Please recommend some books about improving self-cultivation and knowledge.

Books to improve self-cultivation and knowledge:

1. Helen Keller's "If you give me three days of light"

In the 20th century, a unique life individual shocked the world in her brave way. She-Helen Keller, a woman who lives in the dark but brings light to mankind, a lonely weak woman who has spent 88 spring and autumn years of her life, but survived 87 years of dull, silent and speechless. However, it is such a person who is claustrophobic in the world of the blind and deaf. Graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University; He spent all his life running around and set up a charity to benefit the disabled, and was selected as one of the top ten hero idols in the 20th century in America by Time magazine. Creating this miracle depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, finally found the bright side of life in the dark, and finally extended her loving hands to the world.

2. Who moved my cheese

The book uses vivid stories to explain a simple but often overlooked truth: change will always happen, so everyone should foresee and follow it, adapt to it, change themselves with the changes in the environment, and enjoy it. This book is suitable for all ages. It only takes you less than an hour to finish reading this story, but its unique insights can have a lifelong influence and help on you.

3. "Tolerance" Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon (America)

Reading this book is an interesting way to understand the changes in the history of civilization. What is human history like? How did it evolve? What is the relationship between man and history? How do people make history? Why should people understand history? In an ingenious way, the author understands, feels and understands the changes of western history from the perspective of whether society or people are tolerant or not. Tolerance and intolerance are just a pair of contradictory concepts. Who becomes the center of the times or which becomes the edge, the historical characteristics of the times may be completely opposite. Therefore, if we understand human civilization in this way, the changes of human history are undoubtedly in a state of disorder and order. The author, Mr. Long Fang, does not directly praise the historical process that meets the tolerance standard, nor denies or criticizes the historical phenomenon of intolerance, but grasps the various forms of "tolerance" and "intolerance" in the process of human civilization change to describe why social development has changed so much. In this book, the author entered the depths of human civilization through the channel of "tolerance". This unique way of historical writing not only broke the utopian fantasy of social progress since the Western Enlightenment, but also further opened people's thinking space to understand historical changes and revealed the civilization form in the post-modern landscape in advance.

4. "If love is a game, this is the rule" Author: Cherie Carter Scott (America) This is a book suitable for women, men and readers of all ages. In her pen, all the successes and failures in love are gathered in the author's pen, and love is no longer isolated and inexplicable. This book is rigorous in writing and fair in viewpoint. For the first time, it is really encouraging to rationalize and regularize love, which China people think will never be clear.

5. "Xiangxing San Ji" Author: Shen Congwen

Reading Shen Lao's prose is like reading a faint color, and the full text is like shallow running water, nourishing the reader's heart. It seems that there is no hard application, but the lines are clear and psychic; Almost rough technique, no trace of discussion, no trace of touching the reader's heartstrings. Although the story is not very touching and the characters are so old, the words are there, but they shine.

6. The truth of life Author: Liang

This is an exploration of the depth of spiritual culture. The author experiences beauty in ordinary life, which shows the flesh-and-blood connection between the writer and ordinary people and the ideological fit with the pulse of the times. The author is a writer with a strong sense of introspection. The word "know how to reflect" is particularly important in the reality of China today. The Truth of Life focuses on a wide range of social and cultural topics, such as archives system, judicial system, charity, urban construction pattern, film and television themes, reading guides, and many macro concerns, such as terrorism, Olympic spirit and world trends, which are related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

7. "My Love My Freedom" Author: isadora duncan (America)

My Love My Freedom is the founder of modern dance, the famous American dancer isadora? Autobiography of Duncan. In this book, she fully explained two personal life topics-love and freedom; Melt life, love and dance into the brilliance of words with lava-like enthusiasm, so that readers can appreciate the extraordinary vitality of a great woman. For some young people who are in adversity and ambitious, after reading this biography, they should understand that nothing is impossible. Yesterday's dream is not necessarily today's hope, but tomorrow's reality. Duncan showed the world the process of a woman from being recognized to being respected by her own personal experience.

8. "Where to Return" Author: Li Yang

Where to Go is also a novel with very beautiful language. It uses unique prose and poetic language forms to describe the spiritual transformation history of contemporary young intellectuals and calls on contemporary young people to stick to their ideals and spiritual heights in the collision of multiple values. The contradiction between ideal and reality is vividly expressed in beautiful language. In his novels, the author intentionally inherits and develops the traditional culture of China, especially the beauty, broadness and profundity of traditional literature. Faced with the irresistible trend of western learning spreading to the east, the author raised the banner of "learning from the east and using the west" and tried to practice it with his own novels. From the linguistic point of view, Li Yang's novels are unique in China's contemporary literary world, full of charm and charm, and they interpret the beauty of Chinese in sound, form and meaning beautifully, forming a unique "Li Yang" phenomenon.

9. "Eco-city: Building a Living Environment in Balance with Nature" Author: Richard Rui Gist (USA) In the book, the author gives another interpretation of the "sustainable development strategy"-that is, through reasonable urban planning and design, the human ecosystem composed of towns and villages will evolve in a good direction, providing the greatest development opportunities for all people and cultures, fully stimulating the creative enthusiasm of human beings, and we can fully enjoy it.

10. The limit by Zhang Haidi.

This is a work that takes climbing Meili Snow Mountain as the background, shows the living conditions of contemporary intellectuals, and deeply digs into the human spiritual world with the author's unique experience and feelings. The whole work is full of romantic passion and rational wisdom, and the style of writing is ups and downs, gentle and beautiful, showing a value orientation of facing difficulties and high spirits. This book was listed as a gift to the 16th National Congress by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the General Administration of Press and Publication. Its high-spirited and enterprising spirit is very important to individuals, nations, countries and an era. With this spirit, individuals, countries, nations and times will be full of hope.

Books on humanities and social sciences:

First, philosophy.

1. Plato's Republic

2. Metaphysics Author: Aristotle

3. Aristotle on the art of poetry.

4. On Horace's poetic art.

5. On the noble Lang Girnus: Lang Girnus

Second, ethics.

1. Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics.

2. Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiment.

3. On the Origin and Foundation of Human Inequality (On Inequality) Author: Jean-jean-jacques rousseau.

4. Kant's critique of practical reason.