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Crisis!
Hebei Science & Technology Press · 1999
Crisis! is a novel published in 1986 by the American science-fiction writer James Gunn, founder of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the …
The Economic Naturalist 3: National Livelihood Edition
China Renmin University Press · 2009
The Economic Naturalist 3: National Livelihood Edition is the third volume in Cornell economics professor Robert Frank's "economic naturalist" series,…
Minifesto: Why Small Ideas Matter in the World of Grand Narratives
CITIC Press · 2017
Minifesto: Why Small Ideas Matter in the World of Grand Narratives is a popular work by the Swedish trend researcher and futurist Magnus Lindkvist. In…
The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations
Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2023
Why have we stopped loving? Ours is an age that prizes freedom and self-determination: men and women alike can define love on their own terms and choo…
Twenty-Two Lessons on Chinese Traditional Culture
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2010
Twenty-Two Lessons on Chinese Traditional Culture is a general survey of guoxue (Chinese traditional learning) compiled by Professor Zhou Guidian, for…
Tasmania
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
Tasmania is a 2022 novel by the Italian writer Paolo Giordano, a particle physics PhD and winner of the Strega Prize; the Chinese edition was translat…
The Modern Man Who Cannot Be Alone
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
This book is an epistolary collection of essays by the contemporary sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, originally titled 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern Wo…
The Road to Character
CITIC Press · 2016
The Road to Character is a work by David Brooks, an American author and New York Times columnist, following his book The Social Animal and arising fro…
Microtrends 2: Tiny Variables in a Complex World
CITIC Press · 2019
Microtrends 2 is the sequel by political and market research consultant Mark Penn to Microtrends, subtitled "Tiny Variables in a Complex World." The b…
Demon Marks
Zhuhai Publishing House · 2003
Demon Marks is a short-story mystery collection by Seichō Matsumoto, a master of Japanese social-school mystery. Published in 2003 by Zhuhai Publishin…
On Moral Sense of Shame
Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2013
On Moral Sense of Shame is an ethics monograph by Yang Junling (professor and PhD in philosophy at China University of Geosciences, Beijing), publishe…
The Tribal Era: The Decline of Individualism in Postmodern Society
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2022
This book is French sociologist Michel Maffesoli's representative work exploring the structural transformation of postmodern society. The author propo…
The Social Animal (12th Edition)
East China Normal University Press · 2020
The Social Animal is a classic work by the American social psychologist Elliot Aronson. First published in 1972, it has over half a century been trans…
General Senior High School Textbook · English, Selective Compulsory Book 3 (Hebei Education Press Edition)
Hebei Education Press · 2020
This is a Hebei Education Press senior high school English textbook compiled according to the English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (201…
Russian in the Contemporary World (Chinese Reading Guide)
Peking University Press · 2025
Set against the social and cultural backdrop of contemporary Russian-speaking countries, this book portrays the speech portraits of modern native Russ…
A Study of Contemporary Chinese Stock Market-Themed Novels
Peking University Press · 2025
Taking contemporary Chinese stock-market fiction as its subject, this book offers a cultural reading and critique of these works, using them as a "win…
Marx's Value: A Critique of Contemporary Capitalist Political Economy
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023
The author offers a critical assessment of the methodological principles underlying Marx's analysis of value, as well as of the most prominent scholar…
Know Thy Neighbor
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 …
Eggshell
· 2025
Everyone has an invisible eggshell, and when danger or trouble comes, they unconsciously retreat into it.
The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relationships
Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2025
Why have we stopped loving? A sociological classic that gets to the heart of today's emotional maladies. We seem to live in an age that worships freed…