This issue of "Nandu Booklist" focuses on recommending Pulitzer Prize-winning Matthew Desmond's new book "Making Poverty". Desmond's last work, "Sweeping the Floor," exposed the dark side of American society and had a wide impact. In this new book, the author starts from real details and makes a detailed analysis of the root causes of social poverty in the United States, which provides a new perspective for improving our understanding of poor groups and poverty problems.
"Nandu Booklist" is a selection of recent good books for readers by Southern Metropolis Daily, divided into four categories: "Literature and Art", "Social Science", "Practical" and "Children's Books", which are launched every Sunday.
Literary
The World of Possibilities
Yang Xiao, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, May 2024 edition, 78.00 yuan.
The author of this book, Yang Xiao's last book, "Re-Walking: Searching for the Southwest Associated University on Roads, Rivers and Post Roads", was a bestseller with wide attention. "Possible Worlds" records Yang Xiao's travel and study visits to more than 10 countries, including the United States, Egypt, Kenya, Myanmar, and Germany, from 2010 to 2019. Yang Xiao discussed the world in transition from multiple dimensions such as current affairs, humanities, history, and geography.
Biography of Byron
Written by Fiona McCarthy, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2024 edition, 198.00 yuan.
As an outstanding poet of the Romantic period, Byron deserves to be written by posterity both in terms of poetry creation and life experience. The author, Fiona McCarthy, is a British expert on 19th-century art history and literary history, and her work is highly readable, which is also reflected in this biography. The book explores the many facets of Byron's complex and creative life from a comprehensive perspective, traces Byron's travels in Italy, Turkey, and Greece, and explores why the poet died tragically early at the age of 36.
Company Subjects
Making Poverty
Written by Matthew Desmond, CITIC Press, May 2024 edition, 79.00 yuan.
Why are there so many poor people in a rich country like the United States? That's exactly the question that sociologist Matthew Desmond wants to answer. After careful research, he pointed out that poverty in this affluent society cannot be eliminated because there are people who are happy to see it happen and benefit from it. One man's poverty is another's profit. The American-style poverty that the book seeks to explain is not absolute poverty, but blatant inequality—the inability of the poor to change the status quo is the result of the "beggar-deg-de-poverty" of others.
"Qian Zhongshu Yang Jiang's Relatives and Friends Book"
Wu Xuezhao collated, translated, annotated, lived. Study. Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore May 2024 edition, 86.00 yuan.
This book includes 277 letters from more than 90 famous contemporary writers, scholars, and publishers to Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang, as well as a number of replies from Mr. Qian and Mr. Yang. These letters span a wide range from 1946 to 2014. The content of the letter can not only make up for the loss of the annals and biography, but also provide first-hand information for readers to understand the true appearance of Mr. Qian and Mr. Yang. Wu Xuezhao, the compiler, added annotations to introduce relevant people and events, and the foreign letters were also translated one by one, which is very helpful to readers.
utility
"There are a lot of food scenes"
Yun Wuxin, China Light Industry Press, May 2024 edition, 59.80 yuan.
Is bone broth calcium reliable? What kind of meat is ham sausage made of? What foods can't be put in the fridge? What is rice waxing? In this book, Yun Wuxin, the author of the best-selling book "The Truth About Eating" and a scientist who has been engaged in food research for many years, answers the above questions, teaches readers to distinguish between true and false rumors, specious rumors, and practices scientific dietary thinking. The book interprets 79 hot topics in the field of healthy eating from the aspects of food safety, storage and cooking, health preservation, and scientific counterfeiting, which is a good guide to food rumors.
"Household Essentials That Make Every Day Shine"
(Japanese) 圷美緂, Chemical Industry Press, May 2024 edition, 68.00 yuan.
Concrete walls, old furniture with stories, various hooks, parts of stainless steel and gray, various rattan baskets...... Objects full of joy of life make up an ideal home. In the book, the author shows carefully selected decorations, artworks that add color to life, old objects and new designs, and shares how to store them simply and happily. This is a light-hearted and creative home design book. The author provides a lot of inspiration for renovating old houses and designing homes to make you live in a beautiful environment every day.
Children's books
《跟着名画去旅》
Edited by Yiran, Gansu Juvenile and Children's Publishing House, May 2024 edition, 45.00 yuan.
This book combines famous paintings with travel, and allows famous paintings to be used as "guides" to lead children to explore the world. It interprets the wonderful stories behind the famous paintings, and selects nearly 30 very representative landscapes and tourist attractions at home and abroad, which are divided into historical cities, cultural mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, classic gardens and other aspects, so that young readers can feel the real scenery of the classic paintings and understand the world. It can not only allow people to obtain the beneficial edification of beauty, but also appreciate the wonderful artistic life in paper travel.
"Future Child"
Chi Hui, May 2024 edition of Tiantian Publishing House, 30.00 yuan.
This book is a brand new science fiction novel by children's author Chi Hui. The story tells the story of Mo Fei, a child from the future, who rides a time machine and travels back to 2018, three hundred years later, and becomes good friends with the boy Bufan. In the human world in 2318, science and technology are highly developed, but human beings have also lost their curiosity and desire to explore the world. Mo Fei, who shuttled back, found that in the future world, one of the root causes of all problems was "omitting the process and reaching the goal", and he wanted to return to the future world with this harvest to awaken more people.