書名:漢字漢語解碼:咬文嚼字集
作者: 單周堯
出版社:中華書局, 2020
內容簡介:
本書是單周堯教授面向大眾撰寫的語言學小品,選取容易混淆的若干漢字或者容易讀錯用錯的漢字,從其字源開始,對歷史上的沿革與用法條分縷析,將原本書本上繁雜難解的漢語知識以平實的語言和風趣的解說傳達給讀者。本書雅俗兼顧,深入淺出,即具通俗性也不乏權威性,屬於大家精要類圖書。
書名:八週正念練習:走出憂鬱與情緒風暴
作者: John TEASDALE
出版社:張老師文化, 2016
內容簡介:
即使在最困難的情境,也有一種安靜、明智的聲音,讓人收拾散亂的心,回到呼吸和身體感受。當我們的心變得穩定,就能回應生命中的艱難與痛苦。正念練習提供一條發現之路,讓人真實地參與,深度地感受,產生悲憫的行動,真誠地活出生命。
書名:COVID-19抗疫之路:香港醫護的心路歷程
作者:港島東醫院聯網醫護
出版社:三聯書店, 2020
內容簡介:
本書由港島東醫院聯網醫護編著,作者來自醫院不同部門,包括前線與後勤的醫護人員,或以感性角度回顧,或從知識層面反思,全面記錄香港醫護對抗COVID-19疫情的心路歷程。
本書並附有各界為支持香港醫護而創作的書、畫、攝影作品,使本書在歷史見證外,另具欣賞價值。
書名:《排球少年》(漫畫版) (1-45冊)
作者:古舘春一
出版社:東立, 2013
內容簡介:
日向翔陽看了電視轉播後,被排球的魅力所吸引,參加了國中第一場也是最後一場的正式比賽。然而,他徹底地敗在別名「球場上的王者」的天才選手‧影山的手下。日向發誓報仇,考進烏野高中並加入排球社,看到國中的宿敵影山竟然考進同一所高中,遂向他挑戰。結果雖然展現一點才能,可是兩人的不和引發風波,惹惱了隊長!
Title:What If? 2 : additional serious scientific answers to bbsurd hypothetical questions
Author: Randall MUNROE
Publisher:John Murray, 2023
Book summary:
Whether it's how to make a lava lamp out of lava or feeding the inhabitants of New York to a T. Rex, welcome to the weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) world of WHAT IF? 2.
Title:The remains of the day
Author: Kazuo ISHIGURO
Publisher:Faber & Faber, 2021
Book summary:
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.
Title:The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott FITZGERALD.
Publisher:Penguin Books, 2018
Book summary:
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
Title:Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Virginia WOOLF
Publisher:Penguin Classics, 2020
Book summary:
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith''s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf''s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
Title:How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world
Author: Randall MUNROE
Publisher:John Murray, 2020
Book summary:
For any task you might want to do, there''s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It''s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Title:All the light we cannot see
Author: Anthony DOERR
Publisher:Scribner, 2014
Book summary:
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.