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Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us cover
Rating 3.8
Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us David DeSteno / Pier Carlo Vadesolo CITIC Press · 2013 Tiger Woods had an enviable family life, yet could not resist the lure of mistresses; Mel Gibson was both a philanthropist and a devout Christian, yet…
You Have Your Plan, the World Has Its Own cover
Rating 4.0
You Have Your Plan, the World Has Its Own 万维钢 Publishing House of Electronics Industry · 2019 You Have Your Plan, the World Has Its Own is another work by science writer Wan Weigang, following What You Never Thought Of, The Intellectuals, and T…
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Catwoman #34 Ann Nocenti / Patrick Olive This is issue #34 of DC's New 52-era Catwoman series (Catwoman Vol. 4), with the single-issue title "Remote Life." The story follows "Race of Thieves"…
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life cover
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life 艾莉森·高普尼克 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2014 Almost no one can remember what it felt like to be a baby: what color the world looked, where attention drifted, whether one felt lonely. The author, …
The Freakonomics Series cover
The Freakonomics Series Steven Levitt / Stephen J. Dubner CITIC Press · 2016 The Freakonomics series is a popular-economics collection co-authored by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and writer and journalist Steph…
The Real Phantom cover
The Real Phantom Ni Kuang The Real Phantom is a science fiction novel in Ni Kuang's Wesley series that revolves around the boundary between the real and the illusory. The story…
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets cover
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets John McMillan CITIC Press · 2014 Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets is by the American economist John McMillan, translated into Chinese by Yu Jiang and published by …
Rebirth: The Financial Overlord cover
Rebirth: The Financial Overlord Huapidepi Rebirth: The Financial Overlord is an urban rebirth web novel by Hua Pi De Pi, serialized on Yuewen platforms from September 2020, completed, about 2.…
Ready Player One cover
Rating 3.7
Ready Player One 恩斯特·克莱恩 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2014 The story is set in the near future of 2045, when the real world suffers from scarce resources and disordered order, and the vast majority of people p…
On Photography cover
Rating 4.3
On Photography Susan Sontag Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2018 On Photography is one of Susan Sontag's most important collections of essays. The English original was published in 1977 and consists of six essays sh…
Geek Physics: Surprising Answers to the Planet's Most Interesting Questions cover
Geek Physics: Surprising Answers to the Planet's Most Interesting Questions Rhett Allain Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2016 Geek Physics is a popular-science book by American physicist Rhett Allain, who writes the physics blog for Wired. The author collects seemingly absurd…
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven Levitt / Stephen J. Dubner CITIC Press · 2021 This is the first book in the Freakonomics series, co-authored by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Rath…
The Genius Club cover
Rating 4.6
The Genius Club Chengcheng yu Chan Chongqing Publishing House "Since the day I was born, I've had the same dream every night, reliving the same day over and over." The protagonist Lin Xian has dreamed every night…
Warcraft Dota: Turbulence in Another World (The Dota Realm) cover
Warcraft Dota: Turbulence in Another World (The Dota Realm) Canjian Li De Niu Warcraft Dota: Turbulence in Another World, originally titled The Dota Realm, is a long novel in the game-and-other-world genre by the web author Silk…
The Joy of x: Why We Need Mathematical Thinking in Work and Life cover
Rating 4.2
The Joy of x: Why We Need Mathematical Thinking in Work and Life 史蒂夫·斯托加茨 CITIC Press · 2014 Many people's bad impression of mathematics comes from a string of disconnected formulas and solutions that must be memorized. Strogatz does exactly t…
An Investigation of China's Land Problems: A Grassroots Perspective on Land Rights cover
Rating 4.6
An Investigation of China's Land Problems: A Grassroots Perspective on Land Rights 刘守英 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is a collection of case studies from the author's land survey research conducted while at the Development Research Center of the State Counc…