The Most Recommended Books is a term Bookdao uses to indicate books that are worth reading. Through our data processing tools, the book lists are formed by professional readers’ collective opinions, rather than sales figures. For approach and methodology, seeWhat is a Good Book. The translated humanities category contains popular works introduced from overseas. This month's list includes 20 books, and they come from 5 different countries, mainly the United States, the United Kingdom. Topics include history, philosophy, biographies, correspondence records, and lecture transcripts.
Apropos of Nothing
Author: [US] Woody Allen
Publisher: New Star Press
Publication Date: January 2023
Apropos of Nothing is Woody Allen's autobiography, the first comprehensive look at his creative career and life story, telling the story of how a poor New York kid stepped up to comedy and grew into a master of humour worshipped by millions of literary youngsters.
Walt Whitman’s America：A Cultural Biography
Author: [US] David S. Reynolds
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication Date: January 2023
David S. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor, Baruch College and City University of New York Graduate School. For the first time Walt Whitman is portrayed in the context of a detailed and complete social, political and cultural period, and for the first time the complementary interaction between the great American poet and his native America is written in an unbiased manner, which is essential.
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Author: [US] Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication Date: January 2023
Thomas S. Mullaney, PhD in History from Columbia University, is currently Professor of History at Stanford University, with a research interest in Chinese history. This book traces the history of the adaptation of the Chinese language to modern information technology, using the Chinese typewriter as a lens. It demonstrates the early exploration of Chinese character processing technology by Chinese language users over nearly a century.
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
Author: [UK] Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher: CITIC Press Group
Publication Date: December 2022
For human civilisation, ideas are the real protagonists. Ideas are both the key human ability to climb the ladder and the main driver of change in the way humans live and evolve through history. For modern man, the basic tools of thought on which we now live have been developed over a journey of tens of thousands of years. If we are to truly understand human history and ourselves, we need to confront the evolution of ideas and the value of concepts.
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
Author: [UK] Norman Cohn
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press
Publication Date: November 2022
This classic study of medieval millenarianism in Europe is the work of Norman Cohen, the great English historian. With this masterpiece, Norman Cohen offers us new perspectives on the complex facets of poverty, aspiration, resistance, power and their interrelationships in medieval Europe.
Breakfast with Seneca:A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
Author: [US] David Fideler
Publisher: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
Publication Date: November 2022
Rousseau: A course offered in 1962
Author: [US] Jonathan Marks (Edit)
Publisher: East China Normal University Press
Publication Date: November 2022
Foch: the Man of Orléans
Author: [UK] B. H. Liddell Hart
Publisher: Xinhua Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
The History of Philosophy
Author: [UK] A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: December 2022
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Author: [Canada] Timothy Brook
Publisher: Beijing Daily Press
Publication Date: January 2023
I Am Dynamite !: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: [UK] Sue Prideaux
Publisher: Nanjing University Press
Publication Date: January 2023
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Author: [Canada] Timothy Brook
Publisher: Hainan Publishing House
Publication Date: January 2023
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: the Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971
Author: [US] Simon Karlinsky (Edit)
Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Publication Date: December 2022
Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763
Author: [US] Henry Kamen
Publisher: CITIC Press Group
Publication Date: November 2022
Logical Labyrinths
Author: [US] Raymond Smullyan
Publisher: New Star Press
Publication Date: January 2023
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: [UK] David Edmonds
Publisher: Shanghai Joint Publishing
Publication Date: January 2023
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (8th Edition)
Author: [UK] Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn
Publisher: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
Global Perspectives on Global History：Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Author: [Germany] Dominic Sachsenmaier
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press
Publication Date: January 2023
The End of the French Intellectual: From Zola to Houellebecq
Author: [Isreal] Shlomo Sand
Publisher: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House
Publication Date: January 2023
One Good Turn A Natural History Of The Screwdriver And The Screw
Author: [US] Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Zhejiang University Press
Publication Date: November 2022