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The Boundary Between the Possible and the Impossible: A Brief History of the P/NP Problem
Posts & Telecom Press · 2014
The P/NP problem is the most important open question in computer science and indeed in all of mathematics, and one of the Millennium Prize Problems fo…
Simplifying Complex IT Systems
China Machine Press · 2009
Originally published in English as Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises, this book explores how to streamline enterprise IT architecture and k…
A Very Short History of Humanity: From the Big Bang to the 21st Century
CITIC Press · 2016
A Very Short History of Humanity is a brief history of humanity written for general readers by the American historian David Christian, a leading figur…
The Nature of Growth: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
CITIC Press · 2015
This book is an interdisciplinary work by physicist César Hidalgo spanning economics, physics, and sociology; its original English title is Why Inform…
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2012
Thinking in Systems: A Primer is the signature work of the American systems thinker Donella Meadows. The manuscript grew out of years of classroom lec…
Unstoppable (Campus Prince)
Unstoppable, originally titled Campus Prince and also known as The Life of Yuan Yi, is an urban-themed web novel by Guo Xiaobei (also known as "The La…
The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Ubiquitous Computational Problem
Posts & Telecom Press · 2013
Suppose a salesperson must visit every city on a list exactly once and return to the starting point. How can the total distance be minimized? That is …
Big History and the Future of Humanity
CITIC Press · 2019
If you have read David Christian's Origin: A Big History of Everything, Spier's book can be seen as its companion reader on "methodology." Christian c…
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Revised Edition)
Posts & Telecom Press · 2016
Many teams' understanding of DDD stops at a few terms—aggregate root, repository, DTO—without being able to explain why they are used. This book answe…
Addicted to Self-Discipline
China Science and Technology Press · 2024
Addicted to Self-Discipline is a popular self-management book by behavioral design expert He Shengjun. The subtitle, 28 Comeback Strategies for Gettin…
Whiplash: The Nine Survival Principles for a Future Society
CITIC Press · 2017
Whiplash is a book on future trends and ways of thinking by Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Jeff Howe, contributing editor at Wired. The E…
The Vital Question
Guizhou University Press · 2020
Life on Earth emerged about 500 million years after the planet's formation, yet for the following two billion years it remained at the level of simple…
What If You Wasted a Stretch of Your Life
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
What If a Stretch of Life Was Wasted is a collection of personal essays by freelance writer Zhang Jiawei, published in 2025 by Boji Tianjuan. The book…
Ten Lectures on Internet Thinking: Peking University Lectures
The Commercial Press · 2025
This book is based on the lecture notes for the course "Frontier Thinking on the Internet," which the author taught to master's students at Peking Uni…