Monday, August 5, 2019

The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life

Robin Sharma
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Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.

Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness.

Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through:

.How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievements
.A little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each day
.A step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growth
.A neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed
.“Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the world

Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

在加多利山尋找張愛玲

馮睎乾
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──因為懂得,所以慈悲。
──我們回不去了。
──見了他,她變得很低很低,低到塵埃裏。
──長的是磨難,短的是人生。
──生命是一襲華美的袍,爬滿了蚤子。

這些句子,可能你都熟悉,更因此愛上張愛玲其他文字。但,你真的了解張愛玲嗎?你可知道張愛玲最怕死?最喜歡吃叉燒炒飯?最喜歡用什麼方式占卜?還曾經寫信給王家衛?會用佛洛伊德的角度看李商隱的詩?會寫出「盡我最大力量,別的就管他娘」(I do my best and damn the rest / Do my damnedest and the rest be damned)這種句子?翻開張愛玲寫給友人的書信、散文稿、筆記簿,發現她的內心世界如此豐富又複雜。一起跟作者走進張愛玲的內心世界,重新認識《小團圓》、《少帥》等作品,以及她從上海到香港、到美國的生活點滴。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)


Monday, July 29, 2019

Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives

by Michael H. K. Ng (Editor), John D Wong (Editor)
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This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and struggles against the colonial and post-colonial governments during the past one hundred years. Many of these movements were brought about in the name of justice and unfolded against the context of global unrest. Focusing on the local developments yet mindful of the international backdrop, this volume explores the imaginaries of law and order that these movements engendered, revealing a complex interplay among evolving notions of justice, governance, law and order and cultural creations throughout the under-explored history of instability in Hong Kong. Underscoring the apparently contrasting discourses on the relationship among the rule of law, law and order and social movements in Hong Kong, the contributors emphasise the need to re-examine the conventional juxtaposition of the law and civil unrest. Readers who have an interest in Asian studies, socio-political studies, legal studies, cultural studies and history would welcome this volume of unique interdisciplinarity.

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余英時回憶錄

余英時
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榮獲第十二屆香港書獎

從一九三七年抗日開始到今天,是中國現代史上變亂最劇烈的一段時期。我深切感到:如何將這一特殊歷史階段的重大變動在訪談稿中呈現出來,其意義遠大於追溯我個人生命史的發展。回憶錄因個人的處境互異而各有不同,這是不可避免的。我一生都在研究和教學中渡過,因此回憶也只能騁馳在學術、思想和文化的領域之內。不用說,我所經歷的世變也是通過這一特殊領域得來的。我希望我的回憶對於這一段歷史流變的認識稍有所助。同時我也相信,一定會有和我同代的其他學人,以不同方式留下他們的回憶。這樣的回憶越多越好,可以互證所同、互校所異。出版這部「回憶錄」的另一動機:拋磚引玉,激起更多學人追憶往事的興趣。如果允許我再有一個奢望,我想說:我在《回憶錄》中所記述的個人學思歷程,無論得失如何,也許可以獻給新一代求學的朋友們,作為一種參考。——余英時

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Monday, July 22, 2019

Bruce Lee: A Life

by Matthew Polly
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“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate.” —The New York Times Book Review

The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.

Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon.

Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

逆境商數AQ: 如何在逆境中打造成功人生

譚春虹
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這是一本關於成功的書,一本關於走出逆境、贏得成功的書。如果你曾經因為陷入逆境而失落、迷茫和痛苦,因為失敗而沮喪、頹廢、無法振作,那麼,你就讀讀這本書吧。

逆商也就是逆境智商,它是指人們在面對逆境或失敗時的反應能力,是一種不敗於任何逆境的生活態度和思考方式。

20世紀90年代中期,美國著名學者、白宮知名商業顧問保羅.史托茲教授首次提出「逆商」概念,並迅速在歐美普及開來。越來越多的人開始參加逆商測試,上百家著名公司新增了固定的逆商培訓專案。如今,逆商已經成為職場競爭的重要法寶。

本書以保羅.史托茲教授的逆商理論為基礎,總結了逆商的最新研究成果,詳細闡述了當人們遇到各種變動、失敗和挫折時,容易掉進哪些導致失敗的陷阱,並提供了實際有效的應付逆境的方法和提升逆商的技巧,教您學會運用逆商這一行之有效的工具去增強自己處理逆境的能力,使自己在急劇變動的社會環境中變得更有生產力、創造力和競爭力。

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