What books can you read in college to broaden your knowledge and horizons?

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The "global history" started from the origin of human beings, and lasted for hundreds of thousands of years from 265438 to the multipolar world at the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to politics and economy, it also involves military affairs, culture, education, religion, science and technology, population, immigration, ethnic relations, morality and fashion, ideology and other aspects. It is quite novel and lively to read, and it has a strong sense of reality. Judging from the content of the text, the author chose the complicated historical materials properly, abbreviated various historical events, and discussed them while narrating, with vivid words; From the perspective of writing skills, there is a concise summary in front of each chapter, which is a link between the preceding and the following, and it is easy to grasp the clues. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliography for further study.

2. A brief history of mankind

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A Brief History of Mankind: From Animals to God is a masterpiece of a new Israeli historian. From the signs of life100000 years ago to the history of human development in 2 1 century, capital and technology are intertwined. One hundred thousand years ago, there were at least six races on the earth. Why are we lonely today? We used to be just an obscure ethnic group in a corner of Africa, and our impact on the earth's ecology was almost the same as that of fireflies, orangutans or jellyfish. Why can we climb to the top of the biological chain and eventually become the master of the earth?

From cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution to scientific revolution, do we really know ourselves? Are we happier? Do we know the source and reason of money and religion? Why did the empires created by human beings decline and rise one by one? Why does almost every society on earth have the idea that men are superior to women? Why has monotheism become the most widely accepted religion? How do science and capitalism become the most important creeds in modern society? Clarify the great context that affects human development and tap the roots of human culture, religion, law, country and credit. This is a grand brief history of mankind, and it is even more exquisite, which makes people re-examine themselves.

3, a hundred years of loneliness

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One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magical realism literature, which describes the legendary story of seven generations of Buendia family and the rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, and reflects the changeable history of Latin America in the past hundred years. The works are mixed with myths and legends, folk stories, religious allusions and other mysterious factors. , skillfully combines reality and illusion, shows a magnificent imaginary world, and becomes one of the most important classic literary masterpieces in the 20th century. 1982 Garcia? Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature and established himself as a world-class literary master, largely because of the great influence of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

4. Rich dad and poor dad

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Kiyosaki has two fathers: "poor father" is his biological father, a highly educated education official; "Rich dad" is the father of his good friend, an entrepreneur who didn't graduate from high school but is good at investing and managing money. Kiyosaki lived an ordinary early life along the life path designed for him by "poor dad": going to college, serving in military service and participating in the Vietnam War. Until 1977, Kiyosaki witnessed the unemployment of "poor dad" who worked hard all his life, and "rich dad" became one of the richest people in Hawaii. Kiyosaki resolutely pursued the footsteps of "rich dad", stepped into the business world, and boarded the Regal Express.

Kiyosaki's personal wealth story shows that "poor dad" and "rich dad" have completely different views on money and wealth. The poor work for money, and the rich let money work for themselves!