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The Shallows: Are You a Slave to the Internet or Its Master? cover
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…
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World cover
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…
Understanding the Work Safety Law Through Pictures cover
Understanding the Work Safety Law Through Pictures 冯美华 China Legal Publishing House · 2021 Understanding the Work Safety Law at a Glance is a legal-popularization title in the "At a Glance" series. Written by Feng Meihua, holder of a master'…
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil cover
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…
Chinese-Style Lawyers (China Stories) cover
Chinese-Style Lawyers (China Stories) Caixin Books CITIC Publishing Co., Ltd. As a borrowed institution, the legal profession has existed in China for only about a century. China's legal sector has expanded rapidly in recent dec…
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity cover
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…
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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…
CITIC Insight Series Selected Collection (Volume One) cover
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…
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories) cover
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories) 李敬泽 / Zheng Yuanjie CITIC Press · 2013 Shanxi Laoxi'er is one title in the Chinese Stories series, a brand of narrative nonfiction e-books launched by CITIC Press in 2013, and is jointly wr…
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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…
Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class (Class and Bad, or, The Dumbing of America, 2-Volume Set) cover
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…