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The City-State and Man
East China Normal University Press · 2025
City and Man is a representative work of Strauss and may be regarded as a model of his hermeneutics. The book opens with a programmatic "Introduction,…
The Lure of Luck
民主与建设出版社 · 2022
Drawing on nearly two decades of immersive fieldwork and an anthropologist's sharp eye, the author reveals layer by layer a panorama of the gambling i…
In Praise of Idleness
Shandong Publishing House of Literature and Art · 2025
In Praise of Idleness is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, comprising 14 pieces that explore work, education, society, civili…
One Book to Understand Fortress Besieged
· 2025
Grounded in Qian Zhongshu's classic novel, this book peels back layer after layer of the enduring theme of the "fortress besieged." It looks through t…
Objectopia
Beijing Daily Press · 2024
The sofa has a fever; a car kidnaps its driver; a mailbox and an entire building vanish into thin air; a chair falls, and the dictator seated on it fa…
Studies in Confucian Phenomenology (Volume II): The Implications and Path of the Return of Confucianism
The Commercial Press · 2024
The reemergence of Confucianism in China is a spiritual phenomenon fraught with problems and challenges. This book comprises two parts and seven chapt…
The Reed Cutter
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023
The Reapers of Reeds collects Zuo Fei's finest essays in four sections that portray rural life, impressions of the modern city, reflections on scenery…
The Evil of Being Human
· 2023
Extreme urbanization, a fast pace of life and fierce competition, and by-the-book thinking in social interaction create barriers between people. Most …
Addiction: Finding Balance in Indulgence
New Star Press · 2023
We live in a world of extraordinary material abundance, where an endless array of dopamine-triggering addictive substances and stimuli saturates daily…
Penetrating: Thinking Like a Sociologist
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2020
Is sociology more powerful, or is physics? Why has the joy and satisfaction brought by work disappeared? Why are we always "chopping off our hands"? I…
Skills and Techniques
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2020
Technology is changing everything around us at an unprecedented pace. In an evolving society we have indeed benefited greatly, but technological progr…
Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und
Project Gutenberg · 2023
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Great Vortex
Writers Publishing House · 2023
Everyone plays different roles in life. Love, career, and friendship—life brings us immense confusion and suffering, yet also lets us enjoy the happin…
Persona
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024
We perform for others in our social circles every day, yet grow increasingly estranged from our true selves. In this age of proliferating masks, we al…
We Are Too Lacking in a Discipline Called Life
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
To discuss Chinese culture, it must be connected with our own lives; only then can it truly have roots. Xue Renming, from the perspective of a practit…
2016 New Curriculum Standards: The Metamorphosis
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2020
This book is a selection of Kafka's short stories and novellas, centered on his masterpiece The Metamorphosis, which embodies the themes running throu…
Drifting Ice of Thought (Lizhai Collected Writings)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016
Having Confucian values as a guide cannot guarantee that our lives will be flawless, but losing them condemns our lives to meaninglessness. A modern f…