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Fermat's Last Theorem: The Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2005
Around 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote a famous note in the margin of a Latin translation of Diophantus's Arithmetica: it is imp…
The Zhou Family: A Chinese Story
CITIC Press · 2013
The Zhou Family is an oral-history piece from the "Oral History" column of the magazine Xinrui, later included in Xing Xiaoqun's oral-history collecti…
Be Your Own Lighthouse
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Be Your Own Lighthouse is scholar Yu Shicun's book of personal coordinates and life navigation for contemporary individuals, composed of thirteen shor…
Daredevil Vol. 1: Mauler #167
Marvel Comics · 1980
Daredevil Vol. 1 #167, cover-dated November 1980 (on sale August 19, 1980). Scripted by David Michelinie, penciled by Frank Miller, and inked by Klaus…
Record of Teachers and Friends of Zhuquan Caolu; Prose Record of Zhuquan Caolu (Rare Historical Materials of Modern China, Series 3)
Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023
The Record of Teachers and Friends from the Thatched Cottage by the Pearl Spring consists of poems and prose presented to Liao Shuheng by his teachers…
Tales of a Rainy Night: The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2022
This book is the autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi, known as "the father of modern Japanese business." Set against the turbulent backdrop of the late …
James B. Eads
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 …
Eight Kings of Contemporary Hakka Merchants
Jinan University Press · 2019
As a branch of the Han Chinese, the Hakka people are found throughout China and around the world. Among overseas Chinese of Hakka descent, many wealth…