Spring is in full bloom, and the long-awaited fifth issue of "New Discoveries: Popular Science Booklist" is finally here!
"New Discoveries Popular Science Booklist" is the first booklist brand in China to specifically review popular science books, with the purpose of leading readers to pay attention to scientific reading, adhering to the value proposition of "science into the future", and is committed to gathering good popular science books from all over the country, and regularly launching a national popular science book list with selection credibility, social influence and market recognition. The book list is divided into three sub-lists: Science and Humanities, Science Life, and Science Youth.
At present, 46 shortlisted books have been produced, and today's two good book recommendations are freshly released, so stay tuned~
Scientific Life: Sub-book List
07
By Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Translated by You Xuefu, Yang Xinyi, and Li Congran
9787568098274
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press
August 2023
Introduction
This book is a special fund funded project for the publication of public welfare academic works in Hubei Province in 2021, and was recommended by Yin Ye, CEO of BGI. In fact, everyone has taken antibiotics. They can save lives, but they can also be useless. What are they? How are they used? What happens when the effectiveness of antibiotics continues to decline?
Today, antibiotic misuse has become a global health issue. From saving lives to threatening health, what role have antibiotics played in the history of human development, and how will they affect the future of humanity? The Oxford Science Series Antibiotics explores all aspects of the complex topic of antibiotics in a question-and-answer format, including how antibiotics are used (and overused) in humans, plants and livestock, the causes and consequences of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, how a globalised world is rapidly spreading antibiotic resistance, and how people should make decisions in the face of the healthcare system.
Expert recommendation
As one of the most important inventions in the history of modern science and technology, antibiotics have had a great impact on medical treatment and human society, and almost everyone is related to it. The comprehensive popularization of antibiotics is of great value and significance.
In the form of questions and answers, the book explores all aspects of the complex topic of antibiotics, including how antibiotics are used (and overused) in humans, plants, and livestock, the causes and consequences of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, how antibiotic resistance is rapidly spreading in a globalized world, and how people should make decisions in the face of the healthcare system.
Such a popular work is extremely important both in practical and practical senses and in the theoretical sense of understanding science, and the book is also readable, and it has been very successful in drawing attention to the topic of antibiotics.
In short, this is an important popular science book that is highly recommended and should be promoted.
08
Written by Li Shijia
9787543988699
Shanghai Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing House
January 2024
Introduction
This book is an interesting popular science book in psychology, the author starts from years of experience in stress psychology research, and uses unexpected ways to combine artificial intelligence and science fiction stories to popularize practical coping methods and psychological skills in the face of major stress, and it is a psychological decompression book that everyone can understand. The book uses witty language to start from the perspectives of stress and health, resilience, physical management, emotional management, and new challenges, so that you can experience the ways to decompress and grow yourself.
Expert recommendation
The book adopts the magical formalist penmanship, fictionalizes a god cat lady, thus opening a human-cat dialogue about the psychological healing of modern people's stress management, which increases the attractiveness of reading compared with the traditional science popularization of the subject and guest questions and answers. After entering the theme of "stress", the author analyzed in detail the sources of physical and mental stress of modern people (bad lifestyle, bad interpersonal relationships, bad human-computer relationships), physical and mental stress and health maintenance, disease breeding, and the internal tension of aging (premature aging), focusing on the impact of mental stress on the body, especially on diet and sleep, and the key to improvement is to adjust the physical and mental relationship, interpersonal relationships (workplace, family, community), and also added human-computer relationship (out of mobile phone dependence, Computer Dependence), to harness the emotional wild horse in close proximity to nature, especially how to turn negative psychology into positive psychology, and embark on a self-healing journey to get rid of and surpass stress in modern life situations. The topic is fresh and expressive, so it is recommended.
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