A Brief History of Mankind: From Animals to God is a masterpiece of a new Israeli historian. From100000
There were signs of life years ago, and the history of human development began in 2 1 century, with capital and technology intertwined. One hundred thousand years ago, there were at least six races on the earth. Why are we lonely today? We used to be just an obscure ethnic group in a corner of Africa, and our impact on the earth's ecology was almost the same as that of fireflies, orangutans or jellyfish. Why can we climb to the top of the biological chain and eventually become the master of the earth?
This is a social science enlightenment book on macro-historical process research, which is easy to understand and has no professional obscurity. Interesting stories and questions are connected with the development of human civilization.
He didn't delve into learning deeply, but only provided some guesses and speculations, which opened the readers' brains with extremely broad ideas.
As one critic said, "After reading this book, I have a feeling of going through 100,000 years with human beings!"
Second, sociology-"invitation of sociology"
Sociology is not only a noun, but also a verb. This is not what we have, but what we want to do. Our over-reliance on the individualistic model and underestimation of social forces represent a distorted understanding of the prospect of freedom. Correctly evaluating the relationship between self and society and the consequences of differences can make us make more wise choices and better shape the future. It provides answers to "why do we think as we think" and "why do we do as we do". Sociology should not be confined to the university classroom, nor should it only belong to professionals. It can be said that we are all sociologists, and there is a lot of work waiting for us to complete together, including the establishment of sociology of hope.
Understanding sociology can prompt us to understand the causes of behavior. Although this is an introductory book on sociology, it contains rich sociological connotation and imagination.
First of all, why should we do what we think?
Second, why should we do this?
These two problems will be more inclusive in sociological research, and the solutions to these two problems are also mentioned in this book.
As the title suggests, this book is just an invitation from sociology to stimulate your interest in sociology. If you don't want to read obscure professional books, then this book is your best partner.
Third, psychology-social psychology
This book is an excellent textbook of American social psychology. All three authors have made outstanding achievements in the field of professional research and have more than 20 years of first-line teaching experience. They have been adopted as teaching materials by more than 700 American universities such as Yale University and Harvard University.
The author of this book combines many years of teaching experience and research results in one furnace. The content is comprehensive and systematic, covering the basic problems and research methods of social psychology, as well as social psychological and behavioral characteristics such as individual's cognition of society and self, individual attitude and conformity behavior, group process and interpersonal attraction, prosocial behavior and aggressive behavior, which embodies the application value of social psychology in the fields of environment, health and law.
This book is more than 600 pages in total, with a lot of theoretical knowledge, but it gives many practical suggestions to guide life.
For example, "it turns out that an optimistic mood can really enhance the resistance to diseases."
Many people have heard similar words, but we don't believe them. After reading this book, you will understand more seemingly simple "psychological truth"
This book is one of the best introductory psychology books in the world at present, which is of great help to expand your psychological thinking. As the book says at the beginning, "once your mind is expanded, your mind will never return to the original narrow field."
Four. Geography-Geography and Life
This book is divided into four chapters, including physical geography, population geography, cultural geography, urban geography and other sub-disciplines. Starting with introducing the development, core concepts and four systematic traditions of geography, the four traditions are independent articles, and each article focuses on one aspect of these geographical viewpoints. The first three chapters are devoted to the branches of geography, and the regional analysis tradition, as the last chapter of this book, makes use of the first three traditions and themes and synthesizes them by learning from each other.
Physical geography should be a science, human geography is a liberal arts, and in high school geography is classified as a liberal arts.
This leads to many people's understanding of geography is boring, reciting and boring.
However, this book is far from the exam-oriented textbooks and does not stick to professional theories. Instead, it focuses on the application of geographical knowledge in life and helps us understand geography that has been misunderstood by the public for a long time.
As an introductory book on popular science, this book is designed to make people feel comfortable to read. From the perspective of reading interest, based on this book, we can read other books in this field without any obstacles.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Statistics-"Lady Tea"
The full names are "Tea Tasting Ladies-How Statistics Changed Science in the Twentieth Century" and "Tea Tasting Ladies-How Statistics Changed Science in the Twentieth Century". Salsberg, an American statistician, tells the history and changes of statistics from the perspective of "tea for ladies", and leads readers into the world of statistics from a brand-new perspective to experience the changes in philosophy and cosmology brought by statistics.
This is not a woman's book, nor a tea book. This is an easy-to-understand and interesting reading about statistics. There is no more statistical knowledge except statistical celebrities and related nouns.
Friends who have no basic knowledge of statistics can regard this book as a biography of the history of statistics development, because there is no formula and no mathematical formula in the book.
After reading this book, you can't improve your ability in statistics, but you can vaguely construct the application of statistics in daily life while reading the short stories of statisticians' grievances.
6. Astronomy-popular astronomy
Like geography and life, this book has a lot of illustrations and colorful pages, which is very readable.
The book is divided into seven chapters, which respectively introduce the earth, the moon, the sun, the planetary world, comets, meteors and meteorites, the stellar universe and astronomical instruments.
But he has two shortcomings:
First, the knowledge update is too old, and many of them are knowledge from the first half of last century. If you don't mind, it can still be a good conversation material.
Second, the second half is like a gobbledygook for beginners, at least I can't stand it.
As the author said, this book "doesn't need much effort", but it can get enough basic knowledge of astronomy.
Seven, (quantum) physics-"Does God roll the dice? 》
This book takes readers on a quantum journey, starting from the mythical era, following the trajectory of quantum development, experiencing the dark clouds and heavy rains in the history of science, chasing the light of meteors, crossing the fog and shallows, and fighting side by side with the greatest physicists.
What is amazing is not only the dazzling scenery along the way, but also the thinking and enlightenment from people's hearts-that is the irresistible charm of science going deep into everyone's hearts.
Eight, psychology-"psychology and life"
Psychology and Life is a textbook used by Stanford University for many years, and it is also a classic textbook popularized by many universities in the United States. It is recommended by ETS as the main reference book for GRE psychology special examination, and it is also the teaching material selected for "General Psychology" courses in many universities across the country. This textbook is fluent, easy to understand and goes deep into life. It links psychological theory and knowledge with people's daily life and work, making it an excellent reading for the general public to understand psychology and themselves.
As a mature teaching material with rich educational ideas and unique teaching methods, all the elements in the original work, such as a glossary of technical terms consisting of more than 600 words and explanations, more than 2,000 references, recent 1000 titles and subject indexes, are very valuable for teaching, research and learning. This Chinese translation completely translates and retains these materials.
Nine, physics-"change"
Recommended audience: suitable for readers who have basic physical concepts in any middle and high school.
Change is a basic reading of cosmic physics, with rich content, vivid narration and wonderful illustrations. More importantly, this book is an enlightening expansion on the basis of existing physics. For the most basic problems, gravity, inertia, relativity, speed of light, time and space all have unique views. Readers with junior high school, senior high school and junior high school education can read it. This little book introduces readers to the strange and colorful "Cosmic Physics".
There is no complicated mathematical description in the book, and based on the frontier theory of contemporary physics, it makes an enlightening exploration. It is an easy-to-understand popular science book, which has attracted countless ordinary readers and opened a door for them to think. This book is available on Taobao.
X. Physics-A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time is a scientific work created by British physicist Stephen Hawking, which was first published in 1988.
The twelve chapters of the book are all cutting-edge knowledge about the nature of the universe, including: our universe image, time and space, expanding universe, uncertainty principle, black hole, the origin and fate of the universe, etc. Introduce distant galaxies, black holes, particles, antimatter and other knowledge in simple terms, and elaborate ancient propositions such as the origin of the universe, time and space, and relativity.
In this book, Hawking discusses the unresolved conflicts in the existing theories of the universe and points out the problems in unifying quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and general relativity. The orientation of this book is to let ordinary readers who are interested in cosmology know his theory and its mathematical principles.
Eleven, quantum mechanics-"see the micro knowledge"
Reading Micro-books is a popular science book about quantum mechanics written by Mr. Dunzhe Ling. Quantum mechanics is an extremely wonderful theory, which has aroused the most intense controversy and concern among scientists. From a practical point of view, it has brought us unparalleled changes and progress; From the perspective of the history of science, almost no history is more exciting than the creation of quantum mechanics.
Reading micro-books will take you on a journey of quantum mechanics. Starting from the EPR dispute between Einstein and Bohr, along the road of the development of quantum mechanics, take you through the dark clouds and heavy rain in the history of science, think with the greatest physicists, and boldly explore your thinking. Reading micro-books describes the collision between classical physics and quantum mechanics, and the difficult development of quantum mechanics to control the whole micro-world from scratch, and reviews many classic experiments of quantum mechanics.
Twelve. Physics-100 Basic problems of physics
Physics is the real sea of Wang Yang. Everyone in modern society has been exposed to it since childhood. From children's enlightenment books, elementary school knowledge of nature, to junior high school and senior high school physics courses, physics nourishes and nourishes our hearts, makes us know the true colors of the world around us more deeply, and lights up the bright lights of many teenagers who are full of surprises and eager to learn. 100 questions can only be bits and pieces for the deep ocean of physics.