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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016
Shoe Dog is the entrepreneurial memoir written by Nike founder Phil Knight, originally published as Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. The sim…
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of a Woman Who Resisted the Nazis
People's Literature Publishing House · 2025
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is a historical biography by American author Rebecca Donner. The Chinese title evokes a Holderlin poetic image: …
Bertolt Brecht: The Art of Living in Dark Times
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
1. The author himself is a scholar of the "gatekeeper" class where Brecht is concerned. Knopf is director of the Brecht Institute and an editor of the…
Republican Era Clear Streams: Those Distant Masters
Modern Press · 2015
This is the first volume of Wang Zhaoqian's "Republican Era Clear Streams" series. Written as a long collective biography, it presents a panoramic por…
A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study
George Bell and Sons · 1902
This book is a biography and literary study by the English clergyman and writer William Tuckwell (1829–1919) of the travel writer and historian Alexan…
The Life of George Borrow
John Murray · 1912
The Life of George Borrow is a biography of the nineteenth-century English writer George Henry Borrow (1803–1881) written by the English author and pu…
The Unfinished Painting: A Biography of Lin Fengmian
Zhonghua Book Company · 2016
Writing about Lin Fengmian is not difficult; writing about the second half of his life is. After leaving Hangzhou in 1951, he withdrew from public vie…
Faraday as a Discoverer
Faraday as a Discoverer is a commemorative critical biography written by the physicist John Tyndall shortly after the death of Michael Faraday (1791–1…
Mr. Correct Bai Yansong (China Story)
CITIC Press · 2013
This book is one title in the China Story series, a pure e-book brand of CITIC Press, written by Zhang Zhuo and Lin Tianhong, and centers on in-depth …
Biography of Tao Yuanming
Zhonghua Book Company · 2012
This book is part of Zhonghua Book Company's "Chinese Celebrities" biography series, written by Qian Zhixi, a professor in the Department of Chinese L…