Rating 4.4★
The Invisible Middle East: A Journey into Everyday Life
Yao Lu
民主与建设出版社 · 2024
The Invisible Middle East is a book-length work of documentary travel writing by journalist and photographer Yao Lu, subtitled "A Journey into Everyda…
Fighting Air Disease (China Story)
Cui Zheng / Wang Ling
CITIC Press · 2013
On October 17, 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, announced that outdoor air polluti…
Rating 4.0★
Excellent Sheep
威廉·德雷谢维奇
CITIC Press · 2025
Excellent Sheep is the American scholar William Deresiewicz's celebrated critique of education, growing out of his years teaching at Yale and the sens…
The Quality Learning Bundle: New Knowledge Library Ebook Collection (4,000 Volumes)
生活·读书·新知三联书店
SDX Joint Publishing Company
This is an ebook collection built primarily around the New Knowledge Library (Xinzhi Wenku) series from SDX Joint Publishing Company. At roughly 24.3 …
The World Is Not Flat: Geography and Human Destiny
哈尔姆·德·布莱
民主与建设出版社 · 2025
Entering the twenty-first century, the world's mobility, interconnectedness, and integration have increased markedly, and "the world is flat" has beco…
Rating 3.9★
The News: A User's Manual
Alain de Botton
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021
The News: A User's Manual is a nonfiction book by British author Alain de Botton on the news media, originally published under that title. De Botton a…
Rating 4.2★
Reading Guide to the Mirror Series (001–015)
Leung Man-tao / Liu Yu / Xiong Peiyun / Xu Zhiyuan / 徐贲
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015
Reading Guide to the Mirror Series (001–015) is a companion collection of introductory essays for the "Mirror" (Lixiangguo Translation Series), co-wri…
Hospital Ukiyo-e: Selected Writings of Zhihu's Curry Chicken
Curry Chicken
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2015
This is volume 46 of Zhihu's "Salt" series and a self-selected collection of articles by Curry Chicken, a cardiac surgeon and a top contributor on Zhi…
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
简·麦戈尼格尔
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2012
This is the representative work of the American futurist and game researcher Jane McGonigal, translated into Chinese by Lü Jia and published by Zhejia…
The Shallows: Are You a Slave to the Internet or Its Master?
尼古拉斯·卡尔
CITIC Press · 2015
The Shallows is Nicholas Carr's systematic critique of the Internet, following his essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (the English original, The Shal…
Rating 4.3★
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
苏珊·奈曼
民主与建设出版社 · 2025
Learning from the Germans is a cross-cultural moral meditation by the American philosopher Susan Neiman, originally published as Learning from the Ger…
Rating 3.8★
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Lynda Gratton / Andrew Scott
CITIC Press · 2018
This book begins with a numerical fact that is already unfolding: about half of the people born in the early 21st century have a good chance of living…
Rating 4.3★
Patriarchy: The Origins and End of Male Dominance
安吉拉·萨伊尼
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
Patriarchy seems an age-old, self-evident order of human society — but where did it come from, and why does it recur across such different cultures an…
Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class (Class and Bad, or, The Dumbing of America, 2-Volume Set)
保罗·福塞尔
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017
Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class is a two-volume set of Paul Fussell's two classics of social and cultural criticism: Class: A Guide Through the Amer…
Huangdi Neijing Suwen
Anonymous / 郭霭春
People's Medical Publishing House · 2013
The Suwen (Basic Questions) is one of the two major components of the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), the other being the Lingshu (Spi…
CITIC Insight Series Selected Collection (Volume One)
Siddhartha Mukherjee / 大卫·克里斯蒂安 / 埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆 / Charles Emerson / William H. McNeill / Yuval Noah Harari
CITIC Press · 2018
CITIC Insight Series Selected Collection (Volume One) is a curated omnibus of the Insight Series, a book series under CITIC Press Group's Insight City…
Obsession
约翰·道格拉斯 / 马克·奥尔谢克
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This book is a true-crime work co-written by John Douglas, founder of the FBI's Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit and hailed as "America's…
Blood Cobalt: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
悉达多·卡拉
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
The lithium-ion batteries in phones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles all contain cobalt, a silver-gray metal. A large share of global cobalt p…
Dream and Reality: Social Stratification and Social Mobility in Hong Kong
Li Xiyuan
Peking University Press · 2008
This is an empirical monograph by Li Xiyuan, a scholar at the Sun Yat-sen University Center for Hong Kong, Macao, and Pearl River Delta Studies, on so…
Minifesto: Why Small Ideas Matter in the World of Grand Narratives
Magnus Lindqvist
CITIC Press · 2017
Minifesto: Why Small Ideas Matter in the World of Grand Narratives is a popular work by the Swedish trend researcher and futurist Magnus Lindkvist. In…