solutions

The Design Thinking Quick Start Guide: A 6-Step Process for Generating and Implementing Creative Solutions shows you how you and your team can become more creative. This book presents methods you can use to innovate playfully and enjoyably.

The Design Thinking Quick Start Guide is full of practical tools and activities, like the 6-3-5 method of brainstorming, to help you and your team get creative. For each of the six steps in the design thinking process, the authors offer two warm-ups that get teams ready to contribute and arrive at innovative solutions.

- Spur innovation with checklists for brainstorming and implementation
- Learn how to generate new ideas
- Lead your team in a proven process for doing creative work

Whether you’re new to design thinking or experienced, the clearly outlined steps in this guide will inspire you to create and implement great ideas.

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AI世代與我們的未來：人工智慧如何改變生活，甚至是世界？(The Age of A.I. )

亨利．季辛吉 (Henry A. Kissinger), 艾力克．施密特 (Eric Schmidt), 丹尼爾．哈騰洛赫 (Daniel Huttenlocher)
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國前國務卿 ╳ Google前執行長 ╳ MIT首任計算學院院長
當ChatGPT浪潮來襲，我們應該如何因應？
政治、經濟、科技三大巨頭的頂尖對談

人工智慧必將帶來劃時代的改變，會扭轉我們的社會、經濟、政治和外交政策，這一切影響遠遠超過任何領域的傳統範疇，而我們做好準備了嗎？

三位世界上極富成就的思想家齊聚一堂，思考人工智慧將如何改變我們與知識、政治和所生活的社會之間的關係，探索人工智慧對我們所有人的意義。我們正在經歷一個空前的、不同於以往的時代。

在各領域中，人工智慧都展現其強烈的存在感與可能性，如ChatGPT的出現，快速又具有「人味」的聊天生成模型，颳起了一陣旋風。且運用在戰爭上，人工智慧噴氣式飛機在模擬空戰中擊敗經驗豐富的人類飛行員。戰爭局勢在當今世界一觸即發，並時刻變化，將人工智慧的「非人邏輯」導入，軍事系統與流程會改變戰略，創造出新的維度，甚至包括了能自行選擇目標、不需人類介入就交戰的系統。

因此，當代三位跨領域的世界領導者提出，關於人工智慧最重要的議題是人類監督與適時干預的能力 ，並探討人工智慧的使用倫理是什麼？在龐大的益處背後潛伏著哪些危機，而我們又該如何面對日新月異的人工智慧？

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Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

Brad Stulberg
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A revelatory book on rethinking change and creating a rugged and flexible mindset amidst life's intensifying flux, from expert on sustainable excellence, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness.

From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule. Yet we endlessly fight it, often viewing it as a threat to our stability and sense of self.

Master of Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life’s constant instability.

Brad Stulberg, sustainable excellence expert, coach, and bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness, offers a new model that describes change as an ongoing cycle of order, disorder, and reorder—yes, we return to stability, but that stability is somewhere new. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with habits and practices to implement it. Along the way, Stulberg reveals:

• How to be in conversation with change instead of it happening to you.
• The importance of expectations
• Why cultivating a rugged yet flexible sense of self is key to a strong identity.
• How to take productive action during a challenge.
• The paradox of both making meaning and moving forward.

In the end, Stulberg reshapes our entire perception of change and shows us how to grow in its midst—ultimately helping us move forward better, stronger, and wiser than we were before.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

打造第二大腦:多一個數位大腦, 資訊超載時代的高效能知識管理術 (Building a Second Brain)

提亞戈．佛特 (Tiago Forte)
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矽谷強推的知識管理課終於成書！
教你最夯的「第二大腦」建構法

資訊超載時代，每天訊息收不完，大腦不夠用？
「第二大腦」幫你秒速思考、輕鬆歸納、高效輸出！

具體上要如何使用「第二大腦」呢？佛特提出簡明且直覺的CODE法，包括：
● 獲取（Capture）：不要當囤積資訊者！只獲取未來會對我有所啟發、用得上、有關連性的資訊。
● 組織（Organize）：將資訊有系統的存入PARA四個資料夾，專案（短期任務）、領域（長期任務）、資源（未來用得上的題材）、檔案庫（其他備而不用事項），就能一目瞭然、秒速管理。
● 萃取（Distill）：做筆記的同時摘要重點、去蕪存菁，落落長反而沒頭緒。
● 表達（Express）：把先前儲存的內容重新組合成你的新作品。

跟著「數位知識管理一哥」佛特一步步打造「第二大腦」，將平常的筆記、觀察、發現等數位化，進而可在app上搜索、組織和同步，備份到雲端硬碟善加保存，當你需要時，花最少的時間就能調出來。無論職場工作，專案管理、找新工作、學新技能、創業、管家都用得上。「第二大腦」將成為你最好的助理，也是最有用的思維工具，使你能夠達成渴求的任何目標。

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Advance: The Ultimate How-To Guide For Your Career

Gary Burnison
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The how-to guide for your career

Advance is extremely timely and topical in today's do-it-yourself career development world. Average job tenure has fallen to about four years on average and often only one or two years for younger professionals. These "career nomads" simply aren't around long enough to access career development from their employers. On the other end of the workplace spectrum, many employees find themselves stuck in one job without a promotion, without any raise to speak of, and with no opportunities to learn and grow.

In Advance, Burnison lays out a mosaic of "how-to" advice that applies every day and at every level―the skills and behaviors that help people navigate their careers and stand out among the crowd. He takes on a "Top 20" of career must-haves: managing for the first time, engaging in the "money conversation" with your boss, dealing with difficult bosses (without quitting), coping with coworkers (without losing your mind), making presentations (that don't put people to sleep), mastering digital communication (and avoiding emails that will get you fired), thinking globally (without leaving your office), taking an overseas assignment, meeting senior leaders for the first time (without putting your foot in your mouth), navigating political waters (without sinking your career), reading and fitting in with the culture, and more.

• Wisdom on taking your career to the next level
• Career development tips
• Guidance on being seen and heard
• Written by the CEO of one of the world’s largest management consulting firms

Whether you’re just starting your career, high up on the ladder, or “stuck” anywhere in between, Advance gives you the know-how to get on a path to where you want to go.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

如何用英文解釋中華文化:名勝古蹟x飲食文化x節日習俗x歷史脈絡

楊天慶
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當「傳統文化」遇上「現代英文」，
兩者會擦出什麼樣的火花呢？

歷史、民俗、飲食、建築、茶酒、服飾、天文……
中華文化博大精深，但要怎麼樣才能讓外國人明白其精髓？
別擔心！本書全方位地涵蓋了中華文化的各個層面，
從參訪名勝古蹟到去餐廳裡大快朵頤，嘗遍中華特色美食，
再坐下來品一壺好茶美酒，將傳統文化向外國朋友娓娓道來，
你只需要這一本——《如何用英文解釋中華文化》！

【吃飯皇帝大！英文裡的中餐文化】
你知道古代皇帝吃飯有哪些規矩嗎？
怎麼鑑別茶葉品質，沏上一壺好茶？
華人在飲酒會玩哪些有趣的小遊戲？

【流傳下來的民俗＆被屏棄的傳統】
傳統華人婚姻有哪些禮節？
為什麼說「男女授受不親」？
什麼是「裹小腳」？談裹腳風氣的興盛與沒落

【漢文化的起源與發展】
天干地支有什麼涵義？
十二生肖與二十四節氣分別有哪些？
中文字很難學嗎？誰創造了今日的漢文？

特別附錄：中華傳統經典中英對照，讓外國人了解文言文的奧妙！

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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell
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Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award

“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review

A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.

Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity.

Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.

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看不見的山徑 : 香港可持續山徑之初探

綠惜地球著
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遠足登高，攻頂觀景，行山多是舉目向上的活動，讓我們往往看不見腳下的徑。

山本來只是山，路都是人行出來的，可是山徑沒有我們想的那麼簡單。無論是前期的規劃及建造，或是山徑的復修與維護，又或只是使用，若忽略了對大自然的關顧，都可能讓這些路變成山的「傷痕」；親親大自然，卻在無形中傷害了大自然。

理想的山徑應是可持續的，山徑地表能承載需求，能自我復原，能融入自然景觀，能保護周遭環境。本書記錄了一群關心香港山徑保育的人，探索香港「可持續山徑」之路，由認識山徑歷史、規劃、設計、建造、維護以至教育，嘗試親手復修一條又一條受傷的山徑，希望找出能維持山徑之美歷久不衰的方法。原來人不止是把山徑行出來，守護山徑最重要的也是人。每個人可以有其角色，「手護」山徑，達至「無痕山林」，讓山徑可持續下去，長走長有。

讓我們首先看見山徑，再讓山徑以最自然的方法隱身於山野之中，取之自然，並回歸自然。先看見，後看不見，一起守護香港的山野。

(摘錄自cosmosbooks.com.hk)

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

Geoffrey L. Cohen
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Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Greater Good Society

“This is perhaps the richest book on belonging you’ll ever read.… The inspiration one draws from every page of this book is an enhanced sense of what is possible. It revives the very thing we need most in these times: hope.” ―Claude M. Steele, author of Whistling Vivaldi

Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult. But what if the key to unlocking our potential lies in this deceptively simple concept? Belonging is the feeling of being a part of a group that values, respects, and cares for us―a feeling that we can all cultivate in even the smallest corners of social life. In Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Stanford University professor Geoffrey L. Cohen draws on his own and others’ groundbreaking scientific research to offer simple, concrete solutions for fostering a sense of belonging. These solutions can generate surprisingly significant and long-lasting benefits.

Small but powerful actions can bolster belonging―actions such as encouraging people to reflect on their core values before they face a challenge or expressing belief in someone’s capacity to reach a higher standard. A wide range of innovative approaches have been found to boost achievement at work and at school, bridge political divides, reduce prejudice, and even contribute to overall health. Rigorously tested in diverse arenas―from classrooms to disadvantaged neighborhoods to iconic Silicon Valley companies―these methods offer a path forward in these demanding times. Belonging is a compelling read for all who yearn for a more connected world, whether you’re a manager or employee, an educator or student, a parent or caregiver, or simply someone seeking to make the most out of every moment you spend with others. Packed with actionable insights and specific strategies, this book offers hope and practical guidance, serving as both an inspiration and a roadmap to creating a world of inclusion, understanding, and empathy.

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世界大局地圖全解讀. 5, 最視覺化的地緣政治圖輯, 攤開129張主題地圖, 帶你看懂全球政治劇變! = Mapping the world.

亞歷克西斯．鮑茲曼 (Alexis Bautzmann), 蘿拉．瑪格麗特 (Laura Margueritte)
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深入國際重大議題
129張全彩焦點地圖 ╳ 106張精彩圖表
全球脈動一目瞭然！

★用地圖看懂國際局勢，從脈絡了解地緣政治
全球地緣政治正在快速重組，面對俄烏戰爭、反全球化浪潮、科技和能源技術快速變革等趨勢變化和地緣衝突，本書直擊國際要角，用一張地圖就能展現政治、人口、經貿、文化等不同尺度的資訊，並清楚梳理事件的「歷史脈絡→當前現況→演變趨勢→未來展望」，為所有關注世界局勢的讀者提供兼具地理廣度與歷史縱深、最多元全面的地緣政治分析。

◎【糧食價格飆漲】疫情危機、環境惡化與區域衝突交互作用，導致全球7億人面臨糧食短缺　　、2022年食品價格指數創新高，其中又以亞洲受害人數最多？
　　→搭配精彩地圖：〔糧食危機熱點地圖〕+〔各類食品價格上漲幅度比較〕

◎【太空戰爭最前線】2050年，小行星稀有金屬市場價值將超越千億美元，哪些國家已經布局太空軍隊、聯合私人企業加速探勘稀有燃料？
　　→搭配精彩地圖：〔重要衛星系統覆蓋圖〕+〔各國太空預算統計圖〕

◎【網路犯罪肆虐全球】5G技術加速全球數位化，也讓網路犯罪更加猖狂，勒索軟體受害者支付贖金突破4億美元，美國最大燃油供應業者也成為攻擊對象？
　　→搭配精彩地圖：〔全球網路攻擊&資安地圖〕

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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Fei-Fei Li
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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON AI * FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2023

From Dr. Fei-Fei Li, one of TIME's 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL in AI, comes "a powerful plea for keeping humanity at the centre of our latest technological transformation" (Financial Times).

Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li “one of a tiny group of scientists—a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table—who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.”

Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China’s middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made all the harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother, who was working tirelessly to help them all gain a foothold in their new land.

Fei-Fei’s adolescent knack for physics endured, however, and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation. Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities—and the extraordinary dangers—of the technology she loves.

The Worlds I See is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century’s defining moments from the inside. It provides a riveting story of a scientist at work and a thrillingly clear explanation of what artificial intelligence actually is—and how it came to be. Emotionally raw and intellectually uncompromising, this book is a testament not only to the passion required for even the most technical scholarship but also to the curiosity forever at its heart.

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文化地圖 ：八個面向的文化量表，讓你精確掌握文化交鋒的真相，避免淪為「國際文盲」(The Culture Map)

艾琳．梅爾 (Erin Meyer)
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跨國、跨地域、跨文化的合作指南

⇨對你而言的「遲到」，可能不是「遲到」？
⇨對你而言的「讚美」，可能不是「讚美」？
⇨「講話比較直」的問題，外國人也有？
⇨「隨和」，可能也是「缺乏領導力」？

溝通──是最難的事

八個面向的文化量表（the eight-scale model）
　　‧溝通：低情境，或高情境？
　　‧評估：直接否定回應，或是間接否定回應？
　　‧說服：原理優先，或應用優先？
　　‧領導：平權式，或更看重階級？
　　‧決策：重視共識，或是由上而下？
　　‧信任：任務導向，或是關係導向？
　　‧歧異：不怕對峙，或是避免對峙？
　　‧時程：線性時間，或是彈性時間？
　　讓你精確掌握文化交鋒的真相，避免淪為「國際文盲」！

我們看不懂的，很可能不只是外國人的文化，對於自己的文化，也一樣毫無自覺。於是戴著自己的文化有色眼鏡來看待其他人，依此作出錯誤判斷或誤判，無意間為自己製造了許多困難和挫敗。企業想要成功，你必須具有與全世界的人順利合作的能力，那麼你就要能夠和知道如何欣賞文化差異，同時也要能尊重個別差異。

行為的文化模式與信仰，經常影響我們的覺察（我們所看見的）、認知（我們的想法），以及行動（我們的行為）。這本書的目標即在協助你，改善你解讀文化這三個面向的能力，以及提升你的處理效益。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong
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ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Chicago Public Library, Outside, Publishers Weekly, BookPage

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022: Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine, Prospect (UK), Globe & Mail, Esquire, Mental Floss, Marginalian, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.

In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.

Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人類使用說明書 : 關於生活與人際難題，科學教我們的事 (Explaining Humans)

卡蜜拉‧彭 (Camilla Pang)
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榮獲科普書最高榮譽
2020「英國皇家學會科學圖書大獎」
史上最年輕得主！

作者於八歲時被診斷患有自閉症（ASD），二十六歲時診斷出注意力不足過動症（ADHD），這種獨異狀態，意味著她不太可能過一般社群生活、與「人類這種生物」和諧共處，因而四處碰壁，動輒掀翻周身親友同儕的常人世界，於是她天真地詢問母親是否有一本「人類使用說明書」可按圖索驥，導出解方。答案是沒有。成人之後，她有幸獲得生化博士學位，終於尋得開啟自我封閉天地的專業之鑰，以她最熟悉的科學語言，拆解繁複晦澀的身心機制與社會儀俗，回歸並肯定自身的特異性，釐清了「如何當一個人」的最終意義。本書以作者的第一人稱、「半回憶錄式」敘事鋪陳，探索人類生活中可能引燃衝突、牽動交流的日常現象或決策機制，例如：

　　－ 決定，以及我們如何做出決定
　　－ 衝突，以及我們如何避免衝突
　　－ 關係，以及我們如何建立關係
　　－ 禮儀，以及我們如何遵守禮儀

本書以罕見、原創的「心理回憶錄／圖解分析／科學入門知識介紹」多合一形式，追問身心地帶令人費解的常軌脫逸或糾結景象，搭配作者親繪、深入淺出的二十餘幅「手寫風」圖表，溫暖包容的心靈精神觀與廣納物理、化學、生物、心理學的基礎科學世界觀和諧共振，交織出這本幽默有餘、嚴謹有度的「人類心智現象解說指南」——原來生活決策有分「箱型思維」與「樹狀思維」？人人個性有別，都是「蛋白質」搞的鬼？宇宙萬物注定失序，清掃房間只是違逆「熱力學」的徒然之舉？「一見如故」或「平行時空」，都是「波長」不同步的問題，振幅各異，絕不可能搖擺共舞；人與人憑靠「化學鍵」牽連相依，自然界「四大作用力」也在其間吸斥生剋。「人我」化成，其來有自，這本新世代天才學者的得獎大作，將領你踏上「與人同相」之路⋯⋯

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves

Alexandra Hudson
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Alexandra Hudson, daughter of the "Manners Lady," was raised to respect others. But as she grew up, Hudson discovered a difference between politeness—a superficial appearance of good manners—and true civility. In this timely book, Hudson sheds light on how civility can help bridge our political divide.

From classical philosophers like Epictetus, to great twentieth-century thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr., to her own experience working in the federal government during one of the most politically fraught eras in our nation's history, Hudson examines how civility—a respect for the personhood and dignity of others—transcends political disagreements. Respecting someone means valuing them enough to tell them when you think they are wrong.

It’s easy to look at the divided state of the world and blame our leaders, the media, or our education system. Instead, we should focus on what we can control: ourselves. The Soul of Civility empowers readers to live tolerantly with others despite deep differences, and to rigorously protest wrongs and debate issues rather than silencing disagreements. A robust public discourse is essential to a truly civil society, and respecting others means telling hard truths. If enough of us decide to change ourselves, we might be able to change the world we live in, too.

Provocative, personal, and acutely relevant, The Soul of Civility is an essential book for our era.

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必有人重寫愛情 : 北島讀本

北島 著; 林道群 編
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這是北島作品出版人林道群應邀編選的一部「北島讀本」。編者有意把作者的小說、散文、評論和他的詩歌歸結在一起，突出一個詩人北島。十幾年前詩人不再漂泊，定居香港，步入六十歲時着手篩選半生的寫作，幾十年的詩歌生涯只留下了一百四十首的《守夜》，按篇幅計，小說《波動》、散文《藍房子》《午夜之門》《時間的玫瑰》《青燈》《城門開》《古老的敵意》所佔份量遠比詩歌大得多。但讀者不難發現，這「讀本」所選五十多篇章裏面那根詩歌的黃金線——簡練的格言和豐富的意象，詩人道義的認知和政治的表述，沉重的歷史感和鄉愁的隱喻，言說背後的沉默和綻放的時間的玫瑰。「北島讀本」未收〈回答〉一詩，編者說是一種人為的遺忘和記憶。

(摘錄自https://book.douban.com/)

Doing Academic Research: A Practical Guide to Research Methods and Analysis

Ted Gournelos, Joshua R. Hammonds, Maridath A. Wilson
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Doing Academic Research is a concise, accessible, and tightly organized overview of the research process in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Conducting effective scholarly research can seem like a frustrating, confusing, and unpleasant experience. Early researchers often have inconsistent knowledge and experience, and can become overwhelmed – reducing their ability to produce high quality work.

Rather than a book about research, this is a practical guide to doing research. It guides budding researchers along the process of developing an effective workflow, where to go for help, and how to actually complete the project. The book addresses diversity in abilities, interest, discipline, and ways of knowing by focusing not just on the process of conducting any one method in detail, but also on the ways in which someone might choose a research method and conduct it successfully. Finally, it emphasizes accessibility and approachability through real-world examples, key insights, tips, and tricks from active researchers.

This book is a highly useful addition to both content area courses and research methods courses, as well as a practical guide for graduate students and independent scholars interested in publishing their research.

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多模型思維 : 天才的32個思考策略 (The Model Thinker)

裴吉(Scott E. Page)
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這世界太複雜，資料數據太氾濫了，
妥善運用馭繁為簡的模型，進行邏輯思考，方可避免我們掉入認知陷阱。
模型是使用數學和圖表來呈現的形式結構，能幫助我們瞭解世界。
熟習這些模型的蘊含和運用，
可以提升推理、解釋、策劃、溝通、行動、預測和探索的能力。
然而模型有三個特徵：簡化、公式化、以及必有疏漏。
因此我們不能倚賴單一模型，我們必須成為多模型思考者。
如此，就需要學習32種核心模型的內涵與應用。
這些模型源自數學、科學與工程、經濟、金融投資、社會行為等領域，

包括：常態分布模型、長尾分布模型、線性模型、非線性模型、
貢獻度與影響力模型、網路模型、三種傳播模型（廣播、擴散、傳染）、
隨機漫步模型、路徑依賴模型、系統動力學模型、集體行動模型、
合作模型、學習模型、訊號傳遞模型、以及十幾種賽局模型。
熟練多模型思考，將有助於我們在面對生活中與社會上的種種難題時，
能夠很有效率的進行推理、詮釋、策劃應對方案、進行溝通、
以及採取行動，並且能進一步做預測和更深入探索。

本書特色
　♦　鍛鍊當前最需要的「數理邏輯、商務運籌、社會意識」三合一人才。
　♦　概述32種核心模型的內涵和應用，開展跨領域的視野。
　♦　一種情境可使用多種模型來解析，一種模型也可以應用到多種情境。
　♦　提供了稍微複雜的公式或定理，但不會超過初等微積分的難度。

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