Last month we introduced 8 new SciTech books authored or edited by HKUST faculty and researchers. This post showcases the new books in humanities and social sciences. For books with multiple authors or editors, the name of the HKUST member is flagged by an asterisk and linked to the scholar profile in SPD for current faculty.  

Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design  

By Evangelos Markopoulos, *Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, Amic G. Ho, Yan Luximon 
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This book gathers proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Human Factors in Communication of Design (July 16-20, 2020, USA) and presents how creativity drives design and innovation to allow the integration of a wider spectrum of topics related to engineering, industrial, and ergonomics design. 

Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from Histories By Laurence L Delina See availability in Library This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response. Delina argues that consent must be revoked and power realigned to avoid suffering the consequences of unabated climate change. 

Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life 

By *Eric S Nelson 
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This title explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. 

Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarianism 

Edited by Hsu Szu-chien, *Kellee S Tsai, Chang Chun-chih 
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The People's Republic of China has experienced numerous challenges and undergone tremendous structural changes over the past four decades. Based on a dynamic typology of state-society relations, this volume adopts an evolutionary framework to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. 

Grammar: A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers 

By Tom Rankin, *Melinda Whong 
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Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theoretical linguistics and pedagogical teacher training. This book seeks to bridge that gap. Using engaging examples, it provides an innovative overview of linguistic theory and language acquisition research for readers with a background in education and teacher training, and without specialist knowledge of the field. 

PAP v PAP: The party's struggle to adapt to a changing Singapore 

By Cherian George, *Donald Low 
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Singapore appears to be transitioning gradually to a more competitive and contentious democracy. For now, though, the People’s Action Party still controls all the levers of power. The PAP's internal dynamics will be the primary determinant of its continued viability. This anthology of essays expands on one dimension of this inner struggle: between a conservative attachment to what worked in the past, and a boldly progressive vision for the future. 

Teacher's Pronunciation on Learners' Interest: How Does the Pronunciation of a Teacher Affect Young Learners' Interest in Learning English: a Case Study in a HK School 

By *Sara Lai-Reeve  
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This descriptive case study probes into the effects of a local Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten teacher's pronunciation on her students’ classroom interactions in English language learning. It also describes and examines the teacher's own perceptions of pronunciation competency as a language professional. 

What is Good Academic Writing? Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing 

Edited by *Melinda Karen Whong, Jeanne Godfrey 
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The field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) developed to address the needs of students whose mother tongue is not English. This volume asks what good writing is within specific disciplines, focussing on student work. The volume includes chapters on established disciplines which have had less attention in the EAP and academic writing literature to date, including music, formal linguistics, and dentistry, as well as new and growing fields of study such as new media. 

宏观经济学通识课: 掌握经济分析的简单逻辑 

*谢丹阳著  
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本书从宏观模型、货币政策、财政政策和经济增长四个板块，构造我们了解宏观经济学的基础框架，并通过结合生活中的案例和中外历史上的经济事件，比较不同政策报告的细微变化以及解读宏观经济数据，将金融、货币、经济周期、汇率制度等概念好读、易懂地阐释出来，从而帮助我们掌握经济分析的简单逻辑和基本方法、准确理解宏观经济与政策热点，规避投资风险，抓住日常机遇。  

环境与气候协同治理: 中国及其他国家的成功实践  

何建坤, *齐晔, 李政等编著 
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本书来自中国和世界各地的案例研究展示了环境气候综合评估和协同治理如何帮助制定具有成本效益和连贯性的政策，从而降低政策成本，提高成功概率， 识别出能获得双赢的解决方案。 

三字經與現代社會 

施仲謀, 李敬邦 編著; *任濤 普通話朗讀者 
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Open access full-text available at SPD Institutional Repository 

《三字經與現代社會》附有趣插圖，並設粵語及普通話真人朗讀。全書共分作八大單元，每課教材共分成「小故事」、「知識小學堂」、「註釋」、「語譯」、「賞析」及「大家來想想」六個部分，引導學生把《三字經》的內容聯繫到日常生活，進行反思。 

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