How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Stanley Fish
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New York Times Bestseller

“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” – Adam Haslett, Financial Times

“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” – Slate

“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount Jr.

In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

任何人都適用的完美學習法

高榮成, 申榮俊
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★融合《快思慢想》《刻意練習》等多本著作精華的完美學習法
★韓國暢銷書、讀者高口碑評價

好的學習法，是人生堅實的支柱
跟著博士菁英與超強自學者，擁抱最高效的13堂學習課
兩位作者有著非常不同的經驗，他們網羅全球與學習相關的重要研究，
找出經科學驗證、真正有效的方法，
配合學習上會面臨的煩惱與實際輔導案例，
帶你不斷突破學習的天花板，成長、成功！

學習如果用對了方法，效果相當驚人！！

一位美國自由記者到國際記憶大賽現場採訪，驚訝的發現，得獎者的記憶力真的非常人所能及──15分鐘內能默記背出隨機選出的300個詞彙、5分鐘內能默記背出千位數的亂數數字、能記得10副亂序撲克牌的排序、能背出圓周率小數點後萬位數……簡直是記憶天才。但連著幾屆的記憶大賽冠軍告訴他，「記憶是可以靠學習的，只要你用對方法」。因此他決定報名隔年的大賽，給自己一年時間學習，結果真的贏得了冠軍獎牌！！

有鑑於此，本書的兩位作者，一位是博士菁英，一位是超強的自學者，決定研究找出最完美有效的學習法，完成一本可以幫助眾人的著作。全書除了以教育學、認知心理學、腦科學、行為經濟學等多方面理論為基礎，也輔導了數千名學生、職場工作者，有些文組的人就業失敗後，靠著持續學習，以工程師的身分重返職場；有些人從舊領域跨向新領域，得到理想的工作；有些人透過充實的系統化學習，突破自身限制，最終找到自己的夢想。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." ―Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society―and that we could do things differently.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人生思考題 : 哈佛教育學院院長提出的5+1個人生重要問題 (Wait, What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions)

詹姆斯．萊恩 (James E. Ryan)
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《紐約時報》暢銷書 Amazon.com空降排行榜
哈佛大學給畢業生最棒的禮物‧感動全球900萬人精彩演說
你看過後，也會重新思考自己的日常溝通

5個平凡問題 串出非凡人生
如果你希望自己被愛、被珍惜、被尊重
就應該試著問，也試著答

網路上瘋傳的畢業典禮演講
哈佛大學教育學院院長剖析人生最重要的5+1個問題

不管在會議室或在教室，我們花了太多時間和精力在尋找正確答案。事實上，問題和答案一樣重要，甚至可能更重要。好問題能讓我們超越有限的認知，勇敢面對困難、未知、令人尷尬，甚至不愉快的處境，讓我們對人際關係和世界有更深入的了解。

哈佛大學教育學院院長詹姆斯．萊恩在本書指出問與答的奧妙，帶我們領略美國首席大法官的思辨過程，提醒我們經常詢問人生最重要的五個基本問題，包括：

• 「等等，你說什麼？」，是所有了解的根源。
• 「我想知道……？」，是所有好奇心的核心。
• 「至少，我們是不是能夠……？」，是所有進展的開始。
• 「我能夠幫什麼忙？」，是所有良好關係的基礎。
• 「真正重要的是什麼？」，能夠幫助我們找到生命的核心。

本書充滿許多幽默、動人的小故事，從美國最高法院、哈佛大學、殘障兒童之家到急診室，還有作者的身世。只要我們經常詢問這五個問題，就能夠回答人生加分題：「即便如此，今生今世，你是否已經了無遺憾？」本書妙趣橫生，說理深刻又感人，將永遠改變你對問題的看法。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

Mauro F. Guillen
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The world is changing drastically before our eyes - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends, including analysis on how COVID-19 will amplify and accelerate each of these changes.

Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people aspiring towards the middle class yearned to own homes and cars. Companies didn't need to see any further than Europe and the United States to do well. Printed money was legal tender for all debts, public and private. We grew up learning how to "play the game", and we expected the rules to remain the same as we took our first job, started a family, saw our children grow up, and went into retirement with our finances secure.

That world - and those rules - are over.

By 2030, a new reality will take hold, and before you know it:
There will be more grandparents than grandchildren
The middle class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined
The global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history
There will be more global wealth owned by women than men
There will be more robots than workers
There will be more computers than human brains
There will be more currencies than countries

According to Mauro F. Guillen, the only way to truly understand the global transformations underway - and their impacts - is to think laterally. That is, using "peripheral vision", or approaching problems creatively and from unorthodox points of view. Rather than focusing on a single trend - climate change or the rise of illiberal regimes, for example - Guillen encourages us to consider the dynamic inter-play between a range of forces that will converge on a single tipping point - 2030 - that will be, for better or worse, the point of no return.

2030 is both a remarkable guide to the coming changes and an exercise in the power of "lateral thinking", thereby revolutionizing the way you think about cataclysmic change and its consequences.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

樹木教我的人生課 : 遇到困難時, 我總是在不知不覺間, 向樹木尋找答案

禹鐘榮
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「只要閱讀一次，就會愛上樹木，
閱讀兩次，就會熱愛自身的生命。」
★療癒韓國人民的年度之書
★15萬冊作者的最新力作，入選韓國最大連鎖書店「上班族必讀書籍」

樹木，是信仰，更是人類的心靈慰藉......

「努力、厚實實力，才能成功」——杉樹
你知道嗎？小杉樹要長得跟其他大樹一般，需要經歷百年的漫長歲月。但它們並未放棄，仍然在漆黑的土地中生根發芽，因為它們知道唯有等待並厚實根部的力量，才能有長高的事實。 ——如果是人類，也許有人早已放棄，但也有人如同小杉樹般，為了獲得成就，在別人不知道的幾千個日夜中努力。

「想獲得什麽，就得付出什麽」——樺樹
因為強風而無法向上長高的樺樹，取而代之的是往下深深扎根。而比起其他樹木，樺樹需要更多陽光才能生存，為此，它們放棄一起成長的朋友，選擇獨自在高聳的岩石上成長，這樣才能盡情獨享陽光。
——人也是如此，許多人都貪心得想要擁有全部，但兩全其美並非易事，需要取捨，才能獲得，如果糾結於失去，最終只會兩頭空。

「與樹木學習如何漂亮地退場。」——紅豆杉
樹木的空隙是老病樹木的傷口。古老的紅豆杉，隨著歲月的流逝，體內的空隙越大。而空隙就成為了被寒冬折磨得疲憊不堪的動物們之藏身處。如今已邁入人生下半場的作者，在一次與年輕後輩前往救治樹木時，學會了老樹戰勝傷痛，擁抱微小生命的人生智慧。
——無論是誰，到了某一瞬間，都要在該退後時退後一步，漂亮地讓出自己的空位。

作者照顧樹木已超過三十年，與樹木的相處遠比與人的相處還多，身為治癒樹木的樹木醫生，作者卻總說「是樹木治癒了我。」他相信樹木給予的力量，爲了和更多人分享樹木的智慧，於是寫下這本書。而人類身處於世界中，為了生存總是竭盡全力，正如同生長在條件惡劣中的樹木，不畏風寒，仍然在每一瞬間向下扎根，開拓它的生命。

樹木，世界上最古老且最有智慧的人生哲學家，它們用生存智慧教會人類生命的真諦。

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