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Guns, germs and steel

The issue of the first development and backwardness of civilization, social development and retrogression has always been a major issue of concern to mankind. In this regard, the western society generally believes that the advanced technology, perfect social strata and cultural achievements of the western countries have jointly created the western civilization to be superior to others, and determined the position of the western world domination, and even believes that it is ultimately determined by the superiority of the western race. Guns, Germs and Steel tells us that the answer is not so. Environmental factors determine the wheel of history to tilt towards the West. The progress of civilization has indeed boosted the first development of culture, technology and organization, but it has also led to the invasion of bacteria and the fatal destruction of civilization by ships and cannons. That is to say, neither the theory of racial determinism nor the theory of superiority of Western civilization can explain why Western countries can rule the world for a hundred years. It is the excellent environment and resources that nourish the development of western civilization. In addition, Diamond subverted many social development questions that people are accustomed to from the interdisciplinary perspectives of biology, geography, history, sociology, anthropology, etc., providing a new perspective for us to understand human history. From a scientist deeply engaged in professional fields to a thinker concerned about human society and destiny, Diamond explored geography, humanity and the future from the intersection of science, history and society. To some extent, he represented the traditional turn of western public intellectuals from professionalism to ideology. He relied on multidisciplinary perspectives and rich travel experience, Recalling the development path of human history, looking for experiences and lessons, and trying to provide suggestions for the future development of human society.

·335000 words

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Misogyny (Updated)

Turn over the five stages of "Disgusting Women": 1. Curiosity. Everyone is talking about hating women. What exactly is hating women? 2. Identification. "Female aversion is shown as female contempt in men and self hatred in women." 3. Reflection. Deeply understand the mechanism of misogyny to reflect on their intimate relationship. It turns out that "women's misogyny is learned from their mothers". 4. Consciousness. More and more sensitive to misogyny. "I am not an ordinary woman" is also a disguised misogyny. 5. Although angry, I love myself more and love the connection between women. To borrow Ueno's words: "Women who grow up in the society of misogyny and are not infected by misogyny may not exist. Feminists are people who consciously realize their misogyny and decide to fight against it."

·164000 words

A Brief History of the Future · A Brief History of Human Beings (Suit) [Reprint Version]

This package includes: A Brief History of the Future and a Brief History of Human Beings, which are two books. A Brief History of the Future is a work to explore the future possibilities of human beings. This book reveals various puzzles in the future of mankind in three parts. The first part jumps back from modern times to historical and even prehistoric times, examining the biological composition of Homo sapiens and the relationship between humans and other animals. What kind of door has our unique biological function opened for us, and what kind of restrictions are there. The second part explores the significance of Homo sapiens to the world. It describes the strange world created by Homo sapiens in the past few thousand years, and the paths that lead us to the crossroads today. The third part is also the last chapter of the book, which goes back to the 21st century and describes our current predicament and possible future based on a deeper understanding of humanity and humanism. A Brief History of Human Beings is a magnificent brief history of human beings. With profound knowledge and groundbreaking insights, the author draws on paleontology, anthropology and sociology to help readers understand why human beings came into being and how human beings changed from animals to modern people. The value of this book is that the author not only tells us what happened in the past from a macro historical perspective, but also explores the deep meaning of human morality and survival, pointing out how such development has affected our daily life. He wrote about the process of the industrial revolution in the past two hundred years, and also about the agricultural revolution in 10000 BC. Tell us when and why money and religion came into being? Why can a few people rule the majority of the population? How did the rise and decline of the empire happen? Why do almost all societies think that women are inferior to men? Why has "monotheism" become a universal religious thought? How did science become the creed of capitalism? Does history have a direction? Is it historical progress that people become happy? The answers to such questions in this book will help readers understand the past of human society and guide us to define a clear future.

·501000 words

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How to read a book

This is a timeless classic about reading. This book is a reading guide, a masterpiece that guides people how to read. It once topped the best seller list in the United States. Since its inception, it has received many favorable comments and has been reprinted many times. The book introduces the methods and skills of reading and the broad vision that reading should have.

·245000 words

Best Farewell: Common sense you must know about aging and death

What should we do when the independent and self-help life can no longer be maintained? What should we talk to the doctor when life is near the end? How to cross the end of life gracefully? For these problems, most people lack a clear concept, and just leave the fate to medicine, technology and strangers to control. Artu Gewende, a doctor who has influenced the world, combined his years of experience as a surgeon with his fluent writing, told many sad and thought-provoking stories and made a sober and in-depth exploration of what it means to grow old in the 21st century. This book is insightful and impressive, and provides us with a practical roadmap, telling us what we can and should do to make the last years of life meaningful. The author chose the topic that ordinary people often do not want to face - aging and death, combed all aspects and development process of American social pension, as well as the improper treatment of end-stage patients by the medical community. The book not only tells about the limitations of death and medicine, but also reveals how to live to the end of life independently, happily and with dignity. In the book, a series of ideas advocated by the authors, such as "hospice service", "assisted living" and "pre life advice", are interspersed in the story to make a detailed explanation, which is believed to enlighten the aging Chinese society. Recommended by many experts and media. Li Kaifu, CEO of Innovation Works: As a doctor, Artu Gewende focuses on the limitations of medical treatment and human dignity. As mortals, we will all face the end of life. The Best Farewell gives us important enlightenment. Miao Wei, editor in chief of Xinzhi magazine: I hope you will have a chance to read the works of Dr. Atu Gewende, who can help us better understand medicine and know the limitations and possibilities of medicine. Best selling author Malcolm Gladwell: This is the most powerful and moving book of Artur Gavind. Nature: It's hard to read such a thought-provoking book.

·151000 words

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Earthbound China

Fei Xiaotong is one of the most famous sociological works, which has been highly praised by academic circles and ordinary readers for many years! If Jiangcun Economy focuses on the reform of social system, then Rural China is exploring the social morality that matches it. This is Fei Xiaotong's attempt to analyze China's social structure. He tried to theoretically summarize and enlighten the field research to build a unique local ethics system in Chinese society. Following the author's ideas, we can have a glimpse of China's grass-roots society. Although time changes, the author's perspective and method of observing society are still worth learning today.

·80000 words

A Brief History of the Future: From Wise Man to Wise God

After entering the 21st century, famine and war, which had long threatened human survival and development, were basically conquered, and Homo sapiens was faced with a new agenda: immortality, happiness and becoming a "divine" human being. In the process of solving these new problems, the development of science and technology will overturn many of our current "common sense" that does not need to be supported. For example, the free will advocated by humanism will face severe challenges, and machines will make more intelligent choices instead of humans. More importantly, when the development of science and technology represented by big data and artificial intelligence is increasingly mature, human beings will face a change from evolution to Homo sapiens. Most people will become "worthless groups", and only a small number of people can evolve into "god people" whose characteristics have changed. In the future, mankind will face three major problems: biology itself is an algorithm, and life is a process of constantly processing data; Separation of consciousness and intelligence; The external environment with big data accumulation will know us better than ourselves. How to treat these three issues and how to take countermeasures will directly affect the future development of mankind.

·239000 words

Work, consumerism and the new poor

In a society of producers and general employment, poverty is one thing. In a consumer society, the poor are another matter. In the latter society, life items are built around the choices of consumers, rather than around work and professional skills. "Poverty" was once associated with unemployment, but now it mainly refers to the plight of defective consumers. This difference has changed the way poverty is experienced and has a significant impact on saving suffering. This work of Bauman, a famous sociologist and thinker, reflects and discusses consumer society and its influence. In this book, Bowman traces back to this change in modern history, makes an inventory of its social consequences, and considers the effectiveness of various ways to fight poverty and alleviate hardship.

·92000 words

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be out of control

Kevin Kelly (1952~), nicknamed KK, is the founder editor in chief of the world famous science and technology magazine Wired, the spokesman and observer of Cyberculture, and the initiator of the first World Hacker Conference. In 1994, his legendary work "Out of Control", which predicted the future development of science and technology, came out. More than a decade later, the references in the text appeared one after another. In 2010, the Chinese version of "Out of Control" came out, which caused a sensation in China's Internet community and scientific and technological media. Since then, KK's words and deeds have become the "wind vane" of the development of the Internet. Today, when the Internet entrepreneurship tide sweeps across all fields, when the media focuses on roadshows, IPOs and the market value of technology companies, KK still calmly wanders among the latest technology products and primitive tribes that are rarely visited, thinking about how technology should develop and how human beings will rely on technology to live a happier life. Perhaps only in this way can we foresee the great inventions that can really change our lives. KK makes us believe that the future brought by science and technology will eventually be a "Protopia" full of warmth, humanity and freedom.

·478000 words

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Speak like a master: the way to speak in seven common working scenarios

The expression and communication of civil servants is not only a simple expression of personal will, but also an externalization and embodiment of duty behavior, with special restrictions and requirements. This book combines the common working scenes of civil servants, through the disassembly, demonstration and analysis of many real workplace cases, excavates the characteristics and laws of speech, and provides the formula and method for civil servants to "speak well". As the saying goes, "If you have food in your hand, don't panic.". Once you are familiar with the rules of speech on various occasions and master the train of thought of speech, it will no longer be difficult to speak to people.

·46000 words

Harvard Classic Negotiation

The first part of the book introduces the most basic negotiation strategies, which can help you establish a correct negotiation cognitive model and apply it to various negotiation situations, such as the 5-step method of preparing for negotiation, 7 common mistakes in negotiation, etc; The second part, from the perspective of cognitive psychology, explains why so many people are prone to make mistakes when negotiating, and how to deal with them; The third part analyzes some typical situations encountered in actual negotiations, such as finding influence strategies and blind spots in negotiations.

·182000 words

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Expert in learning

How to memorize to firmly grasp knowledge points? How to review to consolidate the complete knowledge system? How can we achieve lifelong cross-border growth through self-study? There are answers to these questions in Master Learner. This book is a reference book for students and parents to cultivate efficient learning ability. As a graduate with high marks from Harvard and Yale, the author systematically shared the super practical learning methods with advanced theoretical knowledge and classic learning experience. The book is divided into 5 modules, 30 classes and 100+methods to help you improve your academic performance and open up your life.

·170000 words

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social psychology

This book is a social psychology textbook with both theoretical and practical, academic and readable features. This book has extensively absorbed the classic research results of social psychology at home and abroad and the essence of similar textbooks, while striving to reflect the social psychological characteristics of Chinese people and local practical problems, trying to reflect the times, fun and practical operability, while emphasizing the display of academic frontier research results. The content is relatively comprehensive and the system is relatively complete, covering the basic content of basic social psychology and applied social psychology, including social psychology introduction, individual social psychology, interpersonal interaction psychology, group social psychology and applied social psychology, etc., vividly presenting the whole picture of social psychology research and its application in society, life, learning, work, management Widely used in economy and other fields.

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Disturbing Chinese

From "Analysis of All Classes of Chinese Society" to "Depressed Chinese", and then to the new and latest work "Disturbing Chinese", Liang Xiaosheng, a famous writer, once again "spoke", deeply stressing the fundamental social problems! From an alternative perspective, we can see why Chinese people are "depressed", why they are "worried", and why there are so many confused young people and boring "visitors" in China? The author exposes all kinds of contradictions and disputes in the society, explores the psychology behind human nature, the lack of culture, the "onlookers" in the society, the sincere tone and the voice of anxiety, and reveals the pressure and anxiety of Chinese people in both spirit and life. Without reading Liang Xiaosheng, how can you see through people's livelihood, freedom, humanity, class and society?

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Writing is the best self investment

Writing is a new way of social interaction in the Internet era and an important competitiveness of modern employees. In addition to new media operations, project plans, job evaluation, and work reports all require writing skills. Writing and expression have become the "basic skills" and even the "core skills" of every worker. Spenser, the financial uncle who is the best at writing and the operator of millions of subscription accounts, pioneered the "attention writing" principle, taught practical methodologies such as scene awareness, user thinking and expectation management, deeply shared how to accumulate writing materials, cultivate writing habits, and summarized the general principles of writing good chapters and telling good stories. Let writing help you release your personal energy and talent, achieve your personal brand, achieve identity counter attack, and ultimately gain influence and business value.

·106000 words

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County and Township China: Modernization of County Governance

This book is the author's masterpiece on the logic and practice of county and township governance, which is based on the research on grass-roots governance for more than ten years and combined with the latest survey data in the last two or three years. It makes an in-depth analysis of the system and mechanism of grass-roots governance and puts forward constructive suggestions. Specifically, the contents of this book include: the mechanism arrangement of transforming the advantages of the county system into governance effectiveness, the problems of the grass-roots governance system and mechanism, the autonomy of grass-roots leaders and ordinary cadres at the grass-roots level, the system design of the county and township governments to implement national policies and its efficiency and effect, and the incentive and development of grass-roots staff. Through popular language, the manuscript deeply describes and depicts the phenomenon of county and township governance, presents and analyzes the case, grasps the essence of things and vivid images, and attempts to make theoretical analysis and explain in simple terms. The theoretical perspective in the book will help readers understand the advantages of China's county governance system in depth, promote grassroots innovation in governance mechanisms, improve grassroots work ability, and form a positive atmosphere for officers to start businesses. The book has both depth of analysis and readability, and is especially suitable for the general public.

·200000 words

Tipping point (fifth edition)

Why are people suddenly playing the same game, watching the same play and wearing the same sneakers? "Infectious" is not only used to describe diseases. Any kind of product, thought, information and behavior has infectious effect and can spread like a virus. The dramatic moment when quantitative change reaches a critical level and ushers in qualitative change is a "tipping point". The seemingly accidental popular phenomenon actually has rules to follow. In Tipping Point, Gladwell analyzed social trends such as fashion trends, commercial advertisements, smoking, children's TV programs, and summarized "popularity" into three golden rules: individual character rule, adhesion factor rule, and environmental power rule. The word "tipping point" has also become a common word in the business world. The world around us seems to be motionless, but as long as you find that point and touch it gently, it may tilt. If you make good use of the three popular rules of Tipping Point, you can also create a pop.

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Sociology Outline

The Outline of Sociology was written by Li Da when he was a professor in the School of Law and Business of National Beiping University. It is a landmark masterpiece of Chinese Marxist philosophy at present. The book consists of five chapters, namely: materialist dialectics; Historical materialism viewed as science; Social economic structure; Social political architecture; Social ideology. The book is profound in thought and has guiding significance in understanding society and the internal causes of social changes. It is known as "the first Marxist philosophy textbook written by the Chinese themselves".

·386000 words

The Pride of the Elite: How does a good society define success?

In the past, the society promised that people "can succeed as long as they work hard". If everyone can compete fairly at the same opportunity, the winner should be rewarded. This is the ideal represented by the "American Dream", and also the ethical core of merit supremacy recognized by most modern societies. However, Sandel believes that the "American Dream", which inspired countless people to struggle in the past, is precisely the source of the division of today's American society. This seemingly fair concept of success causes the arrogance of the elite and the resentment of the bottom people. It makes the winners believe that their success is the result of their own efforts, forget the opportunity and luck to help them, and despise those who are less fortunate and unqualified than themselves. This situation has hindered social mobility, fostered class antagonism, eroded democratic politics, and ultimately led to the rise of populism. Faced with the hegemony of excellence, Sandel hopes every citizen to think: can people of different classes seek a public interest? What is our responsibility to each other? He led us to think from the following three aspects: the nature and purpose of education, how to establish the value and dignity of each job, and re reflect on the significance of success. At the same time, he reminded us to remain humble, cherish the efforts of all people, actively discuss measures that are more conducive to social justice, and move towards a less resentful and more inclusive public life.

·155000 words

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I was on the verge of collapse: Yu Minhong personally described the entrepreneurial development path of New Oriental

This book is the first time that the author Yu Minhong tells a complete and in-depth account of the entrepreneurial process of New Oriental from 0 to 1, from 1 to N, and discloses many unknown details. It shows that he has led New Oriental from a training class to become an entrepreneur of a listed group, and that his team has gone through the darkest moments, even to the brink of collapse. It is difficult to start a business. A quarter century's arduous journey has been completely recorded, which vividly represents the founding team and people of New Oriental who forge ahead in the glory of the times. Along the main line of the content, the time story of the "troika" has been preserved, and the new generation of management teams have forged ahead in the rapidly developing Internet era, striving for a broad world. Now, under the wave of artificial intelligence, where the New Oriental will go is still the continuation of the New Oriental story. It is believed that this book will inspire and inspire readers in personal development, organization construction, enterprise management and other aspects in the author's consistent humorous narrative style.

·176000 words

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Guns, germs and steel

Misogyny (Updated)

A Brief History of the Future · A Brief History of Human Beings (Suit) [Reprint Version]

How to read a book

Best Farewell: Common sense you must know about aging and death

Earthbound China

A Brief History of the Future: From Wise Man to Wise God

Work, consumerism and the new poor

be out of control

Speak like a master: the way to speak in seven common working scenarios

Harvard Classic Negotiation

Expert in learning

social psychology

Disturbing Chinese

Writing is the best self investment

County and Township China: Modernization of County Governance

Tipping point (fifth edition)

Sociology Outline

The Pride of the Elite: How does a good society define success?

I was on the verge of collapse: Yu Minhong personally described the entrepreneurial development path of New Oriental