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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
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)
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
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…
Patriarchy: The Origins and End of Male Dominance
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…
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories)
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…
Huangdi Neijing Suwen
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)
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…
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…
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…