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Evanescent Isles: From My City-village / Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City

世界是一本書 林沛理的文化評論是一種智力探索。在他的筆下，上至互聯網下至iPhone，偉大如母愛，庸俗如高清電視；都包含著隱藏的訊息等待著我們去解碼和發掘。問題是這個世界可供「閱讀」的程度究竟有多少？用閱讀的視角看世界可以看得更深、更遠、更清楚，抑或只是庸人自擾？

Johnston, a New York Times investigative reporter, has spent his 40-year career exposing collusion between government officials and private sector entities as they enrich the rich and ignore consequences for middle-class laborers and the poor. In Perfectly Legal , he focused on hidden inequities in the tax system. This volume is a broader examination of collusion and unfairness, ranging from subsidies for professional sports stadiums to secret payouts to multinational corporate chief executives. At the base of Johnston's journalistic indictment are the highly paid lobbyists working Congress, state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and government regulatory agencies. Johnston also cites the culpability of George W. Bush in his roles as professional baseball team owner, Texas governor and U.S. president, and targets well-known tycoons such as Donald Trump, Warren Buffett and George Steinbrenner as well as lesser-recognized beneficiaries who own golf courses and insurance companies and energy consortiums. Heroes appear occasionally, such as Remy Welling, an Internal Revenue Service investigator who blew the whistle on improper tax breaks for the wealthy and lost her job. Johnston writes compellingly to show how government-private sector collusion affects the middle class and the poor. (Jan.) From Publishers Weekly Copyright c Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

本書乃作者根據胡慕嫻女士自身經歷改篇而成。作者以細膩的筆觸、真切的感受，將她的經歷與1941至1989年香港所發生的重要事件糅合在一起。

香港有四代人，生長於戰前的是第一代，依次直推至1990年誕生的第四代。呂大樂以精闢的透析力和高度的概括力，道出四代人的精神面貌，並令人不無警惕地指出，在安分寬容的第一代陸續退下舞台之際，「戰後嬰兒」卻未能為下一代提供更開放、更公平的環境，以致第三代人深感出頭無期，而第四代人打從開始便是輸家。

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fiance up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.

The Chinese Canadian immigration project explores the dynamics of migration flows between China and Canada from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. It is based on the Canadian Register of Chinese Immigrants, a list of almost 100,000 Chinese who entered Canada between 1851 and 1949, most of whom were required to pay a discriminatory and restrictive entry fee – the so-called Head Tax. Using this core document, the project will examine migration between China and Canada, its relationships to patterns of immigrant recruitment in China and settlement in Canada, and the socio-economic factors underlying these population movements.

香港大學圖書館邀請CEO蔡東豪先生 (筆名原復生) 擔任《城西書話》嘉賓，為大家解答以上問題。蔡先生將會與主持人梁文道先生天南地北，分享他閱讀史提芬‧京 (Stephen King) "On Writing : a Memoir of the Craft"的讀後感和閱讀寫作的心得。

On 17 November 2007, Professor Lung Ying-tai and her son Andreas will come and talk about their book "Dear Andreas". It is a collection of emails between Professor Lung and Andreas. Medium of the talk will be Putonghua.

On 17 November 2007, Professor Lung Ying-tai and her son Andreas will come and talk about their book "Dear Andreas". It is a collection of emails between Professor Lung and Andreas. Medium of the talk will be Putonghua.