Book Clubs, Book Talks
&
Websites for Readers
Book Fair, Book Talks & Open Lectures
Talks at Google
Yuval Noah Harari: "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" [YouTube video]
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's "Everybody lies: what the internet can tell us who we really are" [YouTube video]
Hong Kong Book Fair 香港書展
Hong Kong Book Fair 香港書展 2019 [English / 中文]
Hong Kong Book Fair 香港書展 2018 [YouTube Channel]
HKPL Subject Talks 香港公共圖書館專題講座
香港書展2006: 金庸與讀者座談會 (回顧)
日期:2006年7月21日
地點:香港會議展覽中心
講者:查良鏞先生
主持:陶傑
HKU Libraries Book Talks
Chinese comfort women 《日本帝國的性奴隸:中國「慰安婦」的證言》 [Event details / YouTube video]
Origin and End of the 1967 Riots in HK 《香港六七暴動始末 解讀吳荻舟》[YouTube video]
The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815 [Event details / Youtube video]
Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Uncovered [Event details / YouTube video]
《狼圖騰》姜戎著 (Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong) [Event details / YouTube video]
Public Lectures & Talks
"Democracy with Michael Sandel", Harvard University (Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel)
"Justice with Michael Sandel", Harvard University's open lecture (Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel)
"The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies", Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture at Georgetown University (Speaker: Professor Bryan Caplan)
Public Lectures (scripts) by Professor Stephen Hawking
TEDEd Lessons & TEDTalks
"My journey from North Korea for freedom" (Speaker: Hyeonseo Lee)
"Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating" (Speaker: Christian Rudder)
VXCON Conference & Workshops
VXCON http://vxcon.hk/
Others
"Trapped - Photo Exhibition on Grassroots Housing in Hong Kong 2016" (侷住 - 2016基層房屋攝影展)
Book Clubs
Official Homepage of Authors
Popular Book Series
Authors
Authors of Non-Fiction Titles
Espinasse, Philippe, Banker; writer on IPO titles
Lee, Hyeonseo, North Korean defector
Sandel, Michael J., Scholar, Harvard University
Steward, Ian, Mathematician, Science and Science Fiction writer
"Alex Rider" by Anthony Horowitz
"The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Dilbert.com by Scott Adams
"Dork Diaries" by Rachel Renee Russell
"Judy Moody" by Megan McDonald & Peter H. Reynolds
"Meg's Diary" by Meg Cabot
"Neil Gaiman's Journal" by Neil Gaiman
"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" by Rick Riordan
"Pottermore" by J.K. Rowling
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" [YouTube videos] by Jeff Kinney
Book & Movie Trailers
"Afterworlds" by Scott Westerfeld [Book trailer]
"Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) [The official website]
"Persepolis" (2007) Marjane Satrapi [Movie trailer / Sparknotes]
"Wonder" (2017) [The official website]