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Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2000
This book is one of the representative works of the British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The English original, Legislators and Interpreters: On Moderni…
The Second Sex II: Lived Experience
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2011
The Second Sex II: Lived Experience is the second volume of Beauvoir's The Second Sex and, together with the first volume, Facts and Myths, forms a co…
The Age of Anti-Intellect: American Culture in a Web of Lies
New Star Press · 2018
This is a book about "why we are getting dumber," yet it is written in a way that is anything but dumb. Susan Jacoby uses American culture as a dissec…
Game Theory and Life
CITIC Press · 2021
Since its emergence in the 1940s, game theory has been widely applied in business, economics, military affairs, and sociology. This book is an introdu…
Broad Vision, Essential Grasp: Criminal Defense Thinking and Practice Skills
China Legal Publishing House · 2022
Broad Vision, Focused Practice: Criminal Defense Thinking and Practical Skills is co-authored by Zhang Cheng and Lü Puyu, two lawyers with over fiftee…
Qin Hui & Jin Yan Works Set (5 Volumes)
Oriental Press · 2014
This is a five-volume collection published by Oriental Press in 2014, gathering representative scholarly works by Qin Hui and Jin Yan on Chinese rural…
The News: A User's Manual
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…
The Quality Learning Bundle: New Knowledge Library Ebook Collection (4,000 Volumes)
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 …
Red-Powdered Ladies of the Inner Chambers: Women's Lives and Literature
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2017
Writing about women in ancient China, one most easily falls into two clichés: either the "oppressed silent" or the "elegant legend of talented ladies …
Excellent Sheep
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…