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With Li Chunyan as the protagonist, this book truly shows the growth process of Chinese community work and community workers in the past thirty years under the leadership of the Communist Party of China in the form of a diary. It shapes the group portrait of community workers and shows the hardships and achievements of opening up the "one kilometer" of grassroots governance. Community workers represented by Li Chunyan are not afraid of hard work and overcome all difficulties, dedicating themselves to tedious work, actively innovating grassroots party building service models, constantly improving community management and service systems, enhancing community public service capabilities, and building communities into happy homes where people can live and work in peace and contentment.

It tells the story of the fighting life of soldiers who participated in the rural war in the Northeast revolutionary base area. This is a group of ordinary farmers who gradually grew up as revolutionary soldiers. They are a group of flesh and blood and emotional people who love their relatives, comrades, hometown, and motherland. They are a living group of heroes. They are more vivid and full of life than those warriors who have been processed by film and television. They talked about their true feelings of life-and-death battles they had personally experienced on the battlefield, as well as some little-known historical facts about the war. What is even more valuable is their precious spirit of silently dedicating their lives. Their battle stories are ordinary and trivial, and their realm and consciousness are limited. However, they are all heroic and tragic, and each of them has one or two heroic feats.

This book is a documentary work that combines humanistic care and medical observation. As a general practitioner, the author goes deep into the frontline clinical practice of psychiatry. Through 14 representative real cases, he outlines the survival picture of patients with anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. With restrained and warm writing style, in the process of popularizing scientific knowledge about mental illness, the author constantly touches on the deep propositions about self-awareness, social prejudice and the possibility of redemption, and finally shows how human nature blooms with shocking vitality in the cracks of mental dilemma. When the story behind the disease unfolds layer by layer, the fears and desires we all share can always be seen in the folds of human nature struggling in the dark. Each story in the book is not only a mirror that penetrates the mental fog, but also a hidden fire of hope - in the cracks in fate, there is always a glimmer of healing.

A diary of a gold medal real estate agent, revealing the transaction dynamics of the real estate market from an inside perspective. A wonderful documentary story that cannot be written in a novel! Do people who live in One Hyde Park also have troubles? Max is a high-end real estate agent in London's super luxury housing market. He is young, smart and ambitious, and has dominated the land with the highest land prices in the city for 15 years. He was able to enter the depths of upper-class life and observe at close range the unknown push-pull games, exciting stories, joys, sorrows, and joys of various wealthy people in the real estate transaction process. The transaction notes, which cannot even be written in a novel, not only contain the inside story, experience and worldliness of transactions, but also explore the relationship between houses, money and personal life.

The purpose of this book is not to analyze the deep-seated social reasons behind crimes, nor to conduct another moral judgment on those criminals. Rather, it is to lay out individual cases and present them to readers one by one, so that readers can make their own evaluations while enjoying reading. This book will provide readers with many unsolved shocking mysteries in the world. The combination of pictures and text will make readers unforgettable.

On the bloody deck in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, survivors told the cruel rules of survival; in the sea of ​​death in Badain Jaran, two young people used their lives to measure the scale of human nature; in the corner where the neon lights of Shenzhen could not shine, the "Sanhe God" was ups and downs and struggled in the quagmire of desire... Du Qiang wrote the documentary of human nature with the precision and calmness of a scalpel: here there are idealisms evaporated by the scorching sun, fragments of dignity drowned in material desires, and moral collapse in desperate moments. This is not a fictional fable, but an ongoing apocalypse of survival - when fate pushes you to the edge of the cliff, which rope of humanity will you grab before falling?

This is a poignant story. Tangier Island is a unique island located in Virginia, United States, and Chesapeake is a small city located on the island. The living conditions there are harsh, but there are still 470 islanders who survive tenaciously in this small town and live an almost isolated life. However, due to rising sea levels, Tangier Island is disappearing and being swallowed up by the sea day by day: from 1850 to 2017, the island area has shrunk by 2\u002F3. The waves washed away the cemeteries of the islanders' ancestors, making these devout islanders very worried. At that time, experts believed that in about 25 years, Tangier Island would be completely submerged and the islanders would have to abandon their homes. From 2016 to 2017, the author of this book, Earl Swift, lived on Tangier Island, fishing for crabs and oysters with these people who live by the water. He records the island's ancient traditions, depicts its past, and looks into its empty future. The Chesapeake is about to disappear from the world - its fate is irreversible.

This book is a reportage focusing on the decisive battle against poverty in deeply impoverished areas. This work truly records the struggle for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization in Huangni Village, Majiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, a typical poverty-stricken area in the country and the main battlefield for poverty alleviation. It vividly tells the story of the villagers in this village building a happy life. In the form of pictures and texts, this book objectively and truly reflects that since the war against poverty began, the villagers of Huangni Village, with the attention and support of the party and the government, with the help of all sectors of society, and with the precise assistance of grassroots party members and cadres, have changed their ideological concepts, relied on self-reliance, and worked hard. The Huangni Village recorded in this book is a designated assistance target of Nanjing Agricultural University. A research team composed of teachers and students from Nanjing Agricultural University went deep into the front line. From the perspective of industrial poverty alleviation and education poverty alleviation, combined with first-hand practical data, they elaborated on the experience of comprehensive poverty alleviation in Huangni Village, and further discussed issues such as solving relative poverty and realizing rural revitalization.

This book is written by Wang Huimin (pseudonym Laohan), a well-known reporter from the People's Daily who has long been paying attention to the issues of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" and has been on the ground many times. It is based on the long newsletter "Nothing to do for the common people without a heart" published on the front page of the "People's Daily" on December 28, 2017. Officials - A Record of Xiajiang Village Helped by Comrade Xi Jinping" as the basis, records the revitalization of Xiajiang Village from poverty to prosperity, and demonstrates the people's sentiments of party members and cadres who "don't care about the people but don't want to be officials". It was included in the key thematic publications of the Central Propaganda Department in 2018.

From 1973 to 1979, Rao Ping was transferred to Anhui, while Mao Meitang stayed in Shanghai to take care of her family. Soon, the older children in the family also responded to the educated youth's move to the mountains and countryside, and went to Jiangxi to work in the countryside. Family members are scattered in various places, and the only thing that connects them is the letters from home between the two places. This book contains 71 letters home from his wife Meitang and his children that Rao Pingru received between 1973 and 1979. In an era when communication was inconvenient, in a letter from home, they reported each other's current life situation, informed each other of the difficulties encountered in life, and gave each other advice. The letter from home supported them through the difficult period of being separated in three places.

"Every Detour Leads to Me" is the autobiography of neuroscientist Oliver Sacks. The narrative spans from his youth to his twilight years, and every part is wonderful. Oliver Sachs is known as "one of the greatest clinical medical writers of the 20th century", and in this biography, we see that even though he is surrounded by halo and honors, life still has its specific and trivial pains and difficulties. There are 24 people with brain injuries in "Mistaking My Wife for a Hat": Some people mistake their wives for hats and have to grab them and put them on their heads; some people can't feel their own bodies; some people can't communicate with people at all, but they can talk to animals freely; and some people can't add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but they can directly know the precise answers to complex calculations... These aliens in the eyes of ordinary people have great potential in the relationship between themselves and the external world, which surpasses our current knowledge. "Uncle Tungsten" is a teenage memoir by neuroscientist Oliver Sacks, telling a romantic story about science. Born into a medical family, Sachs, a young man, was influenced and encouraged by his uncle Tungsten. He became passionately fond of chemistry and immersed himself in all kinds of magical chemical experiments. In his writing, terms such as metals, atoms, cold light, force lines, radiation, and the periodic table of elements, which originally existed only in textbooks, seem to have been given life and have become important companions to accompany the author through his childhood shrouded in the haze of war. Sachs's passionate descriptions seamlessly combine scientific knowledge with spiritual growth, which is beautiful and moving.

Reports from the detention center and monologues from the innermost thoughts of female prisoners. This book uses interviews and documentary techniques to analyze the experiences of many women. There are unknown stories hidden behind each case.

This book uses a first-person perspective to tell what the Hubei Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles resident team members saw and heard during a year of targeted poverty alleviation in the revolutionary old areas of the Dabie Mountains. The author adopts a simple prose style and writes down all the interactions with village cadres, ordinary villagers, party members, and township cadres on the road of poverty alleviation for more than a year. He writes about the real changes that targeted poverty alleviation has brought to villages and villagers in the mountains. It involves various practical issues such as cultural poverty alleviation, left-behind children, land transfer contracting, and purchase-in-lieu-donation, which triggered people's new thinking and attention on the construction of new rural areas.

Hainan Normal University's School of Marxism's summer social practice "Land and Sea, Testing Qingqiong" volunteer teaching team traveled more than 2,000 kilometers to Keba Village, Jinyuan Township, Hualong County, Qinghai Province, to carry out 22 days of voluntary teaching activities and social research. This book mainly displays the results of Hainan Normal University's Qinghai team's teaching and research in Qinghai from the perspective of volunteers. It consists of five parts: aspiration to work hard, hardships and hardships, teaching and mutual learning, looking back on the trip, research reports, and media reports. It is a record of the volunteers' journey to Qinghai to support teaching and research.

This book is a long reportage that reflects the major themes of civilization in the Yangtze River Basin. The book takes time as its longitude and the Yangtze River as its latitude, connects history and reality, and blends nature and humanity. In gazing at the Yangtze River from multiple angles and telling the past and present life of the Yangtze River in multiple dimensions, the author focuses his writing on the present and the present. Reality, focusing on writing the new process of governance, development, and protection of the Yangtze River under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, especially focusing on the new era in which our party re-understands and examines the Yangtze River from a new perspective, and "jointly focuses on large-scale protection and does not engage in large-scale development" in promoting the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. This is a natural book about the human history and ecological changes of the Yangtze River. It is also a book about the life and survival destiny of the people in the Yangtze River Basin. It is also a panoramic biography of the Yangtze River, which is of great significance to the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Zone.

[Niche occupations + real people + curiosity] Open this book and take you to learn about 20 atypical occupations such as mortician, pet detective, special effects artist, and female taxi driver. After reading these stories, we realized that there are still people living like this. 20 Niche professionals, 20 legendary lives: mortician, pet detective, professional bridesmaid, extras... Selected from 79 public accounts with stories of real people! Do morticians see ghosts? Do Hengdian group performances make any money? Working in Africa and almost losing your life? What exactly are gender researchers studying? Is the mortician a star planter? What is it like to quit your job as a civil servant and become a helicopter instructor?

This is a super serious, super mysterious, super hard-core, super interesting crime-solving popular science book! If you are curious about all the mysterious cases in the world, you might as well take a look at how real-life forensic doctors solve murder cases! Forensic doctor Qin Ming will work with you to gradually investigate the ins and outs of the case from the moment the case occurred until the embarrassing truth is revealed! This book contains 9 mysterious murder cases. Each murder case contains three levels of interpretation: Level 1: Super serious investigation. The file name of each murder case is like a puzzle. Before the start of each chapter, you will get a simple "investigation tip" to help you enter the role of detective faster. Once you start reading these murder stories based on real cases, you won't be able to stop. You will be immersed in the investigation of each case and intuitively feel that "excluding all possibilities, the most improbable is also the truth"! Level 2: Super Hard Core Index At the beginning of each file, you will get a reminder of the core knowledge points of this chapter. During the murder investigation process, you will find that this index is just the tip of the iceberg of the popular science content of this book. Level 3: Forensic Notes After solving the murder case, you can also look through Lao Qin's forensic notes to see if his thoughts on the case resonate with you. A murder has occurred and lives cannot be saved, but can we get some inspiration from other people's stories to avoid a recurrence of tragedy? After all, the distance between us and evil is sometimes not as far away as we imagine.

This book is a long reportage that uses documentary techniques to panoramically show the birth of synthetic bovine insulin in China. In September 1965, China artificially synthesized crystalline bovine insulin for the first time in the world. It took an important step for mankind to uncover the mysteries of life and solve medical problems. It became a milestone in China's journey to climb the world's technological peak. Its significance and influence were huge. It was a major achievement that came close to winning the Nobel Prize that year. By showing the extremely intelligent but arduous scientific research work of scientists such as Niu Jingyi and Zou Chenglu behind the achievement of this landmark achievement, the author expresses his praise for scientific researchers' courage to create ideas, shoulder heavy responsibilities, and selfless dedication. It has positive guiding significance for the new generation of scientific researchers and even ordinary workers.

"You and Me Are All Parties" aims to narrate the joys and sorrows of life. During his twenty-five-year career, the author has seen an old man who left loopholes in his will to express his dissatisfaction; he has seen a wife who was eager to protect her husband and risked perjury, but turned her back after discovering that she was betrayed; and she has also seen a sister who dedicated half her life to her family, apparently to take back the house, but in fact she just wanted her family to support her emotional choices... "You and Me Are All Parties 2" is a sequel to this book, focusing on gains and losses in the workplace. A lecturer has been ignored many times when asking for salary, so Party B can only be Party B? A representative of a company is faced with a "overlord clause". Will he be criticized within the company whether he signs it or not? Key employees demand a substantial salary increase. How should we negotiate for this salary? ...

This book tells the true investigation process of a girl kidnapping case that shocked the world: In 1948, 11-year-old Sally Horner was kidnapped by a 53-year-old habitual child molester and forced to go on a 21-month "travel around the United States." This real-life incident is full of mystery and gripping, and inspired Nabokov to write the classic novel "Lolita". Vladimir Nabokov firmly denied this during his lifetime, and the "Lolita prototype" has become one of the biggest public cases in the history of world literature. "Lolita" has sold at least 60 million copies worldwide, but the real life of Sally Horner, who inspired the novel, has been forgotten by almost everyone. After years of continuous tracking, female journalist Sarah Weinman obtained files that were declassified in advance, and used legal documents, public records and interviews with Sally Horner's surviving relatives to reveal Nabokov's knowledge of the kidnapping case and his efforts to conceal his knowledge of the case during the process of writing and publishing "Lolita", and finally wrote the book "Lolita Prototype". This book interweaves a suspenseful crime narrative, the impact of this incident on culture and society, and literary investigation. It presents the details of the Sally Horner kidnapping case to Chinese readers for the first time. It depicts Sally's tortured, abused, and attacked life in detail, showing the painful but strong life of an ordinary girl, echoing the stories of many girls and women who have been cruelly treated by men.

She is an author, "America's contemporary Hugo," and a woman who helped her Alzheimer's-stricken husband seek euthanasia. From Alzheimer's disease to euthanasia, from a life of amnesia, dementia, and disability to a dignified death, how many medical, legal, and ethical difficulties does a person have to overcome, and how many times does a family have to make choices, cry, and say goodbye? In a concise way, Amy Bloom records this rarely traveled journey, telling how she tried her best to find a painless, legal, and dignified way to end her life for her husband, and finally realized his wish in Switzerland. Written about love and loss, as well as meditations on life and death, this is a deeply moving memoir.

Since the reform and opening up, tremendous changes have taken place, and rapid differentiation and reorganization have occurred among various social classes. We are happy to see those traditional farmers who work hard on the yellow earth, black earth, and red earth, and have become farmer entrepreneurs in suits and ties under the influence of modern commodity concepts. With the gradual deepening of urban reform and the emergence of various economic sectors, the huge group of workers is also undergoing profound changes, and some have entered the white-collar class. This book records some of today's groups of people in a documentary way, uncovers their mysterious veil, and discusses the external factors that breed these dangerous people. It has a certain storytelling and educational value.

This book focuses on many cases, and through detailed descriptions of cases in finance, education and other fields, it shows the diversity and complexity of corruption phenomena and its serious harm to society. This book is an exclusive disclosure of the entire process of cracking these cases, and is highly authoritative, authentic and readable.

Times are changing, people's ideas in modern society are changing, and the traditional concepts of marriage, love and family are undoubtedly changing too. Many phenomena seem to be getting worse under the increasingly tolerant public opinion, and the number of criminal cases resulting from this continues to increase. This book describes more than ten strange cases to give people more warnings.

After the "Gray Incident" in 2015, Baltimore once again fell into chaos and murders surged. The Baltimore Police Department is counting on Superintendent Wayne Jenkins and his Gun Tracing Task Force to keep guns and drugs off the streets. But over the next few years, Jenkins and team members seized and sold drugs, embezzled cash, fabricated evidence and even committed multiple robberies. Their blatant criminal behavior was not subject to any restriction or investigation, resulting in countless unjust, false and wrongful convictions, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians. Veteran investigative reporter Justin Fenton interviewed hundreds of relevant people, reviewed a large number of documents and files, and meticulously described the absurd confrontation between police and civilians, recreating one of the largest scandals in the history of American law enforcement.

Laia Upi was born in 1979 and grew up in Albania, an Eastern European country with a unique history that is little known to outsiders. In those years, the people there cherished utopian ideals that were almost inaccessible to outsiders and almost impossible for those who lived in them to leave. It is a place where materials are scarce and people have to queue up to buy things. It is a place full of secrets and unspeakable things. For Leia, it was home, where neighbors helped each other and parents looked to their children to create a better world. There was her community and her hope. In December 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything changed. Almost overnight, people were free to vote and wear whatever they wanted. There is nothing to worry about anymore. But factories closed, jobs disappeared, and many fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back again. The predatory pyramid scheme eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. When one generation's aspirations turn into another's hallucinations, family secrets are revealed, and Leia begins to search for the true meaning of freedom.

"Zhi Cao Wu Root" takes the changes in Guizhou's rural life in the digital age as its theme, and uses a moist and silent writing method of daily life to show the modernization process of rural life in China that is different from Western society in its leap-forward development. "Chicao Without Roots" also reveals the difficult development process of Guizhou's rural areas with delicate brushstrokes. It is the yearning for a better life that has never been extinguished in people's hearts that inspires and drives people to go out of the mountains. The villagers organized themselves to raise labor and funds to build roads and provide electricity, so that people in the mountains can go out and work hard to obtain better income and living standards. However, the result of people moving out of the mountains has also brought about the loss of rural population and the decline of life. This has formed a difficult issue: How can rural shrinkage and rural revitalization coexist? Perhaps digital technology can provide new opportunities for young people in the mountains, allowing them to realize their dreams and values ​​in life without leaving the mountains. As the title of the book implies, "The Roots of Grass" shows how individuals continue to break through various innate limitations in the process of rural development, and allows us to see the possibility of the integration of state power, market power and technological power to jointly promote rural revitalization. For Chinese-style modernization, rural revitalization is a long-term grand strategy that affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people. It requires the continued attention and in-depth investigation and research of more social scholars to provide richer cases and experiences to help find a path to rural modernization with Chinese characteristics.

"A Life That Never Fades" is a documentary literature that shows the style of retired military personnel participating in local construction in the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The book consists of 28 articles, describing in a delicate and documentary style how retired soldiers in administrative agencies, institutions, enterprises and villages go deep into the front line, serve the people with loyalty, bravery and perseverance, and make significant contributions to the development of local economy, society and culture.

"The Roaring of Wheat Grains" is a long documentary about the tremendous changes in China's agricultural production methods. Taking the replacement of old and new "Maike" as a clue, this article traces the origin and disappearance of traditional Maike, looks back at the century-old history of agricultural mechanization in China, and clarifies the origin and development of the "new Maike" - the combine harvester. Through five volumes of content ("To Ruyang", "Old Maike", "Prelude", "New Maike" and "New Era"), the author completely shows the replacement of the old and new "Maike". Using this as a clue, through memories, practice and data, he also looks forward to the changes in the countryside in the new era and the inevitability of major changes in agricultural equipment. At the same time, it profoundly reveals the spiritual heart and daily life of Mai Ke, and reveals the current situation of "Maike economy" and contemporary agricultural development.

"Mulan on the Sea" is a multi-dimensional reportage work that tells the story of Liaoning Province's "model of the times" the "38 Female Artillery Squadron" of the militia group "38 Female Artillery Squadron" in Haiyangdao Town, Changhai County, who guarded the border and defended the island. In the 63 years since the establishment of the "38th Female Artillery Squadron", 14 generations of female militiamen have upheld the firm belief of guarding the country's borders and safeguarding peace. They have taken root in the coastal defense outposts of the motherland and guarded the islands from generation to generation. They are known as the "Mulan of the Sea." In a complex international situation that has undergone unprecedented changes in a century and in the great journey of realizing the Chinese dream, their deeds obviously have a strong spiritual power that transcends time and space and reaches people's hearts. Through the passionate, vivid and delicate description by the creator, this work is endowed with high literary value and strong contemporary significance.

A true story of a mother who escaped domestic violence, saved animals and was saved by animals. Working in animal rescue wasn't Laurie Zaleski's ideal life - it was her mother Anne's dream. Since she was a girl, Laurie has promised to help her mother realize this wish. Thirty years later, Laurie is excitedly planning to rehome her mother and her family of rescued animals-horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs. However, just two weeks before the move, her mother Anne suddenly passed away due to worsening cancer. Grief and regret intertwined, Laurie decided to inherit her mother's legacy and save those abandoned animals. In 2000, the "Happy Farm" animal rescue shelter was established in Mays Landing, New Jersey, and took in more than 600 homeless animals. This book is Laurie's story: promises kept, dreams made reality, animals no longer wandering. This is the story of mother Anne McNutty: escaping a nightmare marriage, raising three children on her own while rescuing and feeding hundreds of abandoned animals. It is also a story about cute and brave animals with different characteristics: different species, equal lives, they form a beautiful friendship, and...

This book tells the historical inheritance and development status of the Changxing Baiyelong skill, an intangible cultural heritage in Changxing County, Huzhou. Through concrete and touching stories, it explains the local people's love for this traditional folk art and the great efforts made by all walks of life to preserve and promote this precious art. It also looks forward to the comprehensive revival of this skill in the future. The Baiyelong will definitely go out of the local area and exert greater cultural influence. At a time when the material and cultural needs of the people are increasing day by day, the story of Baiyelong regaining its charm brings useful enlightenment to how to protect and develop local art.

From 1932 to 1972, federal, state, and local public health authorities in the United States jointly conducted a human experiment in Tuskegee, Alabama, on more than 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. This was a non-therapeutic experiment to follow the spontaneous evolution of syphilis to see how it affected these sick black people. The black men were not told they had syphilis or what it might do to them, and, other than a small amount of medication for the first few months, they received no medical treatment except aspirin to relieve pain. Health officials at all levels, including black doctors and nurses, systematically deceived these people into believing they were sick and had "dirty blood" in their bodies. After a patient dies, every effort will be made to prevent the body from being released, for fear of exposing the truth of the experiment. By the end of the 40-year death observation period, more than 100 people had died of syphilis or related complications, and the survivors suffered from varying degrees of physical disability and mental illness. Public outcry grew, victims began to sue and seek compensation, and the black community was angry and distrustful, even hampering subsequent efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. Dirty Blood is not only the authoritative history of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, but also a bioethics classic. It attempts to show that the Tuskegee Study was a logical outgrowth of American race relations and medical practice. This was also proven by a scandal that was later exposed: in the late 1940s, the U. S. Public Health Service conducted a study on syphilis infection among mentally ill patients and prisoners in Guatemala to determine the effectiveness of treatment. After its publication, "Dirty Blood" not only received a Pulitzer Prize nomination, but also spawned corresponding film and theater works.

The entropy of the universe will not decrease. All of us are mortal. But anticipating things before they happen is how we mere mortals can slow down time. In the early morning of October 21, 1966, Middleton, a music teacher living in the suburbs of London, was awakened by a nightmare. She woke up breathless and convinced that disaster was coming. An hour later, a coal mine collapsed in South Wales, killing 144 people, mostly children. Among the doctors and first responders who arrived at the scene was psychiatrist John Buck. After the disaster, the replies from various "premonitors" prompted him to set up the Premonition Bureau, a network composed of hundreds of correspondents from all walks of life, from bank clerks to ballet teachers... Among them, two gifted "premonitors" predicted flight crashes, assassinations and international events with astonishing accuracy. Soon after, the two tell Buck about a disturbing premonition: he is about to die... Predicting the future is almost impossible, but sometimes it does come true.

This is a true story in human history, a story about how plague shaped our cities and even the world today. In the 19th century, during the era of Queen Victoria in England, London, as a modern metropolis, suffered from disease pandemics every few years, with each outbreak claiming thousands of lives. Doctor John Snow conducted a series of studies and discovered and proved that cholera exists in water. When no one believed it, the Reverend Henry Whitehead helped Snow plot the number of people who drew water to drink versus the number of people who did not draw water to drink on the same graph and label the number of deaths in each neighborhood. It was found that the further away from the water pump, the fewer deaths occurred. It turned out that the water pump was the source of pollution. This great discovery saved the city of London from the last cholera outbreak in Britain. This neighborhood map has deservedly become one of the most influential maps in history, as important as Columbus's early maps that led navigators around the world. It created a new way of life, and people began to build sewer systems, create urban public facilities, and ensure clean water for the benefit of everyone. And this period of history that ushered in a new era of medicine is also deeply recorded in the immortal monument of the progress of human civilization.

"Bitter Elixir: Thalidomide, Seals, and the Heroes Who Sounded the Alarm" challenges the official American narrative that there are almost no thalidomide victims in the United States: Although thalidomide has never been marketed in the United States, as many as five pharmaceutical companies still provided at least 2.5 Million tablets of thalidomide to thousands of doctors across the United States for so-called "clinical trials." These thalidomides were freely prescribed to nearly 20,000 Americans, including thousands of women of childbearing age. As a result, at least nearly a hundred "seal babies" were born in the United States. What conceals these shocking figures are the blatant lies of pharmaceutical companies and drug test doctors, the FDA's concealment of information and its distorted interpretation of investigation results in order to shirk responsibility, and the U. S. Department of Justice's lenient approach to the drug companies responsible. Today, more than half a century later, the FDA still insists there were only nine thalidomide drug trial victims in the United States. Greedy profit-seeking capital, inefficient supervision, and imperfect relevant laws jointly led to the tragedy of thalidomide. Reading and remembering this history can help us understand the necessity of drug clinical trials and safety supervision and avoid the recurrence of tragedies.

Pain is a get-rich-quick business in America. American pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma sells the oral sustained-release analgesic OxyContin in the name of pain. Since its launch in the 1990s, it has caused an unprecedented public health disaster in the United States. Today, 80% of drug addicts in the United States are related to OxyContin abuse, and the reason for their overdose was not to treat the disease in the first place. The Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma is good at selling pharmaceuticals and almost single-handedly started the "pain epidemic" in the United States. From "more patients taking OxyContin" to "each patient taking more OxyContin," the Sackler family has built a huge pharmaceutical empire. Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, scientists, regulatory agencies, and government officials are all drawn by huge profits and involved in a deadly business of "making drugs in the name of health." In 2019, approximately 840,000 people died due to OxyContin abuse in the United States; in 2020, 28 states and more than 600 cities in the United States jointly launched large-scale lawsuits; since then, this crisis has begun to come into the public eye. As a documentary observation of contemporary America, "Bloodthirsty Pharmaceuticals" deeply restores this crazy and thrilling disaster in the history of American pharmaceuticals.

This is an investigative documentary work co-written by two Pulitzer Prize winners. It is also the prototype of the HBO hit series "Succession". Sumner M. Redstone, the American media tycoon who single-handedly founded Paramount Worldwide, was controlled and abused by two mistresses in his later years, and his huge inheritance was almost swallowed up. His daughter Sally Redstone had to get involved in the inheritance battle, take back her father's property, and use her competitors' sex scandals to gradually seize actual control of this huge media empire. Under the background that the living space of traditional media is being squeezed by new media, an unscripted live-action version of "Game of Thrones" is staged. Money, power, desire, the ups and downs of human nature and desperate fights. How will the drama come to an end? "Succession" is not only a documentary about media tycoon Sumner M. Redstone and his family's battle for inheritance, but also a real-life version of "Game of Thrones." This book vividly presents the struggle of the traditional media industry to survive under the impact of new media, as well as the intrigues among family members competing for control of the huge media empire. Through in-depth excavation of real events, the author brings readers into a battlefield full of greed, betrayal and the ups and downs of human nature.

The first work of the series by Yue Nan, a master of historical documentary literature, with a new edition revised in 2024. Reproduce the years of the Anti-Japanese War, the master group, the silent and glorious process! The work uses documentary techniques, deep emotions, and smooth writing to panoramically reproduce the arduous life and academic journey of the scholars in Lizhuang, highlighting the domineering scholar leader Fu Sinian, the upright archaeological master Li Ji, and the painstaking construction work. The distinctive personalities of the architectural master Liang Sicheng, the stoic poet Lin Huiyin, the aloof talented woman You Shou, the academically obsessed Dong Zuobin, Liang Siyong and other teachers, as well as their spirit of helping each other in the face of poverty, disease, banditry and even death threats, the poor and the strong spirit. During the six most difficult years in China, they stayed true to their motherland, burning ashes and keeping the sundial, spreading their legacy widely. They won world-wide honors in the field of humanities and continued to develop the lifeline of Chinese culture. The work also focuses on the detailed exploration of the truth of historical events such as the "Institute Cannibalism Incident", the conflict between Fu and Li, the dispute between the Tongji president and professors, and the robbery of national treasures. It also conducts a profound analysis of the personnel disputes and the systems of the institute and the university. At the same time, it also describes the legendary history, customs and customs of Lizhuang Town, as well as the different life destinies of local bureaucrats and gentry before and after the Anti-Japanese War. It also discloses the characters and events many years ago in detail, which makes people recall and sigh.

Use real images and words to record a disappearing folk China! The story of China's last generation of folk monkey performers traveling around the world! "China National Geographic" photographers have been following and recording for nearly two decades! Beginning in 2002, China National Geographic reporter Ma Hongjie went deep into the Xinye monkey community, following them to board trains and sleep on the streets, recording their daily ups and downs and changes in fate. The story of the Monkey Charmer is like an aspect of Chinese society. Their era is an era that we have all experienced together. Ma Hongjie used his twenty-year record to testify for us that not long ago, some people lived like this. In the author's lens and text, monkeys and people eat from the same pot, sleep in the same bed, become lifelong companions, travel around the world, make money to support their families, monkeys and people raise their own children, live together, grow old together, and disappear together in this era.

This is a red classic of documentary literature. In 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow ventured into the revolutionary base area in northwest China. Through on-the-spot interviews and records, he introduced the real situation of China's Red Revolution and the Soviet Area to the world for the first time. He also made the world understand the invincible fighting spirit and the enthusiasm and power of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army to change the world. This book is one of the series of "Full Book Reading of Classics for Middle School Students". It is published with the purpose of "making a set of classics that children really like" and fully considers the actual needs of children in terms of content and form. In terms of content, we adhere to the concept of reading the whole book and do not destroy the integrity of the content and the continuity of the structure. In order to provide students with practical and effective help, Wu Xinxin, a heavyweight expert in whole book reading research and the head of the National Key Research Base for the Construction of Chinese Textbooks for Primary and Secondary Schools at Beijing Normal University, organized a team of teaching researchers and famous teachers from many places to write concise and high-level reading guidance for this book, which is placed at the beginning and end of the volume, and is presented in the form of inserts in the text. In terms of form, we refer to the designs of products such as notebooks and notebooks that children like, using "youth" as the key word. I hope that through this book, children can fall in love with classics, enjoy the joy of reading, and gain something from reading.

"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.

In 2017, Sun Xiaodi founded Lihe Bookstore in Shenyang with a beautiful imagination for an independent bookstore. Within two months of starting the business, she discovered that everything was different from what she thought. She encountered all kinds of difficulties, the biggest problem being that she couldn't make money. In this book, Sun Xiaodi openly talks about the pain and anger that opening a bookstore brought her. She scolded e-commerce platforms that competed with bookstores for resources, ridiculed all kinds of weird customers who walked into bookstores, and persuaded many people who wanted to open bookstores to stay away from bookstores. People who don't own a bookstore don't know: a bookstore is not a beautiful and innocent paradise, but a mundane business in the world. In the three years since the epidemic, Lihe Bookstore has been in a precarious situation, struggling on the edge of bankruptcy almost every month. It was the support and warmth given by the loyal customers who accompanied Lihe Bookstore all the way that made Sun Xiaodi hesitate several times and still stubbornly opened the bookstore. "There are ten thousand reasons not to open a bookstore, but there is only one that can make me insist on opening a bookstore. There are still many people who like bookstores. They need me and my Lihe Bookstore, so I will accompany them to keep the bookstore open forever."

On December 10, 2000, a girl died in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A pair of young parents put their three-year-old daughter, Mana, in a cardboard box for nearly 20 days. During this period, Mana barely ate anything and eventually starved to death. At this time, they still had a one-and-a-half-year-old son, and their mother, Yami, was still pregnant. This case shocked the entire Japanese society. Haru Sugiyama is a documentary writer and the mother of a boy. She spent three and a half years interviewing parents and their families involved, child protection organizations, hospitals and other parties involved, and collecting court trial materials. Finally, she restored the full picture of the case in detail and objectively, revealing the deep personal and social reasons behind it. She also raised questions: Why is it always the mother who is accused and convicted? This book is a documentary work focusing on the social phenomenon of "parenting abandonment" in Japan. Mana's death is by no means a special case. It is a concentrated reflection of the living conditions of three generations of women and a tragedy caused by the parenting environment in modern society. In this book, you'll read about everything a girl may encounter when she becomes a mother. It also reflects the most real and secret pain in the heart of every daughter and every mother in a society with structural gender inequality.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has insisted on solving the "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" issues as the top priority of the whole party's work. From winning the battle against poverty to building a livable, industrial and beautiful countryside, there has been no shortage of touching moments on the road to China's rural revitalization: grassroots cadres leading the villagers out of poverty , getting rich and increasing income, the struggling and high-spirited spirit of new farmers in the context of new media, urban youths with ideals and courage taking root in rural areas and leading villagers to strive for a well-off society, etc. The great changes in mountainous and rural areas in the new era are contained in every "little story" and reflected in every struggler. The book selects 30 typical cases, covering various perspectives of rural revitalization, including industrial revitalization, science and technology revitalization, organizational revitalization, cultural tourism revitalization, etc., And makes a wonderful record of the achievements of rural revitalization in recent years. This book is not only an affectionate review of the countryside, but also a beautiful prospect for the future. Using the common people to talk about family and national affairs, this book has become a bridge connecting the city and the countryside, tradition and modernity in the catchy common people's language, allowing more people to understand the countryside, pay attention to the countryside, love the countryside, and jointly write a new chapter of rural revitalization.

In 2001, my 79-year-old father suddenly suffered a stroke. During the recovery period, a slow heart rate was detected, and the doctor recommended the installation of a pacemaker. The battery of the pacemaker can last for 10 years, but my father's body deteriorated rapidly due to the stroke, and he still relied on the pacemaker to maintain his life for several years after he lost his memory and became disabled. This is a memoir in which the author describes in an affectionate and calm way how his father, after his illness, went from being a funny and elegant university professor to finally sitting around and being deprived of everything, as well as the physical and psychological pressure that his mother, as the main caregiver, endured during the long process of care. It is also a report on the state of modern medical care. After his parents passed away, the author, a journalist, investigated the development of modern medical technology and the relationship between medical treatment, technology and business through research and interviews. He pointed out the limits of medical treatment, revealed the incentives behind excessive medical treatment, and guided readers to think about how to better care for the dying.

The world of pre-hospital emergency care is about fighting against the clock when a sudden cardiac arrest occurs on the street, about carrying a fallen person out of a maze-like construction site at midnight, about delivering a baby on-site in a six-square-meter cubicle and emergency treatment of a breathing newborn (and also dealing with an expectant father who only adds to the chaos); it is also about being repeatedly stubborn. Patients explain that taking painkillers is harmless, but they are challenged, cursed and even beaten by agitated patients with mental disorders; there are even strange triage arrangements and institutional absurdities in the process... Why do office workers who work nine to five switch to this road industry and work hard day and night? What kind of complicated experiences and inner experiences does this career give people? The words are filled with "laughing gas", and every detail of London is revealed - is the British medical system the cradle of cultivating writers?

"The Past of the Han Family" records the century-old ups and downs of the "Tiancheng" Han family, the leader of Tianjin's "Eight Great Families". At the same time, it centers on the five sisters of the Han family, and includes the Li Lianpu, Mei Yiqi, Fu Tong, Kuang Shoukun and Wei Lihuang families. In this way, it absorbs a heavier historical capacity and reflects a richer background of the times. The Han sisters were the first pioneers among Chinese women to receive modern education in the 20th century. Their emotions and families allow us to have a glimpse of China's history and destiny in this century. The Han family and its network can be said to be a typical group of Chinese intellectuals. Their life experiences inevitably intersected and collided with the great times. What kind of searches, counterattacks and choices they made still have reference significance to this day. Through letters, diaries, old photos and interviews, the author uses the mixed life experiences of his ancestors and their wandering spiritual world to connect the historical narrative of a century of changes. He strives to use individuals to show the grandeur and complexity of the times, and to find the unique existence value of each life, thus sketching a multi-layered and three-dimensional historical picture.

Cardiac surgeons have the mysterious power to open chests, perform blood transfusions, and bring the dead back to life, but they are also living people who experience core emotions that all humans share-most of the time. A freak sports accident shaped Westaby into one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons. "I went from a withered violet to a carefree, bold and conceited bastard. I became immune to stress and became a habitual risk-taker, always hungry for excitement, attracting high-risk cases to me like a magnet, and reveling in the competition with death." And on another cold winter day, the rescue and birth of a child "helped me change my view of life, and also shaped me into a better person." An excellent surgeon - I have become a much better person than before, and I have once again understood that love can bring joy and joy." Through Westaby's confession and self-reflection, readers will see the adventures of life, the joys and sorrows of love, and the entire gripping story of modern cardiac surgery - "They are gradually unfolding in my life, and I am proud to be a part of it."

Rents are rising, chain brands are settling in, there are fewer and fewer familiar faces, and local culture is gradually disappearing - this is gentrification: after the reconstruction of old communities, land prices and rents rise, attracting high-income people to move in, and the original low-income people have to move to areas with relatively poor conditions and lower living costs. As the process of gentrification continues to deepen, it is still an open question whether the future city can truly become a vibrant, fair and reasonable space. By reviewing and analyzing the major changes in four American metropolises (New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York), this book points out that so-called gentrification is a process in which, supported by capital's pursuit of profits and policy tilt, it drives out the poor in the city, gathers more elite rich, and polarizes the rich and the poor. The massive inflow of capital has forced the native communities to compromise with their culture. Under the expulsion of groups, the city has transformed from a former residence full of memories into an exquisite and huge hollow. Who is in charge of the city? How can people fight for their due rights? Peter Moskowitz's lens is meticulous, taking us one by one to visit those struggling families who cannot afford housing, and understand how destructive housing policies are formulated under the alliance of politics and business, revealing the huge interlocking forces behind the promotion of gentrification in metropolitan areas.