China News Service, Beijing, March 9 (Reporter Ying Ni) The Commercial Press's top ten best books for March 2024 were released online on the evening of the 8th, "Reconstructing Grassroots Society: Construction of "Integration of Three Governances" in Tongxiang, Zhejiang (2013-2023) "Research", "Collected Works of Deng Zhenglai" (all nine volumes), "Cambridge Guide to Legal Positivism", "Chinese Rhetoric" (4th edition), "Xun Ji Ji: Bookworm Natural History", "Natural Economic System" , "Hobbes on the Commonwealth of Citizens", "How to teach artificial intelligence to speak human language?"

", "Consumption History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture" and "Lady's Bookplate" were selected.

Book cover of "The Commercial Press's Top Ten Books" in March 2024.

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　　In terms of theme publishing, "Reconstructing Grassroots Society: Research on the "Integration of Three Governances" in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province (2013-2023)" launched this month was led by an academic research team led by Professor Yu Jianxing and was produced after ten years of follow-up research.

Starting from the experience of Tongxiang, this paper examines the background, development process, system design, continuous innovation and governance effectiveness of the "integration of three governance", and based on the innovative grassroots governance theory of "integration of three governance", explores the feasibility and feasibility of reconstructing contemporary China's grassroots society. Realize.

　　The new academic books cover a wide range of topics, including politics, economics, law, etc.

Deng Zhenglai is a famous legal scholar and political scientist in contemporary China. "Collection of Deng Zhenglai's Writings" (nine volumes) is the latest complete collection of Mr. Deng Zhenglai's works, including academic works, critical works and academic essays on law and politics written during his lifetime. ; The new "Hobbes on Civic Association" in the "Political Science Classics Translation Series" collects four of Oakeshott's articles on Hobbes, providing a unique interpretation of Hobbes; "Economics The new "Natural Economic System" published in "Masterpiece Translation Series" is an extensive survey of the history of ecology. It comprehensively analyzes and introduces the historical process of the development of ecological thought, the main ideas and viewpoints of various schools, the inheritance relationship between each other, and their opposition. The contribution and limitations of ecological thought and the development of ecology; the legal book "Cambridge Guide to Legal Positivism" attempts to describe the basic theory, regional traditions, representatives, main principles, norms and values ​​of legal positivism from multiple dimensions, and The criticism it sparked.

　　In terms of popular literature and history books, "Looking for Beeworms: A Natural History of Bookworms" is a cross-border work by "rock PhD instructor" Chen Yonghai. It explores why there are different beetle marks?

What are the corresponding relationships between these different beetle marks and different bookworms?

Why is the silverfish named crocodile?

Why did it happen that Li Bai invented the word "silverfish"?

The ancients liked to use plants with pungent odors to ward off beetles in books. The most famous one is a herb called rue, also called rue or rue.

Its companion piece "Xun Yun Ji: A Natural History of Pesticide Fragrant Grass" is also a cross-border work by Chen Yonghai.

"Lady's Bookplates" traces the history of Western women's use and design of bookplates, tells anecdotes about bookplate owners, and introduces the most representative high-quality bookplates. It is an important material for studying the social life of European intellectual women in the 17th and 18th centuries.

"Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture" presents how society consumes history. The author also provides an in-depth analysis of museums' attitudes towards heritage disputes, how technological changes affect the public's access to knowledge, and public history and academia. Historiographic disputes, etc.

　　"Chinese Rhetoric" (4th Edition), a linguistics book released this month, is known as the "magic book" for improving Chinese expression. It contains in-depth theoretical explanations and a large number of interesting rhetorical examples, comprehensively covering all aspects of rhetoric. In terms of aspects, it can help readers easily master rhetorical skills.

"How to teach artificial intelligence to speak human language?"

” is written by Fudan “slash” professor Xu Yingjin, who points out the fundamental misunderstandings of current AI research and “disenchants” the public’s many unrealistic expectations and fears about this popular technology application and artificial intelligence.

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