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This issue of "Nandu Booklist" focuses on recommending a business book about PayPal, a company founded by Elon Musk, "Crazy Innovator". The author, Jimmy Sony, spent 5 years, hundreds of interviews, and read a lot of internal materials to show us the story of how Musk made his first pot of gold. The book has been recommended by many foreign newspapers such as The New Yorker and the Financial Times, allowing us to see how Musk became Musk.
"Nandu Book List" is a selection of recent good books for readers, divided into four categories: "Literature and Art", "Social Science", "Practical" and "Children's Books", which are launched every Sunday.
Literary. "The Four Masters of Dublin Literature".
Richard Ehrman, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, December 2023, 7200 yuan.
The Four Masters of Dublin Literature is a lecture by the renowned scholar Ehrman on four Irish writers (Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett). The author writes: "These four people make a strange combination. Similarities that they themselves had not been aware of began to emerge: they were all uprooted, witty, obscure, and heated in rhetoric. They propose and challenge their own assumptions, and they navigate between art and anti-art, pleasure and fear, acceptance and renunciation. "The author is knowledgeable and beautifully written.
The Seventh Official Realm Wanders
Written by Tsui Ozaki, Beijing Joint Publishing ***December 2023 edition, 5500 yuan.
Ozaki Tsui, a female writer who was active from Taisho to the early Showa period in Japan, has attracted the attention of many writers such as Yasunari Kawabata and Osamu Dazai with her unfettered and free style and fantastical beautiful writing, and the literary critic Kiyoki Hanada has seen and admired her works with unforgettable impressions. But Ozaki Tsui was silent for half a life after the age of thirty-six, like a flash in the pan. This book includes five representative short and medium-length stories of Ozaki Tsui, such as "The Seventh Official Realm Wandering" and "Miss Cricket". The protagonist in ** seems to be a multiple doppelganger of the same girl.
Social science. "Crazy Innovators".
Jimmy Sony, CITIC Press, December 2023, 9000 yuan.
This book takes readers on a journey into a world-leading business storm, explores the rise of PayPal, and spotlights the crazy innovators who are changing the world. This group of innovators, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Lafchen, Reid Hoffman, and other early PayPal employees, is considered to be the most influential group in the tech world. The author restores PayPal's difficult journey, and how it faced doubts and controversies and rose to glory step by step. Readers will also see how Musk turned his life around.
Yandong Garden's Left Neighborhood".
Xu Hong, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, December 2023 edition, 9800 yuan.
Yandong Garden's Left Neighbors is a non-fiction work by Peking University professor Xu Hong, which allows the 22 small buildings in Yandong Garden, which are hung with "historical buildings" signs, to speak, telling the residents and the past in the small buildings from 1926 to 1966. The author relies on detailed historical data collection and interviews with dozens of Yandongyuan second-generation scholars to rescue memories, rescue forgotten history, and pay tribute to that generation of scholars. The book records the touching love between husband and wife, father and son, father and daughter, the same thing, and the relationship between teachers and students, and reproduces the spiritual world and daily life of scholars.
Utility. Efficient Learning and Memory Method
Lu Feifei, Democracy and Construction Press, December 2023 edition, 5980 yuan.
Lu Feifei, who won the Memory Contest Award, announced her "Memory Code" in this book, revealing the "Tao, Magic, and Technique" of memory. This book introduces the laws of correct memory in the brain, an introduction to mnemonics;Four core skills to lay the foundation for excellent memory;Five ways to memorize effectively to build the strongest brain in actual combat;and the use of mnemonics to quickly improve learning efficiency. The memorization methods involved in the book are illustrated and practiced. The whole process is immersive and memorable, fun and efficient.
Why We Get Old
Beth Bennett, Beijing Science and Technology Press, December 2023, 7900 yuan.
In this book, geneticist Beth Bennett, a senior biology professor, explains the science of aging in simple terms: why and how our bodies age. She uses real-world analogies to explain the various chemical changes and cellular aging processes that occur in the body, as well as the latest anti-aging solutions discovered in basic research labs. The book takes readers through what changes occur inside and outside the human body as they age, how these changes occur, and how interventions work.
Children's books. "Hey, there's a hole".
Chen Yuhua and Wang Xiaoxiao, Tiantian Publishing House, December 2023 edition, 4500 yuan.
This is a picture book full of fun in life and philosophical reflection. The little boy found a hole, and he climbed and drilled and played, and found a lot of interesting problems. He found that the holes in the world were of all kinds, straight and curved, large and small, deep and shallow, ......The same hole, with a trap for hunting, is a trap for small animals, and if it is covered with hay and leaves, it becomes a warm home for small animals. At the same time, the hole may also be invisible or touchable, existing in feelings. The book can lead young readers to observe and explore.
Mathematics Chooses You" (all 4 volumes).
Very busy studio, Beijing Science and Technology Press, December 2023 edition, 10700 yuan.
What do mathematicians do every day?Young readers may have such questions. In this book, readers can unlock the hidden functions of mathematics under the leadership of mathematician Gauss, and use mathematics to practice logic and independent thinkingTravel through time and space to collide with dozens of mathematicians, witness their passion for mathematics, and learn their ways of thinkingLook at the world with the eyes of mathematics and discover the influence of mathematics on astronomy, art and other subject areas. This book allows children to gradually build up their interest and confidence in mathematics.