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一部人类心理进化史，开创性地运用了最前沿的心智理论研究人类历史，以震撼人心的方式剖析促发暴力的人类心理的内外因素。本书的结论必然会引起争论，但这只是一个开端，它将引导我们用全新的角度看人性、看历史、看世界，让我们深思人类社会的未来命运。我们身边到处都是血腥历史的证据：《旧约》中的大屠杀，《新约》中的十字架；莎士比亚戏剧和格林童话中的血腥肢解；英国王室对其家眷的斩首，美国建国者之间的决斗；还有对殴打妻子、虐待儿童、灭绝原住民的司空见惯和冷漠接受。在阅读了血腥的战争和令人毛骨悚然的罪行之后，我们不由得掩卷发问：“世界会变成怎样？”但是我们很少问：“过去的世界究竟有多糟糕？”实验心理学家、认知科学家、畅销书作家斯蒂芬·平克在这本令人震撼的新著中告诉我们，过去的世界更加糟糕。事实上，我们正生活在人类历史上最和平的时代。

Leaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once there, however, he falls in love with his friend's new sweetheart and resolves to seduce her. Love-crazed and desperate, he is soon moved to commit cynical acts of betrayal. And comic scenes involving a servant and his dog enhance the play's exploration how passion can prove more powerful than even the strongest loyalty owed to a friend.

大海有很多面。有时它平静温和，如同游泳池般安宁。有时它狂野、暴躁而危险。我们筑堤抵挡大海，大海却把它们冲走。我们造船在海上航行，大海却把它们劈成两截，如同孩子折断玩具。当大海露出其狰狞的一面时，它就像一头野兽，一心只想着杀戮。当然，你并不害怕大海。你在陆地上很安全，温暖而干燥。但若你是在怒海中的一条小船上，脸上是飞溅而来的海水，耳畔是咆哮不停的海风，那情况就不一样了。对我们来说，要做到不害怕很容易；这只是一本书而已。但对于格雷丝·达林，这不是故事。这是非常真实、寒冷而狂野的夜晚，那一夜她和大海抗争，毫无畏惧。

罗伯特·清崎有两个爸爸：“穷爸爸”是他的亲生父亲，一个高学历的教育官员；“富爸爸”是他好朋友的父亲，一个高中没毕业却善于投资理财的企业家。清崎遵从“穷爸爸”为他设计的人生道路：上大学，服兵役，参加越战，走过了平凡的人生初期。直到1977年，清崎亲眼目睹一生 辛劳的“穷爸爸”失了业，“富爸爸”则成了夏威夷最富有的人之一。罗伯特·清崎毅然追寻“富爸爸”的脚步，踏入商界，从此登上了致富快车。

拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》是一部以魔幻现实主义手法写成的现代文学经典之作。首先，这部作品的总构想就是一个出人意料的奇思怪想：在印度同一时刻降生的1001个孩子，能够在一个人的心灵中每夜聚会，这个会议于是成了现代印度的一面镜子。这个基本构想足以造就一部杰作，因为它不仅给了读者一个新奇的意象，而且赋予《午夜的孩子》以史诗般广阔的画面，使读者得以从多个视角认识印度社会。作者以自由飞腾的想象力，通过一个人的命运来审视一个民族的历史，使作品具有丰富的社会内容和深刻的思想内容。

 The Notebook is a 1996 American romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks. The novel was later adapted into a popular romance film by the same name in 2004. However, the movie and the book have very different endings. The novel was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel, and the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which were never published. It was written over a period of six months in 1994. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks after picking the book out of her agency's slush pile. Park liked it and offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for it from Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1996. It was on the New York Times best-seller list in its first week of release. The Notebook spent over a year as a hardcover best seller. The Notebook was inspired by the story of the grandparents of Sparks' wife, who had been married over sixty years when Sparks met them. Sparks marveled at how much the couple cared for each other, and wrote his novel as an attempt to describe such a love.

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton. The story is about an ambitious young woman, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her town to go to the city to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera star.

Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети (Otcy i Deti), which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony.《父与子》描写的是父与子冲突的主题。这一冲突在屠格涅夫笔下着上了时代的色彩。巴扎罗夫代表了19世纪60年代的年轻一代——激进的平民知识分子。而巴威尔和尼古拉则代表了保守的自由主义贵族的老一代人。当然，在对待年轻人的态度上，父辈中的人们态度各有不同，尼古拉比较温和，希望理解子辈，想跟上时代，只是不太成功。巴威尔则固执己见，信奉贵族自由主义，对年轻人的反叛耿耿于怀。父与子的冲突在广义上表现为巴威尔和巴扎罗夫之间的对立，由此，在巴扎罗夫身上塑造了时代“新人”的形象。