Hello "books and rice", as soon as February arrives, it is not far from the New Year.
However, this year's Spring Festival, many people may not be able to play as they please.
Some require home health monitoring or isolation, while others simply stay in place for the New Year.
But no matter what, Shudanjun will insist on recommending new books to you every month and accompany you through every reading day.
So, what are the new books in February? Let's take a look at it with the book.
If you are interested, you may wish to take it home and enjoy it.
✨NO.1✨
How to Think Independently
In this world of information explosion, if there is any ability that is indispensable, then independent thinking must be one.
This book is a guide to judging that teaches you to see the truth.
The author, Steven Novella, is a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, an internationally recognized science educator, and a "scientific skeptic" who has been practicing for 30 years.
Starting from the 4 types of tools of critical thinking, he analyzed 30 types of logical fallacies in detail, helping us to see the cognitive pitfalls and master the skills of critical thinking.
In the book, Steven uses our common cognitive fallacy as an example to explain the "ghost hunting experts," the anti-vaccine movement, and the popular GMO myth.
He is like a doctor with a sense of humor, teaching you to peel off layers of appearances with surgical tools.
And what you will get is not only a scientific way of thinking, but also a "admit ignorance, always curious" attitude towards life.
From investing, buying a house, planning your life, to dealing with your child's fever, if you don't want to be fooled and make smarter choices, then this book can definitely help you.
✨NO.2✨
"Late Marriage"
This book is not out of the fire, many tap readers write long articles warmly recommended. By the end of last year, Douban had been read about 137,000 times
The protagonist of the story is a female white-collar worker named Huang Wansi of a foreign company, she is diligent and self-motivated, with a large income, but she saves money and subsidizes her salary to her family.
Over the past year, her life has changed dramatically: her best girlfriend has gone missing, her high school sister has accidentally become pregnant, and she herself has been abruptly laid off.
During this painful day, her newly known boyfriend Yang Hao has been with her. However, the relationship between the two of them, which has differences in age, class, and family background, makes her full of tension...
The pressure of career and family, and the accident of life have made many readers sigh, which is not only an emotional story of a woman in her 30s, but also a book of apocalypse of the plight of contemporary Chinese women.
The author, Liaojing, is a Douban reading author, and his works are scattered in "Beijing Literature", "Youth Literature" and so on. Her last published collection of short and medium stories, "Wedding Night", was well received and was selected as "Douban 2019 Hot Book".
Some people say that reading Liaojing's stories can obtain a sense of reality such as reading social investigations, documentary reports, and psychological analysis.
Shu Shanjun believes that any girl who is full of anxiety about 30 years old can be healed in this book and gain a calm and courage to face feelings and marriage.
✨NO.3✨
Alternative Facts
Have you ever heard of the following:
A message that "drinking tea can kill the new crown virus" spread in various WeChat groups, and many people believed it to be true;
The famous NBA star Kelly Owen said: "The earth is flat";
On the day of Trump's inauguration in 2017, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, said: "The number of people who came to Washington, D.C. for the presidential inauguration was the highest this time in history." ”
It turns out that these three statements are all nonsense.
However, why do ordinary people, industry icons, and Politicians in the White House ignore the facts in front of them and choose to believe those strange theories?
According to the book's author, Osa Vikfors, a Swedish philosopher and one of the Nobel Prize judges, the reason was "resistance to knowledge."
It is the disregard and resistance of many people to "knowledge" that has led to the prevalence of disinformation and distorted values.
Therefore, from a philosophical and psychological point of view, he helps us understand the threat to knowledge in the present, and provides the tools needed to combat the threat, so as to help us expose the falsehood and break through the fog.
You'll learn many basic critical thinking skills, such as:
Obtain information from different types of sources;
Practice how to examine the basis of an idea;
Take experts seriously, beware of conspiracy theories, etc.;
In 2019, the book was given as a Christmas gift to 110,000 Swedish high school students in the hope that they would avoid cognitive bias and correctly understand the world.
As the book says: To defend knowledge is to defend ourselves.
This is undoubtedly a good book against ignorance for anyone.
✨NOPE. 4✨
"I Shouldn't Have Been a Mother"
Someone said, "Just by looking at the name, this book will catch fire." ”
In fact, it does.
The book received a lot of attention as soon as it was published abroad, selling 34 national and regional rights within two weeks, and the film and television rights were also taken away by the harry potter producers.
What makes this book unique is that it points directly to society's stereotype of "tying female values to motherhood" and tells us:
Not all girls have to be mothers.
If behind the explosion of "Thirty Only" last year reflects women's realistic anxiety about age, then this book is a re-exploration of women's identity.
The owner of the story, Les, has always been deeply frightened by the fact that he will become a mother.
This fear not only made her daughter's personality cold and hostile, but also indirectly caused the death of her younger son, and even eventually led to the breakdown of her marriage with her husband and the disintegration of the entire family.
However, what caused Bryce's fear of the "mother" character?
The authors point to Bryce's "abusive" feline families and expose a more pervasive social reality behind such intergenerational trauma:
In the process of becoming mothers, countless women have become a person who hardly even knows themselves.
So, what exactly is motherhood? Was a mother born great? What does it mean to be a mother?
This is undoubtedly a thought-provoking female apocalypse.
Moreover, Shu ShanJun felt that it was necessary for both men and women to read it.
✨NOPE. 5✨
"Can't Stop At All"
On your path to self-discipline, do you often encounter the following situations:
Painfully determined to quit web dramas, games, and alcohol addiction, but often an unconscious little thought, thinking: just chase one episode of drama, play for 10 minutes, drink two sips of wine...
As a result, I unconsciously want more and find that I can't stop at all!
Then, you tend to blame yourself for failing, feeling useless and having poor self-control.
But the book doesn't think so.
The book points out that addiction is an external manifestation of psychological distress. Only by finding the real psychological needs of the addict and solving the psychological distress can the addict truly quit the addiction.
This is also the most distinctive thing about this book: using a psychological approach to addiction.
For example, a child's game addiction is because the relationship between the child and the parent is destroyed in reality, so the child and the game have established an intimate relationship.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of children's addiction, the key is not to "quit addiction" itself, but how to manage the parent-child relationship.
The author, Shen Jiahong, combines 30 years of psychological addiction experiments in the book, integrates 4 major psychological schools, and customizes different addiction methods for different stages of addiction from the three levels of psychology, behavior and interpersonal relationships.
Following these methods, you may find that it is not so difficult to go from "can't stop at all" to "stop".
Whether you want to quit your addiction yourself, or you want to help a loved one or friend quit, this book can help you.
✨NOPE. 6✨
Lecture Notes on Modern Western Thought by Liu Qing
Some people say that the biggest highlight of the latest season of "Strange Story" is the invitation to Professor Liu Qing.
Who is Liu Qing?
He is a professor at East China Normal University and has been teaching modern thought in the classrooms of East China Normal University for more than 15 years;
He is also the director of the app, with 50,000 users paying to learn his courses;
He is also a tracker of cutting-edge ideas, and since 2003, he has written an annual review of Western thought, which is a must-read article for many scholars every year.
This "Lecture Notes on Modern Western Thought by Liu Qing" is a collection of his research in the fields of Western intellectual history and political philosophy over the years.
Open this book, you can not only understand the foundation and framework of the ideological edifice of 19 cattlemen such as Weber, Nietzsche, and Freud, but also obtain sincere answers to many difficult problems related to personal life and social public sphere.
For example, marriage used to pay attention to the door to the door, and later, the two feelings were good; today, many people have begun to question whether marriage is necessary;
Another example is the workplace, in the past, a person's status, look at the origin, look at the bloodline, but today, rely on ability and achievements;
Professor Liu Qing told us that behind all these changes is the change of people's thinking and concepts.
Reading this book is like a conversation with 19 shining thinkers, so that you can more clearly understand the complex world in which we live and be a "sober modern person".
Shudanjun sincerely invites you to embark on this journey of thought exploration.
✨NOPE. 7✨
Thirty Lectures on Literary Experience
Many people have the habit of writing reading notes when reading.
However, different people write out different feelings.
So, what is the difference between a writer's reading experience and a regular reader's?
The author of this book is Miao Wei, who was the deputy editor of Sanlian Life Weekly and the editor-in-chief of Xinzhi Magazine. And this book is his own literary reading experience that he recorded.
In the book, he shares his experience of reading dozens of foreign literary classics over the years, and also tells his thoughts on essential issues such as love, loneliness, and death, as well as his feelings about himself, others, and the world.
You will find that Miao Wei's "experience" is not an explanation, and he focuses more on a detail in the book than on summarizing the core ideas of a literary work, and then casually expands his associations.
In his view, this is the most direct way to cultivate our ability to read, and even to observe life.
With Miao Wei's reading experience, you can not only experience a diverse life in the literary world, but also learn how to get rid of the simplistic mode of thinking and embrace a broader world in the era of "pluralistic values".
Some readers commented: "Literary criticism has read some, Master Miao's is completely different, not to talk about the writing skills themselves, but to directly attack the emotions and humanity in literary works, so that we can understand ourselves and our relationship with the world in literature." ”
Everyone who loves words can get an antidote to the soul during these 30 literary nights.
✨NOPE. 8✨
Zara Biography: The Secret of the Rise of the Global Fast Fashion Empire
Recently, the news about the "ZARA store closure" has been coming, and many people have exclaimed: the brilliant ZARA is also going to end?
After all, the fast-fashion empire, which has always been praised, once had more than 1,500 stores around the world.
For people who often visit the mall, when it comes to "ZARA", there are always many blurted out impressions:
It tends to be in the most expensive neighborhoods, adjacent to luxury goods;
It is not only inexpensive, but also has a comfortable shopping experience;
It can respond quickly to customer needs within 15 days, and it does not care about advertising;
However, compared to the widespread popularity of the ZARA brand, whether it is its development history or the founder behind it who has been the world's richest man 5 times, people know almost nothing.
So, how did ZARA become the world's fast fashion empire in just a few decades?
This book is for us to reveal the answer.
On the one hand, the book unveils the mystery of the "father of ZARA", Amancio.
In particular, his well-known saying: "It is unfair that only rich people can dress well, and I want to solve this unfair social phenomenon."
Amancio hopes that people can enjoy the same fashionable clothing without spending too much money.
On the other hand, this book also shows us the business philosophy that ZARA has always been talked about. While its success cannot be replicated, there are always practices that we can learn from.
We don't know where ZARA is headed in the future, but looking back, it may be the best way to predict the future.
✨NOPE. 9✨
The Silent Patient
This is an annual suspenseful brain-burning masterpiece.
At present, the book has been issued in 102 editions, with a print run of more than 3 million copies and sold well in 45 countries.
The author, Alex McLeetz, is a supernova in the suspense world, a million-selling author and screenwriter, and this book is his debut novel.
However, as soon as the book was published, it instantly detonated the long-silent European and American suspense reasoning circles, and also appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, and occupied the list for 392 days.
The book tells the story of Alicia, who fired five shots in the face of her husband, and after being diagnosed with mental illness, became the infamous "silent patient", never to speak again, and the only thing left to the outside world was a strange self-portrait.
And the "I" in the book, psychotherapist Theo, is attracted to her story and hopes to help her out of the silent dead end through psychotherapy.
"I" was convinced that only she could tell the truth, that only "I" could make her speak.
However, behind Alicia's silence is a dark abyss far beyond "I"'s imagination, which lures "I" step by step until it is doomed...
British national treasure actor "Uncle Fried" Stephen Frey commented: "I was nervous when I read this book, so excited that I couldn't breathe! ”
After reading the book, Shan Jun was also greatly addicted, especially impressed by a sentence on its cover: "How many seemingly perfect couples are waiting for the opportunity to kill each other." ”
If you're also a fan of suspense fiction, you can't miss this book.
✨NO.10✨
"If Parents Are Difficult to Get Along With When They Get Old"
At present, many adults are facing the problem of "parents are difficult to get along with when they are old".
Like what:
As parents get older, they become more and more incomprehensible;
They are always too dependent on you and want you to be with you at all times;
They don't listen to your advice, they have to stick to their unscientific way of life;
You want to make them happy, so often will be on them. But in reality, these questions often drive you crazy.
So, what exactly should we do with those difficult parents?
This book may provide some answers.
The authors, Grace Loeb and Barbara Kane, founders of Twilight Services, an American professional elderly care organization, have been exposed to many types of "problem parents," and this book is the classic of their 30 years of clinical experience.
In their view, in the face of difficult parents, no amount of truth is necessarily useful. Because, what parents need is to be understood, not solved.
The book summarizes the parents' behavior patterns into 6 types, such as dependence, control, and self-destruction, and 25 classic cases are based on the parents' problem behavior and the children's coping patterns, and the situational exercises are carried out, so as to help you find different modes of coping strategies and achieve smooth communication.
For example, for dependent parents, you need to set boundaries on what your parents ask and buy yourself respite;
For self-destructive parents, you should make good use of medical resources to accompany parents to fight off the demons of depression.
You'll learn that, if you can't completely change your parents, you can at least escape from the vicious circle of anger, remorse, guilt, and self-blame, learn to accept it all, take care of their old age as much as possible, and stop following in their parents' footsteps.
Shu ShanJun really felt that every child should read this book.
Source: Book list
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