Books recommended by Principal

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拿破崙的鈕釦:17個改變歷史的化學分子
Napoleon's Buttons

作者:潘妮‧拉古德   Penny Le Couteur, 杰‧布勒森  Jay Burreson

內容簡介
1812年,法軍在俄羅斯戰敗為什麼與錫製鈕釦有著一定程度的關係?
原因是在極低溫的情況中,錫製鈕釦在化學作用下分解成粉末,俄羅斯的冰天雪地讓法軍軍衣上的錫製鈕釦粉碎,使軍人衣不蔽體,未能扺抗嚴寒而敗北而回。
如果當時這些法軍軍衣上的鈕釦是由其他耐寒金屬製造,法軍是否能繼續東征,將歷史完全改寫?
本書透過引人入勝的故事及有趣新奇的角度,講述17種化學分子如何在人類歷史文明中扮演著舉足輕重的角色,大家萬勿錯過。

《劍橋語絲》

作者:金耀基

內容簡介
作者金耀基教授於1975年在香港中文大學獲得了為期一年的長假,在英國劍橋的克蘭亞學院住了十個月,又在美國新劍橋的M.I.T.作了兩個月的訪問。劍橋大學悠久的歷史、獨特的學院制度及迷人的文化氛圍促使作者寫了十幾篇在劍橋的所見、所聞、所思及所感。

A Seventh Child and the Law 

Author: Patrick Shuk-siu Yu

Summary
This book consists of two parts. The first part details the author's mysterious journey in 1938. He was awarded a government scholarship to study at the University of Hong Kong even though he wrote an essay on a battle in Chinese history which was not the one set out in the matriculation examination paper. After the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the author worked successively for the British Naval Intelligence and the Chinese Nationalist Army in China. After the second world war, he pursued further studies at Oxford University on a Victory Scholarship and later qualified as a barrister-at-law.