Houlang-wisdom Palace Series
后浪-智慧宫系列
Houlang's humanities and social sciences book brand integrates multidisciplinary perspectives and paradigms such as history, thought, philosophy, culture and science, and uses cross-field research to leverage the most powerful social propositions in the world.
This book revolves around a core question: How to explain the execution of hundreds of thousands of "witches" in Europe in the early modern period? Why did the rise of capitalism coincide with the war on women? A Marxist feminist classic that completes the missing female perspective in Capital.
A subversive work in human history! The most ambitious and blockbuster work by Graeber, the rebellious scholar who proposed the concept of "bullshit jobs."
Classicist Mary Beard re-explores gender issues in a poignant tone and explores the cultural foundation behind "misogyny".
"Social Animals" is the "Encyclopedia of Prejudice" recommended by Aaronson, a must-read for introductory social psychology. Breaking prejudice starts with understanding prejudice!
A history of philosophy that leads to the future. It no longer dwells on the existential crises of Nietzsche and Heidegger, but takes you directly into the brain-burning wisdom of the digital age!
Bill Gates' 2019 book list dispels the existing myth that growth is paramount and explores new paths to sustainable development.
Professor Lane examined the evolution of writing, the emergence of science in the ancient world, and finally reconstructed an alternative to the history of science and technology "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in the broader history of knowledge, an intellectual outlet for "human history."
9流行病与社会：从黑死病开始的瘟疫史
(u. S.) Frank M. Snowden
"Epidemics and Society" tells the terrifying and shocking history of plagues over the millennium. Deadly threats from microorganisms have approached mankind countless times: plague; smallpox; yellow fever; dysentery; typhus; cholera; tuberculosis; malaria; polio; AIDS; SARS; Ebola virus... In response to these epidemics that have profoundly affected human history, Snowden blended professional and authoritative medical knowledge with magnificent historical narratives. The scope of this book is extremely wide, spanning ancient and modern times, and all over the world. It conducts in-depth multidisciplinary comparative research between medicine and social history, revealing to us the interactive impact of epidemics and society: on the one hand, how diseases promote the development of medical science and public health, and how they shape art, religion, intellectual history, and war patterns; on the other hand, how social factors allow diseases to obtain a suitable environment, spread rapidly, and wreak havoc on mankind.
"Epidemics and Society" tells the terrifying and shocking history of plagues over the millennium. Deadly threats from microorganisms have approached mankind countless times: plague; smallpox; yellow fever; dysentery; typhus; cholera; tuberculosis; malaria; polio; AIDS; SARS; Ebola virus... In response to these epidemics that have profoundly affected human history, Snowden blended professional and authoritative medical knowledge with magnificent historical narratives. The scope of this book is extremely wide, spanning ancient and modern times, and all over the world. It conducts in-depth multidisciplinary comparative research between medicine and social history, revealing to us the interactive impact of epidemics and society: on the one hand, how diseases promote the development of medical science and public health, and how they shape art, religion, intellectual history, and war patterns; on the other hand, how social factors allow diseases to obtain a suitable environment, spread rapidly, and wreak havoc on mankind.
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a classic plague history that tells the terrifying and shocking history of plagues for thousands of years. The fatal threat of microorganisms has approached mankind countless times. A book to understand public health
"Energy is the only universal currency", using energy as a yardstick, a cultured and precise analysis of the evolution of human society.
This book focuses on the various magical creations and technologies of the ancient world. Through reality and illusion, it searches for the auspicious pieces of ancient science and technology that have traveled through thousands of years.
Case version "Country China" A classic in Chinese family studies See Chinese culture and personality through daily narratives in rural areas
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize, the Director of the Oxford University Library tells the story of the bitter blood and tears of burning and saving books over thousands of years
An interesting collision of mythology and paleontology, a classic that breaks the boundaries of disciplines, and a detective exploration of folklore and science in the classical era.
How should a country deal with the painful memories in its own history? How should people respond to the sins of their fathers? Enter the historical scene and reveal the hidden psychology behind the collective crimes of the modern West.