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Ashin has come with a monthly key new book recommendation column!
As usual, we have carefully selected 4 of the best books to read from more than 100 new books published this month!
If you have difficulty choosing the books published by CITIC Publishing every month, if you have limited time and only want to read a few of the most worthwhile books, follow this book list to pick them out
Principles of Investment
By Hilda Ochoa-Bramberg
Principles of Investing 30 Years of Investment Experience and Lessons Hilda Ochoya Blaimberg authored 10 Lessons for Investors to Provide Investment Decision Reference 4 Safety Tips Church Investment CITIC Publishing House Books ¥38.4 Purchase
The book is the work of Riy Dalio's investment mentor Hilda Ochoa-Bramberg, who was praised by Dalio as one of the greatest investors in 30 years, and Dalio worked under him and was cultivated by him.
Blaimberg is a well-known investor and one of the founders of Strategic Investment Group, based on her 30 years of investment experience, she has proposed a set of successful investment principles.
In the face of global economic ups and downs, how to maintain the continuous appreciation of the portfolio is a difficult task for investment institutions and investors. For investors, timing, market awareness, price and relative value are key drivers of effective investment decisions.
She reconstructed the investment strategy from both theoretical and practical aspects, refuted the investment misunderstandings that confused novices and experienced investors, and helped us cope with the current investment environment (macro conditions, political factors, capital market development, etc.).
As a practical guide, this book can help us build a wise and reasonable portfolio. 10 lessons to provide investment institutions and investors with investment decision-making reference, and 4 safety tips to teach professional investors to deal with small probability events. Structured investment strategies, interpreting the current investment environment, answering the core questions of the professional investment field, and showing the success of investors in post-investment management.
If you are interested in investment, asset management, portfolios, investment strategies and other fields, whether you are an individual investor or an institutional investor, this book is a very reliable and practical tool.
Cancer Legend (10th Anniversary Edition)
By Siddhartha Mukhji
"Cancer Biography" does not need to be introduced by A Xinduo, as one of the most classic and best-selling works in the field of medical science in recent years, it has received countless praise and recommendations since its publication:
In 2011, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize of Journalism";
Time magazine listed the book as one of the 100 most important English-language books published since 1923;
On Douban, the book has a rating of 9.1, has more than 10,000 comments, and ranks first in the Douban medical hot list
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The 10th anniversary edition of Cancer Legends features a new translation. The author, Dr. Siddhartha Mukji, took 6 years to write, and the translator of "Gene Biography" Dr. Ma Xiangtao has been translating and polishing for many years, which can be described as a powerful combination of 2 medical experts.
It is a magnificent, profound and humanistic "cancer biography".
As a physician, researcher and Pulitzer-winning author, Dr. Mukherjee examines cancer with the precision of a cell biologist, the perspective of a historian, and the enthusiasm of a biographer, telling a series of topics of interest such as what cancer is, why people get cancer, can cancer be defeated, how to correctly view and deal with cancer, etc., giving us a new understanding of the nature of cancer.
The story of cancer is full of human ingenuity, tenacity and perseverance, but it is also mixed with arrogance and misunderstanding. Through the perspective of medical predecessors and peers, the book also tells the story of the recognition, frustration, triumphs and deaths of medical workers over the centuries, who have constantly improved their abilities to fight against this cunning opponent.
Ashin felt that the book read like a thriller novel with cancer as the protagonist. From Atosa, the Persian queen who had her breasts removed, to people who received primitive radiation and chemotherapy, to the author's leukemia patient Carla, the book tells the story of those who underwent harsh treatment in order to survive.
This classic opens up a clear perspective for those trying to understand the truth about cancer.
Decoding 4 Billion Years of Life History
By Neil Shubin
Decoding 4 Billion Years of Life History From Fossils to DNA Biology Science Books ¥44.3 Purchase
How did fish evolve to terrestrial life? When did birds' wings appear? How did a single-celled organism evolve into a multicellular organism?
The search for hand-held fish, long-legged snakes, and upright-walking ape fossils tells the story of important moments in the history of life.
This is a popular science book that re-explores many important issues in the evolution of life. First of all, the author Neil Shubin is a very big name, he is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
He discovered the famous "Titalik fish"—a transitional organism between terrestrial tetrapods and fish—that may represent the missing intermediate link in the evolution of the biological world from fish to amphibians.
Author Neil Shubin takes us on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, looking for the dynamics and ways in which the evolution of life on Earth occurs, and telling the process of human understanding of the evolution of life. Science sheds light on the evolution of life over billions of years, revealing collaboration, fine-tuning, competition, theft, and war that occur within DNA, and unraveling the core mystery of the origin of species.
Neil Shubin is very good at storytelling, combining key twists in the history of science, curious suspense and anecdotes of interaction between scientists, allowing us to understand the evolution of life and the course of scientific development in a fun reading experience, which is highly readable.
Zhou Zhonghe, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commented on the book as follows:
One of today's most talented evolutionary biologists has composed a symphony of evolutionary life played by fossils, developments, genes, etc.
"Kunming Chronicle"
Yu Jian
"At sunset, when China's cities start from the plains of the north and sink into darkness one by one, Kunming on the southern plateau is still in the light of day. This ancient city-state is close to the sun, and the sunlight does not fade from the city until most of China's cities have fallen into darkness. So the city will always have golden dusks, glorious streets. ”
The famous poet and winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize, Yu Jian's hometown of Kunming, is such an ancient Kunming, a golden Kunming. He was born here, grew up here, and likes the Kunming people's "there is time to carve life" energy, "live a life" of the Kunming city character, in his opinion enough to chew a lifetime.
However, in this increasingly homogeneous era, Yu Jian's familiar Kunming has become more and more unfamiliar, and all he sees are buildings and streets that he does not recognize, and the fresh smell of lime and cement.
Through the fusion of 4 essays, 7 poems and 123 photographic works, Yu Jian narrates the various appearances of Kunming in his eyes from the two dimensions of personal memory and changes of the times, including the city's humanities, natural environment and people's vivid life.
The photographic works in the book come from the author's "street photography" in Kunming since the 1980s, and the old photos are full of desolation and the thickness of history, which shows Kunming in the changing times vividly, and also expresses his nostalgia for a hometown that cannot be returned.
In fact, it is not only Kunming, a hometown that cannot be returned, which always moves every wanderer. As Yu Jian writes in his book:
The root is something that we used to think of as something abstract that can be planted in the depths of the soul, but it is actually the concrete fact on the streets of our hometown, the thing that is entangled in the soil.
The world is increasingly borderless, without places, without dialects, without specialties. Nostalgia is too late, old has become nothingness. We can only adapt to a larger homeland, the common world homeland of mankind.
In the form of text and photography, this book records the next city of life.
On the back of these words and photographs is a deep love and sorrow for the homeland.