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"Amazing Journey" is a book about travel, introducing a journey from Los Angeles to the southern tip of America. While traveling, Steven Hurley discovers and collects various stories around him, some about adventure, some about history, and some about anecdotes. In short, these stories are not only interesting, but also inspiring. Steven Hurley's plan is to discover the unusual, wonderful, and interesting stories of Central and South America and to find some experienced and lovable people. Travel notes, historical stories, and fun memories, that's what makes this book so interesting. "A Wonderful Journey" will inspire our passion for life and allow us to gain rich knowledge. This book can give readers a pleasant reading experience.

Copyrights have been sold in the United States, Germany, Russia, South Korea, the Netherlands and other countries. Sunday Times bestseller; shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Book Prize for Biography; shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize. This is a true, non-fiction story with a powerful narrative about rising above adversity through hiking and the healing power of nature. The author Renault learned that Moss, her husband with whom she had lived for 32 years, was terminally ill. Shortly afterwards, the two lost their property and livelihood. With nothing and little time left, they made the bold and impulsive decision to walk 630 miles (1,014 kilometers) along the southwest coast, from Somerset to Dorset, passing through Devon and Cornwall. They have almost no money to buy food or accommodation. They can only carry the necessary supplies for survival and live on the ancient land that has been washed by time. The cliffs, sea and sky are their homes. But during this journey, every step they took, everything they encountered, and every challenge they encountered ultimately led to this extraordinary journey from grief to joy. The story in this book is unapologetic and true. It is full of inspiration. This real-life story proves the importance of accepting grief and the healing power of the natural world. Ultimately, this is a portrait of home, how it is lost, rebuilt, and ultimately found again in the most unexpected ways.

If the trees on this planet could talk, what would they tell us? An epic of human beings and nature, like "Walden" meets "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Over the centuries, the fates of characters from different races and countries are like the same tree. Underground are the cultural history of family traditions, and above ground are the branches of civilization in the new century. They meet, get acquainted, and fight for nature and life together. From the chestnut trees in the Brooklyn countryside, to the fusang legend in Eastern China, from scientists with language barriers, to the American pilot who fell into a tree during the Vietnam War, a paralyzed Indian game development programmer, a psychologist who doubts human nature, an engineer who has a mysterious relic and heard ancient legends, and a female college student who died. Nine unrelated stories from different countries and different eras finally come together.

During World War II, more than a million women fought in the Soviet Union. They are young girls between the ages of 15 and 30, but they hold responsibilities that are considered "men's positions". They are doctors, snipers, tank infantrymen, submachine gunners... This book is a memoir of Soviet female soldiers and female medical staff during World War II. The war in their eyes brings us a completely different perspective and an unprecedented impact and shock. After decades of traveling across the vast land of the former Soviet Union, Alexievich personally interviewed thousands of people who experienced the events on the front lines, reviewed documents and materials from all parties, and painstakingly compiled the oral history series of the Soviet Union - this is an epic of ordinary people's lives.

In December 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan and began the ten-year, complicated but cruel war in Afghanistan. A generation of Soviet youths, most of them in their early twenties, were drafted into the army under the banner of "Help our Afghan brothers". The war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, but the memory of the war is a complicated quagmire, and these young people of this generation may remain in it for their entire lives. In the form of oral history, this book records the bloody and tearful memories of Soviet officers, soldiers, and their relatives, friends, and children during the Afghan War. After decades of traveling across the vast land of the former Soviet Union, Alexievich personally interviewed thousands of people who experienced the events on the front lines, reviewed documents and materials from all parties, and painstakingly compiled the oral history series of the Soviet Union - this is an epic of ordinary people's lives.

During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), millions of Soviet children died, and those who survived lost their loved ones and ended their childhood prematurely. At the stage when we should be enjoying the joy of childhood, "we are already men and women." This book is an oral history of children who survived the Great Patriotic War. They were 2-12 years old when they experienced this war. After decades of traveling across the vast land of the former Soviet Union, Alexievich personally interviewed thousands of people who experienced the events on the front lines, reviewed documents and materials from all parties, and painstakingly compiled the oral history series of the Soviet Union - this is an epic of ordinary people's lives.

The years go by, the seasons change, and some life experiences leave traces in the days. Have those deep or shallow feelings, as well as the whispers about the world, been properly placed? Ogawa Ito's collection of prose essays records life experiences throughout the year. Turn on the "receiving antenna" and seriously experience the world through Ogawa Ito's words! --I consider myself to be 100% a cat. Longing for freedom. However, sometimes I want to rely on others. --Be kind to your neighbors with an upright heart, and work conscientiously and happily for someone without losing any sense of proportion. -- Believes that writing a diary is a kind of salvation and the only moment when she feels free. --Fancy people, cute people, calm people, elegant people, everyone is free to express their unique look. --The act of hating will corrode your own heart and will not bring any extra points to your life in the end. - No need to work hard to forgive. It's not right to say forgetting. Only by understanding the other person's behavior can you save your own wounded soul. --Decorating all kinds of things in visible places always feels messy. --It's great to drink in moderation and enjoy the aftertaste of being "slightly tipsy". Ogawa Ito's words convey not only the touch of life, but also the dialogue with oneself. Through Nuan Nuan's words, you can feel the change of seasons and the joy of life. What you get from it is not only a touch, but also the redemption and respect for life.

A collection of life essays by Shinsuke Yoshitake, a popular illustrator and picture book writer in Japan. 48 Essays and nearly a hundred cartoons record the writer's careful observation of daily life, capture moments of whimsy, and gain inspiration and creativity. Sometimes it is cute and cute, sometimes it brings surprises and touches, sometimes it is "sad" and healing... There is humor, philosophy and warmth in the light and gentle pen and ink.

In April 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum sailed from Boston alone on the sloop Spray. It took three years, two months and two days, more than 46,000 miles, encountered numerous difficulties and obstacles, and experienced many storms. In the end, the lonely captain returned safely with his extraordinary courage, courage, perseverance and wisdom. This book is Slocum's personal account of the voyage. It contains humorous observations of strange customs around the world and a true description of the dangerous sea adventure. Joshua Slocum set a remarkable sailing record and left behind a wonderful adventure story.

Work protects people from the three great evils: boredom, sin, and want. How could I connect the act of making money with a sense of accomplishment in a work that was both painfully sad and ecstatic? What kind of success do I hope to achieve? How should I face my life? In this book, the British genius Alain de Botton examines the role of work, career, and personal hobbies in life with the perspective of a philosopher, and explores the little-known mysteries of various professions and the fun brought about by all kinds of incredible hobbies with the vivid writing style of a novelist and the sensitivity of a scholar. De Botton's new book may be seen as an "intertext" with the philosophical novel "Candide" (1759) by the 18th-century Enlightenment writer Voltaire. According to Voltaire, the world is far from perfect, and work can save people from three major evils: boredom, sin and lack. His protagonist Conrad said the truth recognized by many people: "It is more important to plant our garden." The years pass by in a hurry, like water, like shuttles, like floating clouds on the top of green mountains. 250 Years later, de Botton also has a deep affection for work, but his perspective has changed slightly, focusing more on the "joy and sorrow" brought by work. In his writing, although work and "sideline" hobbies are extremely challenging, have setbacks and hardships, they are the most enjoyable, lasting and beneficial fun in life. "Work can divert our attention, give us a beautiful bubble, let us be in it, and make life perfect." Work is life.

The creative source of the British hit TV series "Perfect Home" and the best model of life guide, with more than 200 pictures of buildings and artworks beautifully presented. This book is not a textbook-style history of Western architecture, nor is it an architectural appreciation manual or decoration guide. This latest work, written by de Botton over several years, examines from a very unique perspective a subject that seems familiar to us but is actually quite unfamiliar: the relationship between material architecture and our happiness. Why do people need buildings? Why does a certain kind of beautiful architecture please you? Why does this understanding of architectural beauty change? What is the connection between architecture and human happiness? De Botton's answers to these questions from the perspectives of philosophy, aesthetics and psychology are enough to subvert your daily clichés about architecture, and will prompt you to fundamentally change your established attitudes and pursuits towards architecture, and thus towards life and happiness.

Mary, a willful and lonely rich girl, became an orphan due to a sudden plague and was sent to a relative's home in England for adoption. There is a large, walled and locked garden in this old manor that no one has entered in ten years. Mary was deeply attracted by this secret and tried every means to break into this deserted garden that had been closed for a long time... Unexpectedly, there was also a boy living in this big house who everyone thought was going to be disabled. His birth and growth were related to this secret garden...

"Hunter's Notes" is a collection of essays by Russian writer Turgenev that describes the life of Russian rural areas in the mid-19th century through the hunting activities of hunters. The work adopts the form of a record of observations, which is true, concrete, vivid and vivid, with various genres and styles, and the language is concise and beautiful. It can be said to be an example of prose novels and poetic novels. "Hunter's Notes" is the author's famous work and has had a great influence on Russian literature.

"Hunter's Notes" is a collection of essays by Russian writer Turgenev that describes the life of Russian rural areas in the mid-19th century through the hunting activities of hunters. The work adopts the form of a record of observations, which is true, concrete, vivid and vivid, with various genres and styles, and the language is concise and beautiful. It can be said to be an example of prose novels and poetic novels. "Hunter's Notes" is the author's famous work and has had a great influence on Russian literature. "Hunter's Notes" uses a hunter's hunting traces as clues and the beautiful natural scenery of Russia as the background to string together twenty-five stories. The book depicts many characters such as aristocratic landowners, poor farmers, peasant children, peasant women, intellectuals, etc., Showing the unique and honest folk customs of Russia, and reproducing the life style of all strata of people in Russian towns and villages under serfdom.

A nobleman gave up his superior and comfortable manor life. He shouldered a hunting rifle, led a hunting dog, and lived a hunting life of living in the open air. He set foot on forests and grasslands, crossed villages and rivers, not only enjoyed the freedom of walking between heaven and earth, but also used his observant eyes and keen heart to appreciate the poetry of nature and gain insight into the rich inner world of everyone he met along the way. He wrote 25 wonderful essays about what he saw, heard, thought and felt during his hunting trip, which were collected into the world-famous "Hunter's Notes". Every article in the book exudes the fragrance of nature, shines with the glory of human nature, and is endlessly memorable.

This book contains Levi's lifelong poetry works, a total of 91 poems. In this book, Levi once again writes his testimony about the Holocaust in the form of poetry. Some people once said that "testimony" has no aesthetic significance, but Levi's poems break this stereotype. They are both profound testimonies and full of the beauty of literary art. "The Paris Review" commented on Levi's poetry: "His poetry defeats Theodor Adorno's declaration that 'writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.'" The "Levy Works" series also includes "The Drowned and the Rescued", "The Trade of Others", "This Is Auschwitz: Evidence 1945-1986", "The Wrench", "Truce" and "If Not Now, When?" "Moments of Reprieve", "Voices of Memory: Interviews with Levi 1961-1987", "I Talking to You: Conversations between Levi and Tessio", etc.

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This book takes an aristocratic hunter's hunting trip through the countryside as a clue, depicts the beautiful Russian scenery and rural customs, and depicts the images of landowners, housekeepers, mill wives, town doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, serfs, peasant children and other people from all walks of life. Author: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian name: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883), a 19th-century Russian critical realist writer. His major works include the novels "Luo Ting", "The Noble House", "The Night Before", "Father and Son", "Virgin Land", and the novellas "Axia" and "First Love", etc.

"Golden Mountain" is set against the background of the "Gold Rush" in northern Queensland in 1877, revealing a page of Australia's dark history that is gradually being forgotten. In 1877, 20-year-old Lai Yue and her younger sister Mei Ying traveled across the ocean to Australia to pan for gold in order to repay their father's debt. However, in the legendary Australia where gold is everywhere, the Lai Yue brothers and sisters not only had their dreams completely shattered, but also suffered the cruel persecution of racism that they had never experienced before. Lai Yue and Mei Ying regretted it ever since they set foot on that completely unfamiliar land, hoping to save enough money to return home as soon as possible. His elder brother Lai Yue herded sheep for a white rancher. After the hard-earned money he had exchanged for his life was robbed by the white ranchers, he became lonely, desperate and in a daze, and hanged himself in the jungle. My younger sister, Mei Ying, disguised herself as a man and changed her name to Ying. She found a job in a local store and experienced unimaginable pain and humiliation. In the boundless darkness and despair, she had an unforgettable and abnormal love affair with Merym, a white girl who worked as a servant to the prostitute Sophie in the small town of Maytown, which led to her death. Finally, with the help of his tribe, he escaped death and took advantage of the darkness to flee to the seaside town of Cooktown, finally embarking on the long journey back home. From the perspective of a marginalized female character, this novel describes the cultural conflicts between Chinese immigrants, Aboriginals and the British during the Australian Gold Rush in the late 19th century, and explores themes such as racism, colonialism, gender, and identity, all of which are hot topics today.

London, as one of the great literary cities in the world, has historic buildings and stories in every corner. The book "Elegant Discovery" is close to the heart of British literature - London. From Edmund Spencer and Shakespeare to Neil Gaiman and Will Self, from romantic writers and satirists to modern writers and sci-fi futurists, it spans different historical periods and involves different literary genres. It vividly tells the secrets behind many literary works born in London in the form of special topics, leading readers to discover fascinating anecdotes at prominent literary landmarks. At the same time, the book visits publishing houses, cafes, parks, and takes a sightseeing tour along the streets that have inspired the writer over the years and meandered through London. You will find that this is a city full of ideas, wisdom and strategies, and a gathering of talents.

The idea of ​​​​this book is to advocate simple life and love the scenery of nature. It is rich in content, far-reaching meaning, vivid language, and profound artistic conception. It is like a wise old man, flashing philosophical aura, and having the realm of mountains and flowing water. The book records the author's strange journey of living in seclusion by Walden Pond, blending in harmony with nature, and perceiving nature and reshaping himself in pastoral life. Reading this book can lead people into a clear, peaceful and elegant world.

"Forest" is the masterpiece of the famous Soviet popular science writer Vitaly Valentinovich Bianchi. This book was published in 1927. The author uses his artistic talent to describe the life of animals and plants. He uses a brisk writing style and adopts the form of a newspaper to report the news in the forest, the happy festivals and sad events in the forest, the heroes and robbers in the forest, and the life of animals and plants in a vivid and fascinating way. The author also tells children how to observe nature and how to compare, think and study nature.

This book uses fourteen "historical miniatures" to show us either major historical events or the intense inner struggles and ups and downs of fate experienced by some representative figures. Among them are the French General Grouchy's misunderstanding in the Battle of Waterloo; The musician Handel's amazing creativity burst out in the trough of life when he was poor and sick; there is the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott's heroism in the ice and snow... These historical close-ups are ups and downs, hearty and hearty to read, and you can't bear to put them down.

"Collection of Bacon's Essays" has a total of fifty-nine articles, covering all aspects of human life. The article's language is concise, the writing is beautiful, the reasoning is thorough, and the aphorisms are repeated. It has been loved by readers from all over the world for hundreds of years. Bacon was knowledgeable and well-versed in the world, and had thought-provoking and unique insights into the issues he discussed. The translation adopts the version by the famous translator Cao Minglun.

This book is the reflections of sixteen writers on fertility, family and the meaning of life. The commonality among the thirteen female and three male writers in the book is that they either actively or passively chose not to have children, but the reasons for each of them to arrive at this decision are different. However, they all explore themes such as "loneliness", "self-realization", "fertility instinct" and "childhood trauma" that are closely related to the topic of fertility with admirable candor. Choosing not to have children does not mean that you hate children, that you are more selfish than others, or that you have experienced more childhood trauma than others, nor does it mean that you cannot shoulder your due social responsibilities. This momentous choice is the result of a convergence of personal experiences, family values, and social influences. Each of the sixteen writers in the book actively faced the childless life. They also rationally discussed society's stereotypes about women, and also looked forward to the irreversible cultural changes brought about by the advancement of medical technology and the industrialization process. Sixteen writers represent voices that, although they are in the minority, deserve to be respected and understood. This collection also responds to the impact that the dramatic changes in social organization over the past two decades have had on family and emotional structures. Faced with the possibility that we will eventually be alone in life, how do we establish intimate relationships, how do we stay true to our decisions, and bear the consequences of this decision in our daily lives? This book can be regarded as an iconic reference sample in the fields of family studies and emotion studies.

This book is edited by Benjamin Taylor, the editor of "The Letters of Bellow". It not only includes Bellow's famous prose, but also selects fifty-seven of his travel notes, book reviews, film reviews, interviews, speeches and memoirs. The writing spans more than half a century. We can read the creative trajectory of a writer who witnessed the second half of the twentieth century and documented the spiritual crisis experienced by Americans after the war. How to successfully break out of modern society, Bellow gave his own answer with his keen observation and thinking.

The author Kong Shuyu went to Canada to study in the 1990s, and later taught literature and film in university liberal arts colleges in North America and Australia. He also lived and traveled in many places in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Different from general travel notes that are superficial, the author's overseas reading and travel writings that span more than 20 years often start from movies and artists' works, bookstores, art galleries and public libraries related to a certain place. From the perspective of a reader, he has an in-depth understanding of the local history and customs, and creates a space for passionate and imaginative dialogue, constantly discovering new stories. The writers and artists introduced in the book include Munro, de Botton, Ang Lee, etc. Who are well-known to general readers, as well as Macdonald, Anaïs, etc. Who are not well-known in China. The works of these writers release their unique charm and respectable value in the author's writing, which is fascinating.

The work of global best-selling author x lifestyle leader x speaker Alain de Botton has a new preface specially written by de Botton for Chinese readers. Host Liu Xuan, cartoonist Ouyang Yingji, writers Zheng Huajuan and Lu Yujia jointly recommended it. The airport was originally just a transitional space during travel, where only "departures" and "arrivals" occurred. However, in the eyes of Alain de Botton, it has become a museum integrating various cultural aspects. One summer, Alain de Botton was invited to be the "first writer-in-residence" at Heathrow International Airport in the United Kingdom. He can get to know passengers from all over the world and interview all kinds of people, including security personnel, pilots, CEOs, and even airport chaplains; he can also enter and exit the departure hall, arrival hall, airport restricted area and airport hotel at will. In the familiar and mysterious "non-place" of the airport, De Botton uses his unique perspective to explore and observe the wonder and vulgarity... A week later, De Botton wrote this extraordinary cross-border cultural and creative work with his consistent writing style that combines humor and wisdom. He explores travel, work, relationships, and the nature of everyday life, showing us that spending time in an airport can be more enlightening than we give it credit for.

Rigorous and elegant proof of why evolution is not just a correct theory, but a fact. Jerry A. Coyne studied at Harvard University with Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould. For the past twenty years, he has been a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, where he conducts research on evolutionary genetics. Professor Coyne is one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists and one of the most important public intellectuals on evolution. He is a regular contributor to The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and NPR. "Why Believe Darwin" weaves together many threads from modern research results in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy to rigorously and elegantly prove why evolution is not only a correct theory, but a fact.

Translated by name, this is a must-have package for understanding the essence of Western essays. Originating from the philosophy of ancient Greece, it presents the splendor of the Renaissance, captures the treasures of British and American literature, witnesses the pinnacle of existentialism, and reveals the edge of the "new intellectuals." Ranked among the top three essays in the world, it is the work of two Nobel Prize winners, from Plato, Bacon, and Emerson to Camus, Maugham, and Sontag, condensing the light of Western literature in 2000. In the social wave of involution and wolf nature, how to maintain rationality and avoid becoming a rabble? Read the works of masters, talk to sages, and find your true self in words. "Translation Essays 2000 (set of 12 volumes)" collects the classic Western essay masterpieces from 300 BC to the second half of the 20th century, including "Plato's Dialogues", "Montaigne's Essays", "Bacon's Essays", "Notes on Observations", "Essays of Ilia", "Emerson's Essays", "Travel with a Donkey", "Twilight in Italy", "A Moveable Feast", "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Perspectives" and "Objections to Interpretation", a total of 12 works.

Philip Larkin is one of the most important English poets of the 20th century and created a generation of poetry. "Invitation to Write: Larkin's Essays" condenses Larkin's main aesthetic ideals and artistic views throughout his life. Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Clive James praised it for its concise writing style, which is both solemn and humorous, full of wit and wit. Philip Larkin is an internationally renowned British poet. His works have great influence and are widely circulated. They are praised by well-known writers such as Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Clive James, etc. Many poets regard his works as a source of inspiration for writing. "Works by Invitation: Larkin's Essays" contains more than 50 essays, essays, book reviews and music reviews that Larkin published in response to requests from newspapers, magazines and other media between 1955 and 1982. They occupied an important position in his creative career and can be said to have condensed Larkin's main aesthetic ideals and artistic views throughout his life. Larkin's writing style is concise, both solemn and humorous. Although many of his articles are not long, they are every word accurate, and they have always been highly regarded by European and American reading circles.

"Representative of the young generation of British writers" Zadie Smith is a collection of ten years of essays, facing the chaos and absurdity of the times. She is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Review in 2019 and recommended by the New York Times for the year. He is not only a talented novelist, but also a critical commentator. This book collects Zadie Smith's non-fiction creations over the past ten years, comprehensively demonstrating her originality in this field from current affairs, art, philosophy, literature, life and personal experience. It not only contains an in-depth understanding of the current era, but also continues the writer's consistent attention and reflection on popular culture, reflecting her diverse cultural insights. Zadie Smith's keen observation is like her beloved dance, which moves freely and freely through different fields. She uses this method to organize her seemingly messy thoughts, while always maintaining an open curiosity; unlike the popular academic writing nowadays, her tone is intimate but not overly personal, her vision is broad but not limited, and she can often see both sides of things at the same time; rather than convincing readers to agree with a certain point of view, she prefers to shape a way of thinking. This book can be regarded as a comprehensive summary of Zadie Smith's writing career over the past ten years, and it also proves that she is not only a talented novelist, but also a critical critic.

De Botton takes the love story of Rabbi and Kirsten as the main theme, supplemented by philosophical and psychological thinking, from the budding of love to the sailing of love, from entering the siege to being trapped in the "city", to extramarital affairs, and finally through self-exploration, the complete process of detached acceptance of marriage, and every step of love and marriage. He made a calm and wise analysis at each stage, laying out his full and deep thinking through delicate situations and integrating concrete and real characters, until people gradually realized that the essence of love is not so much a passion as a skill that needs to be learned. Only by understanding this way can we have the calmness to see through thousands of sails, and accept marriage calmly after all the vicissitudes of life. This book is a work of essays, but also a philosophical, psychological, and sociological work full of wisdom that reveals the rules of love and marriage. It helps us no longer wander around the various dilemmas in the process of love and marriage, and rekindles our enthusiasm for life, and then understands: It is easy to fall in love, it only requires a moment of passion, but it is not easy to maintain love. It requires a lifetime of practice. What we should do is to break the illusion and love more pragmatically, healthily, and non-instinctively.

[We all wonder what will happen to us or our loved ones as they die. ]Put on a smock, disinfect your hands and forearms, and cover your mouth and nose with a mask. It looks like a refugee camp because instead of calling comatose patients by their names, they call them a combination of letters and numbers. "A3, blood sugar dropped." "B9, emotionally unstable." My father is C7, one of the "zombie". I saw him for the first time in 13 years. Henry was a war correspondent, kind, distant, warm and cold; he traveled around the world and was willing to go anywhere except home on a hungover morning. He has a 13-year-old son, Sam, who was only given a photo when he was born and has never been seen since. Henry's emergency contact is always his ex-girlfriend Eddie, whose name also appears in his will, but it was Henry who resolutely gave up on this relationship two years ago. That was the day he had been waiting for a long time - his son Sam, whom he had never met before, invited him to meet him. But on that day, he crashed into a car and fell into a long coma. Henry's lonely, contradictory and fascinating life has become a mystery. He came to the "dream sea", a void between life and death, where his past and present overlapped and intertwined. Henry kept dreaming, revisiting the important moments that changed his life... And through the thick and fluffy layer of anesthesia like a duvet, Sam and Eddie also wanted to know how to get answers to the words that they could not ask...

The Japanese boy Naoki Higashida, the author of "I Want to Fly into the Sky", is a person with severe autism. Although he has difficulty speaking a complete sentence, he can slowly piece together what he really wants to express through the alphabet keyboard, which answers many people's doubts about autistic children. In "I Want to Fly into the Sky", he told people in detail about the inner world of autistic children in the form of questions and answers. Naoki Higashida's answer in the book "I Want to Fly into the Sky" is both sincere and self-deprecating. What's surprising is that he actually knows that some of his behaviors are different from others, even weird, but he just can't control it; he even knows that others will look at him in a strange way, but he is calm and can view it with humor (yes, autistic children also have a sense of humor!). Even if there are no autistic people around you, or you consider yourself a "normal person", the questions and answers in the book "I Want to Fly to the Sky" will still deeply inspire and touch you. "I Want to Fly into the Sky" opens another door for us to communicate with autistic children, and opens up a new perspective for us to observe the world. As long as we understand the reasons behind the behaviors of autistic people, we will understand that children with autism do not have no feelings; on the contrary, they feel very strongly. All they lack is a way to express themselves. They are just different from us. What they especially want to see is the acceptance, understanding and companionship of their parents and friends.

Life does not have an easy start. How much brokenness you have experienced requires courage to find your complete self. A child who grew up in a harsh environment, a troubled teenager, a strong track and field athlete, a top student at Stanford, a music journalist, a successful rock musician... He came from a trough and experienced hardships that others could not imagine. In a difficult childhood and complicated family relationships, he surpassed himself and understood others time and time again, and in the process learned to reconcile with the past and become a better son, brother and father. He sees the pain he has suffered in the past as cracks in his armor, and sees the beautiful world through them, guiding him to rediscover the direction of his life on the first day of his remaining life. This is the growth story of Michael Cholet, an American dark horse writer in 2020. He tells a thought-provoking road to self-salvation in a sincere and delicate way.

Living in Lampedusa is not easy. This small beach broke away from the African continent and migrated towards Europe, as if willing to become a symbol of the bridge between the two. Its destiny has been written by the peculiar geographical conditions, and this destiny not only dominates the land, but also dominates the people who settle on it. Lampedusa, an island closer to the African continent than to mainland Italy, has become a transit point for countless African refugees entering Europe. Desperate people choose to use the most humble and dangerous way of smuggling to stay away from the war and pain in their homeland. The ocean, originally a road of hope, often becomes a hell where its fate is overturned. Organ trade, rape and robbery, brutal smugglers, frequent shipwrecks... Piero Bartolo, the son of a poor Lampedusa fisherman, resolutely returned to his hometown in 1991 and opened the first clinic on the island. He never imagined that his clinic would become a trench on the front line of the refugee crisis. Countless emergency treatments, inspections, rescues, and autopsies... For Bartolo and other Lampedusa people, it is unacceptable to leave anyone at sea to be at the mercy of fate. This is the rule of the ocean that no one can violate. Dr. Bartolo uses words as precise and sharp as a surgical scalpel to present a broken life and the mental trauma that can never be healed. These personal records sharply interrogate the boundaries of civilization and identity, asking us to ask why these tragedies occur, and how a society and minds that are increasingly numb to the suffering of others can face the ultimate suffering created by mankind.

This is a collection of essays devoted to novel writing talents and writing skills. It consists of twelve letters written by Vargas Llosa to a young novelist who is passionate about writing. In the letter, Llosa shared his lifelong creative ideas and reading experience, and quoted nearly 100 works by more than 80 writers, including Cervantes, Flaubert, Hugo, Hemingway, Kafka, Faulkner, Borges, García Márquez, Robbe-Grillet, Virginia Woolf, Juan Rulfo... He provided penetrating analysis and insights into a series of basic issues regarding technique and form in novel creation.

In 1957, "On the Road" was published, putting the "Beat Generation" on the literary map and making Kerouac one of the best-selling authors. Just a year later, Dharma Wanderer was published. Compared with its predecessor, this novel has the same openness, humor, and touching enthusiasm for life, but the story is more cohesive, telling the story of two young people's passionate search for Buddhism or truth. Their adventure centers on a quest for Zen, which ultimately leads them up the Sierra Nevada Mountains to realize the path of solitude. One of Kerouac's best and most popular autobiographical novels, "Dharma Wanderer" is based on his real-life experiences in the mid-1950s, when he became interested in Buddhist models of spiritual understanding. One of the main characters in the book, Jaffe Ryder, is based on the famous poet Gary Snyder.

"The delicious food that cells pursue is to take life in a better direction. I think the ultimate delicious food is food that makes cells happy." The relationship between life and taste is constantly thought about. However, looking at today, environmental pollution has gradually made us lose the food we can trust. Food is also pursuing simplicity and speed. People have forgotten the essence of "eating", and they don't know how to live better. The worried author proposed five indicators for the world: "awe", "sensibility", "intuition", "adaptation and response ability" and "gentle heart", hoping to provide solutions for future generations when they face difficulties in survival. The author writes about how he lives out his work in the kitchen, where he finds out the answer to "why people eat", understands that "life is connected to other lives through food", and conveys the touching wisdom of "eating in accordance with the local customs". He hopes that everyone can make soups and dishes with the thought of seeing the smiles of their loved ones.

This book is a "British novel course" for the general public written by Sebastian Fox, an impressive contemporary British novelist. The writing is profound and simple, humorous, full of passion, and filled with the novelist's unique and personalized "preference" for literary characters. It can be described as an alternative history of British novels. The book has a total of twenty-eight chapters, each of which introduces a character in the novel. The author classifies these twenty-eight characters into four different character types (heroes\u002F lovers\u002F snobs\u002F villains), and then systematically analyzes and explains them. The book has a clear style. Each part starts with an introduction, which first introduces the development history of a certain character type as a whole, and then starts the discussion of specific characters on this basis. In each interpretation, the author quotes one or two classic fragments from the novel, and demonstrates the author's writing skills and character creation characteristics of the original novel based on a close reading of the text, allowing readers to understand the full picture of the novel's creation in the details of the flesh-and-blood characters. At the same time, the author also re-examines the evolution of British culture and spirit from the fictional characters.

This manuscript is compiled based on a doctoral thesis. Five chapters in total: "Consumption Memory" generation context, critical analysis of the aesthetic characteristics of "Consumption Memory" "Edge": the subject diversification tendency of current literary memory objects, the theoretical construction of "accumulation memory" from the perspective of survival aesthetics "Accumulation memory" is recreated in crisis. Taking "survival aesthetics" as the internal logical train of thought, a systematic theoretical construction of the ideal "accumulated memory" is carried out. The game between "consumptive memory" and "accumulated memory" has profoundly affected contemporary Chinese literature. The growing influence of "consumer memory" has heralded the emergence of a "memory crisis". In solving the problem of "memory crisis", the reconstruction of "accumulated memory" should be explored from the perspective of "survival aesthetics". Writers who are the subject of memory should consciously restrain their desire for consumption, retain historical consciousness, pursue a poetic lifestyle, and mold ideal personality, etc., And finally use profound "ideological power" to reproduce the past glory of literature.

In the second year of Genroku (1689), Basho left Edo, accompanied by his disciple Kawai Soryo, and traveled around Ou and Hokuriku on foot for 5 months, covering a distance of about 2,350 kilometers, and finally arrived in Ogaki. He recorded what he saw, heard, felt, and realized in exquisite writing, and compiled it into a book - "Oshu Trail" in the form of prose and haiku. It pushes the theory of "not easy to become popular" advocated by Matsuo Basho to the extreme, and is also the pinnacle of ancient Japanese travel literature.

The selected works in this set of beautiful essays are short in length and concise in content. They pay great attention to ideological and literary qualities and are highly readable, artistic and appreciative. Each volume of works is carefully organized and classified according to the corresponding content, and is divided into several chapters in the form of special topics. The structure is rigorous and the form is novel. It is very suitable for readers to read and collect, and it is also very suitable for the display of equipment in libraries at all levels.

The selected works in this set of beautiful essays are short in length and concise in content. They pay great attention to ideological and literary qualities and are highly readable, artistic and appreciative. Each volume of works is carefully organized and classified according to the corresponding content, and is divided into several chapters in the form of special topics. The structure is rigorous and the form is novel. It is very suitable for readers to read and collect, and it is also very suitable for the display of equipment in libraries at all levels.

Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was a famous ecologist and environmentalist, known as "the pioneer of new environmental theory in the United States" and "the father of land ethics". In 1935, he purchased an abandoned farm on the banks of the Wisconsin River and moved his family into the farm, using it as a laboratory and observation station to conduct extremely delicate and complex ecological conservation work. "Sand Country Almanack" is the records and essays he wrote while working and living on the farm, as well as some of the papers published in newspapers and periodicals. This manuscript is divided into three parts. In the first part, the author describes the wild landscape of Wisconsin with affectionate brushstrokes, revealing a world that is both natural and well-regulated. The second part contains some interesting and thought-provoking nature stories. The third part is the author's prophetic views on environmental conservation. This book adds some new illustrations and explanations to the original hand-drawn illustrations, and includes the author's diary and notes.

Northwest drizzle, a love of writing, intense college classes, and a soothing bakery created a new life for Sedona native Jane Shepherd. We learn from an unusual relationship that, although it is not easy, it is possible to move on after tragedy, and that dreams call us for a reason. Jane and Landon taught each other that the people you surround yourself with become your family. "New Town" is a story about sadness, pain, and trouble, but more importantly, healing, joy, and life.

In June 2013, the Guardian and the Washington Post successively revealed that the National Security Agency and the FBI had collected massive amounts of user data directly from the databases of nine Internet giants including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft since 2007, triggering an uproar in international public opinion. This was the "Prism Gate" incident that shocked the world. Author Barton Gellman was one of the first three journalists to speak directly to Snowden and received tens of thousands of classified documents from Snowden. Since then, Gelman has embarked on a thrilling journey of investigative reporting. Following the clues provided by Snowden, he peeled off the cocoon, overcame technical obstacles, and went deep into the secret world. He traced the origin and operating mechanism of a series of government surveillance projects such as "Prism", "Starwind" and "Upstream", allowing us to get a glimpse of the huge national surveillance machine. During this period, he was forced to engage in an escalating "espionage war" with unknown opponents. He is regarded by senior government officials as an "accomplice" or "agent" of traitors, and may be raided at any time; he has witnessed the electronic devices in his hands being attacked by hackers, and has to deal with cunning scammers trying to obtain information from time to time. It is even more common to receive malware, phishing emails, etc. Behind these gripping and detailed descriptions, what we see is a rigorous journalist's strong sense of responsibility for holding government power accountable and safeguarding public rights and interests. He is not afraid to expose the abuse of power and moral controversies existing in the U. S. Government's national security work, and arouse public reflection on the limits and principles of the exercise of government power.

You may not know that ice is a very common object that falls from airplanes, and Sarah's mother died from such a piece of ice falling from the sky. Adults are saying: "I hope time can heal the pain." But "time heals wounds" is useless nonsense to Sarah, because time no longer passes for Sarah and her father, they are trapped. A few years later, Sarah's father remarried, and life seemed to be back on track. Dad took Sarah and his pregnant new wife back to their old house. Sarah heard her father mentioning his mother who died unexpectedly to his new wife: "She was so unreal, as if she was cut out of a movie. Maybe she needed that kind of death." Sarah didn't understand why her father, who once cried and wailed bitterly, was sitting there as if nothing had happened, saying "Oh, yes, this plot is quite suitable in the story." Is it so easy to forget the past?

The selected works in this set of beautiful essays are short in length and concise in content. They pay great attention to ideological and literary qualities and are highly readable, artistic and appreciative. Each volume of works is carefully organized and classified according to the corresponding content, and is divided into several chapters in the form of special topics. The structure is rigorous and the form is novel. It is very suitable for readers to read and collect, and it is also very suitable for the display of equipment in libraries at all levels.