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Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class (Class and Bad, or, The Dumbing of America, 2-Volume Set)
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…
Words That Work: Strategies and Techniques for Persuading Others Effectively
CITIC Press · 2017
The Power of Words: Strategies and Techniques for Persuading Others is the signature work of Frank Luntz, an American expert in political and commerci…
Middle-Aged Virgins: A Report on Japanese Society
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2024
This book is a work of social reportage by the Japanese nonfiction writer Atsuhiko Nakamura, originally published in Japanese as Reportage: Middle-Age…
Old Beijing's Zaba Di: Memory and Interpretation of Tianqiao
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2011
"Zaba di" is an old Beijing colloquialism for places like Tianqiao where people of every walk of life mingled—bustling yet chaotic. This book is a stu…
Obsession
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…
Terror Broadcast
Terror Broadcast is a long urban supernatural novel by the web novelist Pure Little Dragon (Chunjiedi Xiaolong). It began serialization on Qidian in 2…
Blood Cobalt: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
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
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
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…
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Commercial Press · 1995
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a political treatise published in 1792 by the English writer and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft, subtitled "with …
The Shenpu Series Boxed Set (Three Volumes)
Douban Read · 2014
Soushen Pu is a series published by Xi Lude (pen name Bingzhi Xuanji, also written "Bingzhi Xuanji"), a mythology researcher and writer, on the Douban…
A Complete Guide to Sinology: Common Knowledge, Classics, and Essence
China Overseas Publishing House · 2010
Compiled by the editorial board of A Complete Guide to Sinology: Common Knowledge, Classics, and Essence and published by China Overseas Publishing Ho…