Positive Thinking Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Happy and Successful Life

Gill Hasson
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Think your way to a more positive life

Positive thinking is an approach and a set of skills that we can all learn. But it’s not just about how and what you think; you've got to do something! In a range of situations, positive thinking needs to be followed by positive action. The good news is that whatever life has thrown at you in the past and whatever is you want to achieve in the future, the Positive Thinking Pocketbook will help you think and behave more positively.

Inside, you’ll find out how to use tips, techniques and advice on creating a positive mindset and developing your positive thinking. Next, you'll find out how to apply that positive thinking to a range of potentially difficult situations.

• Little approachable exercises make it easy to get started
• Full of scenarios, ideas, advice, tips and techniques
• Learn how to overcome negative thinking, get motivated and stay motivated
• Discover how to make positive thinking a habit

Whenever you want a shot of positivity, simply pick out a few ideas, tips and techniques that appeal to you and give them a try!

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香港公屋：方格子的吶喊

梁啟智
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＃《香港第一課》作者用雙腳寫給家鄉的情書
＃走過二百五十四條屋邨，看見另一面真實的香港

「這本書以公屋為題，但寫著寫著，我逐漸發現我要談的不只是公屋：印象被定形、生活被規範、需求被馴服、聲音被代言……這些事情，當然不只在屋邨發生。在屋邨中，政府在生活的位置相對明顯，規限和挑戰因而相對直接；但同樣的困難，可不限於屋邨，甚至不限於香港……走遍全港大小屋邨之後，我得到的最大感應，大概就是黃偉文筆下那位少年的躁動：說話很難，但還是要想辦法說話。

畢竟無論是在或不在屋邨，在或不在香港，如何讓自己繼續說下去，如何讓更多人能夠說下去，應是我們既生為人的功課。」——梁啟智

土地是香港最稀缺的資源，以此而生的住房問題一直是收入不高的人們與政府的沉重壓力。只要凝視著任一張香港公屋的照片，很難不感受到衝擊：這麼多家戶、這麼多種人生、這麼多的人，被框在一個又一個小小的方格子裡；數量龐大的方格子在窄仄的土地上堆疊成高聳的大樓，多棟大樓再組成屋邨……截至二〇二三年八月，香港有二百五十九條公共屋邨，是近三分之一香港人的生活空間；而等候住進公屋的申請案超過二十三萬件，平均要等五‧三年才有機會「上樓」——住進公屋。

許多人認為公屋的起源是由於一九五三年的石硤尾大火，其實在此前，港英政府已有思考公屋政策，背後的考量有指是為了維持殖民地社會穩定及對資本家做出變相的勞工宿舍補貼。由方格子組成的公共屋邨是由政府建造、框限出來的空間，代表的是一種管治術——這在港英或九七後的港府皆然——在屋邨中政府無所不在。當人住進公屋，他不只是單純的居民，而是從「人」變成可被管治的對象。然而，人畢竟是擁有自由意志的存在，既使發言的空間再緊縮，仍想要訴說自己的故事； 看似一模一樣的方格子，在生活其中的人的努力及歲月的浸潤下，也會長出不同的模樣；夜晚時亮起燈來的千門萬戶，也絕不只是下了工看劇、睡覺的地方，而是儲藏記憶與凝聚認同的所在。

作者梁啟智具深厚的地理學背景，他以公屋為觀察尺度，實地走遍整個香港。從不同時期建造、不同地區的公屋與人們的生活痕跡，描繪出香港政治與社會的演化，是最具生活感與帶入感的香港現代社會史，也是他寫給家鄉的情書。

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The Book of Real-World Negotiations: Successful Strategies from Business, Government, and Daily Life

Joshua N. Weiss
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Real world negotiation examples and strategies from one of the most highly respected authorities in the field

This unique book can help you change your approach to negotiation by learning key strategies and techniques from actual cases. Through hard to find real world examples you will learn exactly how to effectively and productively negotiate. The Book of Real World Negotiations: Successful Strategies from Business, Government and Daily Life shines a light on real world negotiation examples and cases, rather than discussing hypothetical scenarios. It reveals what is possible through preparation, persistence, creativity, and taking a strategic approach to your negotiations. Many of us enter negotiations with skepticism and without understanding how to truly negotiate well. Because we lack knowledge and confidence, we may abandon the negotiating process prematurely or agree to deals that leave value on the table.

The Book of Real World Negotiations will change that once and for all by immersing you in these real world scenarios. As a result, you’ll be better able to grasp the true power of negotiation to deal with some of the most difficult problems you face or to put together the best deals possible. This book also shares critical insights and lessons for instructors and students of negotiation, especially since negotiation is now being taught in virtually all law schools, many business schools, and in the field of conflict resolution. Whether you’re a student, instructor, or anyone who wants to negotiate successfully, you’ll be able to carefully examine real world negotiation situations that will show you how to achieve your objectives in the most challenging of circumstances. The cases are organized by realms―domestic business cases, international business cases, governmental cases and cases that occur in daily life. From these cases you will learn more about:

• Exactly how to achieve Win-Win outcomes
• The critical role of underlying interests
• The kind of thinking that goes into generating creative options
• How to consider your and the other negotiator’s Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
• Negotiating successfully in the face of power
• Achieving success when negotiating cross-culturally

Once you come to understand through these cases that negotiation is the art of the possible, you’ll stop saying "a solution is impossible." With the knowledge and self-assurance you gain from this book, you’ll roll up your sleeves and keep negotiating until you reach a mutually satisfactory outcome!

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未來的錯覺：人類如何與AI共處 (In AI We Trust)

海爾格．諾沃特尼 (Helga Nowotny)
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「如果開始相信演算法能夠預測未來，那就可能會失去未來。」
在AI的世代裏，
如何保有身而為人的意義？

我們正處於一個迷人的時刻，
在一條人類和AI 共同互動演化的軌道上。
數碼科技的每一步發展，
都讓我們重新思考何以為人。

我們已經開始認為，AI比我們還更懂得自己了。預測演算法會針對我們將要消費的物品、未來的行為、情緒狀態提出建議，我們甚至自我馴化，去符合AI的預測結果。當我們以為利用AI 可完全掌控未來時，事實上正好相反。

奧地利社會學家諾沃特尼，在本書延續了她對科技與社會關係、社會時間的經驗與不確定感的研究，從哲學、歷史、社會學、科學角度，探究在數碼人類世，AI如何重塑我們的身分，我們又該如何跟AI共處。

演算法的能力太強了，我們輕易就忘記了「理解」和「預測」之間的重要關係。然而，我們不可屈服於效率的便利，不可放棄理解的渴望，不可拋下背後的好奇心與毅力。

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Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, California Review of Books, She Reads, Library Journal

“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker

Longlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

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解構大學排名榜——從三大系統談起 (The Impact of Higher Education Ranking Systems on Universities)

唐寧 (Kevin DOWNING） 、魯克 （Petrus Johannes LOOCK） 、葛瑞非特 （Sarah GRAVETT)
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近年，每當不同的大學排名榜公佈時，傳媒都會爭相報道，而各地的政府、大學的決策者及教授、準大學生、家長、僱主等都會十分關注，因為這直接影響他們日後的政策方向與選校抉擇。

世界漸趨一體，高等教育日益追求卓越，林林總總的大學排名榜應運而生。大學排名是評級機構以教學、研究、推廣及服務質素來評估大學質素的方式。然而，這些評估系統的評估準則及方式卻備受爭議。雖然大學排名並不完美，但的確能為各持份者提供以國際標準為基礎的參考價值。

本書全面分析高等教育排名系統的好壞優劣，並仔細考察了現今國際間認受性最高的三大大學排名榜：世界大學學術排名（ARWU）、QS世界大學排名（QS WUR）和泰晤士高等教育世界大學排名（THE WUR）的起源、拓展與演變，以及其採用的排名方法、不同指標的比重及標準，從而探討這些排名榜對個別院校及整個高等教育界的影響，大學如何在學校政策、資源分配及學術交流等範疇上作出調整及改善，以保持或提升排名位置。更重要的是，本書提出如何改進排名準則，使其採用之數據更客觀真確。排名並非最終目標，每年排名榜都會更新，而排名反映的全球趨勢，更值得大家細思。

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Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand

Amanda D. Lotz
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Netflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture. Drawing on Lotz’s two decades of research, it highlights the similarities and differences among streaming video services (Netflix; Amazon) and video distribution technologies (broadcast; satellite; internet).

The author expertly shows that, by understanding the underlying economic and technological dynamics of these services (and their differences), it is possible to better assess the actions taken by the companies and what the future of video may encompass.

The book is a must-read for students and scholars of Media and Communications Studies, as well as those wishing to learn more about Netflix and streaming video services.

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The City University of Hong Kong Library offers a collection of  VoD (Video-on-Demand) local TV programmes. They covers a variety of topics, including news, current affairs, financial analysis, personal stories, and social issues, providing in-depth documentaries, investigative reports, talk shows, and lifestyle features.

榮歸君國 : 香港戰役中的加拿大軍團

周家建
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2015年，香港特區政府發表《人口政策：策略與措施》報告，統計自1980年以來，約有八十萬香港人移居外地，而加拿大是香港人熱門移民地點之一。兩地雖然隔着遼闊的太平洋，但早在十九世紀末已有頻繁的人員往來。第二次世界大戰讓兩地關係更為密切，成為命運共同體，因為兩地民眾要面對共同的敵人。1941年11月，接近二千名加拿大官兵，在羅遜准將帶領下乘船抵達香港，他們的任務是協助駐港英軍抵擋日軍。十八天激烈戰鬥，造成了二百九十名加拿大官兵陣亡，其中包括羅遜准將。今天，他們仍長眠於香港西灣國殤紀念墳場與赤柱軍人墳場。本書不只是重塑加拿大官兵如何被牽扯進香港戰役，更關注戰爭結束後生還的加拿大官兵的生活，從而闡述戰爭對軍人所造成的身體上和心理上的創傷。

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Might & Magnificence: Ceremonial Arms and Armour across Cultures 
威武奢華：跨文化禮儀兵器藝術展
The exhibition features rare and exceptional pieces from esteemed private and local public collections, with significant loans from the renowned Mengdiexuan Collection (夢蝶軒) and R&J Collection (曾在齋). Together, these works highlight the enduring significance of arms and armour beyond the battlefield, weaving connections across diverse regions and cultures through shared traditions, legends, and histories. READ MORE

“Might & Magnificence: Ceremonial Arms and Armour across Culture” Exhibition
Date: 5 November 2024 - 23 February 2025 (Closed on Mondays)
Time: 10am to 7pm
Venue: Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, City University of Hong Kong
Admission: Free of charge Book a Visit

Hong Kong As Creative Practice

Eddie Tay
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In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a practice-led research project informed by both documentary and creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process of art-making.

As a research project on the affective mapping of places in the city, the book examines what Hong Kong is, as thought and felt by the person on the street. It explores the everyday experiences afforded by the city through the figure of the flâneur wandering in shopping districts and street markets. Through hisown street photographs and drawing from the writings of Byung-Chul Han, Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau, the author explores feelings, affects, and states of mind as he explores the city and its social life.

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全球趨勢資訊圖集 : 5大面向、160張精緻彩圖, 掌握當代必備世界觀 (Atlas of the Invisible)

詹姆斯・契爾夏 (James Cheshire), 奧利佛・伍博帝 (Oliver Uberti)
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｛英國製圖學會獎｝｛斯坦福斯印刷製圖獎｝｛約翰・C・巴塞洛繆主題製圖獎｝
【席捲主題製圖三大獎，資訊視覺化頂尖之作】
以細緻「資訊圖」轉化眾多趨勢的數據，
呈現難以察覺的人類社會潛藏運作模式！

幾個世紀以來，地圖描繪了許多具體可見的事物。
隨著資訊科技日益強大，如今我們既需要、也有了更進步的「資訊圖」，
得以呈現潛藏在資料集當中，形塑人類生活與世界趨勢的重要「模式」。

過去十年人們產生的資料，要比在那之前的一百年產生的還多，這些數據能反映出我們本身、我們的生活，乃至我們的世界。然而，隨著這些數據不斷累積，想要去蕪存菁、解讀其深意，從而加以善用，「資料素養」已成為現代人的必修課。資訊圖藉由圖表元素的形狀、顏色、大小、排列、對照等等的應用，能細膩、簡潔又精準地傳達大量數據所蘊含的要點，尤其是這些數據所探查到的「模式」。

本書作者一是地理資訊與製圖學教授，一是獲獎連連的設計編輯，兩人長年合作將大數據轉化成精細卻易懂的圖像。他們花費數年精心編纂這本書，滿懷好奇的觸及廣泛議題，以一目瞭然的資訊圖搭配短文，解說龐雜資料背後蘊含的洞見，像是：

◎提供救濟，比起異地安置或懲罰更能改善遊民問題；
◎了解跨境移動模式，有助於更有效率的救災與因應疾病大流行；
◎衛星照片拍到的各地發光狀況，透露出戰爭、經濟發展與城市化等的影響；
◎共享單車已成為全球趨勢，但作法需因地制宜；
◎厭女症會助長以性別為主的暴力行為；
◎船隻的航線不只擾動大海，也會攪動天空、造成更多閃電；
◎火災探測衛星的資料顯示，全球暖化導致的西伯利亞火災可能從未完全燒完……

全書切入「我們所到之處／我們是誰／我們表現得怎麼樣／我們所面對的事」等面向，說明許多體現當今世界觀的事例，讓讀者在驚艷於精美圖像的同時，吸收關於當今世界的奧祕與概況。（更詳盡的內容可參閱目錄與部分內頁縮圖）

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