Modern Life

42 books

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Yoga and Health Wang Huiru / Zhang Yunya Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2015 Yoga and Health is a textbook for the Shanghai university physical education and health education excellent course program, co-authored by Wang Huiru …
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A Week at the Airport Alain de Botton / Richard Baker Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2010 In the summer of 2009, the British writer Alain de Botton accepted an unprecedented invitation: to go to London Heathrow International Airport and ser…
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Dream Speaker Tang Zhaohui China Renmin University Press · 2012 Dream Speaker is a collection of thematic prose by the writer and poet Tang Zhaohui, published in 2012 by China Renmin University Press as part of the…
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Evolution in the 21st Century 希瑟·海英 / 布雷特·韦恩斯坦 China Textile & Apparel Press · 2023 This book is a popular science work co-authored by evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, a married couple. The original English t…
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My Family's Yokai Are Just That Cute Cunzhang Wansui This is a book whose title tells you exactly what you are getting. Village Chief Ten Thousand Years dismantles the settings of several yokai anime—Nur…
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The Three Realms Labor Reform Bureau Yimeng Huangliang The protagonist, Yu Huifei, returns to his grandfather's home in Xiulin Village in the ancient forests of Northeast China for the funeral and unexpect…
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Rating 4.6
Hello, Stranger 项飙 / 刘小东 / 何袜皮 / Li Yifan / 刘悦来 / 沈志军 / Jia Dongting / Duan Zhipeng CITIC Press · 2025 Hello, Stranger is a collection of conversations led by anthropologist Xiang Biao with scholars from a range of disciplines, growing out of a dialogue…
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The Unlucky Doctor in Another World Pangpang Konglong Qidian The Unlucky Doctor in Another World is a novel of the other-world continent genre by the Qidian Chinese Network author "Fat Dinosaur," complete at abo…
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Compulsory Education Textbook · Fine Arts, Grade 8, Volume 2 Fine Arts Curriculum and Textbook Research and Development Center of People's Education Press Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute / 教育部 People's Education Press This is the Grade 8, Volume 2 Fine Arts textbook published by People's Education Press for the spring semester of the second year of junior high schoo…
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Rating 4.2
The Greatest Chaos in History Zhang Xiaohua Huangshan Publishing House · 2009 The Greatest Chaos in History is an urban comedy novel by the web author Zhang Xiaohua, serialized on Qidian from January 18, 2008, to May 22, 2009. R…
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Psychiatry Stories: The Pot Man Hideo Okuda Nanhai Publication Company · 2017 Psychiatry Stories: The Pot Man is the third installment in Hideo Okuda's "Psychiatry Stories" series (also known as the Dr. Irabu series) and the fin…
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The Modern Life Record of Zhang Sanfeng's Disciple Duanqiao Canxue · 2007 The Modern Life Record of Zhang Sanfeng's Disciple is a modern cultivation novel by the web novelist Duanqiao Canxue, serialized on Qidian.com startin…
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National Geographic Magazine, April 1963 (Vol. 123, No. 4) Alan Villiers / Gilbert M. Grosvenor and Donna K. Grosvenor / Walter Mills Edwards / 保罗·阿扎尔 / Andrew H. Brown National Geographic Society · 1963 This is the April 1963 issue of The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 123, No. 4, published by the National Geographic Society in Washington, with a …
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Rating 3.8
One-Way Street Walter Benjamin CITIC Press · 2021 One-Way Street is a short collection of prose pieces written by the German thinker Walter Benjamin in the 1920s and first published in 1928. It consis…
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Rating 3.0
The Great Transmigration Era Lao Laowang The Great Transmigration Era is a multi-verse transmigration (infinite flow) web novel by Laolaowang, serialized on Chuangshi Chinese Network from May…
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Rating 3.6
Da Wang Rao Ming (Spare Me, Great Lord!) Talking Elbow Changjiang Publishing House (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. · 2018 Spare Me, Great Lord! is an urban supernatural novel by Hui Shuo Hua De Zhou Zi, serialized on Qidian from August 2017 to November 2018. It spans roug…
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Rating 3.5
The Survival Paradox: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Destroying Us Lee Goldman CITIC Press · 2019 Over the past two hundred years, average human life expectancy has doubled, yet the rates of obesity, hypertension, anxiety and depression, heart dise…
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Rating 1.8
Return of the Cultivator in the City Mo Luxing Return of the Cultivator in the City is an urban supernatural novel by Mo Lu Xing, serialized on Qidian with approximately 3.35 million words across m…
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Rating 4.2
In Praise of Idleness Bertrand Arthur William Russell / 冯起明 · 2026 In Praise of Idleness is a collection of essays by Bertrand Russell that is both sharply relevant and incisive. In it, Russell raises a question that …
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Rating 3.5
The Infernal Automobile: Novellas Bierbaum, Otto Julius, 1865-1910 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 …