《Brave New Words》Salman Khan【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:“A timely masterclass for anyone interested in the future of learning in the AI era.”—Bill Gates“This book is required reading for everyone who cares about education.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking“Read this book. It’s the most fascinating and importan[……]阅读全文

《Nexus:A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI》Yuval Noah Harari【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomp[……]阅读全文

《Writing an Identity Not Your Own》Alex Temblador【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if yo[……]阅读全文

《Rethinking College:A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree》Karin Klein【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:"A valuable reassessment of America's educational system." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLYWhat if you didn't have to go to college?You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don't even require a degree. The good news? There are many promising career options for those who don[……]阅读全文

《Hitler's People》Richard J Evans【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radiated out from Hitler to the inner and outer circles of the regime’s leadership, one of our greatest historians answers the enduring question, how does a society come to carry out a program of unspeakable evil?Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two do[……]阅读全文

《Ask Not:The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed》Maureen Callahan【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem—and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with Camelot. For decades, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity.[……]阅读全文

《Private Revolutions:Four Women Face China's New Social Order》Yuan Yang【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor.It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than [……]阅读全文

《Metaphysical Animals:How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life》Clare Mac Cumhaill【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford’s men were away fighting World War II.The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneeri[……]阅读全文

《Women Money Power:The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality》Josie Cox【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:From an experienced financial journalist, Women Money Power is the story of how women have fought for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality.For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. They were restricted from owning property or transacting in real estate. Even well into the 20th cen[……]阅读全文

《The Lost Bookshop》Evie Woods【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers[……]阅读全文

《The Night Ends with Fire》K. X. Song【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:三国交战,美琳的父亲却拒绝应征。 他打算卖掉美琳作为嫁妆。 但当美琳发现她的未婚夫是另一个暴力、脾气暴躁的男人时,她意识到,除非她自己解决问题,否则什么都不会改变。第二天,她女扮男装,代替父亲入伍。在军队中,美琳的不懈努力为她带来了认可、友谊,以及与王子变身训练伙伴的斯凯的亲密关系。 但她只是把一座监狱换成了另一座监狱吗? 当她的王国走向毁灭时,梅琳开始看到海龙之魂的幻象,它为她提供了真正的力量和自由,但也付出了致[……]阅读全文

《Other Rivers:A Chinese Education》Peter Hessler【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education systemMore than twenty years after teaching English to China’s first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan to teach the next generation. A[……]阅读全文

《100个句子记完4500个四级单词》俞敏洪【文字版_PDF电子书_雅书】

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内容简介:《100个句子记完4500个四级单词》是一本通过句子学单词的词汇书,书中将句子学习、单词记忆与大学英语四级进行巧妙结合。全书精选100个具有代表性且不太好理解的四级真题句子,通过分析句子的语法结构和重点词汇,帮助考生准确理解大学英语四级考试中的长难句、掌握重点词汇。除此之外,全书从句子入手,通过主题关联性进行词汇归纳,延伸出187类四级英语常见主题和大约4500个四级单词,不仅符合大学英语四级的主题考查特点,有利于考生备[……]阅读全文

《百灵鸟英文经典世界名著第一辑(套装共20册)》威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆、海明威、茨威格 等【文字版_PDF电子书_推荐】

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内容简介:《面纱ThePaintedVeil》讲述了一个容貌娇美而又爱慕虚荣的英国女子凯蒂,为了避免自己变成一位老姑娘,接受了生性孤僻的医生瓦尔特•费恩的求婚。由于对婚姻感到不满,凯蒂开始与别人偷情。瓦尔特发现妻子的不忠后,要求凯蒂随他前往遥远的中国内地,去平息一场正疯狂流行的霍乱瘟疫。在爱情、背叛与死亡的漩涡中挣扎的凯蒂,亲历了幻想破灭与生死离别之后,终将生活的面纱从她的眼前渐渐揭去,从此踏上了不悔的精神成长之路。《一个陌[……]阅读全文

《如果…怎么办?对荒谬假设问题的严肃科学回答》原名《What If?:Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions》【文字版_PDF电子书_推荐】

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内容简介:From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange ques[……]阅读全文