秦漢史

　也許你知道中國歷史上，秦漢滅六國，一統天下；漢高組革命，成為第一個平民皇帝；王莽利用禪讓之論，代漢而興。然而，你知道秦始皇如何統治龐大的帝國？焚書坑儒的真相又為何？漢帝國對外擴張遇到什麼樣的問題？重農抑商背後的事實是什麼？

　　史學大師錢穆，以嚴謹的史學研究方法，就學術、政治及社會各層面，深入淺出地對秦漢史加以探討。全面性的論述，不但一解秦漢史學的疑惑，更能提高讀者的眼界，是對中國歷史有興趣的讀者，不可不讀的一部佳作。

　　本書共分七章。上自秦代統一，下至王莽新朝覆滅，未及東漢。內容分學術政治及社會經濟，三面並重。其在學術 方面，於秦漢博士官制，以及百家言與王學之代興，皆有深入之闡詳。尤於秦代之焚書案，及漢代之表彰五經案 ，皆有言人所未言者。而尤於新莽代漢興起之學說思想根據，特多創發。

　　其於政治方面，封建制與郡縣制遞進，曲折起伏，表裡俱陳。而對匈奴外患之應付，其步調 之變化，又重農輕商之經濟政策，皆有精密之探討。其言政治，皆 從下層社會之實際情著眼。學術政治社會三者會合而觀，指陳其變通是非之所在，更為本書之最著精神處。讀此書當可於治史方法得大啟悟，此尤為本書取大貢獻處。

Cartooning, the head and figure

adc 83rd annual awards

好多得獎作品

上年書展見到的

401 Design Meditations

In need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, illustration, and industry product design, sound off on every topic, including deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism and life as a creative soul -- all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world.
Enjoy reading sound bites from everyone from Frank Gehry, David Carson, and Charles and Ray Eames to Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rand, Stefan Sagmeister, and Saul Bass.

活著 余華

炊煙在農舍的屋頂裊裊升起，在霞光四射的空中分散後消隱了。慢慢地，田野趨向了寧靜，四周出現了模糊，霞光逐漸退去。我知道黃昏正在轉瞬即逝，黑夜從天而降了。

我看到廣闊的土地袒露著結實的胸膛，那是召喚的姿態，就像女人召喚她們的兒女，土地召喚著黑夜來臨。

很平淡的一個故事，但又恨不得追下去。可恨再買了余華的"兄弟“，"兄弟“真不知所謂。

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"All ending are beginnings. We just don't know it at the time... "

昨日買了~

Eddie is a maintenance man who keeps the rides safe at the Ruby Pier amusement park. His 83rd birthday seems like any other day --- he inspects the rides, watches the people, makes pipe cleaner animals for the children. However on this day he dies unexpectedly, trying to rescue a young girl in harm's way.

What he knows is that we all seek answers. We look for meaning behind the experiences in our lives. More often than not, we never get the answers but we continue --- we plod on, happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, pain-free or in pain. We live. Albom doesn't pretend to offer us the answers, but he does offer us an almost Taoist interpretation of life. It is. It just is. The answers may never be revealed. And do they need to be?

even those nameless people you pass on the street who may have played a larger role in your life than you ever could have imagined.

Tord Boontje

“I believe that if we see design as a way of shaping the future of our world, it should be as exciting and thrilling as a great film or book. At the same time, it should communicate not only who we are, but also how we would ideally like our world to be.”— Tord Boontje

從這本作品集，或稱自傳，可以看到Tord的藝術基礎是有幾深厚。書本身的設計亦很出色，非拿在手上是感覺到到的。

也斯的香港

《也斯的香港》是也斯眼中的香港。本書由也斯34篇文字和165幀照片組成，將也斯眼中和心中的香港呈現給讀者。有別於一些介紹香港的書籍，也斯的文字和照片都比較「現代」。他著重描寫香港這個國際大都會的「多元」和不同凡響。在書中，他捕捉了香港一些典型或不典型的人物和地方，用獨特的角度把他們表現出來，書中收有葛拉軾、劉以鬯、舒巷城、李小龍、李國威、李歐梵、李家昇、梅卓燕、梁文韜、鄧達智、葉輝、陳炳良、李澤楷等人的特寫。

三聯出版這系列書，包括昨日的“林家舖字“，加入了幾好的黑白照片，亦是吸引我買的原因。

The photograph as contemporary art

研究攝影師拍每一張相背後的動機和意義。

林家舖子 茅盾

本書收茅盾短篇小說四篇。《林家舖子》一九三二年“九一八”上海戰爭前後的江浙農村為背景，透過林家舖子的倒閉，反映了民族商業破產的厄運。

由《春蠶》、《秋收》、《殘冬》組成的農村三部，每篇各自獨立又前後銜接，時代背景和《林家舖子》基本相同，反映廣大農民隨著苦難的加深而逐漸覺醒、抗爭的過程。

建築的故事 - 王受之

建築的故事

建築，和人一起生活，一起見證時間的流動。

在藍天之下炫耀著白色光亮的保羅．蓋蒂藝術博物館；想在擁擠城市中尋找呼吸空間的丹下健三東京市民廣場；
放肆理性主義到極致的玻璃盒耶穌教堂；百年來堅持英式優雅風格的利物浦火車站；吸引全世界目光的畢爾包古根漢博物館，

從洛杉磯、東京、慕尼黑、倫敦到西班牙的畢爾包，建築，以各種姿態在世界各地傲然矗立，熱情地訴說著社會歷史的沿革、城市文化的演進，以及與人交錯的豐富奇聞軼事。

王受之
美國Art Center College of Design終身職教授，目前在中國各地針對設計專題舉行講座，是中國設計界的權威，著作有《產品的故事》、《美國插圖史》、《世界當代藝術史》、《世界現代平面設計》、《世界現代建築史》等。

香港電影海報選錄

I like this one most.

Issey Miyake's watch design

又係玩CONCEPT, 真野就個CASE太厚, 帶上手會好古怪。

Man's search for meaning

Victor Frankl was a Jewish Austrian psychiatrist who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. He lost his wife and family. Yet he emerged in triumph.

Frankl observed that many of the prisoners died when undergoing less hardship and suffering than those who survived. The survivors tended to be people who envisioned a future for themselves despite their present suffering, people who believed they had a meaning in life and did not surrender to despair.

He developed a psychological treatment method called logotherapy. According to Frankl, logotherapy is striving to find a meaning in one's life as the primary force. Frankl would help patients improve their mental health by helping them to discover meaning in their lives.

"The salvation of man is through love and in love."

"What matters is not the meaning of life in general but the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment."

閱讀殖民地 王慧麟

http://www.cosmosbooks.com.hk/topic_2/page_1.asp?topic=2&bookid=262818

香港史

這本書是中譯本厚達六百多頁的書，但都是HKD80 。
原著英文叫A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong / by Frank Welsh (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-Place-History-Hong-Kong/dp/1568360029

生死疲勞 莫言

《生死疲勞》敘述了1950年到2000年中國農村50年的歷史，圍繞土地這個沉重的話題，莫言闡釋了農民與土地的種種關係，並透過生死輪迴的藝術圖像，展示了新中國成立以來中國農民的生活和他們頑強、樂觀、堅韌的精神。 ──在這個大?述裡，有家族的仇恨，有情欲的糾葛，有驚人的貧困和匱乏帶來的焦慮，有狂熱的理想國追求的幻滅和失落，有新的市場化之下鄉土中國的新希望、困擾和挑戰……

小說的敘述者，是土地改革時被槍斃的一個地主，他認為自己雖有財富，並無罪惡，因此在陰間裡他為自己喊冤。在小說中他不斷地經歷著六道輪回，一世為人、一世為馬、一世為牛、一世為驢……每次轉世為不同的動物，都未離開他的家族，離開這塊土地。小說正是通過他的眼睛，準確說，是各種動物的眼睛來觀察和體味農村的變革。
莫言解讀：鄉村人物的個性價值 。

書名來自佛經。《生死疲勞》來自佛經中的一句：「生死疲勞由貪欲起，少欲無為，身心自在。」莫言說，佛教認為人生最高境界是成佛，只有成佛才能擺脫令人痛苦的六道輪回，而人因有貪欲則很難與命運抗爭。

雖然書介常重覆生死輪廻，但閱後又不覺作者怎樣去探討每一世的造業與下一世輪廻的關係。

南懷瑾

南懷瑾先生引導我讀彿經。十多年前從"易經雜說“認識他，繼而讀他的“金金剛經說甚麼“。南師用淺易的文字，引解出四書及佛學的理論，令我輕易領悟個中道理。如果書友仔們末有預備看佛理，可以試下論語或大學都無妨。

New Typographic Design

Typography 對一件設計影嚮其大，只要選中一款和你的設計相襯的字體，又或用字體做main visual，巳經無需要做其他設計功夫。

此處有內頁看。

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300117752