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Tang Xuegao, a college student, suffered from depression and was overwhelmed by pressure after entering the society. At the critical moment when he was about to jump off the building, he received a call from his crush on his girlfriend Liao Lingwei, and saved Tang Xuegao with his true feelings.

This book contains Douluo + Dou Po + multiple female protagonists In the early stage, the main focus is to fight against the timeline, and after becoming a god, fight to break the world. Blue Star Qian Duoduo travels through Douluo Continent and binds the system After asking, I found out that the system brought me to Douluo Dalu. As a result, the system said that the wrong person was bound. Need to be untied on the spot Before the system left, Qian Duoduo asked the system for three compensations. Relying on these three compensations to defeat Douluo and Douqi Continent The protagonist of this book is not a bitter and resentful type. After all, life is not sweet in the first place. If you are still bitter and resentful after reading this novel, why should you watch him? Because the timeline is based on the protagonist, Zhu Zhuqing will be about half a year older than the original one. There will be one or two chapters in the early stage to fight against the world, mainly to prevent someone from making mistakes. After all, Xun'er before three years old and Xun'er after three years old are two people. Ps: No rabbits or Bibi Dong! ! ! No rabbits or Bibi Dong! ! ! No rabbits or Bibi Dong! ! !

There are three volumes in the set, including "The Omniscient Reader's Perspective", "The Omniscient Reader's Perspective 2", and "The Omniscient Reader's Perspective 3".

William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (Known as "Hank"), acting chair of the English Department at Western Pennsylvania State University, is about to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. This wisecracking, middle-aged professor finally realizes that he is not suitable for an academic career. Although it took him twenty years to realize this, if not for the accumulation of self-deception over the years, how could this awakening be as hearty as the collapse of a brick wall? It is the cruelest month of April, and this special week is destined to be difficult: his wife is about to go to Philadelphia to interview for a new job; his obsession with multiple women, including the adult daughter of his colleague, is shaking his loyalty to his pragmatic wife Lily; his romantic father, who has been separated for forty years, is about to return to his mother's residence; The youngest daughter is preparing to end her marriage because her husband is unemployed; his nose was smashed by a sharp-tongued colleague with the spiral edge of a loose-leaf notebook, causing nosebleeds; the university is about to cut 20% of its staff funding; he is also well-founded and suspected by a group of harsh scholars, citizens and students of torturing the goose. A crazy mid-life crisis is brewing...

Nobel Prize winner Camus' masterpiece drama, "The Stranger" and "Happy Death" are newly translated by translator Zhang Yiqiao. After Caligula's lover died, he disappeared for three days. When he came back, his temperament changed drastically, and he suddenly claimed that he had discovered the truth, that is, "people are mortal, and they are not happy." Faced with this unchangeable fate, Caligula wanted to achieve the "impossible". He wanted to hold the moon in his hand, mix the sky into the sea, confuse beauty and ugliness, and make the suffering people laugh. He wants to give this century the gift of equality for all living beings. Until the impossible finally covers the earth, and in the end, no one dies and they will all be happy. In order to realize all this, a great trial begins. Caligula pushes the emperor's power to the limit, and everything in the world is waiting to be transformed...

Japanese Nebula Award winner and science fiction master Kobayashi Taizo, a masterpiece collection of thriller and suspense short stories. The ultimate reversal! This book selects 11 representative short stories by Kobayashi Taizo, integrating multiple themes such as science fiction, suspense, and ghost stories. It involves many elements such as dystopia, Cthulhu, human nature, time travel, and AI simulation. The stage of the story extends from daily life to cosmic space. Kobayashi Taizo interweaves and confronts weirdness and ethics, keenly capturing the secrets hidden deep in human nature, and issuing thought-provoking thoughts on life, existence, self-awareness, identity, human rationality and other propositions.

Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize winner in literature and the author of "The Grapes of Wrath", is the pinnacle of his literary life. The film of the same name was directed by Elia Kazan and won an Academy Award! After being reprinted for many years, this is the first time to include Steinbeck's 20,000 words of creative notes, showing the beginning and end of the creation of "East of Eden" and presenting the novel's time and space background and character creation. This is a family saga that lasts for half a century. Poverty, war, wealth, murder, love, family affection, lies... It tells about life and their free will that confuse every generation. Set in the Salinas Valley of California, the novel uses a blend of symbolism and realism to tell the half-century story of two families from the Civil War to World War I. Here, Steinbeck creates some of his most captivating characters and explores his most timeless themes: the mystery of identity, the blindness of love, and the murderous consequences of its absence.

Charlotte, the protagonist of "Charlotte", is the prototype of Chaplin's classic character, the Tramp. After Charlotte played the silent love drama in "City Lights", she didn't know what new adventure she was pursuing. But one thing I dare to say is that Charlotte's adventure is limited, but his life is infinite. He is a friend not only to modern humanity, but also to future and eternal humanity, since human suffering is endless.

Philippe, a retired army officer from Paris, was up to no good. When he heard that his uncle Rogee had a large inheritance in the countryside of Isoutun, he came to the countryside to make careful plans. Max, the rogue leader of Isutun, is idle and does all kinds of bad things. He colludes with Luo Ri's mistress Flor, and also covets the inheritance of old Luo Ri. Because of Flor's instigation, the two began a life-and-death struggle, which eventually turned into a duel...

It tells a story about money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. It revolves around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy and uses three intertwined plot threads to connect the novel: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and the painful human experience of Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet and Charlie's betrayal. This is a colorful social custom painting from the French provinces in the first half of the 19th century, which exposes the evils of capitalist society and the corrosion and destruction of people's minds and souls by money.

Uncle Bangs was a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man. He loved the art of painting very much. In order to enrich his collection of famous paintings, he devoted all his energy and thought. When people did not know that he had all these treasures in his house, no one took him seriously. When they learned the value of these famous paintings, in order to seize the inheritance of the lonely old man Bangs, some people from the upper class headed by Camusot tried every means to obtain his wealth.

"Petro Goriot" is set in Paris from the end of 1819 to the beginning of 1820, and describes a thought-provoking story: the noodle merchant Goriot made his fortune by selling grain, but was abandoned by his daughter after raising him, and died tragically in the attic of the Voquet apartment; the young man Rastinana gradually embarked on a path of depravity under the corrosion of the upper class society in Paris. Old Man Goriot is both a pursuer of money and a victim of money worship. Before his death, he uttered a long howl intertwined with love and hate. It was a blood-and-tear indictment of the sins of money, and was hailed as the "eternal masterpiece."

Chinese-English bilingual commemorative edition, a high-quality translation by translator Mr. Liang Yongan! This is a collection of essays. "From the Deep" is an epistolary essay written by Oscar Wilde, a British writer, poet, dramatist, and artist. In 1897, Oscar Wilde wrote this long letter to a friend. The letter concentrated on his views on literature, thoughts on life, and views on art. The whole book is full of literary talent, brilliance, and emotion. It can be called Wilde, a true portrayal of the innermost thoughts of this well-known great writer of the 19th century. When this work was written, Wilde was in his prime, in the prime of life, and had profound thinking. At the same time, this work is very frank and sincere. It can be said that in addition to its extremely high value in literature and art, "From the Deep" is also an important material for later generations of scholars to study Wilde's life.

Japan Nebula Award, a classic work by science fiction master Kobayashi Taizo. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about Kobayashi Taizo's world! Science fiction, reasoning, horror, love, novel settings, extreme reversal, your world view is about to be subverted! The genius illustrator Sajun customized the cover for "Tattered"! Someone used DNA from the stratum 6,500 years ago to bring alive alien life forms; there is a place where human corpses can be recycled and human bodies can be repaired; I have loved my wife for decades, but found out that she turned out to be a murderer; I was wrongly accused of being a murderer, but that is not me... Here In this book, Kobayashi Taizo focuses on four major genres: monster novels, westerns, psychological thrillers, and character reasoning, using meaningful metaphors to write about human beings' fear of the unknown. The forward-looking science fiction world reveals worries and ironies about the human condition of existence. If you want to understand the world of Kobayashi Taizo, this book is enough.

The White-haired Fox Fairy Queen is a passionate fox fairy with 15,000 years of miraculous experience in becoming a fairy. She has become the dream lover in the hearts of the emperors of the earth, and she is also yearned for by the immortal Chun Yun in the heaven. When the white-haired fox fairy queen won the love of the immortals in heaven. The star kings of the universe, such as the Mars King, the Jupiter Star King, and the Mercury King, have changed their methods and used the body of the white-furred fox fairy to give birth to hybrid children who broke the universe. They can surpass the interstellar martial arts and consolidate the interstellar boundaries as kings. The white-haired fox fairy queen disappeared and became pregnant again and again, leaving their star king to miss her forever.

"Selborne Natural History" is a famous British natural classic essay and one of the author's most important early contributions to the field of ecology in British scientific research. The book sorts out the natural environment and historical evolution of human life, and provides vivid and detailed descriptions of many species and natural phenomena including birds, plants, climate, etc. However, of more general significance, from Gilbert White's writings, modern people living in the high-tech era can gradually understand how to form a common tolerance between humans and nature, and how to find a balance between loving nature and enjoying urban life.

This book provides a detailed and splendid description of Britain's politics, economy, society, diplomacy, war, landscape, and humanities after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Under the rule of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the Stuart dynasty, Britain not only participated in the European war that lasted for more than 10 years - the War of Spanish Succession, but also achieved a major victory and officially became the leading power in Europe. This book not only reveals the reasons for Britain's victory, including the relatively relaxed social atmosphere after the revolution, the growing commercial society, the gradual formation of the fiscal-military state system, the rise of party politics, the parallelism of the blue ocean strategy and the European continental strategy, and the military talent of the Duke of Marlborough, etc., But also illustrates the fierce domestic struggle that was going on at the same time. The book also describes in detail the many land and sea wars between Britain and France under Louis XIV, as well as the characteristics of the war techniques popular in Europe in the early 18th century. In addition, this book has excellent comments on the balance of power diplomacy popular in Europe in the 18th century, as well as the politics, military and diplomacy of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

"The Complete Novels of Jane Austen" contains all 6 novels written by the great female writer Jane Austen in her life, namely "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Northanger Abbey", "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Persuasion". These stories are not complicated, and they all write about the eternal topics of mankind: love and marriage. Most of the stories are set in English villages with three or four families, and the protagonists are just young girls from squire families. However, the stories written are like the waves in a tea cup, exploring the problems of women's love and marriage such as "reason and emotion, pride and prejudice, money and marriage, love and being loved, singleness and marriage, persuasion and self". Even after two hundred years, it is still called "the world is awake" and has great enlightenment significance for women's choice of marriage and love. "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first work. Director Ang Lee adapted the original film of the same name. It uses the different reactions and experiences of a pair of sisters with very different personalities in their relationship to explore the question of "which is more important, rationality or sensibility, in love and life." "Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's most popular work and one of the most translated masterpieces in the world. It describes the story of Elizabeth, a young girl without inheritance rights, and Darcy, the noble prince, who resolve misunderstandings and come together. It proves that "misunderstandings between people are nothing more than pride and prejudice." "Northanger Abbey" is an excellent satirical comedy about a well-matched couple. Through the various adventures and encounters of a "fake daughter" full of romantic fantasy in the castle, it reveals the inseparable relationship between "marriage and money". "Mansfield Park" is praised by readers as the British version of "Dream of Red Mansions" and is also an Austen work that Maugham especially liked. It tells the story of Fanny, who has been dependent on others since she was a child, and persists in the love of her heart, and repeatedly rejects the passionate pursuit of the rich man Crawford. It highlights the independent attitude of women: "If you love me, should I love you?" "Emma" is called "Jane Austen's most mature work" by critics. It goes against the previous setting of "poor and kind" heroine. Through the marriage and love story of Emma, ​​a willful and intelligent wealthy daughter, it inspires economically independent women to have the freedom to choose "not to marry" or "to get married". "Persuasion" is based on the experiences of Jane Austen and her sister. It describes the obedient and gentle "older leftover" Anne's search for the courage of herself and love many years later, and analyzes the balance problem of "others' persuasion and self-will" that women commonly face.

This book is an excellent and adventurous work by Irving, the father of American literature. It tells the story of a group of civilized people in the early days of the development of the United States - an expedition headed by Captain Bonneville - who entered the American West to engage in exploration, development, and trade, and their various adventures and conflicts with the local primitive savages (such as Indians). It shows us the rich and colorful beautiful scenery of the American West, as well as the extraordinary local customs and customs. The work is highly readable and the writing is fluent. Each of its adventure stories brings readers into magical realms.

This book collects twenty of the author's best short stories and short stories, including immortal chapters such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Soldier's Home" and "An African Story". These works allow readers to fully appreciate the great charm of the author's short stories and short stories, which are exciting and long-lasting to read. They have created the image of a "tough guy", and many works reflect "elegance under pressure." "People can be eliminated, but they cannot be defeated." This brave and fearless spirit runs through many works. Simple and clear dialogues, intricate plots, and intriguing stories attract readers into the author's unique literary world.

I want to talk briefly about my first husband, William. We had been married for nearly twenty years when we divorced. I thought I would be heartbroken over being separated from him, but I wasn't. I'm still fine, and so is William. During the years I spent with William, I sometimes thought marriage was such an abomination: the familiarity with each other was so strong that it filled the whole room, my throat was choked by the understanding of each other, the smell of my thoughts, the self-awareness in every word, the slight raise of the eyebrows, the unnoticeable tilt of the chin. No one knew the meaning of those actions except each other. In such a life, one cannot be free, never. This book is the third book in the "Lucy Barton Quartet" and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It tells the story of Lucy and William, although they are divorced, they still accompany each other to form and face new relationships over the years. By chance, William discovered that he had a half-sister. William invited Lucy to accompany him to Maine to find his sister and explore the past of his parents' generation. In this process, Lucy's various memories are interspersed, about love, affection, family relationships and self.

2,500 years ago, a huge and unknown object that could not be detected suddenly disappeared. Now, it has reappeared with ominousness and mystery. A leap in technology, or the destruction of life - how can humans and intelligent machines break the silence of the universe? A masterpiece of science fiction praised by William Gibson and Elon Musk. Chilling, horrifying, and deeply fascinating. If you also like "Meet Rama", "Dune" and "Arrival", please don't miss this book!

At the police station's year-end banquet, an urgent note brought shocking news: the suicide of a female teacher fifteen years ago was actually a homicide, and the suspects were three problem students who sneaked into the campus that night. The statute of limitations for pursuing the case is about to expire, with only twenty-four hours left! The police urgently restarted the investigation and found that behind the case was not only the truth about the death of the female teacher, but also intertwined with unknown secrets and unhappiness. What is even more shocking is that this case seems to be inextricably linked to the "300 million yen robbery case", one of the "Three Major Unsolved Cases of the Showa Period". In the process of extreme pursuit of the murderer, the police uncovered mysteries one after another, but they did not know that they were stepping into a more complicated conspiracy...

Ten minutes ago, Pemberton Bryce, who had just been fired, kindly gave directions to a stranger. After walking out of the consultation room, he saw the stranger's body and a mysterious note in the Paradise Cemetery. As the investigation deepens, Bryce is inevitably involved. The jewelry from decades ago reappears in the world, and the grievances and resentments of twenty years never end. The love of the three people rotates back and forth. Can Bryce finally get his wish and get what he longs for?

Mr. Salim Mazarov is an informal and generous traveler. He traveled far and wide, often taking out diamonds from his jacket pockets in public places and talking to people like a farmer showing off grains of wheat. Until one day, he was finally found dead in a "den of thieves" in the wilderness of northern England. This was clearly a robbery-murder, possibly the work of a homeless man, or a well-planned crime. But the most puzzling thing is that he left all his inheritance to me, Melvin Holt, whom he had only known for less than a few months. When the suspicious eyes of the police and greedy coveters approach at the same time, is this huge inheritance falling from the sky a blessing or a curse?

An elderly man dies mysteriously at home, and Lauriston, the young man who first discovered the body, becomes the main suspect. As the investigation progresses, the case becomes more confusing: new victims appear one after another, and an orange-yellow diamond worth 80,000 pounds and a large amount of cash mysteriously disappear. Two Chinese with braids and a Japanese came into the police sight. Who is the real murderer behind the scenes? How should Lauriston prove his innocence?

This book is also known as "The Secret of the Emperor's Heavenly Court", "Two or Three Things Between Me and the Immortal Phoenix", and "I Eat Soft Rice in the Final Years of Mythology" After reincarnation, Lin Fan, an ordinary person from Blue Star, came to the end of Zhetian Mythology, and the Immortal Emperor was about to become enlightened. Let's see him rise against the sky and fight against immortality with the help of the Golden Finger Chaos Tree Seed. ... Thousands of years ago, the Heavenly Palace perished, the Emperor retired, and the Heavenly Lord lurked, sleeping immortally. Now, ten thousand years have passed, and the suppression of the Emperor's Great Way is gradually disappearing. Immortal Immortal is about to wake up from his slumber and become the emperor, becoming the supreme emperor respected by all races.

This is the story of a UT party member who traveled to UT. How will he achieve the "perfect ending" without the system's grandpa... Let us interview this person below, The most qualified protagonist in the entire Internet novel! Author: What do you think of your time traveling to "Undertale"? Protagonist: I ******* (blessing) you******* (congratulations) dio you ********* (birds singing and flowers fragrant) sweet rain********** (I want to send the author to a place with mountains and water) (The author JO Chef + ut party only writes that there is no female protagonist. Before the main line of this book is completed, it will not consider adding other AUs, nor will it consider adding non-original characters other than the protagonist. The author will try his best to write with the original first design, but the original setting has too many loopholes, so many custom and second designs will be added. )

The story begins with a business plan. Rosen and his partners carefully designed bionic robots based on historical figures from World War II, such as Edwin M. Stanton and Lincoln, hoping to make a fortune. But the problem is, the only potential buyer is a greedy billionaire whose plans for the androids could land them in jail. More complex problems ensued. The androids seemed to be too sophisticated, making everyone doubt that they were real historical figures resurrected across the ages. Yet a man as great as Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold once he is resurrected.

Humanity discovered and took possession of a large ship that had been drifting in space for hundreds of millions of years. The so-called "ship" is actually a huge planet equipped with propulsion equipment. Humans live and multiply in this world called the Big Ship, and carry other intelligent races as passengers. In this way, he has traveled and lived in space for countless generations. During this period, humans continued to explore the structure of this magical ship that was not designed and manufactured by themselves. In the era when the story takes place, mankind made a major discovery: the core of this large ship was actually a hollow, and in this hollow, suspended an all-metal planet with extremely large mass and small volume. This small planet is the core of the big ship, its "star marrow". An exploration team composed of large ship elites secretly went to Star Marrow. After arriving, whether due to accident or conspiracy, the connection between Xingmui and the ship was cut off. The exploration team was isolated on this small planet and stranded for thousands of years. At that time, human beings had achieved immortality, multiplied and multiplied for thousands of years, and formed new civilizations and races. The survival purpose of this new race is: to return to the ship and seek revenge.

Lawyer Louis came from a humble background, was stingy with wealth and vicious and cold-blooded. He spent his life trapped in a cage of suspicion and revenge. When he was approaching old age, he wrote a suicide note in which he complained about his wife and children. In the letter, he poured out his resentment, complained about his wife's past love history, scolded her for being cold to him, and hated that his children coveted his inheritance. He carefully planned and made various calculations, planning to give his property to his illegitimate son to take revenge on his family. However, an unexpected critical illness wiped out his accusations and hatred, and his suicide note turned into a confession and repentance. When death came, he faced his twisted soul fed by resentment and untied the "snake knot" that had entangled him throughout his life in love and faith. The alienation of love, the rift of marriage, the calculation of family affection, the loss of faith... Mauriac uses cold writing to reveal the fatal knots intertwined in intimate relationships, allowing hatred and redemption to fight fiercely in the dying candlelight. "Inability to love" is a disease. Only by cutting off the snake knot can we learn how to love.

This volume is a specific regional study. It describes and studies the cartography and map use during the Renaissance in Germany, the Low Countries, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, East-Central Europe, and Russia, as well as the social basis and driving factors for the development of cartography, as well as the role of cartography development in society. The content of this book is informative and extensive. On the one hand, it presents in detail the important figures, map works and map drawing activities in various regions of Europe during the Renaissance, changing the previous narrative model that only focused on a few cartographers and works. At the same time, it also provides a detailed introduction to Ireland, Suzhou and other countries that have rarely been involved in the Chinese world. The history of map drawing and use in the Netherlands, Northern Europe, Hungary, Poland, Russia and other regions is also described and excavated as much as possible. It is of great enlightenment for us to understand the development process of cartography, geography, and even the entire scientific system and society during the European Renaissance in a three-dimensional and multi-dimensional way.

This volume covers the period from 1450 to 1650, which has long been considered an extremely important period in the history of European cartography. The book first introduces the academic circles' discussions and reflections on the concept of "Renaissance" in recent years, and carefully analyzes the continuation and rupture between the maps of this period and the medieval maps, and introduces the role of maps in late medieval society, thus setting the tone for the writing of this volume. This volume discusses maps and Renaissance culture by topic; the drawing of cosmographic, nautical and celestial maps; the visual, mathematical and textual models used for map drawing; the relationship between literature and maps; the production and consumption of technology; maps and their role in national governance during the Renaissance; and finally discusses the history of cartography in Italian countries, Portugal, Spain, etc. As advances in science during the Renaissance, the use of classical mapping techniques, the emergence of new trade routes, and dramatic political and social changes fueled an explosion in map production and use, this volume, unlike other volumes, spends considerable space discussing maps in a variety of contexts and connections, resulting in some innovative interpretive monographs.

This volume focuses on the rise and evolution of cartographic concepts and cartographic practices in the two major civilizations of Islam and South Asia, covering a wide range of types and themes. It is the most comprehensive review of the history of cartography to date. The book is full of information and contains a lot of information. It not only helps readers understand the characteristics, traditions and development of these two civilizations' cartographic activities from their own perspectives, but also lays a solid foundation for in-depth discussions in related academic fields. It also opens up new topics for future cross-cultural comparative research on the history of cartography from a global perspective.

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Arne and Tove took their children to summer vacation in South Norway. When driving at night, hundreds of crabs gathered on the road in front of him; their friend Egil was divorced and lived alone in a holiday house on a nearby island, and temporarily needed to take care of his ten-year-old son for a week; the pastor Katrin was bored with her marriage. She had just returned from a business trip and was about to host a funeral for a man she met at the airport - and the funeral was arranged ten days ago; supermarket cashier Aislin returned to her rental house When he was about to fall asleep in the attic where he lived, someone knocked on the door frantically for help; nurse Zolfai assisted the doctor in extracting organs from a patient who had been declared brain-dead. After cutting open the patient's body, the electrocardiogram reappeared beating; reporter Jorstein hung out in the bar after get off work, and after receiving news from friends, he set off alone to the scene of the murder of a death metal band; his wife Tirid was a nurse in a mental hospital, and on the night she was on night shift, a patient escaped from the hospital. Following "Mein Kampf", this is the first in Knausgaard's latest novel series. This allegorical work traces the lives of nine characters who are related to each other. It outlines mysterious and strange events based on daily details, and explores important philosophical themes: death, faith and despair at the rhythm of a suspenseful narrative.

Baba Yaga is a witch, but does not belong to the group of witches; she can be both a good person and an evil person; she is a mother and the murderer of her daughter; she is a woman, but does not have and has never had a husband; she lends a helping hand and plots conspiracy; she is expelled from human society, but she also communicates with humans; she is a warrior, but she also does housework; she is a "dead person", but she is also alive She can fly, but is also tied to the ground; she is just an "accidental character", but she is also a key stop on the protagonist's journey to happiness: the "polite" and "rude" protagonists stop in front of her hut. They eat and drink, take a comfortable bath, listen to her advice, take away the magic gift she gave, and then disappear without a trace. Translated into more modern language, she is a dissident, an exile, a loser, a recluse, a spinster, an ugly creature. Her image relies on oral tradition, is the result of a collective creation, and serves as a collective mirror. Her life story begins in better times, when she was the Golden Barba, Mother Earth. Later, she became an outcast scarecrow, but still ruled the people with her tricks. Now, she huddles in the hut and suffers for days, like an embryo in the womb or a corpse in a coffin. No one knocked on her door again with flowers and chocolates.

What is "modern Japan"? What is its budding and development history? Is each node unique or resonant? How did Japan evolve from a fragmented land of warring heroes to the world's second largest economy at the end of the 20th century? This is a masterpiece of Japanese history spanning four centuries, starting from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and ending at the end of the 20th century. Marius Jensen, honorary professor at Princeton University and editor-in-chief of "Cambridge History of Japan", takes the formation and development of the modern country as a clue, leading readers through the Edo, Meiji, Showa, and Heisei eras, exploring Japan's politics and economy, thought and culture, military and diplomacy, and revealing how modern Japan was born amidst change, struggle, and innovation. The establishment of the powerful rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brigadier General Perry's forced opening of Japan's ports, and Japan's defeat in World War II. These three events initiated three periods of painful and dramatic changes in Japanese history. The author accurately captures the key figures and important events during this period. From being forced to open the country, to proactively seeking innovation and change, to crazy external expansion, these behaviors are all the result of the game of various forces and the collision of different ideological trends in the international community and Japan. This broad-scope and all-encompassing work also presents Japan's literature and art, social scene, and people's lives. As an indispensable part of history, they also make the book's narrative more interesting and humane.

One day, Seicho Matsumoto's "Sand Container" was screened in the underground theater. The movie showed the scenery of old Japan. I had only been to Atami and Kyoto, but I felt nostalgic. One day, Hana had a dream: I was swimming in the Sumida River, parallel to me, and diagonally above me, my mother was flying. One day, Ah Qiu stopped breathing. In human terms, it is a hundred years old. One day, I lost Hua's wallet. She said not a word, and her steps were serious and hurried. I feel like I have become a very old person. One day, I saw a physical model of Oden, and my emotions surged up like hot water: The world after death must be very lonely. There wasn't such excitement in that world. I want to live in a world full of these things for a while longer! ... The last journey of life between mother, daughter and her beloved cat. Eating three meals a day and traveling with a companion, the peaceful depths of daily life stir up a surge of memories from time to time. Yuriko Takeda is a late-blooming but also a born essayist. With a child-like vivid and intense vision, she describes the sudden and smile-inducing details, the changing scenery of the four seasons, and the people who walk non-stop day by day, wrapped in the premonition of death and the nostalgia for life. Her diary is the branches and leaves of life. It is still breathing when you pick it up.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of the 18th century satirical fable writer Jonathan Swift. The story is told in the voice of Captain Gulliver, narrating his strange experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Huima. Since its publication in 1726, it has become a household classic and is loved by readers all over the world because of its absurd plot, vivid language and profound satire. This work is not only suitable for children to read, but also worthy of careful reading by every adult. A classic travel story popular among teenagers around the world, an incredible fantasy adventure. Lilliput, Big Man, Flying Island Country, Hui Ma Country, people are as short as pencils, tables are as huge as mountains, islands can fly, horses can talk, and the weird Royal Academy of Sciences... What kind of strange adventure has Gulliver experienced? What unusual life experiences have I witnessed? I hope every reader will open this book and read it.

In the previous work "Salt Road", Renault and her husband Maus lost their home due to the betrayal of their friends, and at this time Maus was terminally ill. In a desperate situation, the two decided to go on a fearless hiking trip. During the trip, Maos's health improved, and the two started a new life in a foreign land. However, their new life is full of challenges: When Renault's mother suffers a stroke and is hospitalized, her life hanging on a thread. Should Renault, as a daughter, choose full rescue or palliative care? Suffering from a degenerative disease and once unable to take care of himself, Maus struggled to complete his studies or gave up? Faced with a sudden gift, will the betrayed and displaced couple still have the courage to trust others again and accept the kindness of strangers? How can Reno open his heart, use pen and paper to fight Maos's illness, and save his husband's memory? With their strong will and infinite love for nature, Renault and Maus bravely embrace the life that belongs to them...

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This volume focuses on the spatial cognition of European prehistoric peoples and their ability to transmit cartographic concepts through media such as petroglyphs; surveying, geodesy, and architectural plans in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern cartography; the emergence of theoretical and practical cartographic knowledge in the Greco-Roman world; and the diverse cartographic traditions that coexisted during the medieval period. Moreover, by including cosmographic maps and celestial maps among the research objects, it emphasized the inclusiveness of the definition of "map", thereby getting rid of the traditional narrow research scope that only focused on land maps and nautical charts, and thus influenced the writing of subsequent volumes of the series. In addition, the book begins with "The Development of Maps and the History of Cartography" written by Harry as an introduction to the entire series, and Chapter 21, which serves as the conclusion, discusses the ruptures, cognitive transformations and social background in the development of European maps.

"The History of Cartography of Traditional Societies of East and Southeast Asia" is the second volume of the second volume of the "History of Cartography" series. The Chinese translation of this volume is divided into four parts. The first part first gives a brief summary of Asian prehistoric maps, mainly rock paintings, cosmological maps, and tomb maps; secondly, it is an overall introduction to East Asian cartography, which provides a high-level summary of the scope, terminology, content, academic history, methods and means of East Asian cartography, and the relationship between map images and texts. The second part is the history of Chinese cartography. From the aspects of political culture, measurement, art, and Westernization, it reflects and criticizes the previous research model of Chinese map history that focused on the quantitative end, and proposes a new paradigm for exploring ancient Chinese maps from multiple perspectives starting from the social culture on which they were produced. This part also discusses the ancient Chinese universe schema that has rarely been touched upon by predecessors. The third part is the history of cartography on the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Vietnam. Using time as a clue, it discusses the emergence and development of maps of different scales in various countries, and also analyzes the relevant social and historical background. The fourth part is the history of Southeast Asian cartography, which is divided into three parts: cosmological maps, geographical maps, and nautical maps. Starting from collection and organization, it conducts an in-depth and detailed analysis of the types and cartographic characteristics of the main existing maps in Southeast Asia. This book provides hundreds of rare high-definition pictures of ancient maps in China, more than 40 collection lists of ancient maps from various countries, and more than 100 pages of multilingual references and terminology entries. Excellent research and detailed information make this book a classic study of the history of traditional social cartography in this region to date.

Ten years ago, Harold, a sixty-five-year-old winery salesman, left home one morning and walked 627 miles to visit his friend Queenie, who was at the end of her life. His wife Maureen also went through a journey, but it was not the heroic journey that Harold is so talked about. She is always at home. While Harold walks across England to save a woman he once worked with, Maureen is at home cleaning the kitchen sink. Today, he is seventy-five and she is seventy-two. Over the years, she thought she had dealt with the past, but there were times recently when she hated the world because the people she loved most were taken away. That man was her son David, who would have been fifty years old this year if he were still alive. Her past self turned into a cage, trapping her and unable to enjoy the happiness that was so close at hand. Harold understands everything. He looked at her pain and knew she needed her own pilgrimage. "Let's go now. Let's go." He pushed her. Maureen picked up her shoes and quietly closed the bedroom door behind her. If she doesn't leave now, she may never be able to leave. She walked towards the garden Queenie had built by the sea before her death, where a secret about David was buried. She was going to find her own answer.

"The Mestizo Mind: The Ideological Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization" is the result of Serge Grudinsky's groundbreaking research on the colonization of Latin America in the 15th and 16th centuries. Colonization inevitably brings about a dramatic process of hybridization, which is often associated with unification and globalization. This book uses detailed historical materials to demonstrate the phenomenon of the integration of native colonial and European cultures, from the artistic images of churches to the books, songs and even handicrafts spread to the people, and the impact they had on the colonial people. This mixing of cultures resulted in interbreeding between natives and settlers, conversion of Indians to Catholicism and their participation in the colonial government, and the artistic visualization of figures such as Jesus and Perseus by American Indians. The fusion of these cultures gave birth to new cultures, new individuals, and a new phenomenon called globalization, as well as the mestizo mind-a common state of multicultural thinking that emerged 500 years later. This book provides us with answers to the causes of various phenomena and extreme changes covered by cultural integration, and answers one by one to questions that people often ignore - the ways, conditions, environment, methods and even speed of cultural integration.

This book does not seek to prove historical events or chronology, but is committed to guiding readers to think and explore the new mission of current history - how to re-understand and study history? Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, connected by the ocean, were successively reconnected through religion, media, and electronic technology. The author uses various means such as contemporary photography, film, opera, music and even comics to present the current situation of the integration of mixed cultural and historical heritage in the post-colonial world. He uses the diversity of several continents in the world as the basis for rewriting history, and depicts a history of the intersection between Islam and Christianity, and the cultural spirit of capitalism and socialism. In this book, readers will experience the different positions and mentality of European colonists, colonial elites, colonial natives and mixed-race descendants, traveling between North America where Mexico is located, South America where Peru and Brazil are located, Europe represented by Portugal and Spain, the Muslim world of the Ottoman Empire, and China and Malaysia in the Far East. From "time" to "space", from "local" to "global", from "present" to "past", from "fragmentation" to "reshaping", this book will lead readers to jointly explore a "global history" in which time, space and subjects are intertwined.

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A case of a sixteen-year-old boy killing his family occurred in Shizuoka City. Subsequently, a terrible rumor spread like wildfire: There was something wrong with the layout of the house. According to the house plan, this two-story house is very ordinary. However, if you try to think of yourself as a resident in a house and think about it for a moment, you will find that there are various things in this house that are not suitable for living. Bedrooms without doors, entrances and exits prone to quarrels, living rooms with stinky smells when eating... A troubled boy who grew up in a space with no privacy... No, the darkness bred in this house may be more than that... There is a strong sense of dissonance hidden in 11 ordinary houses. Can you see through the floor plan to see the truth?