2024年6月14日新书推荐

2024年6月14日共推出100本新书

新书目录:B20240614

书名:《我爱我的爷爷》

◎作者:沃尔夫·哈兰斯文;克里斯蒂娜·奥珀曼·迪莫图;赖雅静译

◎出版:河北教育出版社

◎索书号:947.419/162

◎藏书地点:13楼书库A区

◎内容提要:

乡下的爷爷年老了,奶奶病逝了,于是爷爷被子女接到城市里一起居住。爷爷的到来让小孙子好奇不已:爷爷可以坐在爸爸专有的位置吃饭、大声说话,擤鼻涕不用卫生纸;可以修好坏了的水管和玩具汽车;还会给我读故事,修剪花园的蔷薇花……

小孙子由衷地感到,爷爷很老了,但是,他爱爷爷。面对爷爷最终回到乡下的决定,父母只能相望无语。然而打破冷寂的是小孙子天真的问话:“我们什么时候才能去看爷爷?”


书名:《小伤疤》

◎作者:夏洛特·蒙德利克文;奥利维耶·塔莱克图;胡小跃译

◎出版:漓江出版社

◎索书号:947.419/164

◎藏书地点:13楼书库A区

◎内容提要:

如果妈妈不在了,生活就跟以前大不 一样了。要怎么保留她的味道,要怎么收藏她的声音?要怎么做,才不会忘记她?

为了留住妈妈的味道,我捂住耳朵,闭上嘴巴,关上家里所有的窗户。为了藏住妈妈的声音,我跑到精疲力尽,还弄痛了自己。但是,我试了又试,却做不到。

外婆来了,她可是妈妈的妈妈。外婆说,孩子,我们都爱你,但就像宝宝总要长大,妈妈也总是要远离。然而无论怎样,我们彼此的爱都不会消逝,永远永远在一起。只要你摸摸自己的心,妈妈就一直在那里。


书名:《獾的礼物》

◎作者:苏珊·华莱文/图;杨玲玲,彭懿译

◎出版:明天出版社

◎索书号:947.419/169

◎藏书地点:13楼书库A区

◎内容提要:

《獾的礼物》中獾是一个让人信赖的朋友,他总是乐于助人。他已经很老了,老到几乎无所不知,老到知道自己快要死了。这天晚上,他对月亮说了声晚安,拉上窗帘。他慢慢地走进地下的洞穴,那里有炉火。吃完晚饭,他写了一封信,然后就坐在摇椅上睡着了。他梦见自己在跑,前面是一条长长的隧道。他愈跑愈快,最后觉得自己的脚离开了地面,觉得自由了,不再需要身体了。

第二天,狐狸给大家念了獾留下来的信:我到长长的隧道的另一头去了,再见!下雪了,雪盖住了大地,但盖不住大家的悲伤。

在这个动人的故事里,獾的朋友们学会了接受它的死亡,苏珊·华莱的儿童图画书首次亮相,就一鸣惊人。她迷人的插图将伤心的文字衬托得十分完美。


书名:《外公》

◎作者:约翰·伯宁罕文图;林良译

◎出版:河北教育出版社

◎索书号:947.419/139(3)

◎藏书地点:13楼书库A区

◎内容提要:

这个故事通过外公与小孙女无厘头的对话,将生活中的点点细节呈现在读者面前。小女孩的天真与老外公的从未消失的顽童之心将故事徐徐推进,生活永远不会结束,故事的结尾呢,也要读者慢慢体会了。

外公跟外孙女之间,人生经验的差异自然很大。外公所珍惜的,是“过去的美好时光”。外孙女却以认真的态度面对一个跟外公所经历的完全不同的“现在”。祖孙俩在一起,总想互相交换一些心得,但是因为所关心的事件不同,他们虽然在“交换”,却不能产生“交集”。有趣味的是,他们虽然不能产生思想的交集,但在情感上却是相连的,这就是亲情。

伯宁罕用他的图画语言,风趣地描绘这种在各说各话中滋长的亲情,既生动,又令人感动。作品中 的外公虽然有时候令外孙女气恼,但是他们仍然能够以“爱”和“关怀”互相回馈。在亲情“聚光灯”的照耀下,代沟连影子都不见了。伯宁罕生动地描绘了纯真美善的“隔代关系”。


书名:《给孩子的物理课–原来物理可以这样学:物理学》

◎作者:周昌寿,黄幼雄主编

◎出版:现代出版社

◎索书号:308.000 / 44(2):1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书全面介绍了力学、光学、声学、热学、电磁学等诸多物理知识。书中每一章均从日常生活出发,将其中所包含的物理学基本知识以浅显易懂的语言描述出来, 避开了枯燥的运算问题。

★知识面广:孩子必学的物理知识

运动、声现象、物态变化、光现象、透镜、质量与密度、力、压强、浮力、功和机械能、简单机械、电流和电路、欧姆定 律、电与磁……

★趣味性强:奇怪有趣的课后问题

为什么人溺死后尸体必然浮起?为什么山上的树木不与山坡的地面垂直?从镜中偷看别人为什么会被对方发现……


书名:《给孩子的物理课–原来物理可以这样学:物理学名人传》

◎作者:周昌寿,黄幼雄主编

◎出版:现代出版社

◎索书号:308.000 / 44(2):2

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书为我们介绍了古希腊至20世纪的一些重要的物理学家,兼顾了故事性与知识性。通过阅读这些物理学家的生平,孩子们可以自觉培养他们对物理知识的学习兴趣。

★故事性强:鲜为人知的名人传奇

谁是吃货的福星?谁是柏拉图的救命恩人?以身试毒的科学勇士、被保姆挂在墙上而引发学习兴趣的物理学家……

★设计精美:赏心悦目的版式设计精美的版式。甄选高级进口油墨双色印刷,环保无毒;采用米黄色的轻型纸张,保护孩子的眼睛,携带轻便。


书名:《给孩子的物理课–原来物理可以这样学:物理现象与日常生活》

◎作者:周昌寿,黄幼雄主编

◎出版:现代出版社

◎索书号:308.000 / 44(2):3

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书以日常生活中的物理现象为切入点,成功地将枯燥的物理知识转化为浅显易懂、生动有趣的文字,并配合精美的图片解说,为初学物理学的孩子指出了一条入门的捷径。

★可读性强:

贴近生活的轻松解读读标题你就知道:你的头上常常顶着200 公斤的重量、水蒸气的归路、人为什么要穿衣服、摩擦力可以不要么……

★图文并茂:简洁直观的图文解说

最早的高压锅长什么样子、声音的“相 貌”、水泵的构造、眼球剖面图、内燃机关的运作过程……


书名:《给孩子的化学课–化学原来可以这样学:化学校园1

◎作者:F.W.奥斯特瓦尔德著;李文桨译

◎出版:天津科学技术出版社

◎索书号:308.000 / 43(1):1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

《化学校园》是诺贝尔化学奖得主、“物理化学之父”F.W.奥斯特瓦尔德的经典力作。

全书采用师生对话的体裁,以化学实验室为故事场景,通过口语化、个性化和趣味化的文字,深入浅出地呈现出原子、分子、元素、金属、非金属、化合物、酸和碱等一切儿童必学的化学知识,通俗易懂,引人入胜。在欧美各国,《化学校园》早已成为家喻户晓的化学通俗读物,自问世以来,经久不衰,再版无数。


书名:《只是上网竟变被害人性剥削、诈欺、赌博、骇客渗透你我生活的网路犯罪事件实录》

◎作者:朴重炫著;林侑毅译

◎出版:采实文化

◎索书号:548.546 / 2

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书作者韩国前刑警朴重炫,以调查报告书为基础,完整揭露办案过程,也有嫌疑人的自白、受害人所承受的痛苦,呈现案件中不同角度的看法。每桩案件之后的侦办笔记,则公开大众鲜少知道的延伸犯罪手法。

作者也在书中提出实际方法,除了相关监督及查缉机构必须密切采取合作,我们在使用网路时也要建立警觉的态度,不轻易说出个人资讯,看起来越便利越梦幻的地方,反而暗藏了越多陷阱。当孩子成为受害者时,对于父母来说,最重要的是不要贬低或漠视孩子的感受。

正因为网路犯罪必须发生在网路这个空间内,只要懂得网路的光明面与黑暗面,人人都可以成为网路犯罪预防专家,乾净明亮的网路空间将不再是遥不可及的事。


书名:《向忧郁说NO

◎作者:太阳盛德

◎出版:天圆文化

◎索书号:177.200 / 332

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书特色

在《向忧郁说No》一书里,作者毫无保留地向全人类说明忧郁症的成因、结构及产生的变化,乃至解决的方法。同时也阐明能量在每个人的生命中所扮演的重要角色,协助你吸取正能量,摆脱负能量的纠缠。

若此时此刻的你正为忧郁所苦,衷心期盼你看到这些令人振奋的文字及温馨的插画,瞬间感到能量满溢、通体舒畅、身心开怀!


书名:《公民可以很有事志祺七七の议题探究×资讯辨识×观点养成独门心法大公开》

◎作者:志祺七七

◎出版:亲子天下

◎索书号:541.000 / 5

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

身为现代好公民,在面对陌生议题时,你曾经有过怎样的困惑?  你是否想过,为了解决这些问题,应具备哪些心法?

我思,故我在。是一句大家耳熟能详的名言,也说明了思考的重要性。如果说阳光、空气、水是人类赖以生存的三大要素,那思考就是人类内在成长的必需品。

这本书,就是告诉你如何思考生活周遭各项议题、如何理解他人、如何帮助自己认识这个世界,以及,给迈向未来的你一点有用的成长建议。


书名:《可以强悍也可以示弱有身段也有手段人生的规矩我说了算》

◎作者:黄大米

◎出版:远流

◎索书号:177.200 / 336

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

这个世界没有必然的规则,就像人生也不是只有一条路可走。做人可刚强可柔弱,唯有持续前进,不停改变,所有的机会都是从此开启。

23篇又痛又暖的人生对策,让你即使在低谷,也有勇气起飞,并且飞得更高更远。祝福你在未来的人生路上,不断校正出更适合自己的道路,拥有更淡定的心灵与强大的实力。


书名:《你会坦然面对每一场告别》

◎作者:角子

◎出版:平装本

◎索书号:177.200 / 337

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

每一场告别,都是真心爱过的证明。

以眼泪开始,以微笑结束。让我们从伤心开始,一起走上告别的4个阶段,在角子的40个提醒里思考,在7个真人实证里觉察,最终以微笑挥别悲伤,迎向生命更美好的幸福。


书名:《了不起的博物馆河森堡带你逛全世界超好玩的博物馆》

◎作者:河森堡,鼹鼠世界制作组编著

◎出版:中信出版社

◎索书号:069.800 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

中国国家博物馆讲解员河森堡,将带领我们一起探寻世界上26座极具代表性且富有特色的博物馆,通过其中展示的藏品去了解那些已经消失却曾经璀璨的人类文明,让我们可以有更多的视角去看待文物、看待历史。


书名:《这个世界运作的真相以数据解析人类经济和生存的困局与机会》

◎作者:瓦兹拉夫·史密尔著;李宜懃译

◎出版:商周

◎索书号:501.600 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书以科学的角度,解释世界究竟如何运作,提供主导世界经济的七大关键:能源、食物生产、材料、全球化、风险、全球暖化及生物圈退化,让人类更能意识到未来的限制和机会。


书名:《国家如何被搞砸当权力让政权变笨频频做出错误决策国家、国民该何去何从

◎作者:塔克·卡森著;陈珮榆译

◎出版:好优文化

◎索书号:574.520 / 2

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

战争、饥荒和疾病都不会毁灭一个国家,但领导人可以。

凭藉个人多年职涯所见,塔克.卡森以最丰富的现代政经实例进行分析,针针见血,直指美国统治阶级与普通老百姓严重脱节的问题,揭发所谓“美国精英”的真相。


书名:《东南亚的当代新秩序后冷战时代的东南亚国际关系史》

◎作者:洪清源著;林瑞译

◎出版:八旗文化

◎索书号:578.193 / 2

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

冷战结束后三十年,东南亚如何建构独立自主的区域秩序?从东南亚到东协共同体,“核心性”为何?又该如何发展?面对中美大国博弈的可能冲突,东南亚如何寻求平衡、掌握区域主导权?

本书作者洪清源透过东南亚近三十年间的国际关系变化,包括东协与各成员国之间的互动,外部势力如美国、中国、日本对东南亚的影响,并且援引多种档案文献,深入剖析历史变迁和政治决策之间的联系,使得本书不只是一部冷战后三十年的东南亚史,更是一部专业权威、爬梳东南亚区域政治的国际关系史最佳教材。


书名:《别对每件事都有反应》

◎作者:枡野俊明

◎出版:精诚资讯

◎索书号:191.900 / 86

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

该放下,就放下,也放过自己,工作也好,人际关系也罢,没有什么不能舍弃。

本书透过“人际关系”、“摆脱负面情绪”、“停止磨耗心灵”、“不自讨苦吃”、“活出快意人生”五大分类,介绍能让你的心重获自由的99个准则。


书名:《不想回家的鲸鱼15个来自动物的真实故事探索人与动物之间看不见的爱与伤害》

◎作者:苏珊·欧琳著;韩絜光译

◎出版:漫游者文化

◎索书号:380.000 / 20

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

被《华盛顿邮报》誉为“国宝作家”的苏珊·欧琳,秉持着对动物的热爱,多年来走访各地调查事件来龙去脉,采集相关资料,结集成15个充满张力的真实故事,挑战你对“人与动物关系”的既定印象。


书名:《口袋里的家国歌曲、邮票、钱币中的国族认同》

◎作者:麦留芳

◎出版:时报文化

◎索书号:571.100 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

社会认同是社群里一种无可避免的归属或分类感受,国家、族群的认同乃是两大普遍例子。但认同有真实的,亦有虚拟或想像的。国、族大都以旗帜、徽章、鸟兽、人物之类作为象征符号或标志。但它们并不是随时随地,或无缘无故就能被启动的。拟启动这些标志而生情,就得透过某些机制的运作。其中比较有效的机制乃是歌曲、邮票、钱币。

在中国近代史兼华侨研究之领域里,麦留芳的《口袋里的家国:歌曲、邮票、钱币中的国族认同》另辟蹊径,将视野聚焦于爱国歌曲、孙像与烈士邮票,以及藕断丝连的孙像钱币上,深入探索它们得以成为建构国族认同与想像机制的关键历史。


书名:《被压榨的一代发薪即破财直面高房价、高通膨时代的虐心解读》

◎作者:艾莉莎·奎特著;李佑宁译

◎出版:八旗文化

◎索书号:546.160 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

想用专业赚大钱,却发现比不上会投胎?

体制是一只看不见的手,将我们压进贫穷的流沙中……

本书作者艾莉莎.奎特是非营利组织“经济困难报告计划”的执行主编,该组织致力于报导不平等的社会现象。面对当前困局,奎特试图从政策面、个人面给出解决方案。本书不只忠实呈现中产阶级的难题,更流露出深切的人文关怀与社会责任感。


书名:《韩国人不想让你知道的事揭开65个韩国特有的潜规则”,韩国社会文化观察报告》

◎作者:吴昌翼著;杨筑钧译

◎出版:马可孛罗

◎索书号:540.900 / 3

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

在韩国人权运动者吴昌翼的观察中,韩国社会根深蒂固的问题充满不公不义与荒谬虚伪,奇妙的是,广大韩国人民却视为理所当然地概括承受,像是把人仅仅视为劳动力的教育体制、以住居规模论阶级、种族与性别歧视、整形风气、疯狂关注艺人私生活,以及政府助长监视风气、财阀会长宛如皇帝、臂章文化等。藉由描绘韩国形形色色社会样态,作者揭露这些荒谬现象的本质,可说是一本精准且独到的“韩国人论”。


书名:《人类与自然的秘密连结发掘与自然共生的证据找回人、动物与植物被遗忘的联系与需求》

◎作者:彼得·渥雷本著;王荣辉译

◎出版:日出

◎索书号:172.830 / 2

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

德国森林看守人、知名生态作家彼得.渥雷本透过相关科学证据与条理清晰的论述,揭示人类并非万物之灵,只是复杂精致的地球生态系统的一部分,也是按照和其他所有物种一样的规则在运行。

唯有当我们明白保护自然不单只是攸关其他的物种,更重要的是攸关我们这个物种自身,我们紧密连结、没有界线、休戚与共,在完全归属的感觉下,保护自然才能发挥作用。


书名:《二手芬兰从跳蚤市集到二手商店来自家具设计师的参与式观察报告》

◎作者:朴炫宣著;邱麟翔译

◎出版:时报文化

◎索书号:747.600 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

对芬兰人来说,爱惜物品、珍惜资源宛如呼吸般自然,陈列得乾净美观、营运得极有系统的二手商店是生活中再平凡不过的日常,逛二手商店或参与跳蚤市集,就是享受闲暇的方法之一。

二手物品文化将让人重新思考及发现物品的价值,也让人看见真正的芬兰。


书名:《正念生活与心理治疗入门手册》

◎作者:李志祥

◎出版:转捩点全人发展中心

◎索书号:178.800 / 14(1)

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

这是一本介绍“正念”(Mindfulness)的入门书籍。

本书以简明易懂的方式,带出了正念的原理与观点、正念在生活中的实践方法,以及正念与心理治疗的融合,让读者能快速理解并实践正念,也让助人者在自我成长与治疗过程中善用正念,发挥正念的疗愈力量!


书名:《大脑科学与心理治疗入门手册》

◎作者:李志祥

◎出版:转捩点全人发展中心

◎索书号:178.800 / 14(2)

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

这是一本介绍“大脑科学与心理治疗”的入门书籍。

本书从“生物—心理—社会”系统学观点、并以简明易懂的方式浓缩了大脑科学研究成果、脑电波与神经反馈的使用、大脑科学与心理治疗融合等内容,让一般读者快速理解大脑与心理的关系,也让助人者在自我成长与治疗过程中充分发挥心脑合一的疗愈力量!


书名:《送书人》

◎作者:卡斯滕·海恩著;李双燕译

◎出版:人民文学出版社

◎索书号:875.570 / 9

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

每本书都有一颗心脏,在你阅读时开始跳动。

卡尔在一家旧书店为顾客们负责选书送书,工作了一辈子。每天选好书后,他会穿过城市里曲曲折折的小巷,将顾客们订购的书籍送过去。一天,一个名叫夏夏的九岁小女孩突然出现,坚持要陪着卡尔。夏夏以她灿烂的笑容和活泼的举止很快就赢得了卡尔的喜爱。然而,生活的打击却让卡尔一蹶不振:他最好的、也是唯一的朋友去世了,书店又解雇了他。紧接着,连夏夏也消失不见了。卡尔准备回到自己的公寓里,默默等待生命的结束……


书名:《我想跟你好好说话赖佩霞的六堂非暴力沟通入门课》

◎作者:赖佩霞

◎出版:早安财经文化

◎索书号:177.100 / 31

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

作者赖佩霞以已故美国心理学大师马歇尔‧卢森堡开创,并造福数百万家庭的非暴力沟通(nonviolent communication)为基础,一步步为读者引介一套非常成功且有效的沟通方法。

阅读这本书,你能找到生活中的美好语言,找回原本就属于你的自在、坦然、快乐人生。


书名:《汉唐的巫蛊与集体心态》

◎作者:蒲慕州

◎出版:联经

◎索书号:295.000 / 3

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

汉武帝晚年发生巫蛊之祸,数千人丧命、太子自杀。后世典册经常提及此事的惨烈,巫蛊之术也成为往后数百年宫廷斗争的新工具,对内廷政治、社会记忆以及宗教心态均造成一定的影响。

《汉唐的巫蛊与集体心态》由跨学科的角度出发,阐释这个跨越宗教、政治、大众心态等等因素的主题,并且对中外巫术之异同提出比较与考量。


书名:《把小钱滚成大财富愈早看破愈早财务自由的存钱迷思》

◎作者:班·卡尔森著;陈正芬译

◎出版:时报文化

◎索书号:563.000 / 30

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

“最简单的储蓄与复利,就能创造极大化的财富与资产!”

——卡尔森

专业金融分析师卡尔森在本书中将透过各种研究与实例,说明如何让小钱滚成大财富、储蓄为何比投资重要、退休前需要存多少钱等,并提供20项个人理财法则,让你的钱替你赚更多钱。

 


书名:《发现峇峇娘惹推动近代东南亚发展的神秘商业贵族》

◎作者:太田泰彦著;叶静嘉译

◎出版:黑体文化;远足文化

◎索书号:577.230 / 6

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

庄严隆重的中国祭祖仪式、使用椰子和凤梨等南洋水果制作的娘惹菜、华丽印度风格的可芭雅纱笼裙和巴迪衫……峇峇娘惹文化的独特性,是全球化的完美体现!

本书作者是日本知名国际记者太田泰彦,他于2015年派驻新加坡,当时新加坡政府致力推广的峇峇娘惹文化,让他产生高度好奇心,被称为商业贵族的峇峇娘惹,其独特的文化魅力从何而来?他们又如何推动东南亚的发展,进而奠定新加坡的繁荣基础?为了回答这个问题,太田寻访东南亚各地的峇峇娘惹人士,深入调查此族群的神秘身世,挖掘出许多不为人知的精彩故事。


书名:《给孩子的图解理财课一看就懂从小培养用钱、存钱、赚钱、守住钱的财金素养长大以后不愁钱

◎作者:森永康平著;福井佐智世漫画;彭士晃译

◎出版:远流

◎索书号:563.000 / 29

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

“孩子,希望你长大以后不用为钱发愁!”很多家长都这么期待。那为什么不从这本书开始,培养孩子的财金素养呢?

本书是日本经济分析师森永康平,根据长年教学和儿童互动经验所写成的,以日常生活情境和图解,循序渐进介绍金钱的“用钱”、“存钱”、“赚钱”、“守住钱”,国小学生就能看懂,是有趣又实用的理财入门书。


书名:《无国界病人在美治疗癌症3000天》

◎作者:师永刚

◎出版:人民文学出版社

◎索书号:415.271 / 14

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书是一部癌症治疗10年的亲历手记,也是首本涉及跨国治疗经验的交流书。作者师永刚罹患罕见癌症肾上腺皮质癌,这个疾病发病率为百万分之一,中国没有太多的治疗方案和有效的治疗药物。为此,作者远赴美国看病求医,经历了的惊心经历,最终获得“重生”。

本书不仅涉及疾病的治疗,更对当下的生活方式进行了反思,提醒读者,人没有什么可骄矜的,即便是自己的身体。


书名:《二十个世界系外行星的非凡故事》

◎作者:奈尔·迪肯著;杨晨光译

◎出版:中译出版社

◎索书号:320.000 / 19

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

一本介绍系外行星、宇宙法则和天文观测方法的书,旨在将奇妙的异星世界和其背后天文原理介绍给读者。

在书中,作者奈尔·迪肯介绍了20颗迥然不同的系外行星,从它们的诞生、发展到死亡,再到重生……每一颗行星都远超我们此刻的想像与认知,如由钻石构成的行星、吞噬伴星从而起死回生的脉冲星、饱受母恒星摧残而满身疮痍的行星等,内容丰富有趣,引人入胜。


书名:《草原动物园》

◎作者:马伯庸

◎出版:中信出版社

◎索书号:857.750 / 140

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

现实和魔幻的界限被打破,一个“ 白日梦想家式 ”的传教士的艰难生活与神秘的盗梦少女、异域中狼群等神怪的事迹,以及人与动物之间的无声交流等,都带给人一种快意与险途交织的梦幻般的新奇感。最终,在这个逐梦人的故事里,每个人也会得到对自己的疗愈。

这是一个寓言性的故事,透过异想天开的传教士的征途之旅,我们最终发现“ 不是梦想而是所有披荆斩棘的险途使得我们成为自己”。


书名:《抱住棒棒的自己》

◎作者:徐慢慢心理话著绘

◎出版:浙江文艺出版社

◎索书号:177.200 / 339

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

《抱住棒棒的自己》是“徐慢慢心理话”公众号两年结晶,从情绪管理、个人成长、亲密关系、亲子关系四大热门话题出发,以漫画形式重现真实生活困境,用心理学的科学眼光剖析行为背后的心理动机。


书名:《慢思术凡事多想1分钟就能比别人更成功》

◎作者:植原亮著;林于楟译

◎出版:平安文化

◎索书号:176.400 / 53

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

很多人都以为,聪明便是“头脑转得快”。但事实上,真正能帮助我们与他人拉开差距的关键,并非快速直觉的反应,而是深思熟虑的“慢思考”,而将慢思考运用自如的方法就叫“慢思术”。

本书透过52个颠覆思维的问题,8个最强的慢思术秘诀,全方位培养你的慢思考。看完这本书,不但能让你工作不失误、情绪变平稳、说话更精准,观察力与判断力也会变得更加优秀。高品质的思考靠的不是瞬间爆发力,而是一点一滴的累积,只要反覆练习,就能在重要时刻临危不乱,找到人生破局的最佳解答!


书名:《失业名校毕业生日记我在豪门做家教》

◎作者:马修·诺特著;朱柠译

◎出版:湖南文艺出版社

◎索书号:873.570 / 89

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

毕业于剑桥大学却找不到工作的马修,在父母的催促下,暂时放下文学梦想,去给富豪家的孩子当家教。众多雇主看中马修的名校光环,期待马修帮助他们把孩子送入英国顶尖的名校。马修就此一脚踏入伦敦上流家庭,他磕磕绊绊地应对种种始料未及的教学困境,也体味到富家之子与他迥异的覆杂处境与烦恼。马修一边摸索着既可迎合雇主又能善待学生的工作方法,一边乘着舒适豪华的私人飞机,跟随雇主们往返于各个大洲,足迹遍布莫斯科、阿尔卑斯山、托斯卡纳、肯尼亚……

马修以幽默辛辣的文字记录了富豪光鲜背后荒谬怪诞的生活,书写“条条大路通罗马,有些人却生在罗马”的惨淡现实,嬉笑之余道尽年轻人的心酸和困窘。


书名:《思辨是我们的义务那些瑞典老师教我的事》

◎作者:吴媛媛

◎出版:奇光;远足文化

◎索书号:524.000 / 1

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

所有科目都是公民训练的一环,每一位老师都是公民老师。跟瑞典老师一起走进课堂,看瑞典的课纲和前线教育者,如何将思辨和批判等民主素养与各科知识紧密结合。


书名:《习惯红利从工作管理到人生管理从微小改变到人生蜕变》

◎作者:艾尔文

◎出版:三采文化

◎索书号:177.200 / 338

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

习惯是一条看不见的绳索牵引着人,也牵动着人生。懂得借助习惯的力量,如同拥有省力工具来达成目标;而从微小习惯开始,成就感让人容易持续,渐渐地习惯之间便会彼此互利,相互牵引成长,长久能带来巨大改变,成就你梦想中的生活样貌!

书中从习惯培养开始,到选择的习惯、思维的习惯,再到打造时间管理、能力与金钱的习惯,整合了观念与经验,提供可执行的步骤化养成习惯作法,不管在生涯各个阶段落实后都能改变人生,是最贴近你我生活文化的习惯养成书。


书名:《我做专题研究,学会独立思考!:高中生的专题研究方法(增订版)》

◎作者:黄春木

◎出版:商周

◎索书号:811.300 / 70

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

黄春木老师曾任建中人社班共同规划者与首任召集人。他汇聚多年指导专题研究经验、学生的各种创意思维与学习成果,以及与各方交流的收获,在书中写出了教学现场的累积心得、师生的互动对谈,还有专题研究进行前,应确立的理想心态与概念,并辅以检核表格、期程安排、实例解说、典范观察等。

此书阐明专题研究执行时,可遵循的基础方法与路径,让读者通盘了解观念,有效掌握原则,因此适用于学术性与多元形态研究,是研究者与指导者必备参考手册!


书名:《我会永远抱紧你》

◎作者:喵掌柜老李著绘

◎出版:人民邮电出版社

◎索书号:947.410 / 102

◎藏书地点:13楼书库A区

◎内容提要:

这本书将带你经历过山车般的情绪,对虐猫者的愤怒、对失去伙伴的小狗的心疼、对意外离去的爱宠的悲伤……带你领略很多关于爱和治愈的故事,也让你学会为忙碌的生活按下暂停键,去珍惜身边温暖的陪伴与感动。


书名:《图解真相战全方位图像解析伪真相的推销大法、为何假讯息会在脑中挥之不去以及如何找回真相》

◎作者:萨缪尔·C·斯皮塔尔著;史硕怡译

◎出版:大块文化

◎索书号:541.830 / 6

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

今日,我们受到资讯轰炸的程度前所未见。其中有些资讯是真实的,有些是真假参半的,有些则是彻头彻尾的假新闻。这一切都是人们蓄意所为。

这种现象的幕后推手,是一部巨大无比的宣传机器,藉由扭曲事实来对我们销售产品、生活方式,以及想法观念。区分事实与谎言没有想像中那么容易,但是为了维护民主和争取人们的权利,这么做是必要之务。不论你是想得到有关这些问题的情报消息,或是破解你所得知的错误资讯,《图解真相战》都能深入浅出地助你一臂之力。


书名:《成长性思维学习指南(长销经典版)帮助孩子达成目标打造心态致胜的实战教室》

◎作者:安妮·布鲁克,希瑟·韩德利著;王素莲译

◎出版:亲子天下

◎索书号:521.100 / 22

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书灵感来自杜维克(Carol Dweck) “成长性思维”的论述,长年的教学经验让两位作者深信,不是只有企业或社会人士需要成长性思维,这是一个人人都能学的概念。若能从小开始练习,更能鼓励孩子在未来的人生中,迎向挑战,不畏困难;失败并不可耻或沮丧,它是精进自己的大好机会。

今天开始,就跟着这本书,每月一个目标,培养孩子建立成长性思维!


书名:《成长性思维行动指南培养孩子恒毅力与心理韧性的45堂实践课》

◎作者:安妮·布鲁克,希瑟·韩德利著;江裕真译

◎出版:亲子天下

◎索书号:521.426 / 3

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

本书为《成长性思维学习指南》的延伸力作,作者将前书的理论观念,扩展为45个可在课堂里立即实践的课程,当孩子相信自己拥有无限潜能且有能力改变,便可发展出对学习的恒毅力,以及面对挫折的心理韧性,创造自己的精彩人生。


书名:《世界》

◎作者:南派三叔

◎出版:吉林文史出版社

◎索书号:857.750 / 139

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

在医院疗养的那段时间,我收到了一封信。信封里有一支收录了2370段梦话录音的录音笔,以及一张贺卡。贺卡的背后写着,“这是我一个朋友录下的自己的梦话,知道你喜欢稀奇古怪的事情,不妨听一听。”

录音笔的主人叫南生,他每天都在梦里用自己都听不懂的蛮话(一种方言),诉说着另一个死人的人生。


书名:《撼动世界史的植物》

◎作者:稻垣荣洋著;宋刚译;出离绘

◎出版:接力

◎索书号:370.000 / 10

◎藏书地点:13楼书库D区

◎内容提要:

人类栽种植物,孕育出文明,造就人口和财富,最后形成国家。没有植物将引发饥荒,所以人们四处寻求栽种植物的土地。谁争得植物的控制权,就等同控制了全世界,于是植物又成为战争的引爆点。人因植物而悲喜,国因植物而兴亡,人类历史的幕后总少不了植物的推波助澜。

本书透过14种大家耳熟能详的植物,带领我们重新检视植物究竟是如何造就出现代世界的,并将彻底颠覆你的认知与想像。读完本书,你将会发现,人类的历史,其实就是一部藏在“植物”背后的文明史!


FADED GLORY

Author:David Essex

Publisher:Head of Zeus

Call Number:823.920 / E1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

London’s East End, 1953: Albert Kemp is a lonely widower, whose only son was killed in the war. Now he works in a pub by the railway arches. Downstairs is a traditional bar, upstairs is a famous boxing gym. It is here that Albert brings Danny, a fatherless boy who he rescues from gang life on the streets.

But as Danny begins to grow into a champion, the predators start to circle, luring him with glittering promises back into a life of crime. Will Danny listen to his wise old mentor? Or will the prospect of fame and money be too tempting?


THINKING BETTER: THE ART OF THE SHORTCUT

Author:Marcus Du Sautoy

Publisher:4th Estate. London

Call Number:510.000 / S7

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

How do you remember more and forget less?

How can you earn more and become more creative?

And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?

This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut.

With engaging puzzles and conundrums throughout to illustrate the shortcut’s ability to find solutions with speed, Thinking Better offers many clever strategies for daily complex problems.


IMPOSSIBLE CAUSES

Author:Julie Mayhew

Publisher:Raven Books

Call Number:823.920 / M12

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

The arrival of three strangers on Lark, a remote island with a population of 300, is the cause of much speculation. The first is a young teacher, the only male teacher on the island, the other two, a bereaved mother and her teenage daughter. What have they come to escape? What will they find waiting for them on Lark?

And whose body will soon be found lying in the island’s stone circle?


TRICK OR TREAT

Author:Katerina Diamond

Publisher:Avon

Call Number:823.920 / D2

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

 

Trick or Treat?

When six-year-old Marcus is taken from outside his house on Halloween it shakes his quiet neighbourhood to the core. Everyone was ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Now the unthinkable has happened.

Truth or lies?


As Detective Imogen Grey arrives to question Marcus’s parents, they tell her there has been a mistake. Their son is just fine.

But if that’s true, where is Marcus?

Innocent or guilty?


Imogen becomes locked in a race against time to find the missing child and uncover the truth. Can she discover what’s happened to Marcus before it’s too late?


THE HEADMASTER’S LIST

Author:Melissa De La Cruz

Publisher:Macmillan

Call Number:823.920 / C9

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Friday night. The party of the summer. Four teens ride home together. One never makes it.

Star student Spencer Sandoval worked hard to earn her place on the exclusive Headmaster’s List. Now one tragic accident could ruin everything. Can Spencer regain her memories and discover the truth? Is her ex, Ethan, the villain everyone thinks he is? And is Armstrong High’s own true crime podcast fighting for justice or fuelling vicious rumours?

In a place ruled by pedigree and privilege, the truth can only come at a deadly price.


ALL THE BEST LIES

Author:Joanna Schaffhausen

Publisher:Titan Books

Call Number:813.600 / S31

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. But a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, and his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. Now Reed has to wonder if his mother’s killer is uncomfortably close to home.

Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway, to join his quest in Vegas. Ellery has experience with both troubled families and diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them.

Far from home and relying only on each other, Reed and Ellery discover young Camilla had snared the attention of dangerous men, any of whom might have wanted to shut her up for good. They start tracing his twisted family history, knowing the path leads back to a vicious killer-one who has been hiding in plain sight for forty years and isn’t about to give up now.


TICK TOCK

Author:Mel Sherratt

Publisher:Avon

Call Number:823.920 / S6

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Tick…

In the city of Stoke, a teenage girl is murdered in the middle of the day, her lifeless body abandoned in a field behind her school.

Tock…

Two days later, a young mother is abducted. She’s discovered strangled and dumped in a local park.

Time’s up…

DS Grace Allendale and her team are brought in to investigate, but with a bold killer, no leads and nothing to connect the victims, the case seems hopeless. It’s only when a third woman is targeted that a sinister pattern emerges. A dangerous mind is behind these attacks, and Grace realizes that the clock is ticking…

Can they catch the killer before another young woman dies?


LOW

Author:Jeet Thayil

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Call Number:823.920 / T4

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis – his faculties ever distorted is quite sure he can trust.

Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration and, perhaps, epiphany.


THE ACCIDENTAL MALAY

Author:Karina Robles Bahrin

Publisher:Epigram

Call Number:899.280 / K1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its bak kwa. But when Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim, her newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions.

Set in Kuala Lumpur and other areas of Malaysia, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies, and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.


THE WAY BACK

Author:Gavriel Savit

Publisher:Ember

Call Number:813.600 / S32

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

For the people of Tupik, a tiny riverside village, demons are everywhere  dancing on the rooftops at midnight, congregating in the trees, trying to steal away the living. They even have a land of their own- the Far Country-governed by demonic lords and ladies.

One night, the Angel of Death comes strolling through the village, sending two children, Yehuda Leib and Bluma, off on a perilous journey through the Far Country. There, they will make pacts with ancient demons, and declare war on Death himself, and maybe-just maybe-find a way to make it back alive.


THE BOY IN THE PARK

Author:AJ Grayson

Publisher:Harper Impulse

Call Number:823.920 / G6

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break, he enjoys the quiet solitude of the boating lake, enjoys passing the time, watching the people come and go.

He has also begun to notice another visitor to the lake, a young boy, playing with a stick at the water’s edge, a boy who is always alone. Slowly, Dylan can see that something is terribly wrong with the child; he seems troubled and unhappy and when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, he knows that he must act.

As Dylan’s obsession with the boy takes hold, he embarks on dark, intense and terrifying journey, where nothing is at it seems and the truth is much worse than anything he could possibly have imagined…


LITTLE FAITH: A NOVEL

Author:Nickolas Butler

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Call Number:813.600 / B21

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and five-year-old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But, while away, she became deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick.

Reckoning with his own faith, and with growing hostility towards the pastor. Lyle faces the very real threat of once again losing his daughter and beloved grandson.

Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.


ILL WILL

Author:Michael Stewart

Publisher:Harper Collins

Call Number:823.920 / S7

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past.

Along the way, he saves Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping, and the pair journey on together.

Roaming from graveyard to graveyard, making a living from Emily’s apparent ability to commune with the dead, the pair lie, cheat and scheme their way across the North of England.

And towards the terrible misdeeds and untold riches that will one day send Heathcliff home to Wuthering Heights.


TAG, YOU’RE DEAD

Author:Kathryn Foxfield

Publisher:Scholastic

Call Number:823.920 / F5

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

The contestants are kitted out with body cams, GPS trackers and pressure sensors that, if activated by a competitor, will send them out of the running.

They venture into night-time London to hunt each other down. Four contestants in particular have alternative motives for being there, secret reasons to want to win despite the risk: money, revenge, obsession, and fame. And one of them will stop at nothing to be the victor at the end of this adrenaline and fear fuelled night…


WHITE BODIES

Author:Jane Robins

Publisher:Harper Collins

Call Number:823.920 / R6

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Callie and Tilda share the deepest of bonds, despite their obvious differences. Tilda is glamorous, beautiful, successful. Callie is reserved, ordinary, watchful.

When Callie meets Tilda’s new husband, she is appalled by what she sees. Felix may be charismatic, but he is also controlling, suspicious and dangerous. Soon Callie is asking herself questions about her sister’s safety, and just how far she would go to protect her twin…


THE SUMMER WE RAN AWAY

Author:Jenny Oliver

Publisher:Harper Collins

Call Number:823.920 / O5

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

It was meant to be the party of the summer…

In Cedar Road, everyone is preparing for Lexi’s ‘White Hot’ summer party. For one night, parking squabbles and petitions are put aside as neighbours sip Prosecco under the fairy lights and gather by the hot tub to marvel at Lexi’s effortlessly glamorous life with Hot Hamish.

For Julia, it’s a chance to coax husband Charlie out of his potting shed and into a shirt so they can have a welcome break from the hellish house renovation they’ve been wrestling with. And it’s a chance for Julia to pretend – just for a night – that her life is as perfect as Lexi’s.

But when, during the party, one of Julia’s WhatsApp messages falls into the wrong hands and reveals her most intimate thoughts, things reach boiling point…


SULA’S VOYAGE

Author:Catherine Torres

Publisher:Scholastic

Call Number:899.211 / T1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Fifteen-year-old Sula has always known she is different. Even though her parents have shown her nothing but love and acceptance, she sees her dark skin as a reminder of how she doesn’t fit in with the rest of her family. What’s worse is she also feels that her parents are hiding something from her.

After getting expelled from school, Sula reluctantly goes to stay with her mother’s friends. There she unexpectedly finds herself on a journey of self-discovery – a journey that keeps drawing her to the sea.

Sula must not only figure out her parents’ secret, but also just how different, and possibly magical, she really is.


AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH

Author:Gandhi

Publisher:Popular

Call Number:954.000 / G1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

‘Let hundreds like me perish, but let the truth prevail,’ wrote the Mahatma in the preamble of his autobiography which he concluded a quarter of a century before his life was violently cut short and while he was still active in guiding the destiny of a nation. This account, written in the easy-to-read-manner, continues to attract minds across the world and enthuse readers of all ages. Gandhi’s outstanding epic was originally published in two volumes, both of which are combined in this publication,

Rarely any author, regardless of his stature, would dare to reveal, among the mention of other milestones, the etchings of life’s darker events in their absolute entirety. Here Gandhi’s expanse of truthful frankness is as awe-inspiring as it is stimulating. His seemingly benign story carries the magic of reflecting his forthright and honest approach to life, and reveals at every step, how he surmounted untold impediments, scaling every glorious pinnacle.


KNIGHT OF THE DEMON QUEEN

Author:Barbara Hambly

Publisher:Harper Voyager

Call Number:813.600 / H18(3)

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Knight of the Demon Queen is the third book in Barbara Hambly’s fantasy tour de force, The Winterlands – an epic, classic quartet full of high stakes, magic and dragons.

Once the most powerful mage in the land, defeater of dragons, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. She was possessed and corrupted by a demon, losing all she held dear including her love’s trust. Rebuilding her life seems impossible. Her husband, Lord John, now bears his own torment, far away: he tricked the beautiful and cruel Aohila a rival hell’s demon queen, in order to free his wife from possession and now he is plagued by her memories. Condemned to death for making deals with demons, John cannot forgive himself for opening the door to a far greater evil – an evil that now haunts his dreams. And not only his dreams…

For the vengeful Aohila needs mortal aid in realms beyond her power, and who better to provide it than John? Blackmailed into cooperating, John must fight his way through unimaginable horrors in a quest that may doom the world he has left behind…


DRAGONSTAR

Author:Barbara Hambly

Publisher:Harper Voyager

Call Number:813.600 / H18(4)

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

The thundering conclusion to Barbara Hambly’s landmark quartet, The Winterlands, Dragonstar is a riot of magic, demons and dragons that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.

Condemned to die for consorting with demons, dragonslayer Lord John Aversin sits in a dank prison cell and calculates the odds of escape, all the while smelling the smoke of the executioners’ pyres.

Far away in Winterlands, Jenny Waynest pays a heavy price for turning away from dragonkind and choosing to be human. She mourns the loss of her husband, Lord John even as she turns to face the dangers that engulf her family.

But it is the season of the Dragon Star, and hope shines brightest in the dark.

As a pitched battle between demons and humanity rages, Jenny and John will be given one last chance to understand all that has happened to them and why, who their true enemies and allies are, and most of all, who they were always meant to be.


TRUTHWITCH

Author:Susan Dennard

Publisher:A Tom Doherty Associates Book

Call Number:813.600 / D9

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble―as two desperate young women know all too well.

Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires.

Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her, but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast to one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to Safiya’s hotheaded impulsiveness.

Safiya and Iseult just want to be free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and ship’s captain) and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.


UNDER THE RAINBOW

Author:Celia Laskey

Publisher:Harper Collins

Call Number:813.600 / L13

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone or so they think. But after being labelled “the most homophobic town in America”, a group of queer activists are moving in, and everything is about to change.

Linda welcomes the newcomers. The less they know about the death of her son, the better. Avery is furious at being uprooted from her life in LA. She dreads her classmates discovering that her mom is the head of the queer task force. And Gabe, a lifelong Big Burr resident, is no longer sure about the life he’s built with his wife.

While new friendships are formed, elsewhere tensions reach boiling point. And every resident, old and new, must reconsider the true meaning of community.


THE IKIGAI JOURNEY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FINDING HAPPINESS AND PURPOSE THE JAPANESE WAY

Author:Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

Publisher:Tuttle Publishing

Call Number:158.100 / G1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have to offer the world) and profession (how our passions and talents can become a livelihood) converge, giving us a personal sense of meaning.

This book helps you bring together all of these elements so that you can enjoy a balanced life.

Japan has one of the longest life spans in the world, and the greatest number of centenarians, many of whom cite their strong sense of Ikigai as the basis for their happiness and longevity. Unlike many “self-care” practices, which require setting aside time in an increasingly busy world, the Ikigai method helps you find peace and fulfillment in your busy life.


NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL

Author:Bryony Gordon

Publisher:Headline

Call Number:362.200 / G1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

From depression and anxiety to personality disorders, one in four of us experience mental health issues every year and, in these strange and unsettling times, more of us than ever are struggling to cope.

In No Such Thing As Normal, Bryony offers sensible, practical advice, covering subjects such as sleep, addiction, worry, medication, self-image, boundary setting, therapy, learned behaviour, mindfulness and, of course as the founder of Mental Health Mates – the power of walking and talking. She also strives to equip those in need of help with tools and information to get the best out of a poorly funded system that can be both frightening and overwhelming.

No Such Thing As Normal is a lively, honest and direct guide to mental health that shows how each of us can feel stronger, calmer and a little bit less alone.


BASIC CHESS

Author:David Levens

Publisher:Hamlyn

Call Number:794.100 / L1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

Now anyone can play chess, with this straightforward, jargon-free introduction. Written especially for beginners, it’s the most comprehensive manual available and includes everything from explanations of each piece to orchestrating endgames.

In addition to expert advice, simple instructions, and more than 200 easy-to-follow diagrams, novices will find: aggressive openings, the top-ten traps and attacks, basic tactical principles, specimen games to learn and crib from, and a test your chess IQ section.

Basic Chess is the book you need to master the game.


PARLIAMENT, UNEXPECTED: RECOLLECTIONS OF PARLIAMENT, POLITICS, AND PANDEMIC IN MALAYSIA

Author:Tan Sri Ariff Yusof with Lutfi Hakim Ariff

Publisher:Matahari Books

Call Number:320.000 / A1

Location:Area C

Synopsis:

In this recollection of his short tenure as the Dewan Rakyat Speaker. Tan Sri Ariff Yusof reveals his side of the story – dissecting the events and procedures of Parliament while providing an insider’s view of the unprecedented political developments that led to the fall of the Pakatan Harapan government in 2020 and his eventual removal. Meanwhile, a global pandemic started to rage and was met with faltering response from the government, and a suspension of Parliament.

Parliament, Unexpected is an autobiographical journey to understand the sources of our political dysfunction, and what needs to be done to reset and retell the Malaysian story for a fairer, kinder and more equitable tanah air for all.


MEMBONGKAR MISTERI DEWA & DEWI YUNANI PURBA

Penulis:Syed Mahadzir Syed Ibrahim

Penerbit:Hijjaz Records Publishing

Nombor Panggilan:938.000 / S1

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Mitologi Yunani merupakan sebahagian daripada agama di Yunani Purba. Para sejarawan moden mempelajari mitologi Yunani untuk mengetahui keadaan politik, agama, dan peradaban di Yunani Purba, serta untuk mendapatkan pemahaman mengenai mitos itu sendiri. Kebanyakan dewa Yunani digambarkan seperti manusia, dilahirkan namun tidak akan tua, kebal terhadap apapun, tidak boleh dilihat, dan setiap dewa mempunyai karakteristiknya yang tersendiri.

Kerana itu, para dewa juga memiliki nama-nama gelaran untuk karakternya, yang mungkin lebih dari satu. Dewa-dewi ini kadang-kadang membantu manusia, bahkan menjalin hubungan cinta dengan manusia yang menghasilkan anak, yang merupakan separuh manusia separuh dewa. Anak-anak itulah yang kemudiannya dikenali sebagai pahlawan.


HENRY THE BLACK PANGLIMA AWANG: PELAYAR MELAYU PERTAMA MENGELILINGI DUNIA

Penulis:Syed Mahadzir Syed Ibrahim

Penerbit:Hijjaz Records Publishing

Nombor Panggilan:909.000 / S3

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Nama Enrique Maluku, Enrique Melaka, Enrique de Malacca atau Panglima Awang tidak pernah tercatat dalam sejarah sebagai manusia pertama yang mengelilingi bumi. Tetapi nama orang Eropah yang berjaya mengelilingi lingkaran bumi disebut sebagai Sebastian de Elcano. Sedangkan Sebastian de Elcano berjaya mengelilingi bumi 17 bulan selepas kejayaan yang dilakukan oleh Panglima Awang.

Panglima Awang dilahirkan pada tahun 1494. Pada tahun 1503, beliau berlayar dari Ambon ke Palembang. Maknanya pada tahun itu, beliau memulai pelayaran mengelililngi bumi. Sekitar tahun 1509-1510 beliau berlayar dari Palembang ke Melaka dan sempat bekerja dengan Sultan Mahmud Syah. Pada tahun 1511, penguasa Portugis di bawah pimpinan Alfonso de Albuquerque telah menakluk Melaka. Sewaktu awal pengepungan Melaka pada tanggal 13 Julai 1511, Ferdinand Magellan, salah seorang kapten armada Alfonso de Albuqurque, berjaya menculik seorang lelaki yang kemudiannya mereka menamakan sebagai Enrique Maluku.

Buku ini mendedahkan dengan lebih mendalam tentang Panglima Awang, pelayar melayu pertama yang mengelilingi dunia.


KONSPIRASI ILLUMINATI ANTARABANGSA DALAM TENGGELAMNYA KAPAL TITANIC

Penulis:Syed Mahadzir Syed Ibrahim

Penerbit:Hijjaz Records Publishing

Nombor Panggilan:361.500 / S2

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Konspirasi Illuminati Antarabangsa bukanlah perkara baharu dalam dunia ini. Sejak zaman berzaman konspirasi ini memainkan peranannya dalam pelbagai tragedi di dunia sehingga mengorbankan puluhan ribu nyawa. Begitu juga dengan apa yang berlaku pada kapal Titanic.

Banyak orang menyangka kapal Titanic tenggelam disebabkan oleh perlanggaran dengan bongkah air batu secara tidak sengaja namun bukti-buktii menunjukkan bahawa kapal mewah tersebut sengaja ditenggelamkan untuk membunuh musuh-musuh illuminati.

Siasatan pihak Britain terhadap tenggelamnya kapal Titanic, menunjukkan ada kaitan dengan sejumlah urusan illuminati, bermula dari penglibatan yang luas kumpulan Freemason dalam kerajaan dan kewujudan mereka dalam sistem politik Britain pada umumnya. Mereka yang terlibat sukar dikesan kerana bijak menyembunyikan identiti mereka.


MEMBONGKAR MISTERI TAMADUN AWAL DUNIA : EROPAH AWAL YUNANI DAN ROM

Penulis:Muhammad Danial Bin Ramli

Penerbit:Hijjaz Records Publishing

Nombor Panggilan:909.000 / M3

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Yunani dan Rom merupakan dua tamadun terawal yang muncul di Benua Eropah. Muncul seawal tahun 3300SM dan berkembang selama lebih 3 ribu tahun telah menjadikan tamadun ini terkenal dalam pensejarahan Dunia Barat Moden. Sejarawan Barat menggelar kedua-dua tamadun tersebut sebagai Pemula aka Tamadun Awal Eropah. Malah walaupun hiatus hampir 1000 tahun berlaku di benua tersebut, namun Barat Moden masih mengagung-agungkan Tamadun Yunani dan Rom sebagai pengasas Tamadun Eropah Moden.

Malah, sikap membanggakan bangsa sendiri telah menyebabkan ramai sejarawan Barat menggelapkan peranan Tamadun Islam di Benua Eropah yang membawa kepada cahaya aka Renaissance.

Tamadun Yunani dan Rom telah mewarnai pensejarahan dunia selari dengan perkembangan tamadun awal di belahan lain dunia seperti Tamadun Mesopotamia, Tamadun Mesir Kuno dan Huang He serta Tamadun Alam Melayu.


KONSPIRASI YAHUDI ANTARABANGSA DALAM TRAGEDI PEMBUNUHAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN & JOHN F. KENNEDY

Penulis:Syed Mahadzir Syed Ibrahim

Penerbit:Hijjaz Records Publishing

Nombor Panggilan:973.000 / S1

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Sejarah telah mencatatkan bahawa Abraham Lincoln, Presiden Amerika Syarikat ke-16, dibunuh oleh John Wilkes Booth pada hari Jumaat, 14 April 1865. Manakala John F Kennedy pula ditembak oleh seorang sniper ketika berada di Dealey Plaza, Dallas. Konspirasi yang berselindung di sebalik The Hidden Hand, yang dikatakan memiliki segala instrumen dan fasiliti yang lengkap dan hebat termasuk segala kemampuan propaganda dan kawalan minda adalah dalang di sebalik dua pembunuhan ini.

Buku ini mengupas tentang misteri The Hidden Hand yang mempunyai cara khas untuk menghapuskan para pengikut elitnya. Ini bukan cara biasa seperti membunuh penduduk Iraq dan Palestin atau penduduk kampung di Myanmar tetapi perlu dirancang tarikh, masa dan tempat supaya menurut kepercayaan sihir yang dianuti, bagi mendapat berkat dan rahmat daripada The All Seeing-Eye.


KITALAH BINTANG

Penulis:Nazrul Kama

Penerbit:Open Bridge

Nombor Panggilan:899.283 / N19

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Fiza, seorang pereka grafik di agensi BigNoize Advertising bercita-cita menjadi seorang pelukis terkenal, laksana bintang – superstar. Namun, percubaan pertama mempamerkan hasil seninya temui kegagalan.

Hubungan Fauzi, seorang pereka set di TV5 dengannya bergolak kerana Fiza semakin sukar didekati, tidak seperti sewaktu mereka belajar bersama-sama di ITM dulu.

Ehsan seorang slacker berazam membina kerjayanya apabila mendapat peluang baru bekerja di agensi BigNoize Advertising. Dia dan Fiza mula berkenal rapat  dan Ehsan mula merasakan ada sesuatu antara mereka.

Tahun 1993, ibu kota sedang pesat membangun, dan mereka bertiga terperangkap dalam arus hidup yang semakin mendesak. Fauzi mahu tahu di mana pendirian Fiza, dan Fiza pula tidak tahu apa yang dia sebenarnya mahu. Antara Fauzi, dan Ehsan, siapa yang akan dipilihnya? Atau Fiza sendiri hanyut dalam kekeliruan?


BIG FAT LIES WOMEN TELL THEMSELVES

Penulis:Amy Ahlers

Penerbit:PTS Professional

Nombor Panggilan:155.000 / A3

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Menerusi buku Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves ini, pembaca akan memecahkan tembok kebencian terhadap diri dengan langkah berikut:

Kebenarannya: Terima hakikat diri dan salurkan semua aura positif bagi menggantikan aura negatif yang kerap menghantui jiwa.

Cabaran: Latihan praktikal yang membolehkan pembaca mengubah kebenaran dalam bentuk tindakan.

Janji: Kukuhkan semangat dan cita-cita dengan ikrar. Ini bukan hanya sekadar ucapan, tetapi kata-kata yang mampu memperkasa jiwa.

Hidup ini indah, dan wanita adalah penyerinya. Padamkan semua pembohongan yang selama ini menjajah jiwa. Penuhkannya dengan rasa cinta dan sebarkannya kepada dunia.


NOKTAH YANG MEMUJUK

Penulis:Iddin Ramli

Penerbit:Naseehat Holding

Nombor Panggilan:899.281 / I2(1)

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Antara keistimewaan yang dibawa oleh Noktah Yang Memujuk ialah Quotes & puisi yang memujuk, sarat dengan nasihat yang menyedarkan dan penyampaian yang santai & sampai.

Siapa yang perlu dapatkan? Untuk yang sedang kecewa, yang sedang patah hati dan yang sedang dalam kelekaan mengejar dunia. Semoga kita semua sentiasa dalam keadaan yang baik-baik saja.


TRAVELOG MR. TRAVELLER

Penulis:Meor Farid Asyradi

Penerbit:Meor Farid Asyradi

Nombor Panggilan:910.400 / M2

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Travelog Mr.Traveller adalah sebuah catatan pengembaraan nekad seorang mahasiswa menaiki kereta api seorang diri mengelilingi benua Eropah. Menempuh hampir 10,000 kilometer perjalanan melalui 15 buah negara dengan hanya menggunakan sekeping tiket sahaja. 50 buah kereta api digunakan dalam masa 15 hari.

Segala bentuk persediaan sebelum pengembaraan sudah diuruskan dengan baik dan rapi. Pelbagai kisah suka dan duka dialaminya ketika dalam perjalanan disulami dengan kisah-kisah ‘throwback’ ketika mengembara di negara-negara lain.

Namun adakah perjalanan yang dilaluinya semudah seperti yang direncana dan bagaimana? Ayuh ikuti dan rasai sendiri pengalaman yang ingin dikongsi. Pembaca akan dibawa masuk ke dalam dunia penceritaan menembusi benua dan dimensi pengembaraan. Realiti bukan mimpi atau fantasi.


HIKAYAT ADIWANGSA: LASYKAR

Penulis:Awan Wafdan

Penerbit:Mahakarya

Nombor Panggilan:899.280 / A3

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Ada dunia lain yang wujud di Nusantara. Dunia hikayat yang didiami oleh manusia bersama bunian, kayangan, duyung dan syaitan. Dunia yang dikarang dalam hikayat. Hikayat ini tentang Ayyan, seorang nelayan muda yang hanya ingin menikmati ketenangan hidup di tepi laut bersama datuk kesayangannya, Imam Syahriyan. Malangnya, kejahatan dari masa lampau muncul kembali sehingga menjatuhkan Estodania. Perseteruan Adiwangsa bermula semula.

Berjayakah Ayyan menemui Faris? Mampukah dia mengembalikan kegemilangan Estodania yang sudah jatuh ke tangan pihak musuh?


KISAH KLASIK TAMADUN MELAYU

Penulis:Abdullah Sidek

Penerbit:Patriots

Nombor Panggilan:398.200 / A1

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Bangsa Melayu sejak ribuan tahun yang lalu telah membina ratusan kerajaan yang membentang di Asia Tenggara. Kerajaan bangsa ini masyhur, didendangkan oleh pelbagai bangsa agung di dunia. Sudah tentu, sejarah tamadunnya yang berusia ribuan tahun ini juga pastinya menyimpan ribuan kisah menarik, hebat dan penuh pengajaran untuk tatapan anak bangsa.

Justeru, buku ini dihasilkan dengan menghimpunkan 70 kisah klasik daripada tamadun Melayu, yang penuh ragam dan rencah supaya anak Melayu zaman moden tidak melupakan apa yang berlaku pada helaian riwayat nenek moyang mereka.


AZRAHEL: SI PENJEJAK KUBUR

Penulis:Abu Huzaifah Bidin

Penerbit:Mahakarya

Nombor Panggilan:899.283 / A77

Tempat:Area C

Sinopsis:

Pada tahun 2099, dunia kini sedang bergelut dalam perang yang berpanjangan. 95% kematian di bumi ketika ini adalah di medan perang. Jadi dengan beratus-ratus juta mayat yang bergelimpangan di sana, siapa yang perlu menguruskannya?

Ketika inilah wujudnya penjejak kubur. Mereka diupah oleh ahli keluarga untuk mencari mayat waris mereka yang terkorban dan membawa mayat itu pulang. Mereka perlu pergi ke medan perang demi memenuhi permintaan ahli keluarga yang sedang berkabung.

Azrahel, seorang penduduk bandar Kersani, merupakan penjejak kubur yang mempunyai pengalaman selama 10 tahun. Dia diupah olch seorang usahawan bagi mencari suaminya yang terkorban di medan perang. Tapi apa yang ditemui Azrahel mengejutkannya. Sejak itu, segala-galanya berubah.

Apakah yang ditemui oleh Azrahel? Apakah nasib bandar Kersani selepas itu?