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"Technology and Civilization" brings together pioneering methods and rich and informative historical data, and it also explains a novel theory that is still very forward-looking today: people internalize the external world and externalize the inner world - our greatest success in material activities is often the projection of our deep spiritual needs and the greatest rational and irrational passions. Therefore, understanding technology is not only the first step in reorienting our civilization, but also a means of understanding society and, by extension, ourselves. Mumford is surprisingly optimistic in his examination of the plight of early modern society. He identifies the nature of the problems that lead to economic, social, and environmental collapse, including the militarization of social organization, the waste of resources, the gross destruction of natural systems, and the promotion of mindless consumerism as the ultimate satisfaction in life. He believes that it is entirely possible that the injustices of the paleotechnical period will eventually be replaced by a humanizing new technological era. But after witnessing the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, the mystification of public opinion, and more, his original confidence no longer existed and was replaced by growing skepticism. Perhaps it is for this reason that we should revisit Mumford's former thinking. Back then, the light had not yet been obscured by shadows and the best possibilities still existed. Let us ask with young Lewis Mumford: What kind of world do we want to build?

Divination operator Yunshan is at the edge of the Han River, at the beginning of Qin and at the end of Chu. Banditry is rampant in inter-provincial suburbs, causing thousands of waves. It is a turquoise mine in the light and a military training ground in the dark. Eliminate all demons and monsters and protect the well-being of all people.

Three years ago, global time and space became distorted, and time and space began to overlap and overlap. The random survival trial game has made a strong debut and is spreading around the world. Everyone is a potential player in this game, which means that fiction becomes reality. Everyone may be taken into another time and space, that... Space dominated by the trial game. Those who go there must deduce the big boss according to certain rules, successfully defeat it with the help of props, and complete all the main tasks before they pass the trial. As for these copies, they have different shapes and scenes, but the process remains the same no matter what. That is to deduce the secret of the place, find the core characters or props for completing the mission, and finally escape successfully and successfully break through the level. The so-called survival trial has only one purpose - to survive! Only by being alive can you find clues and complete the task within the specified time limit, otherwise you will just be trapped there forever. The eternal topic - survival! It is the core of this game! The good thing about the Survival Trial Game is that people under the age of 18 and over 60 are not allowed to participate. People of other age groups are more dangerous. In the beginning, there were naturally some people who did not believe in evil. It was just a broken game that appeared out of the sky and it was said that eternal life was trapped. It was a fantasy. It wasn't until those who violated the rules and failed to pass the level were sealed in another space and could never return to the real world that everyone began to realize that something was wrong.

In September, when the sun is shining and the cicadas are chirping, Weixin Middle School welcomes the new semester as scheduled. The campus is full of students laughing and full of youthful vitality. But no one expected that under the calm surface, there were turbulent undercurrents, and a severe challenge quietly came. The mysterious Lan tribe is hiding in the campus. They have a special mission, but they are caught in an unprecedented crisis. Ancient prophecies, mysterious symbols, all clues point to a shocking secret concerning the fate of the world. The daily exchanges between classmates may hold the key to solving the mystery; a casual club activity may become an opportunity to turn things around. In this seemingly ordinary campus, the people of the Lan tribe rely on their wisdom and courage to explore the truth amidst the fog and race against time, just to resolve this crisis that can subvert everything.

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of novels, focusing on a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". The protagonist "I" is a high school boy who likes mathematics. His hobby is discussing calculation formulas. He often thinks about mathematical problems alone at his desk. After entering high school, he met Mirga, a genius girl who is good at mathematics and smart, Tedora, a school girl who is curious, energetic and hard-working, and Risa, a taciturn computer expert. In addition, Yuri, a cousin with a flexible mind and gradually fell in love with mathematics under the guidance of "I", several young people traveled in the world of mathematics together and discovered the beauty of mathematics. Differential calculus from "Secret Notes of a Math Girl". The author Hiroshi Yuuki collected the questions raised by readers on the Internet about the "Mathematical Girl" series and compiled them into chapters. In the form of character dialogue and exercises, he once again explains various mathematical concepts in simple and easy-to-understand terms.

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of novels, focusing on a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". The protagonist "I" is a high school boy who likes mathematics. His hobby is discussing calculation formulas. He often thinks about mathematical problems alone at his desk. After entering high school, he met Mirga, a genius girl who is good at mathematics and smart, Tedora, a school girl who is curious, energetic and hard-working, and Risa, a taciturn computer expert. In addition, Yuri, a cousin with a flexible mind and gradually fell in love with mathematics under the guidance of "I", several young people traveled in the world of mathematics together and discovered the beauty of mathematics.

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The "Mathematical Girls" series is developed in the form of a novel, focusing on the story of a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is simple and easy to explain, and the explanations are very subtle. It is called "the best popular science book on mathematics". "Secret Notes of a Math Girl" is an extended series of "Math Girls". The author Hiroshi Yuuki collected the questions raised by readers on the Internet about the "Mathematical Girl" series and compiled them into chapters to explain various mathematical concepts in a simple and easy-to-understand manner in the form of character dialogues and exercises. The protagonist "I" is a high school boy who likes mathematics. His hobby is discussing calculation formulas. He often thinks about mathematical problems alone at his desk. After entering high school, "I" made a group of friends. Several young people traveled together in the world of mathematics and discovered the beauty of mathematics.

[Quick Wear + Essence + Young Lady + 1v1 + Love at First Sight + Sweet Pet] The eldest daughter Liu Suisui, who has always been pampered, has always disliked her uncle Qiao, who is seven years older than her, because he always cares about this and that, which annoys her. But during an earthquake, the man tried his best to protect her. Only then did she learn that he had already been deeply in love with her. In order to save her uncle from the Qiao family, she bound the system and needed to conquer the villains in each plane and collect his fragments from each world. After the task is completed, the uncle can be resurrected. I thought it was something I could easily grasp, but I hit a wall on the first plane. "What does my matter have to do with you?" The cold and aloof young man looked at her indifferently. Miss Liu was so angry that she felt she had lost face, so she turned around and ran away. Little did he know that the young man looked panicked and looked at her back with a look of distress. As long as you take one step toward me, I will take care of the remaining ninety-nine steps. --Qiao Yu.

4 extremely weird and suspenseful stories! The most evil thing this series has ever seen appears! "Crybaby" old friends reunited, an affair broke family ethics, the culprit turned out to be the "demon mole" hidden in the corner of the eye... "Mother-in-law's Grave" Only men can go to the most beautiful flower viewing place in Sakura Village, and women will be cursed. Everything stems from the burial in the tomb. The secret behind... "Two People Walking Together" The messenger who lost his wife and daughter flew into the mountains by mistake, and a weird and eccentric faceless man pursued him... "The Mansion of Kurobutsu Shenhuo" A group of men and women were trapped in a strange mansion. The food became rotten and smelly overnight, until the sound of heavy footsteps was heard late at night...

Know the urban legend of the Summer Ghost? It is said that whenever fireworks are lit on a summer night, the ghost of the young woman will appear from the abandoned airport runway. Tomoya, who is unable to move towards the life he loves, Aoi, who cannot find a place to live, and Ryo, whose days are numbered in the future - three teenagers who want to commit suicide, come to the airport with different moods. They hope to see the deceased and ask them: "What does it feel like to die?"

Infinite world, infinite possibilities, infinite horror. May the eternal fire be ignited, soothe the fear in people's hearts, and drive away the barbarism in the four wilds. Ps: This book mainly uses the setting of infinite horror, with a small part involving other works of Z, plus some magical modifications by the author. There is no way that the content of the later works of Z is a bit messy, and some settings in the prehistoric calendar conflict with Death Kai and Infinite Dawn, so I only selected a small part of them. Therefore, the settings of this book are not completely based on the Infinite World series of Z. There are many second creations. If you mind, please read with caution.

Today's time crisis is not acceleration. The days of acceleration are long gone. What we currently think of as acceleration is just one of the symptoms of time being lost. Today's time crisis stems from a time disorder that leads to various time disorders and misperceptions. Time lacks an orderly rhythm and falls into a state of disorder. The chaos makes time seem to fly. This time disorder is not the result of forced acceleration. The primary reason is the atomization of time, which is why people feel that time passes much faster than before. The dispersion of time makes it impossible for people to experience what persistence is. Nothing can stop time. Life is no longer embedded in a body of order or coordinate system that creates persistence. This book looks back to history to draw attention to the need for a different way of understanding everyday life in order to avoid falling into a temporal crisis. What the author remembers is not "the time of telling." The end of telling, or the end of a story, does not necessarily mean a gap in time. It has the potential to open up a life time that is free from theology and teleology and exudes its own unique fragrance. Its premise is to revive the "contemplative life."

Rest is like a soft cloud in the sky, passing quietly inadvertently. This short period of time is like intermission at an opera, like halftime at a football game, or like the break between classes. A break seems like an insignificant gap, a gap in a planned daily life, like a whim, sometimes unbearable. After all, it's what happens before and after that matters, isn't it? Rest itself is unworthy of our lack of attention and love. In fact, it is a real bag of surprises, a treasure trove full of meanings and connotations that give meaning to our existence.

An interesting TO DO LIST, full of "good ideas" that make people laugh, for mature readers who are always optimistic or young readers who are full of curiosity. This book will tell you straightforwardly that life after the age of fifty is full of expectations. In middle age, when that magical age of 50 is approaching and you don't immediately recognize yourself in the mirror, life's fundamental question begins to weigh on you-what do you do for fun? Long nights of wild drinking, excessive flirting and partying - all the things that have been energizing and distracting for decades are suddenly a source of headaches instead of joy. So, how do you spend the rest of your life? Throw everything away and start over under a fake name? Retraining as a criminal investigator or psychoanalyst? Moving to Hawaii? No, none of this is necessary. Andrea Gerk invites us to explore the many beautiful little things in life that can only be appreciated when we are mature enough: inviting all your exes over for dinner, discussing your illness endlessly, reciting a poem every day, letting young people explain the world to you, and even giving yourself an award for your life's work.

This is a set of masterpieces on the history of human civilization spanning tens of thousands of years, covering the conflict and evolution of Eastern and Western civilizations, the history of the geographical world, the history of human wars, the evolution of values, the history of ancient Greek civilization, etc. The author of "How Long Will the West Dominate" uses the original "Social Development Index" measurement standard to discuss the fundamental reasons why the West has dominated the world so far, and boldly predicts how the East will catch up with the West and take over the world's leading flag in the next 100 years. "The Measure of Civilization" is the sequel to "How Long Will the West Dominate". The author comprehensively introduces what his original "Social Development Index" is and how civilization can be measured using numbers. "War" is a 15,000-year history of human war. Through the wonderful presentation of major historical battles, military revolutions, and the logic of the birth of Leviathan, it objectively analyzes and reveals the powerful role of war in promoting the integration and evolution of civilizations. "Historical Bias" reveals the complex changes in human values ​​​​in the process of human beings going through a foraging society, an agricultural society, and a fossil fuel society. It provides readers with a unique perspective to understand the values ​​of the past era and understand multiple values. "Geography is Destiny" uses ten thousand years as a scale and Britain as a dot to radiate world history and provide insight into how geographical factors determine the rise and fall of countries and the change of world order. It is a representative work of the author's geographical determinism. "The Greeks" is a complete history of ancient Greece spanning ten thousand years. Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs and Steel," praised: "Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in the interest and popularity of big historical works."

Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, the lyrics entered the palace of classic literature for the first time. This book covers more than half a century of Bob Dylan's creative classics, including nearly 400 works from 32 classic albums in his artistic career from 1961 to 2020. Chinese and English bilingual, with detailed notes. As the citation for the Nobel Prize for Literature says: Dylan stands shoulder to shoulder with Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman and Shakespeare, not to sing about eternity but to speak about what is happening around us, like the oracle at Delphi delivering the evening news. The beauty of his work is of the highest order, changing our ideas of what poetry is and what poetry is.

Horror mystery ceiling, you won't dare to turn off the lights all night long! The dead come across the sea, the headless woman presses closer and closer, the woman with a gape runs wildly under the moon... Inherent reasoning x horror story! 5 Short stories that will make you sweat! On the basement floor of a university library in Kyoto, there is a ghost story research room that collects horrific and bizarre cases. Two students in the laboratory are using reasoning to explore the truth of strange stories - on the road of the dead, the figure of the deceased actually comes across the sea. In the dark mansion, the headless woman is in hot pursuit of the ancient family. In the animal trap, the broken remains were covered with human-made injuries. In a sealed room, a female student was attacked by a force from heaven in the middle of the night. In the strange disease village, a woman with a cracked mouth was repeatedly seen running wildly under the moonlight. Even with reasonable explanations, horrific phenomena continue to occur. Is this the work of ghosts or a cleverly hidden crime? It wasn't until the secret of the strange story was revealed that the real horror had just begun!

This book is a science fiction novel about the future. The story takes place in a cosmopolitan country, known as a "civilized society", and outside of it there are "barbarian reservations", inhabited by some ethnic tribes. Bernard and Lenina met John and his mother Linda when they visited the reserve. Linda was a former resident of the New World. She accidentally fell off a cliff while visiting and gave birth to John. For his own purposes, Bernard brought Linda and her son back to the New World. Linda soon died of an overdose of drugs. John's admiration for the New World turned to disgust, and he hanged himself after a fierce conflict with the New World. This is an allegorical work that shows the future picture of human society in Huxley's eyes: through effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings have been genetically and genetically designed to be a variety of social members, completely reduced to docile machines, and their individuality has been strangled. The author's purpose in writing this book is to alert mankind.

Traveling through another world, the evil god is resurrecting and the gray fog is filling the air. Crazy murmurs came from the dream, and monsters and evil spirits roamed the world. Crown used his proficiency in the Golden Finger Mad Liver Golden Light Spell and other skills to reach the top step by step and cleanse away evil spirits. All my achievements are due to my own efforts... Ps: This story combines some elements of The Witcher, Dark Souls, and Cthulhu, but has been modified by magic. If you pass by, come in and take a look, maybe you can catch your eye.

The young couple's bodies were pierced by samurai swords. The girl they fell in love with at first sight disappeared from the world. A college student jumped to his death after drinking Coke. Robbers broke into the house and killed people, but only took away a pot of flowers... The yellow morning glory that once existed in modern times suddenly disappeared, leaving only the legend of the "dream flower" that "it will destroy itself once it is pursued". And as the yellow morning glory reappears in the world, the fate of four strange families is closely linked...

Why do people always die mysteriously on this street? Mouheiichi is a small port town in the northeastern region of Japan. The frequency of murders here is almost as high as that of Cape Town, South Africa. A mystery writer who cannot read, an unscrupulous detective who secretly colludes with gangs, a high school girl who can do divination, and a gangster who loves late-night radio. Four people of different statuses and classes encounter a series of bizarre murders. Corpses with pig faces, corpses drained of blood, corpses with 10 kilograms of food in their stomachs, corpses inside corpses, corpses drowned on the roof, living corpses...

Nozomi Kazuko fell in love with Akiyama, a married woman, and became pregnant. After being tricked by Akiyama into having a baby, he found out that Akiyama's wife was pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl. Xihezi originally just wanted to sneak into the other party's home and see what the baby girl looked like, but because she saw the baby's clear and innocent eyes and innocent smile, she could no longer let go of her warm little hands, and finally decided to kidnap her and protect her forever. Xihezi named the baby girl Xun and started her escape journey. The maternal love in her heart became stronger and stronger, and she could only keep making up stories to avoid the curiosity of others and escape the police's search. Only by distorting reality can she survive. Nozomi and Kaoru, who are not related by blood, gradually develop a relationship as close as mother and daughter. As winter passes, spring comes and summer comes again, the chirping of cicadas is like the turmoil in Xihezi's heart. How will the lives of the two of them unfold? Is it like a short-lived cicada, fleeting?

Twenty-three years ago, Matsukura was reborn after committing the rape and murder of a young girl, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Now, he is once again listed as a suspect in the murder of an old couple. Prosecutor Tsuyoshi Mogami, who has tried countless criminals, vowed to use all investigation methods to bring Matsukura to justice, even if the cost is to make himself a criminal...

It's hard to feel happy, but luckily there's Woody Allen. Here are eighteen humorous and rhapsodic "literary talk shows" that poke fun at marriage, middle class, anxiety, Hollywood, beauty standards, death and other topics. These anhedonic Allen-esque protagonists show you what they see as a ridiculous and pathetic world, and although they understand Dostoevsky, they cannot handle the absurdity of everyday life. The last sixty-page autobiographical novel, "Growing Up in Manhattan," is a mixture of romance, sentimentality, and confusion. It is another paradoxical mystery in a world "specifically designed to keep him confused for the rest of his life." Now more than ever, we need clowns who can make people laugh, and here comes Woody Allen. "If you want to read casually and be amused, and take a brief break from the bad reality, then this book is a dessert, like my previous works." - Woody Allen

Shimada Shoji's classic masterpiece! Blood is its food, and curses are its soul. Man-eating nan trees, ancient legends, Edo execution grounds, mysterious families... The famous detective Mitarashi Kiyoshi shudders! On the dark slope of Yokohama City, next to the ancient execution ground of Edo, thousand-year-old nan and old Western-style buildings stand side by side. The gap in the ancient nan is ferocious, the bark resembles a human face, and there are hidden cries of injustice echoing. After a typhoon night, a bronze chicken disappeared quietly from the roof of a foreign-style building. Fujinami's eldest son died mysteriously on the roof, looking directly at the giant tree. Cases occur frequently and victims appear one after another! Is it the curse of the ancient tree, or is there another evil hand? Is the thousand-year-old giant nan really the legendary "man-eating tree"? The famous detective Mitate Washike shuddered! The truth is yet to be revealed...

Leon Deighton's masterpiece, the final chapter of the "Berlin Trilogy". Struggling MI6 agent Bernard Samson has been passed over for promotion while his younger and more ambitious colleagues - including his wife Fiona - have been promoted. An important agent lurking in East Berlin warned the British that there was a mole at the heart of the intelligence agency. Samson must return to the city he loves and uncover the identity of the traitor. However, what was waiting for him was only a cold and solemn Shura field...

The second book of the "Berlin Trilogy" is a pioneering work that reshapes the form of spy novels. The film adaptation of the same name won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Berlin in 1963 was dark and full of crises. The unsung hero of "The Yipcrest Files" is assigned a mission - one of the Soviet Union's most brilliant scientists attempts to defect while hiding in an elaborately forged coffin. But he soon discovers that the deception hides a deadlier truth, revealing the dark, gloomy, and chilling atmosphere of this divided city.

A true record of disasters in Eastern Europe in the 20th century. The Mariupol Trilogy includes: "She Came from Mariupol": a family history, a microcosm of the world's disasters over the past century. The 12,000,000 oriental laborers are by no means a historical footnote other than the Jewish Holocaust in World War II. They show a panoramic view of the tragedy of European civilization and reveal the unknown fate of the Ukrainians. "Man in the Shadow": a national fable of Ukraine's century of displacement and turmoil, a panoramic slice of the tragedy of human civilization. In the past, they were squeezed out of their last drop of sweat, but now, they are still being manipulated at will, with no nationality, no right to vote, and not allowed to find a place to live on their own... Writing about daily life in post-war Eastern Europe. "Nastya's Tears": The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Ukrainian economy... History repeats itself again and again, who can stay completely out of it? A contemporary Eastern European version of The Odyssey. It is a rare work that focuses on individual experiences after the collapse of the Soviet Union. From a civil engineer to a cleaner, it writes about the fall of high-level intellectuals under the drastic changes of the times, and is a shocking portrayal of the plight of contemporary Ukraine.

An impossible crime happened in a special hotel, and the detective had to leave the hotel to solve the case immediately. In this hotel, the law is not the criterion. You can still be protected if you commit a crime, but you must abide by: ① Do not damage the hotel ② Do not harm anyone within the hotel. Once the above rules are violated, the hotel's exclusive detective will come out to investigate and get to the bottom of it. This book contains several incidents that took place in this hotel and shows how hotel detectives uncovered the real culprits from the best in the criminal field. Following "Visitor from the Lonely Island" and "Sweet Death for the Detective", this is a collection of short stories by the emerging novelist Takahiro Takahiro.

Kazuo Morikubo, a graduate student in genetic engineering, was troubled by unexplained physical dysfunction, so he visited a psychoanalyst and received hypnotherapy. For some reason, he personally experienced the entire process of biological evolution in his sleep. Later, a woman who claimed to be from the mysterious organization "Charon" came to visit. Kazuo learned from her that the amino acid ratio of organisms on earth is not in line with common sense, which means that there is some kind of will controlling the evolution of organisms. Now, human genetic experiments have triggered a switch, and an evolution intended to destroy humankind has begun. The purpose of the "Charon" organization is to prevent evolution from destroying mankind, and Kazuo is the key figure they need. They sent people to contact Yufu in order to let Yufu recall his true identity and complete his mission - to defeat evolution and save mankind.

Bai Xiaoqiu, who has experienced a failed relationship, "I reject beautiful girls, let alone fall in love with beautiful girls." This is something he thinks about every day. In the hot summer, "If you are going to pass the exam, I can give you a ride." Bai Xiaoqiu met the kind of beautiful girl he was least willing to contact. He made up a reason and subconsciously avoided it. Bai Xiaoqiu thought that she was just a point in his life that could be ignored. Two months later in early autumn, "Ah, it's you!" The two met again. What ensues is a story of laughter, tears and redemption...

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From the age of 14 to 40, the friendship between two women is like the glimmer of fireflies, but it is enough to warm each other's life. At the age of 14, two girls with completely different personalities and family backgrounds met warmly in the firefly alley. You are not me, but you are like another me. There are no fireflies in Firefly Lane, only shining dreams, and our crazy friendship that is full of laughter and tears but is more eternal than the stars. She knows that as long as she says "I need you," a good friend will always be there.

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"I have handled 12,000 hearts." The author has been practicing cardiac surgery for decades and has outstanding surgical results. This book brings together some classic cases experienced by the author (most of them occurred between the 1970s and 2000s), and also explains the author's mental journey. A poor boy from a working-class family was inspired by the medical documentaries of his childhood and hurt by the death of his relatives, and finally trained himself to become an outstanding cardiac surgeon. He was excited about the success of the interview and wandered the streets of London's riverside. He opened the chest of children with congenital heart disease or severe airway burns. He fought for the anxiety and desire of patients and their families. To fight against the anxiety of the next day's surgery, he went deep into the Saudi desert to admire the night sky. He was decisive in trying his best to repair. Cutting off a dying heart, confronting the medical director to save his life, installing an artificial "battery" heart on a patient "without authorization", and telling cold jokes in the face of crucial surgeries where his life was hanging by a thread... The image of a surgeon with superb skills, full of arrogance and reverence for life is vividly displayed on the page. The top surgical techniques that existed more than ten or even decades ago are also breathtaking. In addition to showing his surgical skills, the author also uses diseases, patients and his own business travels to reveal the various aspects of the world, introduce the scenery and culture around the world, show the sadness and love seen in the eyes of a surgeon, as well as his thoughts on the medical system, ethics and medical education. Readers will gain a lot of feelings and inspiration. It is a masterpiece that combines narrative charm, medical knowledge and miracles.

Caitlin Doughty, who is nearly 1.80 Meters tall and graduated with a major in medieval history, is a cool and weird girl in the eyes of others. When her peers are crazy about love, skin care, beauty and chasing stars, she plunges into the funeral industry and becomes a funeral worker, dealing with the dead every day. From embarrassingly shaving the deceased for the first time, carefully coming to collect the body with his companions, becoming more and more proficient in operating the huge crematorium, grinding human bones into powder, enclosing and embalming the body, to trying every means to fulfill the wishes of the bereaved, and carefully and accurately dressing the edema old man. The gorgeous costumes... Caitlin recorded her six years of working in the crematorium in a candid, truthful and interesting way, telling each specific and subtle life story, as well as all the details that everyone has to face but are unwilling to talk about, and also has a profound understanding of death and life. What is rare is that Catherine is not curious, evasive, or afraid. Like a modern little witch, she leads us to look directly at death and life.

The story begins on a ship sailing to Okinawa at the end of World War II. The protagonist Philip Bowman is a young naval officer. Over the next few decades, he returned to New York and became a publishing editor, settling into a life of book deals, literary careers, and one dinner party after another. He married and divorced, experienced new relationships, recurring physical passions, and brutal betrayals. Old friends drift apart, houses are bought and sold, parents die, and loving bonds fade and fade. When we last see Bowman, he has reached an age where he is seriously thinking about death: he wants to return to the Pacific, where "the only brave part of his life was." "All This" is the life trajectory of an ordinary person, and it is also a rich social chronicle. The narrative perspective switches freely between the protagonist and dozens of characters. A large number of insightful details give it an epic quality. The scenes, episodes and characters are as precise and neat as diamond cutouts. The story and the emotions it contains continue to expand and spread, reflecting the outline of the lives of all the characters who appear in the passage of time.

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The forty-two volumes of "Tongjian Chronicles" were written by Yuan Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty. This book selects major historical events from "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", records the beginning and end of each historical event in detail, and creates its own title. It records 239 important historical events in the history of more than 1,300 years from the Warring States Period to the Five Dynasties. It is also appended with 66 events, totaling 305 historical events. It is the first chronicle-style history book in my country, creating a precedent for the "event-oriented" history book.

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Norwegian writer Carl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel "Mein Kampf" has nothing to do with Hitler's ambitions. It is the author's autobiography of his growth and life for more than 40 years. The themes of the six volumes are death, love, childhood, youth, dreams, and thinking. The book uses a flowing style to describe ordinary life, which is straightforward and frank, with "masochistic truth and triviality", and also shows touching sensitivity in the daily details.

"Wuthering Heights" written by Emily Brontë describes the gypsy abandoned child Heathcliff who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain village. After being unbearable to be humiliated and frustrated in love, he went out to get rich. After returning, he found that his girlfriend Catherine had married the landowner Linton, and a story of revenge against the landowner and his children followed. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and seeking freedom, and is always enveloped in a bizarre, tense and romantic artistic atmosphere. The book was highly praised by critics and warmly welcomed by readers. Read classics, reduce impetuosity, dive into history, and benefit endlessly.

"Selected Novels and Novels of Mark Twain: English-Chinese" contains 25 short and short stories by the famous American writer Mark Twain, including "One Million Pounds", "The Famous Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "How I Recently Resigned" and "The Story of a Good Boy". Each novel revolves around a specific plot, and uses the best of exaggeration with free and easy writing, so that readers gradually get better and believe it is true even though they know it is impossible; when they close the book and think deeply, they finally realize that this impossibility has great authenticity. The people and things written by the writer may exist around you, or even in your body...

Chekhov, the king of short stories, created seven to eight hundred short stories in his life, most of which were based on the ordinary lives of the people at the bottom. The 14 short and medium-length stories included in this book are all Chekhov's masterpieces. Some reflect the tragic life of small people, such as "Anguish" and "Wanka"; some reveal the helplessness of small people struggling to survive, as well as their trembling, groveling mentality and appearance. Such as "The Death of a Petty Official", "The Fat Man and the Thin Man", and "The Oyster"; some whipped the servile and obsequious people who act according to the wind, such as "The Chameleon"; some portrayed the faces of the defenders of the autocratic system, such as "Sergeant Prishbeev"; some exposed the oppression of the society by the autocratic system and its conservatism and weakness, such as "The Man in the Trick"; some criticized the pursuit of vanity, vulgarity and boredom, and short-sightedness. Light's philosophy of life, such as "The Jumping Woman", "Anna Hanging on the Neck", and "Gooseberry"; some reveal the gloomy and terrifying current situation of Russian society under the autocratic system, such as "Ward No. 6"; Some express the pursuit and longing for a better life, thereby arousing people's disgust for the muddy and half-dead life, such as "Talk about Love" and "The Unmarried Bride".

"Selected Novels and Novels of Hemingway (English-Chinese Bilingual Famous Classics Collection Edition)" translated by Hemingway is published in English and Chinese. Experts and scholars who specialize in the study of world history and culture carefully select classic works that represent different fields of world history and culture. On the one hand, it provides readers with authentic world classics and allows them to read freely, gradually improving their English proficiency in the process; on the other hand, through reading, they can achieve an overall understanding of world history and culture.