Masterwork

12 books

The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics cover
Rating 4.5
The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics Leonard Susskind / 阿特·弗里德曼 / 王乔 Zhejiang Education Publishing House · 2023 Leonard Susskind, father of string theory and professor at Stanford University, has devoted decades to bringing physics to general readers. His Theore…
Thinking Like a Physicist cover
Rating 4.3
Thinking Like a Physicist 盖瑞·祖卡夫 / 廖世德 · 2021 This is a physics book for the layperson. It won the American Book Award for Science, was a recommended book for the 7th Wenjin Book Award, and has be…
Daniel Dennett on the Mind cover
Rating 4.0
Daniel Dennett on the Mind 丹尼尔·丹尼特 / 刘红江 Tianjin Science and Technology Press · 2021 In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett helps readers understand the mind in a way that is both mind-bending and convincing. The book displays a br…
The Story of Art (Complete Translation, Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
The Story of Art (Complete Translation, Illustrated Edition) Hendrik Willem van Loon / 徐阳 / 徐腾 New World Press · 2025 This is a monograph on art. From humanity's cave paintings to modern art, from architecture, painting, and music to literature, from the masters of Pa…
Chinese Garden Library: Lingnan Gardens cover
Rating 4.4
Chinese Garden Library: Lingnan Gardens 莫伯治 / Phoenix Space (Tianjin Fenghuang Space Culture Media Co., Ltd.) Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Among the luminaries of traditional Chinese garden studies, Academician Mo Bozhi is unquestionably a shining star. From 1958 to 2003, he devoted himse…
Philosophy of Art cover
Rating 4.7
Philosophy of Art 丹纳 / Fu Lei Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2025 Written by the renowned French literary theorist and historian Hippolyte Taine, The Philosophy of Art is a landmark work and an accessible introductio…
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Rating 4.6
A History of Chinese Grammar Wang Li Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 This book is a monograph by the linguistics master Wang Li on the historical development of Chinese grammar. It has 26 chapters in total and discusses…
物理学的进化 cover
Rating 4.7
物理学的进化 Albert Einstein / 利奥波德·英费尔德 Taihai Publishing House · 2021 Does a thermometer really have the same heat as the human body? What kind of substance is heat? If you traveled as fast as light, would time stand sti…
The Evolution of Physics cover
Rating 4.8
The Evolution of Physics Albert Einstein / 利奥波德·英费尔德 / 胡奂晨 Cultural Development Press Co. Ltd. · 2019 The Evolution of Physics is a popular science book co-authored by Einstein, the father of modern physics, and the Polish physicist Leopold Infeld, fir…
General Knowledge of Chinese Literature cover
Rating 3.8
General Knowledge of Chinese Literature Zheng Zhenduo Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2017 An excellent introductory guide to literary knowledge organized around the history of Chinese literature, this masterwork by Zheng Zhenduo from the pe…
The Great Movies cover
Rating 4.4
The Great Movies 罗杰·伊伯特 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2021 One hundred brilliant critiques of great films from Roger Ebert, America's most celebrated and trusted film critic. In his view, the films he chose tr…
Learn a Little Chinese Philosophy Every Day cover
Rating 3.0
Learn a Little Chinese Philosophy Every Day Hu Shi New World Press · 2015 Chinese philosophy is regarded as one of the world's great types of traditional philosophy and has made outstanding contributions to the history of hu…