Public Life

32 books

The Age of Anti-Intellect: American Culture in a Web of Lies cover
Rating 4.0
The Age of Anti-Intellect: American Culture in a Web of Lies 苏珊·雅各比 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…
Participation or Separation: China's Public Life Construction from the Perspective of Transcendence cover
Participation or Separation: China's Public Life Construction from the Perspective of Transcendence Wang Jianda Zhejiang University Press · 2010 This is an academic monograph by Wang Jianda (a teacher at Zhejiang University Law School, PhD in foreign philosophy, specializing in contemporary Chr…
What Is Morality? A Record of Li Zehou's Ethics Seminar cover
What Is Morality? A Record of Li Zehou's Ethics Seminar Li Zehou East China Normal University Press · 2015 From May 9 to 27, 2014, the philosopher Li Zehou held an ethics seminar on the theme of What Is Morality? at East China Normal University. Unlike ordi…
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Rating 4.1
Super Signs Are Super Ideas Shan Hua / 华楠 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Super Signs Are Super Ideas
Gods on Stage (China Story) cover
Gods on Stage (China Story) 郭小聪 / 崔卫平 CITIC Press · 2013 This book is a volume in CITIC Press's "China Story" series, a collection of essayistic social observations co-authored by Guo Xiaocong and Cui Weipin…
One-Way Street·Tenth Anniversary Special (Migrants of Time + Outside the World's Door) cover
One-Way Street·Tenth Anniversary Special (Migrants of Time + Outside the World's Door) Wu Qi CITIC Press · 2019 One-Way Street·Tenth Anniversary Special is a commemorative collection marking the tenth anniversary of the One-Way Space brand publication One-Way St…
A Collection of Dickens's Humorous Stories cover
Rating 3.9
A Collection of Dickens's Humorous Stories Charles Dickens Zhejiang University Press · 2022 A Collection of Dickens's Humorous Stories, published by Zhejiang University Press in the "World Literature in Translation" series and translated by M…
Running a Bookstore in the Countryside: Ten Years of Librairie Avant-Garde's Rural Bookstores cover
Rating 3.5
Running a Bookstore in the Countryside: Ten Years of Librairie Avant-Garde's Rural Bookstores 钱小华 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 In the spring of 2014, Qian Xiaohua, founder of Nanjing's Librairie Avant-Garde, restored Qitai Hall, a Qing-dynasty Wang family ancestral shrine in B…
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Rating 4.5
How Far Can You Walk Listening to the Drumbeat of Conscience 徐贲 Oriental Press · 2014 This is a collection of social-science essays by the scholar Xu Ben, published by Oriental Press in 2014 and running to about 240,000 characters. The …
Compulsory Education Textbook: Morality and the Rule of Law, Grade 5, Volume 2 cover
Compulsory Education Textbook: Morality and the Rule of Law, Grade 5, Volume 2 教育部 / 鲁洁 / Gu Jinyu / Wang Biya / 王玉平 People's Education Press · 2019 This is the second-semester volume of Morality and the Rule of Law, a compulsory education textbook organized and compiled by the Ministry of Educatio…
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Give Ideals a Little Time: Selected Edition Li Zhiti / Liu Yu, Chai Jing, Ge Jianxiong, Xu Ben, Li Yinhe Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Give Ideals a Little Time: Selected Edition is a best-of collection released for the fifth anniversary of the Phoenix Net Blog Report's annual blog an…
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Politics Is Everyone's Side Job 徐贲 Oriental Press · 2013 Politics Is Everyone's Side Job is a collection of civic and political commentary by Xu Ben, a Chinese-American scholar and professor of English at Sa…
The Collected Works of Xu Ben (4-Volume Set) cover
The Collected Works of Xu Ben (4-Volume Set) 徐贲 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2016 The Collected Works of Xu Ben, a representative anthology released by Central Compilation & Translation Press in 2016, brings together four books: On …
Some Fruits of Solitude (Yiyan Gutenberg Project) cover
Rating 4.0
Some Fruits of Solitude (Yiyan Gutenberg Project) William Penn CITIC Press · 2013 Some Fruits of Solitude is the representative work of William Penn (1644–1718), the seventeenth-century English Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania…
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On What May Be Said 叶匡政 CITIC Press · 2015 On What May Be Said is an essay collection by the scholar and poet Ye Kuangzheng, gathering eighty cultural observations and critical pieces written o…
Case Studies of Female Leadership in European Politics cover
Rating 3.0
Case Studies of Female Leadership in European Politics 朱冰 / 曹彦语 / 曹万茹 / 巩婧妤 Communication University of China Press · 2023 A Case Study of Female Leadership in European Politics is a research outcome of the Major Commissioned Project of the Ministry of Education's Philosop…
Jürgen Habermas: Intellectual and Public Life (Suo'en Series) cover
Rating 4.2
Jürgen Habermas: Intellectual and Public Life (Suo'en Series) 斯蒂芬·穆勒-多姆 / 刘风 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2020 After years of in-depth research and personal interviews with Habermas and various figures closely connected to his life, Stefan Müller-Doohm has prod…
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Rating 3.9
Civics: as Applied Sociology Geddes, Patrick, Sir, 1854-1932 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.6
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 威廉·H.怀特 / 叶齐茂 / 倪晓辉 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 This book is about urban space, and all its conclusions are drawn from direct observation. In 1970, William H. Whyte founded a research group called t…
One-Way Street 36: Out of My Room cover
Rating 4.0
One-Way Street 36: Out of My Room Wu Qi Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Following The Bright Moment, One-Way Street presents another collection devoted to women's creative work, bringing together a set of reviews, a set of…