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Daguo Kongcun

Daguo Kongcun

Literature

Cheng Mingsheng

180K0

Taking the author Cheng Mingsheng's hometown of Chengwan as the point and rural urbanization as the line, this book reproduces the internal disintegration of Chinese farmers after their farewell migration, as well as the reconstruction of different places under the laws of family remuneration and township remuneration, and presents readers with a condensed version of the fate of rural areas.

Running Orange

Running Orange

Literature

Liu Jingming

129K0

The documentary literature "Running Orange" uses the birthplace of navel oranges in southern Gansu as the main line to unfold the narrative, and takes Yuan Shougen, the "first person to grow navel oranges in southern Ganxi" as the narration object. It explains the causes and consequences of the fruit industry's "big war" that ignited the spark of navel oranges, and kicks off the pioneering and exemplary story of the navel orange industry in southern Jiangxi over the past 50 years. Explore the "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer" Zhong Balian's relay of the "Navel Orange Stick", take root in the life trajectory of the navel orange business, and reveal the deep mystery of how science and technology lead and prosper the fruit and enrich the people. Recording the joys, sorrows, and joys of the fruit industry cadres as if they were walking on a long march, and reflecting on their inherent goodness and humanity that is connected to the blood of navel oranges. Analyze the essential core of the cultural construction of Gannan navel oranges and explain the bold actions of navel orange brand value. Capture fragments of the integration and upgrading of rural agricultural industries in southern Jiangxi, eulogize the symphony of destiny of the people of southern Jiangxi in pursuit of values ​​and struggle and enterprising spirit, and show the beautiful picture and the spirit of the new era of implementing the rural revitalization strategy and winning a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

Collection Circle

Lin Bizhong

165K0

This book mainly starts from antique objects and industry chaos, telling the most typical chaos in the antique collection circle, telling the fraud stories and counterfeiting methods behind these objects, through each vivid story, thinking about the chaos and scams from multiple angles, and analyzing how to establish a transparent, fair, true, and ideal antique collection circle. This book collects all kinds of shocking fraud stories that the author has encountered, heard, and seen during his decades of traveling in the collecting circle. It will take you into an unknown world of collecting, where there are swords, swords and shadows, as well as chivalrous tenderness. Let you feel the intrigues in the thrilling story, understand the warmth and warmth of human relationships in the unpredictable routines, and understand the difficulty of collecting through the skills of forgery. This book also shares the anti-fraud techniques and identification methods that the author has summarized over the past decades, providing the public with a lively and interesting anti-fraud class, including all practical knowledge, techniques and methods. This is not just a book, but also a world.

Crazy Life (translated Documentary)

(us) William Finnegan

293K01

A surfing version of "On the Road," which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. How many ways can you describe a wave? Finnegan said, you'll never get tired of watching it. A young mind occupied by free and pure literary thoughts throws his fragile and insignificant human body into the distance of the world, plunging into the most ruthless and powerful waves again and again, looking for fear and ecstasy. Finnegan, a teenager, moved frequently due to his father's job, and was estranged from his family and had no solid friendships. He moved to Hawaii in the 1960s, at a time when society was undergoing great changes, including psychedelic drugs, rock music, the civil rights movement, sexual liberation, hippies... After leaving the orderly white world, he not only had to face the racial impact of Hawaii, but also had to deal with school bullying. Fortunately, there was the ocean outside his home, and he became obsessed with surfing at the age of 10. The dreamy surfing paradise of Honolulu became his spiritual refuge and allowed him to make friends in the surfing circle. Surfing seems to be just a sport, but for those who are obsessed with it, it is a rigorous learning process, a morally dangerous pastime, and a way to explore human beings' own limits and life ideals. "Crazy Life" is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, and a paper road movie. Despite the clamor, Finnegan finally found a way to talk to the three major life issues of "who am I", "where am I going" and "what can I achieve".

My Political Life

(france) Nicolas Sarkozy

99K0

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy devoted all his efforts to this work, personally visited the historical scene and entered the hearts of influential figures in the political arena. "My Political Life" is the painstaking work of Nicolas Sarkozy, the ninth president of the Fifth Republic of France. The author reviews his political experience as president of France from 2007 to 2012, tells the stories behind several important reforms, and lists the new policies on tax law, culture, higher education, immigration, etc. Promulgated during his term. He also took the opportunity to analyze in detail the important factors that led to his defeat to Hollande in 2012, criticized the shortcomings of the French president's five-year term, proposed solutions to the new conflicts in French society in recent years, and actively responded to the issues that the French are most concerned about.

The Shadow of the Killer (translated Documentary)

R

135K0

FBI psychological profiling expert confronts the white supremacist serial killer who shocked the United States! Why does hatred keep spreading? Why do prejudice and discrimination persist to this day? The shadow cast by racists is long and dark. Franklin died, but the racial hatred he expected remained alive. As long as there is prejudice and discrimination, he can survive. The shadow he brought continues to this day. Among all the serial killers studied, Douglas, an FBI psychological profiling expert, has always been faced with one question: "Are they born, or are they man-made? Are they born naturally or through nurture?" The answer, as far as the research results are known, is both. In fact, out of a lively interaction between the two. Despite his horrific achievements as a serial killer, Franklin was nothing special, and his shadow lingers. Franklin himself told Douglas how he used white supremacist newspapers. In the same way a sexual predator uses violent pornography, these newspapers both fueled his fantasies about racial violence and reinforced his belief that he was playing a heroic role in a larger movement. Today's internet is filled with spaces where people do exactly the same thing, cultivating and spreading hateful lies and conspiracies. The shadows cast by Joseph Paul Franklin and his ilk are long and dark, and the sunlight that removes them must shine brighter and stronger.

Bullying and Suicide (translated Documentary)

(japan) Kamata Kei

133K0

If there are five bullies, they all believe that they only bear one-fifth of the responsibility, while the bullied person has to bear five times the pain. I visited parents of children who committed suicide to understand what it was like for children who were bullied. Because the victims are no longer alive, we cannot directly listen to their voices. However, through repeated visits to the parents of the victims and listening to their laments, the world of contemporary schools that pushed their children to suicide, or failed to fulfill their responsibility to save their lives, and the cruel and indifferent children gradually emerged. Even the cruelty of bullying people to death spread to the victim's parents after the incident, turning into a problem of isolation of the victim's family in the region. This is simply beyond our imagination.

The Twenty-one Faces of the Disappearing Monster: Testimonies of Three Hundred Investigators in the Glico-morinaga Case (translated Documentary)

(japan) Compiled By Nhk Special Program Recording Team

174K0

The originator of "theatrical crime", an unsolved mystery in the late Showa era! With 1.3 Million police personnel deployed, why are the criminals still unable to be caught? Interviewed more than 300 relevant personnel to review the key moments of the Glico-Morinaga case; used the latest technology to analyze the "voice of the criminal" and revealed a new criminal profile! The Glico-Morinaga case occurred in the late Showa era (1980s). It is one of Japan's well-known unsolved cases and the originator of Japanese theater crime. Its dramatic criminal methods are still talked about today. This case has been adapted into film and television works many times, and the Smiling Man incident in "Ghost in the Shell" is based on this case. The criminal gang calling themselves "Twenty-One Faces" left more than 140 threatening letters and letters of challenge, as well as blackmail phone recordings, surveillance videos and a large number of items left behind at crime scenes. The case seemed to be full of clues, but the police failed to catch a suspect. The performance of the police has been criticized by the public and the media for failing to investigate the "fox-eyed man" who appeared at the crime scene twice, and "let go" of the suspicious vehicle at the scene where the extortion money was delivered. How close were the police to solving the case, and how far had the investigation progressed? Is the failure to solve the case an unfortunate coincidence or some kind of necessity? The NHK special program recording team interviewed frontline investigators and police senior officials involved in solving the case, comprehensively reviewed the details of the case, and reviewed the search process of the Glico-Morinaga case. In addition, the recording team commissioned experts to use the latest technology to re-analyze the blackmail phone recordings and came up with brand-new criminal profiling results, which overturned the police and the public's understanding of the composition of criminal gangs for many years.

Pre-emptive Strike (translated Documentary)

(by) Ronan Bergman

511K0

This is the first authoritative history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and IDF targeted killing programs. The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, kill him first." This instinct to take all measures, even the most extreme means, to protect the Jewish people is deeply rooted in the DNA of Israel. After the establishment of the state, this became the responsibility of the Israeli intelligence services and armed forces. Israel is the undisputed global leader in many weapons technologies. There is another method used to deal with the most serious threats that also attracts the attention of the world, and that is targeted killing. Hunting down Nazis around the world, solving frequent hijackings, killing identified terrorists, and assassinating dangerous personnel such as enemy nuclear physicists and biochemists... So far, Israel has used countless targeted killings against enemies large and small. Targeted killings require cross-departmental coordination, precise planning and arrangements, and operators must also be skilled in all kinds of martial arts. Even so, face-to-face assassinations may be subject to objective surprises, and the success may be undone due to momentary hesitation on the part of the operators. However, with the development of science and technology, the executors of targeted killing operations have become drones. Operators can walk into office buildings like ordinary office workers, press buttons with expressionless faces, and end lives... In short, this method of killing to stop killing has plunged Israel into a protracted retaliation with various armed forces. The casualties are increasing, and relations with neighboring countries and regions have always been tense. The author Bergman is known as "Israel's best investigative reporter."

It's Best to Face the South (translated Documentary·record of the Survival of Contemporary Chinese Women)

Sandwich

187K0

Let women speak for themselves and tell their own stories. Contemporary Chinese women's response to Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" nearly 100 years later. Do women know about the possible harm to their bodies before giving birth? Will a 22-year marriage that has raised three children continue due to inertia? If I have suffered domestic violence for a long time, can I get divorced and get married on my own? Is it right to move to a strange city with your husband, your career has stagnated, and you should take advantage of the situation and become a "housewife"? Is it allowed for a mother to say she doesn't love her child? Do you do IVF because you want to have a child, or because you don't want to accept that you are "reproductively incompetent"? As a woman, is it okay if I don't want to have my period? 22 Female authors, 24 real life stories. Woolf said in "A Room of One's Own": "If a woman plans to write a novel, she must have money and a room of her own." In "Best Facing South", these female writers use words to construct their own "south-facing rooms". Most of them do not make a living by writing. The purpose of writing down stories is to understand themselves. These stories are very personal personal encounters, episodes of life that are of great significance to individuals, experiences that are not easily mentioned to others in daily life, and are not even known to even the closest family and friends. Through writing, they ask questions about their situation: As women, what have "I" experienced? Why am I going through this? What do these experiences mean to "me"? How do they form part of "me"?

Walk with You Along the Way to Zhejiang

Editor-in-chief Chen Shaohua

115K0

The medical stories told in this book are all about the humanistic care for life by clinical frontline medical staff. The authors of this book include doctors, nurses, and students, and the protagonists of the story are our lovely and respectable patient friends. No matter what their endings are, we can feel their love for life, their desire to recover, and their yearning for a happy life through these simple words. We asked medical staff working on the frontline of clinical practice to truly record their simplest emotions and thoughts about patients and diseases. If you feel a little moved when reading a certain story, or even have some thoughts, and have a better understanding of the work of doctors and nurses, our purpose of writing this book will have been achieved.

Female Power

Female Power

Literature

(congo) Denis Mukwege

174K0

In 1999, "Miracle Doctor" Mukwege founded Panzi Hospital. Over the past 20 years, he has treated more than 50,000 women who suffered sexual violence at this hospital. Some of them were raped in front of their own families, and some were taken into the jungle and used as sex slaves. They suffered great physical and mental harm, were isolated and stigmatized, but they still relied on their strong resilience to survive in this extremely misogynistic country. In this reflective and shocking book, Dr. Mukwege tells the stories of these women. Each of them is a ray of light that pierces the mask of false masculinity. At the same time, it was this kind of female power that supported him through the turbulent two Congo wars. Even though he suffered six assassinations, he still insisted on helping these women.

Born Female

Born Female

Literature

(uk)haley Rubenhold

191K0

"Just prostitutes." The media has always been keen to tell people that the people killed by "Jack the Ripper" were all prostitutes. In this serial murder case, the killer became the focus of the story, and even became the target of people's pursuit for a time. The victimized women are not only ignored by the media and the public, but also misrepresented. By collecting a large number of historical files, court materials, witness testimonies, and combining it with the background of the time, Halle Rubenhold restored the full and tragic lives of the five victimized women for readers. Those killed by "Jack the Ripper" were by no means all prostitutes, "they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters and lovers", and more importantly, "they were human beings". They were killed not because they were immoral or immoral, but because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their greatest misfortune may be that they were born as girls.

Village Chronicle

Meng Guangsheng

168K0

The author uses the writing technique of documentary literature to delicately present to readers what he has seen, heard, and thought in the poverty alleviation work through the poverty alleviation stories of every ordinary person in the village. He interprets the grandeur and difficulty of my country's poverty alleviation cause from a small angle, and reflects the image of "dream chasers" who adhere to ideals and beliefs and work hard for the happiness of the people in the new era.

Cultural Relics from the Forbidden City Moved South

Zhu Yong

281K0

In February 1933, 19,816 boxes, 72 packages of 15 pieces and 13 bundles of "antiquities" including documents, archives, ancient books, and various cultural relics were moved south in batches at the critical moment when the Japanese army invaded Pingjin. Among the international historical facts of rescuing national treasures under the threat of war, the relocation of cultural relics from the Forbidden City to the south is the earliest, largest, longest-lasting, and far-reaching action. This is not a simple rescue of treasures, but a real national cultural rescue operation. The relocation of cultural relics from the Palace Museum to the south is an eventful period for the Palace Museum and a history of struggle for the Chinese nation. Zhu Yong uses poetic language, prose style, and historical attitude to objectively restore the historical context and factual details of the relocation of cultural relics from the Forbidden City to the south, and takes us into those dusty years.

The Storm is Coming

(us) Luke Mogelson

214K0

On January 6, 2021, a political storm that shocked the world swept across the United States - a large number of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol Building, disrupting the certification of the 2020 US election results. With violence, conflict, bloodshed, and death, American democracy encountered its "darkest moment." As an eyewitness, veteran American war correspondent Mogelson gave us an in-depth account of how this storm formed and how it will affect the direction of American society. As early as 2020, he traveled to the scenes of riots across the United States. In Michigan, he witnessed how people's disappointment with epidemic prevention policies evolved into a crazy anti-government movement; in Minnesota, he witnessed how Floyd's death triggered the "Black Lives Matter" movement, the largest popular protest movement in American history; Portland, Oregon, witnessed violent confrontations between left-wing anti-fascists and extreme right-wing groups; Washington, D. C., Witnessed how the 2020 U. S. Election, filled with all kinds of lies and conspiracy theories, triggered two violent demonstrations in succession... All of this points to the fact that the famous Capitol riots did not occur out of thin air. In the author's opinion, what cannot be ignored behind the formation of this storm is the rise of extreme right-wing forces under the auspices of American conservative forces headed by Trump. They are gripped by a self-righteous collective delirium of anger, fear, and fanaticism, eager to resort to one form of political violence after another.

Cried Laughed

Cried Laughed

Literature

He Peisong

317K0

This book takes the orphan groups and orphan school education in minority areas in the new era as its theme, observes the life, destiny, and emotions of orphans, expresses the wishes, moods, and voices of orphans; reflects the care of orphan children by party committees and governments at all levels, people from all walks of life, and school teachers; and vividly depicts the true feelings of the world and the stories of orphans who strive for self-improvement, gratitude, and progress. The whole book is strong, moral, warm and down-to-earth. It is a main theme work that promotes the socialist humanistic spirit and the new trend of socialist morality.

Faith and Rupture

Liao Xianhong

146K0

The Zhou brothers came from a wealthy family, and their father was a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang. Inspired by the advanced ideas of Marxism and the heroic fighting spirit of the Chinese Communists, they resolutely broke away from their families and followed the Communist Party of China, which seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the difficult struggle environment, they continued to temper their revolutionary will and gradually grew into staunch communist fighters, making important contributions to the founding of New China and the socialist revolution and construction.

Live Towards Death

Zeng Pingbiao

264K0

The book unfolds against the background of the bloody battle of the Xiangjiang River during the Red Army's Long March. It not only traces the Red Army soldiers' firm belief that "revolutionary ideals are higher than the sky" and their heroic feats from a macro perspective, but also details the wonderful story of contemporary Guangxi's continuous spiritual blood and inheritance of red genes. It outlines a long-term picture of the Communists observing history, rooting in reality, and traveling through the time and space tunnel of more than 80 years.

Following the Road with Dreams: a Collection of Stories of Private Enterprises on the "one Belt, One Road" Initiative

This Book Writing Team

72K0

At the beginning of 2020, the "Dream on the Road" project was launched. The original intention of this book is to show the style of private enterprises actively implementing the "One Belt, One Road" initiative based on exclusive interviews and company introductions. However, the new crown epidemic disrupted our deployment. The plan of in-depth interviews with companies was forced to be changed to telephone interviews. However, we still received active cooperation from various companies. After interviews and data compilation, each report gradually took shape. Among them are the female producers who are dancing cultural ties in Africa, the passionate young man who has led the team to work in Zambia for ten years, the "post-80s" who are promoting agricultural production in Southeast Asia, the "post-90s" who are laying out product lines in Eastern Europe, and the entrepreneurs who have led the team from followers and runners to leaders. In the process of implementing the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, whether entrepreneurs or employees, they are all dream chasers, pursuing their ideals in life and career on this road destined to be glorious. The completion of this book would not have been possible without the support and cooperation of all parties. Here, I would like to express my special thanks to the leadership of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, as well as the Liaison Department and the Propaganda Department of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce for their strong support in the process of this book from project establishment to material collection to completion. I would also like to thank all enterprises for their full cooperation in providing this book with vivid characters, vivid deeds and wonderful stories. Thanks to Yuan Yiming, Li Ying, Xiao Yu and others for their careful planning, as well as their hard work and effort in sorting out information and writing articles. The shortcomings in the book are still expected to be corrected by the readers.

Life Has No Boundaries: Thoughts on a Trip to Antarctica

Zhushan

121K0

The author of this book participated in China's 32nd Antarctic scientific expedition with the team. He took the Xuelong polar research ship all the way south from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the Antarctic, sailed counterclockwise along the Antarctic continent, circled the earth at high latitudes, crossed the westerly belt many times, passed through the Strait of Magellan, went deep into the Antarctic Ross Sea, and visited more than 10 scientific research stations from various countries such as Antarctic Zhongshan Station and Great Wall Station. It lasted 158 days and covered a voyage of 30,387 nautical miles. The book uses travel notes and a large number of precious and exquisite photos to authentically present the ultimate pure, vast, quiet and solemn scene at the end of the earth. It empathically tells the touching stories and sentiments of the Antarctic people who explore the limits, as well as people's thoughts and questions about the universe, time and space, the nature of heaven and earth, and the existence of life in the special polar environment.

Blocking Hero Shen Shugen

Gu Zhikun

153K0

This book uses documentary literature to truly and three-dimensionally reproduce the legendary and wonderful life of Platoon Leader Shen Shugen, a heroic platoon leader who was awarded the "First Class Combat Hero" and "Jiufeng Blocking Hero" of the Chinese People's Volunteers and the Third Class National Flag Medal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It describes in detail that when he served as the platoon leader of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, he led a platoon of 33 soldiers. He fought fiercely with the enemy for 3 days and nights in the Jiufeng Blockade after the fifth battle in Korea, and repelled 13 enemy attacks. In the end, only one person in the platoon died, and 3 soldiers were killed. At the cost of serious casualties, he annihilated more than 300 enemies and broke through the heavy encirclement of two enemy battalions; creating a record for the Chinese People's Volunteers to win with fewer troops in the War to Resist U. S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and was regarded as a typical battle example of which the Chinese People's Volunteers are proud. The narrative in this book is real, vivid, and full of ups and downs. It is a red book that promotes the spirit of patriotism and revolutionary heroism.

Bloody Battle with Xu Ao

Gu Zhikun

89K0

The Battle of Xu'ao took place in June 1945. According to the instructions of the Central China Bureau and with the approval of the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Region, the East Zhejiang Guerrilla Column decided to concentrate its forces and launch a "campaign for land" against the Tianxiu Mountain Division, which had openly surrendered to the Japanese army. On June 7, according to the order of Commander He Kexi, the decisive battle of Xu'ao, commanded by the column's Chief of Staff Liu Hengyun and Director of the Political Department Zhang Wenbi, began. After 14 days and nights of continuous fighting, our army conquered 28 bunkers, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and captured a large number of items. By June 21, the so-called "unbreakable Maginot Line of Defense in eastern Zhejiang" that Tian Xiushan had boasted had been completely destroyed. Tianxiu Mountain, who was trapped in Shangyu County, lost Xu Ao and there was no hope of rescue. On June 30, he led his remaining troops and their families to abandon the city and fled westward, and Shangyu County was liberated. The Battle of Xu'ao was the largest and most glorious offensive against the enemy since the establishment of the East Zhejiang Guerrilla Column. It not only removed Tianxiu Mountain, the nail in the Siming Mountain base area, but also liberated hundreds of thousands of people in the Shangyu area, and the three anti-Japanese base areas of Sanbei, Siming, and Kuaiji became one.

Hero's Flag

Hero's Flag

Literature

Gu Zhikun

95K0

A long documentary work about the life and deeds of the Anti-Japanese War hero Guan Jie. Guanjie was a native of Shangyu, Zhejiang. He was the captain of the 7th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 5th Detachment of the Zhejiang East Column. He died heroically in the battle with the Japanese and puppets in July 1944 and was awarded the honorary title of "Guanjie Squadron" by the East Zhejiang Column. "Flag of Heroes" truly and artistically presents the heroic stories of Guan Jie and his heroic squadron in war years and peacetime.

Water of the Century: Green Symphony of Wuxi River

Gu Zhikun

110K0

"Water of the Century" uses the form of literature and art to panoramically show the people on both sides of the Wuxi River, who used their own flesh and blood to build the iconic Huangtankou Power Station and Hunan Town Power Station on the turbulent and unruly Wuxi River under extremely poor material conditions, extremely harsh construction conditions, and very crude and even primitive construction equipment. It is known as "the cradle of China's water conservancy and hydropower construction" and "Zhejiang's first night pearl". It is the first full-length literary work so far that uses the Wuxi River as the background in a panoramic and three-dimensional way.

Seaweed Flowers Bloom: Trust and Watch on the Shore of Erhai Lake

Zhu Dajian

96K0

Erhai Lake is the representative of plateau lakes and the "Mother Lake" of Dali people. In the 1990s, an outbreak of cyanobacteria occurred in Erhai Lake, resulting in a decline in water quality and endangering the ecological environment of the basin. This book tells the story of Kong Hainan, a water ecology and environment scholar, who rushed to the shores of Erhai Lake. With the support of governments at all levels, he led a team to stay on the front line for more than ten years and worked closely with local people of all ethnic groups to gradually restore clarity to the once overwhelmed Erhai Lake. This story has been called the "Old Man and the Sea" in the new era by the People's Daily and other domestic mainstream media. Scientific and technological workers represented by Kong Hainan devoted all their knowledge and actively worked in the construction of ecological civilization, targeted poverty alleviation, and rural revitalization. They lived up to the great trust and wrote their papers on the land of the motherland. The governance of Erhai Lake has gone through more than ten years of testing, and has formed the "Erhai Lake Experience" that can be used for reference, and has gone beyond Yunnan, out of China, and is going global.

Cao Cao is Buried Here

Tang Jigen

100K0

Regarding Cao Cao's tomb, there have always been rumors among the people about the "Seventy-two Suspicious Tombs". An epitaph from the Jin Dynasty that was accidentally discovered in 2006 revealed the location of Cao Cao's tomb. Because the tomb was stolen, the archaeological team launched a rescue excavation. This book tells the thrilling excavation story of Cao Cao's tomb in a documentary way. It identifies the owner of the tomb through documentary and archaeological data verification, scientifically responds to public doubts one by one based on a series of key evidence, and combines scientific and humanistic methods to restore a real Cao Cao and his era with brand-new research results.

Departure: I Work as a Bailiff in the Court

Prepared By Shanghai Higher People's Court

101K0

This book comprehensively reviews the development footprints of the Shanghai Judicial Police Force over the years, and is compiled and compiled based on the content of radio talk shows. This book has three characteristics: First, it has a wide coverage, covering all aspects of judicial police work, from criminal trial police support to cooperation with enforcement, from security inspections to litigation-related petitions, and from talent training to practical training. It faithfully and completely presents the spiritual outlook of the Shanghai Court Judicial Police in the new era. Second, the characters are highly representative. The storytellers come from Shanghai's third-level courts and specialized courts, including court leaders and heads of judicial police departments; there are experienced "old mages" and backbones in their prime years, as well as fledgling and energetic young bailiffs. They panoramically reflect the important role of judicial police in the execution of court trials from different angles. Third, the stories are deeply appealing. There are those who jumped into the cold river to rescue the person being executed regardless of danger, and those who climbed the swinging ladder on the 10,000-ton ship in the wind and waves just to deliver a verdict. There are those who have great love and donated hematopoietic stem cells to the leukemia boy, and there are those who are not afraid of pain in actual combat training to act as "emotional witnesses", and there are those who warmly "squat" just to get a closer understanding of the elderly's demands. This book is a microcosm of how the Shanghai Court Judicial Police have fulfilled their original mission and served the people wholeheartedly for many years.

Companionship: Our Story with Animals (translated Documentary)

(us) Ayesha Akhtar

175K0

A neurologist asks: How does our empathy for animals profoundly affect human health? What is home? Are companion animals part of our family? How can animals help treat mental illness and trauma? Is there a strong correlation between violence against animals and violence against humans? Are we hurting along with animals? How to walk with animals? What happens when we make or break connections with animals? How are humans neurologically designed to empathize with animals? How does violence against animals go against our nature? An expert in animal ethics and neuroscience, Dr. Akhtar studies the relationship between humans and animals and how empathy for animals enriches ourselves. Companion deftly combines medicine, social history, and individual experience to show how closely the well-being of humans and animals is intertwined. Woven throughout is Akhtar's own story. As a child, she encountered bullying at school and sexual abuse at home. Until she meets a puppy named Sylvester, everything changes. Dr. Akhtar asks, what do we gain when we recognize our kinship with animals? She travels the country telling the stories of a variety of people, including a veteran, a serial killer, a gang member and a rancher. Living Together is a journey to understand the nature of human health and ask how our empathy (or lack thereof) for animals affects human health in the deepest sense.

Dangerous Acquaintance (translation Documentary)

(us)robin Warshaw

174K01

The best predictor of the level of violence in a country is the level of violence and threats against women in that country. Dangerous Acquaintances is the first-ever representative national survey of sexual violence in the United States. Based on a survey of American college campuses, this book reveals a shocking fact: 25% of women have experienced rape or attempted rape, and more than 80% of them know the attacker. While the victimized women bravely came forward to tell the truth, staged protests and filed lawsuits, the parents of the boys involved also established some organizations, fearing that their sons would be falsely accused and even counter-sued the school. The author's investigation found that it was American culture that made rape possible. Many boys spend their teenage years being constantly flirted with by friends and older men, while many girls are told to save their first time with the right person. The writing of this book stems from the first large-scale rape study in the United States conducted by Ms. Magazine in the late 1980s. Sadly, 30 years later, statistics on acquaintance rape show that the phenomenon has not diminished. "Dangerous Acquaintances" presents numerous case studies on and off campus to help people understand rape as a cultural phenomenon and attempts to provide women and men with strategies to address the rape epidemic. The ultimate goal of exposing the prevalence of rape and sexual assault in American society to everyone's eyes is to make people think: the root of oppression lies in forgetting. Maybe we should remember: history repeats itself.

Heisei Tokyo Twelve Faces

(japan) Editorial Department Of "literary Spring And Autumn"

127K0

Twelve non-fiction writers and twelve social jigsaw puzzles of intertwined light and shadow reveal the undercurrents of life under the mask of Tokyo's prosperity and interpret the diverse and complex true face of an international metropolis. In May 2019, Japan ended the Heisei era and entered the first year of Reiwa. Since then, the Tokyo Olympics, originally held in 2020, was postponed to 2021 due to the new crown epidemic. Looking back at history, the first Tokyo Olympics was held in 1964. At that time, Japan was riding on the east wind of rapid economic development and was making rapid progress towards the goal of becoming a world power. However, after entering the Heisei era, the prosperity of Showa became a thing of the past, and various social problems began to appear as the economic bubble burst. But at the same time, as the pace of the city gradually slows down, various aspects of life that have been embedded in the background of the times have surfaced in unexpected places, allowing people to re-understand the warm side of this big city. This book is a selection of twelve articles that reflect the changes in "people" in Tokyo - residents' living conditions and changes in personal consciousness - from the "Tokyo Directly in Fifty Years" column that was serialized in the monthly magazine Bungeishunqiu from 2016 to 2019. It was interviewed and written by 12 non-fiction writers (many of whom have won the Otaku Soichi Non-fiction Award) on different topics.

A Woman Without a Name: a 20-year Search for Truth and Justice (translated Documentary)

(us) Emily Winslow

184K0

"Twenty years ago, I was sexually assaulted by a strange man. Now I finally know who he is. I also know that in the eyes of this man, I, like other women, have no name." This book is a non-fiction work written by the author based on his personal experience. It is an extraordinary memoir. Recalling the experience of sexual assault requires not only courage, but also wisdom. In 1992, Emily Winslow was raped by a stranger while she was still in college in Pittsburgh. In 2013, when she had established a new life in the UK, was married with two sons, and was embarking on a career as a writer, the man who assaulted her was suddenly arrested after being identified by the police. With extreme curiosity and a determination to uncover the truth, she embarks on a personal investigation based on her experience as a crime writer. "A Nameless Woman: A 20-Year Search for Truth and Justice" is a memoir written by a woman who is constantly being chased by the trauma she has suffered. In it, Winslow vividly describes her long-standing desire for the truth to be brought to light, paving the way for her candid account of how justice unfolded in unexpected ways 20 years later.

Mobile Phone Waste (Translation Documentary)

(japan) Ishikawa Yuki

72K0

"I have been completely kidnapped by my mobile phone!" "I hope to be my mother's mobile phone!" "I am standing in front of you, but you lower your head and play with your mobile phone!" Overwhelmed by life, forced by work, and kidnapped by technology, analyze the unknown sad stories of Japan's "low-headed people". With the popularization of smart phone applications, mobile phones have become indispensable to everyone today. While they bring great convenience to life, they also produce many unknown disadvantages. The author of this book has interviewed many cases of addiction to mobile phones, ranging from young children to the elderly. For example, many young mothers expose their children to mobile games too early to save time during the parenting stage. Many mothers themselves are heavy mobile phone users, addicted to various APPs and have no time to take into account their children's needs. After entering school, many children struggle to integrate into the social circle established by classmates through chat software and SNS, and it is this social circle that determines the differences in the secret classification of different groups on campus; entering social work, Finally, personal itineraries can also be controlled by leaders due to GPS monitoring; after entering nursing homes, there will be elderly people who are addicted to mobile games such as mahjong, and are even in danger of falling into online fraud... The tool of civilization is like a double-edged sword. Behind the pervasive penetration of mobile phones, individuals lose control of their own lives and fall into alienation without realizing it. This is something that everyone living in modern society needs to be wary of. These warnings put forward in this book also inspire readers to rethink the way they interact with smartphones to avoid becoming a "mobile phone waste".

I Deliver Express in Beijing

Huan Yan

127K8.923

In the ten years since he entered social work, Huan Yan has traveled extensively in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places. He has worked as a courier, night shift picker, convenience store clerk, security guard, bicycle shop salesman, clothing store salesman, gas station refueler... He has turned his daily life and the hardships of work into a sincere self-narration, recording the hard work, selfishness, warmth and integrity of an ordinary person in life. A year of picking goods at night in a logistics company left a deep physiological mark on him: "This job can also make people have bad tempers. Because of long-term late nights and overwork, people's emotional control will significantly decline... I already feel that my brain is not working well, mainly because my reactions have changed." He became sluggish and his memory began to decline." During the two years of delivering express delivery in Beijing, he "viewed himself as a delivery machine earning 30 yuan an hour. He would become angry and frustrated if he could not reach the rated output value"... But he finally realized that a life with resentment is not worth living. These work experiences, written in post-mortem recollections, are permeated with his attitude and reflection on life and the world, and are intended to express an individual's direct confrontation and affirmation of the meaning of life in the limited choices and cramped reality: many ordinary and meaningful moments in life are more decisive in life than all aspects of reality that troubles life.

Prison under the Sea: Working in the Bottom of a Luxury Cruise Ship

(france) Slimane Kader

91K0

Under the sun, in the blue sea, inside the luxury cruise ship there is a group of bottom cabin workers who cannot see the sea. They are the "bottom" scenery of today's cruise tourism industry and even the mass tourism industry, which is poorly hidden by capitalism. This is a world forgotten by tourists and literature. One morning, Slimane Khader decided to work on a luxury cruise ship cruising the Caribbean. He left the high-risk neighborhood in the suburbs of Paris and went straight to Miami. But what awaited him was not clear water, young sand, and towering palms. In this maritime city that carries 8,000 people, 6,000 people are tourists who can see the sea, and 2,000 people are modern slaves below the deck who do not see the light of day, hired to meet the needs of the upper cabins. Chinese people often live in the kitchen, the laundry room is the place of Indians, Mauritians serve dishes, and the cleaners are all Mexican-Americans. Slimane, a French young man of Algerian origin, is even more outstanding: he is the "jack of all trades" who is called upon to put out fires everywhere. Wherever there is a shortage of people, he will go. He's done it all, and now, he tells it all, lifting the fig leaf of mass tourism's underbelly landscape. The significance of this book is not just documentary, it is also a literary act. Slimane Kader uses his lively language and barbed humor to present us with a black comedy that profoundly exposes the reality of the times.

Translation Documentary Set·2023 Edition (44 Volumes in Total)

(u. S.) David Simon Et Al.

8.3M0

Use documentation to keep your focus on human experience. True stories are far more exciting than novels. "Translation Documentary Set · 2023 Edition (set has 44 volumes in total)" is the second collection of the Translation Documentary Series following "Translation Documentary Set · 2020 Edition (set has 39 volumes in total)". The documentary series has a total of 44 works, divided into 8 themes: true crime, invisible America, Japanese field observation, history, human world, characters, essays and nature and people. It spans disciplines, languages, time and space, continues to pay attention to human experience, and faces the real world. This set includes "The Year of Evil", "Tokyo Vice", "Body Trade", "The Defender", "Fabrication", "The Erased Family", "Lies", "Unknown Women", "Fatal Love", "Dangerous Acquaintances", "Toxicology Handbook", "The Devil Around Me", "Psychological Detective", "Top Cold Cases", "The Price of Justice", "Dream Addiction", "American Death (Revised Edition)", "Death and Life in Small Towns", "Female Poverty", "Bankruptcy after Old Age", "High School" "Born into poverty and busy family", "Two generations after old age are bankrupt", "East University Girl", "Dementia and Disappearance", "Thirty-year-old", "Cellphone Waste", "A Mass Abandoned Society", "Mid-life Crisis Observation", "Blood in the Water", "The Imperial Army", "Hope in Hell", "Business in the Constitution", "Core Meltdown", "Disintegration of Zhaohe", "Life and Death Lessons", "Euthanasia Scene", "My Brain is Open", "My Two Homelands", "The Age of Nothingness", "Looking for Things", "What is Good to Eat This Year?" "Ignite Hope", "First Light" and "The Story of the Vaccine".

Looking Due South at Beidou: China's Great Changes in the Eyes of a European Sinologist

(belgium) Lu Guangdong

135K0

Excellent documentary literary works by foreign sinologists who have lived in China describing contemporary Chinese stories. The author of this book, Dr. Lu Guangdong, an important Belgian Sinologist and Xixia scholar, narrates his connection and origins with China in a superb way. Through his personal stories and vivid experiences of more than 30 years of living in China, he tells the great development, changes of the times and remarkable achievements that he has witnessed in China from multiple perspectives such as economic development, social progress, civilization construction and improvement of people's livelihood. He conveys a positive and beautiful message of Chinese culture and civilization in the touching stories. The whole work is both perceptually vivid and rationally profound; it is full of daily warmth and academic depth. From a very unique perspective, it shows a true three-dimensional China to readers around the world.

Running Chinese Grass

Zhong Zhaoyun

284K0

This book is a reportage that comprehensively introduces Juncao technology and its inventor Lin Zhanxi. Lin Zhanxi is the prototype of Professor Ling Yinong in the poverty alleviation drama "Mountains and Seas". He is currently the executive deputy director, chief scientist, researcher, doctoral supervisor of the National Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center, an academician of the United Nations International Academy of Ecological Security, director of the Fujian Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center, director of the Juncao Research Institute of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, president of the Fujian Juncao Development Engineering Association, and vice president of the Fujian Invention Association. Juncao technology is a unique Chinese technology invented by him in 1987 that "replaces wood with grass." This technology realizes the comprehensive and efficient utilization of the three major agricultural resources of light, heat, and water, the cyclic production of plants, animals, and fungi, and combines the three major economic, social, and environmental benefits, which is conducive to ecological, food, and energy security. The advent of this technology has been promoted to more than 100 countries around the world, playing an important role in eradicating poverty, promoting employment, utilizing renewable resources, and combating climate change. The International Ecological Security Cooperation Organization once awarded China's Juncao technology the "World Ecological Security Award". The book uses his life experience and scientific research experience as the main line to truly reproduce the progress China has made in agricultural science and technology.

The Story of Guangming Cinema

Ai's Light

151K0

This book is reportage and is divided into ten chapters to record in detail the process and touching stories of teacher and student volunteers from Communication University of China's "Guangming Cinema" in making barrier-free films for the visually impaired. Since 2017, a team of teacher and student volunteers from Communication University of China has launched the "Bright Cinema" project. More than 500 teacher and student volunteers have produced and disseminated barrier-free films for the visually impaired, building a "cultural blind path." Up to now, the works of "Guangming Cinema" have covered 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country and the Macao Special Administrative Region, and have been given to 2,244 special education schools across the country, benefiting more than 2 million blind people. In recent years, Xinhua News Agency, CGTN, People's Daily and other mainstream media have reported on "Guangming Cinema" many times. This project won many honors such as the 13th China Youth Volunteer Outstanding Project Award, the 5th Targeted Poverty Alleviation Typical Project Award for Universities Directly Affiliated to the Ministry of Education, etc.

Liu Xingchen's Serious Case Notes 1

Detective Liu Xingchen

205K0

Provincial experts' notes on solving the case! It contains 16 real cases including Northeastern gangs, burying corpses to suppress houses, killing husbands and changing faces, etc. Interpol Liu Xingchen has been a police officer for 15 years and has solved more than 1,000 cases, many of which were supervised by the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial Public Security Department. He has won the third-class individual merit three times. This book records the major cases he has personally experienced since he became a police officer in 2007: from the gangsters who kill people, to the tomb robbers who bury corpses in houses; from the wife who changed the face of her dead husband in order to defraud the bail, to the perfect husband who killed two wives in a row and claimed to love him... These crimes, described in the news as "extremely cruel in means, extremely bad in nature, and with great social impact", have revealed a hidden corner in the calm and daily reality of society.

In the Name of the People: the Whole Story of the Copyright Case for the Tv Series "in the Name of the People

Jin Jie

300K0

This book truly records the litigation process of the copyright dispute case of "In the Name of the People" and describes the twists and turns and emotions experienced by lawyers Jin Jie and Yang Wen, senior partners of Beijing Jingdu Law Firm, who represented the famous writer and screenwriter Zhou Meisen. For lawyers to represent cases, the glory of the results is important, but the excitement of the process is even more worth recalling. As a difficult case with a major impact and high attention, the victory of this case not only reflects the lawyer's profound legal skills and truth-seeking professionalism, but also demonstrates the fairness of the judiciary and the protection of legitimate rights and interests. The author puts forward unique insights on how to properly exercise the right to file a lawsuit and how to protect excellent classic literary works. The litigation materials and effective judgments of the People's Court attached to the article make it not only a piece of documentary literature, but also a masterpiece with learning and reference value for legal practitioners.

My Friend from 1918

Xie Cuiping

139K0

There is a leprosy rehabilitation village on Si'an Island in Dongguan, Guangdong. Xie Cuiping came here to work as a volunteer. Her job content was varied: helping the elderly in the village repair their mobile phones (secret: restart), and recharge their phone bills ("Cuiping, the phone bill you recharged is for long-lasting calls, I recharged it myself, and I finished the calls so quickly!" ), Purchasing supplies, etc., Of course, she also had to fend off scams and health product sales calls, take the elderly out for fun, or help the elderly find their long-lost relatives based on vague clues ("There is a slope at the entrance of our village!")... Slowly, she became familiar with everyone. Grandpa Liu Dajian planted a garden of roses; Uncle Zhang Xian is a gourmet and won an award for his glutinous rice recipe; Uncle Peng has no fingers, but he is still a famous painter; the fourth sister's mother-in-law has lived alone in the mountains for the past 50 years; and how come this person, at such an age, is joking all day long without speaking the truth? In the rehabilitation village with inconvenient transportation, the days passed peacefully and peacefully... Later, the elderly people left one by one. People are like mangoes on a tree. When they are ripe and wormy, they will naturally fall off. Cuiping couldn't bear to leave them, and she wanted to work hard to leave some traces for them. Hence, this book was born.

First Light: Exploring the Edge of the Universe (translation Documentary)

(us) Richard Preston

185K0

Preston, the author of "Blood Plague", won the American Physical Society Science Writing Award for his first nonfiction work. Explore the light from the edge of the universe and solve the mystery of the origin and evolution of the universe. Recommended article by Yu Heng, associate professor of the Department of Astronomy at Beijing Normal University. First light is a technical term that refers to opening the hood of a new telescope to allow starlight to fall on the mirror and sensor for the first time. "First Light" is also a non-fiction work that tells the story of how astronomers search for light from the edge of the universe. Two hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first generation of stars in the universe was born, which is the edge of our observable universe. Those first lights can help us decipher the mysteries of the universe's origin and evolution. The core of the story is the 5-meter-diameter Haier telescope, commonly known as the "Big Eye." A century ago, the design and construction of the "Big Eye" started the legend of the Palomar Observatory and profoundly influenced the development of astronomy in the second half of the 20th century. First Light stars James Gunn, considered by many professionals to be the finest astronomer of our time. Since the 1990s, Gunn has launched the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, using a 2.5-Meter telescope to scan the northern hemisphere starry sky with the goal of drawing a color three-dimensional electronic map of the universe. Under his leadership, this became the most successful sky survey program in history and continues to this day. The project captured hundreds of millions of images of celestial objects and the spectra of millions of celestial objects and made them available to the world. This directly changed the way astronomers work, and astronomy has since entered the era of big data.

The Devil Beside Me (translated Documentary)

(us) Ann Rule

354K0

This is the story of America's most prolific serial killer. Ann Rule has been hailed as "America's best true crime writer." "The Devil Beside Me" is a classic true crime work, a criminal investigation notebook and memoir written from first-hand sources. When it was first published, it topped the list of major true crime works in the UK and the United States. It has been reprinted over the years and has been made into many film and television works. Ted Bundy is one of the most prolific serial killers in the United States. Over the years, he has committed a heinous crime of abusing young women he had never met across state lines. He was extremely cunning. He relied on the training he had received in law school to argue that he was innocent in the face of conclusive evidence from the police and forensic doctors. He also played with the law, judicial officers and even his own team of lawyers. As a result, the verdict and execution were postponed several times, and the case was delayed for more than ten years without being resolved. He also repeatedly looked for opportunities to escape. Finally, when he was at the end of his rope, he suddenly announced that he had actually killed more than 300 people... After the author Ann Rule left the police force, she volunteered at Seattle's "Crisis Hotline." During their relationship, she gradually realized that the Ted who volunteered with her was the serial killer "Ted" her police were tracking. She and Ted met in 1971, and their friendship and correspondence lasted the rest of his life. During this period, she was both his friend and a crime reporter looking for a brutal serial killer. She used Ted's description of his double life to her, plus she tracked the detective work of the police in many places, as well as court trials and media reports, to string together Ted's entire life story with rich details.

Invisible Children: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

(us) Andrea Elliott

364K0

"Invisible Child" is a non-fiction work written by New York Times investigative reporter and Princeton University professor Andrea Elliott over an eight-year period, citing and referencing 14,325 various documents. It tells the story of the eight-year tortuous growth experience of a girl named Dasani. In this ambitious and historical work, Elliott interweaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her family, tracing their experiences from slavery to the northward migration, as well as the family's plight and struggles in New York. Dasani grew up at a time when New York's homelessness crisis was erupting and the gap between rich and poor was widening. Without a stable living environment, she must guide her younger siblings to face a world full of hunger, violence, racism, and drugs. While leading his seven younger siblings from one shelter to another, Dasani was also looking for a way out of this fate. When she finally escapes that plight and enrolls in a boarding school, she's faced with a difficult question: What do you do if escaping poverty means abandoning your family and yourself? "Invisible Child" uses delicate writing to show a struggling girl in trouble, a family where poverty is passed down from generation to generation, and a city where abject poverty and great wealth may be separated by a street.

The Chinese Special Forces Who Conquered the French Foreign Legion

Zhu Honghai

203K01

From 2006 to 2016, Wu Xinlei went to France to study and served in the French Foreign Legion. In ten years, he went from a recruit with a language barrier to an instructor of the special forces. From being ridiculed as a cook, to being respected by everyone. Soldiers of the Foreign Legion need to perform overseas base and battlefield missions every year. Wu Xinlei has performed missions in more than 12 countries and regions, traveling all over Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. He continued to hone his tactical awareness, physical fitness and professional skills in the foreign troops, and was continuously promoted, becoming an instructor of the French Foreign Legion and the first Chinese in the French GCP airborne commando team. During this period, he encountered a skydiving accident, a car explosion, and the sacrifice of his comrades... Whether he chose military life at the beginning, or retired from the army during his golden period and chose a new career, Wu Xinlei grew up with every choice and matured with every experience. And these ten years of devilish service in foreign forces also brought him a lifelong impact...

The Third Pole: the Mystery, Obsession and Life and Death of Mount Everest

(us) Mark Sinnott

262K0

This book is a non-fiction documentary about the climb of Mount Everest. Nearly 100 years ago, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Owen died climbing Mount Everest in 1924, leaving a mystery: Did they ever summit Everest? In 2019, Mark Sinnott, the author of this book and a professional climber, joined the "National Geographic" "Sandy Owen Research and Documentary Expedition", hoping to find Owen's body and camera on the uppermost slope of Mount Everest to solve this century-old mystery. In the book, Sinnott cleverly interweaves the story of Owen's climb to Mount Everest a hundred years ago with the actual record of his own expedition progress, allowing us to witness modern people's obsession with Mount Everest, the dangers and human courage of Everest climbing, and the impact of commercial mountaineering on the environment of Mount Everest.

Full Record of the "epidemic" in the Northern War

Peking University Party Committee Propaganda Department

216K0

At the end of 2019, a sudden COVID-19 epidemic broke the normal rhythm of society. In the face of the crisis, the whole country quickly launched a people's war, a general war, and a blocking war to prevent and control the epidemic, and achieved major strategic results in the national fight against the epidemic. In order to systematically sort out the process of the Peking University War against the Epidemic, record the advanced deeds and touching stories of Peking University people on various fronts in the fight against the Epidemic, tell the story of Peking University well, condense the Peking University spirit connoted with patriotism, responsibility and dedication, and promote the great anti-epidemic spirit, the Propaganda Department of the University Party Committee has specially compiled materials from all aspects and compiled this "Complete Records of the Peking University War Against the Epidemic". We hope to use articles and precious pictures in different forms, themes, and genres to tell the stories of Peking University people on all fronts fighting the epidemic, and to reproduce the spirit of Peking University people in various positions in the fight against the epidemic.

The Death and Life of Small Towns in America (translated Documentary)

(us) Nick Redding

181K0

Overnight, the town and meth became synonymous. The book "The Death and Life of Small Towns in America" ​​takes Oelwein, a small town in Iowa in the central United States, as the main subject. It examines the development of thousands of small towns in the United States in the past 30 years and the efforts of local people to change the status quo. Sweeping by the wave of globalization, these small towns have been forgotten by land consolidation and agricultural industrialization development. The local economy has collapsed, the population has emigrated, and they have been trapped in low income and unemployment during the agricultural transformation. At this time, drugs took advantage of the situation, not only soothing the souls of the poor and helpless, but also forming a local drug economy, and some people began to make a living from it. The prevalence of drugs has, in turn, made the weak town even more riddled with holes. Oelwein, who is addicted to drugs, is just a microcosm of thousands of small towns across the United States. It reflects the social status quo of the vicious cycle of contemporary small towns in the United States under the power of globalization. At almost the same time, the phenomenon of poison towns also appeared in Europe. It is almost futile to make moral judgments on this and call on individuals to abide by the law and be self-disciplined, because the essence of this phenomenon is economic and more related to politics. The author was born in a small town and settled in his hometown for several years to write this book. He observed the production and consumption of drugs, and met small town residents such as doctors who were alcoholics but dedicated to eradicating drugs, prosecutors who handled drug-related crimes, addicts who have struggled with drug addiction for many years... From such people, he observed and presented the death and life of small American towns, and alerted the world.

Toxicology Crime Solving Manual (translated Documentary)

(us) Deborah Bloom

185K0

"Toxicology Handbook of Solving Cases" tells a fascinating story about chemistry and criminal investigation, poisons and murder. The author is a lifelong consultant to the National Academy of Sciences and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Through the detection of 11 representative poisons and related famous cases, she briefly describes the birth of toxicology, a modern science, in the 1920s and its subsequent applications. In early 20th century New York, drugs provided a shortcut to the perfect crime. Because there was almost no way to detect poisonous substances in corpses, poisoners could get away with it after using poison to solve their troubles, so poisoning and murder became a boom. At that time, there was no place for scientific coroners; corruption was rampant, and death certificates were issued by the police. As long as they were bribed, the death of the deceased would be "natural" even if the body bleeds from the orifices. Ordinary people poisoned and killed for love and money, and what was even more terrifying was that the U. S. Government openly poisoned alcoholic beverages in order to ban alcohol... Fortunately, in 1918, a superb pathologist, Charles Norris, was hired against all odds and became New York's first trained drug tester. Then, the poisoning game changed forever. As soon as Norris took office, he recruited the talented chemist Alexander Gertler, and together the two founded and directed the city's first toxicology laboratory. With their efforts, toxicology has become a formidable science in the United States. Their pioneering scientific investigation work has not only made it possible for many poisoners to escape, but also made the judicial system look new. After the book was published, it became very popular in the United States. It was written by the author and made into a documentary of the same name.

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