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The World's Four Great Intelligence Organizations Series (4 Volumes)
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2017
The World's Four Great Intelligence Organizations Series is a four-volume set of contemporary Chinese narrative nonfiction published by Northern Liter…
Chronicle of the Witch God
Chronicle of the Witch God is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Xuehong (real name Liu Wei). It began serialization on Qidian and Chuangshi C…
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012
This is the magnum opus of the American sociologist and historian Barrington Moore. First published in English in 1966, it is regarded as a landmark w…
Another Path for Thought: A Journey Across Time
Popular Science Press · 1987
Another Path for Thought: A Journey Across Time is a short book of thinking exercises by the Japanese psychologist and educator Tago Akira, published …
1946: The Making of the Modern World
Hainan Publishing House · 2021
The great war ended in 1945, but peace was not easy. This book turns its lens on the first postwar year, 1946, arguing that it was in this year that t…
The Demon-Quelling Museum
Qidian · 2021
This is a book that has "Chinese-style strange tales" written into its bones. It wears the shell of mystery and spiritual-energy revival, but at its c…
Hobsbawm's Four-Volume Age Series (The Age of Revolution · The Age of Capital · The Age of Empire · The Age of Extremes)
CITIC Press · 2017
Hobsbawm's Four-Volume Age Series is a monumental history of the modern world completed by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm over more than thirty y…
The Roots of Romanticism
Yilin Press · 2019
This book is compiled from recordings of Isaiah Berlin's 1965 Mellon Lectures on Romanticism at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and w…
Among the Believers
Nanhai Publication Company · 2014
Among the Believers is one of the most important works of nonfiction by V. S. Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. Its original Engl…
The Strongest Game Avatar
The Strongest Game Avatar is a game-world fantasy web novel by the Chinese online author A Speck of Dust. Serialized on Qidian from January 5, 2012, a…
Xianbao
Xianbao is an urban supernatural-powers web novel by the Qidian author "Zhu," serialized on Qidian from June 12, 2015, and completed on March 1, 2016,…
Red Wolf Vol. 6
Red Wolf is a six-issue limited series launched by Marvel in 2015, written by Nathan Edmondson and illustrated by Dalibor Talajić. The character trace…
Cosmologies and the Modern World
CITIC Press · 2025
This is an interdisciplinary work by the British anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane, originally titled Cosmologies and the Modern World. Bor…
Five Hundred Years of Addiction: A History of Tobacco, Alcohol, Coffee, and Opium (Illustrated Edition)
CITIC Press · 2014
This book is the classic cultural history of intoxicants by the American historian David T. Courtwright, translated into Chinese by Xue Xuan and issue…
The Hobsbawm Age Quartet
CITIC Press · 2017
The Hobsbawm Age Quartet is a four-volume history of the modern world written over more than thirty years by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, wide…
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Beijing Daily Press · 2021
The Great Divergence is the magnum opus of Kenneth Pomeranz, an American historian and leading figure of the California School. The English original w…
Data Eye
Data Eye is a science-fiction web novel by the online author Zhanpao Ranxue, written after Dao Guo. It was serialized on Qidian from November 2015 and…
The Enchanting Beauty of Fate
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2009
This is a fairly typical work from the 2009 "Yueduji" time-travel boom: a five-year-old body housing a twenty-year-old soul, a peerless face paired wi…
Lord of the Nine Stars
Master of the Nine Stars is a long-form science fiction novel by Yuwen Group's star author Yu, following his previous work The Nine-Star Poison Milk. …
The Shortest History of Europe
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2011
The Shortest History of Europe is a general-audience introduction to European civilization by the Australian historian John Hirst, originally publishe…