CITIC Publishing September Recommendation | 4 New Books, Wonderful Books!

Axin is here with the key new book recommendation column!

As usual, from the more than a hundred new books published this month, we carefully selected 4 most worthy good books!

If you have difficulty in choosing a monthly book published by CITIC, if you have limited time, you just want to read a few of the most worth reading books, just pick this book list ~

"River is the History of Civilization"

[US] Lawrence C. Smith

For thousands of years, the river has never stopped shaping the surface environment, which has profoundly affected the process of human civilization. The impact of the river on the process of civilization is beyond our imagination. Dahe is the artery of ancient civilization, and the splendid civilization heritage of human beings is almost inseparable from the nurturing of the river.

The earliest huge social form of human beings rose along the Dagris -Euphrates, the Indian River, the Nile, and the Yellow River Basin, which is today in Iraq, India -Pakistan, Egypt and China. Since then, the river has continuously supported human civilization through the above methods until today. In fact, almost all large cities in the world have rivers through it.

On the one hand, the river provides water resources and transportation methods, making the reproduction and exchanges of early human beings possible. After the development of civilization, it has promoted the process of agriculture, industry, and trade, providing new energy sources, and providing motivation for the prosperity of society.

On the other hand, as a natural resource and barrier, river can not only be the border of the country, but also can even give birth to national cultural identity. River governance also involves social political and economic issues. The far -reaching influence.

The river also shaped our art. The river winds in the paintings of Van Gogh and Renoir, flows in Muir and Sulor's works, and also walks in the music of John Strauss and Bruce Sprinsin.

Today, with the change of climate and the development of the city, our relationship with nature is changing. In the river where humans live in, opportunities and crisis are surging.

Lawrence C. Smith is a scientist who has long been concerned about the human hydrological environment for a long time and has a deep understanding of the relationship between river and human society.

In this book, he talked about the river remote sensing observation of modern Bisaki's eyes 5000 years ago in the Nile water level measuring instrument 5000 years ago. He paid special attention to the Chinese river story, and launched a magnificent river scroll for us.

Humans use river ways to vary depending on geography and time, but for a long time, rivers can always bring us five most basic advantages: transportation channels, natural capital, territorial territory, ecological health, and display of power. The author has explored our familiar and unfamiliar waters with a wide range of strokes, tracing human historical development and social changes, and tells about the intricate connection between the river as a natural force and the humanistic society.

When the author of "Guns, Bacteria and Steel" Jarad Dimmond commented on the book, he said:

What did the river give us? Low -cost transportation, dam disaster, fish resources, floods, high -speed roads, hydropower, irrigation water, etc. In addition, He Liu also provides a source of inspiration for art and music, creating a national border. This book about the river is as amazing as the brushstroke.

"When humans look up at the starry sky"

[British] Joe Ma Qinter

Starry sky and universe are the source of our creativity in art, science and life.

From ancient times to the present, the laws of sky changes that humans have seen on the earth have always dominated human lifestyle, affecting humans' thinking about time and space, power and truth, survival and death.

This book is not to detailed the latest progress of Chen Tianshi, but more like a historical guide to review how human cosmic concept defines the essence of reality and the meaning of life. This is a story about human beings. The protagonist has priests, goddesses, explorers, revolutionaries and kings.

The beginning of the story is not the Big Bang of the Universe, nor the birth of modern science, but the first batch of humans looking up at the starry sky and the mysteries of the starry sky they find.

The book chose twelve important moments that humans look up in the sky in history -mythology (prehistoric human cosmic view), fate (the first view of human civilization), the ocean (how humans use the stars through the latitude of the stars to carry out navigation activities), Light (how to reveal the truth of the universe), etc., integrate astronomy, science, and history. Geography, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and other disciplines, with a exciting narrative method, lead us through time and space, explain how our perception of the sky affects every step of human civilization evolution.

For example, in the "Destiny" chapter, many civilizations have created mathematical models describing the sky in history.

Chinese emperors hire astronomers to draw star maps and predict sky phenomena such as solar eclipse. The leaders of the Mayians are self -proclaimed as celestial bodies and count the celestial cycle with one million years. The priests of the Babylonian Easar Temple shifted from analog model to a mathematical model for the first time, and transformed the chaotic and complicated reality into a concise and powerful mathematical universe.

The starting point of the story in the book is the earliest rock paintings and ring -shaped stone arrays. The birth of the great traditions of great traditions such as faith, democracy, and science in the middle is to find alien life and the recent journey of space and virtual world of human beings.

"Come on, brain! "

Huang Xiang

How to improve memory, improve learning and work efficiency?

How to arrange reasonable sleep, how to treat insomnia?

Under the high -pressure modern life, how is our anxiety or depression emotional?

Why do we often get out of control? How to be the owner of your emotions? How to get rid of the internal consumption?

Is brain tumor related to using mobile phones?

Why is cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction more and more younger?

Provide sufficient nutrition to the brain? How to maintain your brain?

The brain controls people's behavior and determines people's choice. What we hear and see every day, our desires, emotions, and behaviors are closely related to the brain.

Huang Xiang, the attending physician of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, has 20 years of experience in medical experience and has been a brain surgeon who has been in nearly 7,000 brain surgery, which reveals the secrets of brain health and diseases.

The book uses practical knowledge+scientific methods+medical cases. The language is interesting, the language is in line with life, and it is easy to understand. It solves more than 40 problems about brain in people's lives, which is suitable for ordinary people to read brain guidelines.

Many physical and mental problems are because the brain is tired and needs maintenance and rest. How to exercise the brain, plan daily schedules, and make the brain more smarter? A healthy and self -disciplined life needs to start with the "head"!

"Xin Chou Story Collection"

弋 舟

Six short stories are the review of the Lu Xun Literature Award winner, the review of the entire Niu Niu Niu.

We have gone through rare global epidemics and feel the complex changes of the world structure. It seems that everyone is risked by the reef. Only when the bells of the New Year will finally survive.

These stories written by Yan Zhou in Xin Chounian have both the aftershocks of time and nostalgia, as well as understanding the eager attention of the present and looking forward to the future.

Tadpole

In "Waterfall Stoper":

The daughter went to a family in Lijiang to see her mother. In the end of the talk, the mother revealed the secrets that she would soon be in the world. The mother and daughter talk about each other's husbands, emotions, sex, and life. The accident caused the entire inn, Water, Jinshan, such as waterfalls. Mother invited her daughter to go with her, go to Lugu Lake to watch meteor shower, and enjoy the moment of seeing the "climax of the universe".

In "Take a Wave":

Middle -aged men who have been in a foreign country for many years have finally returned to their daughter's wedding. In the middle of the rugged mountain road, he accidentally drove a dog. Unexpectedly, the other dog suddenly appeared, blocking the road with determination to die. In the ridiculous confrontation, the man recalled that he was guilty for many years, so he went to the past. The wedding congratulations he prepared for his daughter is a valuable crafts like a wave of waves, but on the mountain road, he holds the waves and fell into the infinite puppet of the past and the present.

Mo Yan commented on this work like this:

事 is a person who tells stories. His short stories are fascinating and are thought -provoking because of his rich symbolicity.

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