Social System

22 books

The Forever War cover
Rating 3.6
The Forever War 乔·霍尔德曼 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2005 The Forever War is a science fiction novel by the American author Joe Haldeman, published in 1974. The Chinese edition, translated by Ma Xiudong, was …
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The Institutions of Reproduction Fei Xiaotong Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025 Why must people marry? Why should children be raised jointly by both parents? These things that seem "only natural" actually rest on a set of man-made…
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Deep Space: The Wandering Fleet Final Eternity Qidian · 2019 Deep Space: The Wandering Fleet is a long hard science fiction novel by the web author Zuizhong Yongheng (real name Yu Haoyi), originally titled Deep …
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Sartor Resartus 托马斯·卡莱尔 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2004 Sartor Resartus (also rendered as The Tailor Retailored or The Philosophy of Clothes) is an early representative work of the nineteenth-century Britis…
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb CITIC Press · 2020 This book is an important work in the "uncertainty" series by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan and professor of risk engineering at New…
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Beneath Deep Space Final Eternity Qidian · 2018 Beneath Deep Space is a long science fiction novel by the web author Zuizhong Yongheng (real name Yu Haoyi), serialized on Qidian.com from 1 September…
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Rating 4.5
Commercial Three Kingdoms Chihu Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2006 Commercial Three Kingdoms is a representative work by web novelist Chi Hu. It was first serialized on Qidian and published in print by Yunnan Fine Art…
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Rating 4.5
Principles of Political Economy 约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒 The Commercial Press · 1991 This book is the representative work of the British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), originally titled Principles of Political …
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Woman and Labour Olive Schreiner T. Fisher Unwin / Frederick A. Stokes · 1911 Woman and Labour (1911) is a discursive work by the South African writer and feminist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), widely recognized as one of the key…
The Book of Rites and The Classic of Filial Piety (Chinese Classics Collection · Updated Edition) cover
The Book of Rites and The Classic of Filial Piety (Chinese Classics Collection · Updated Edition) 胡平生 / 陈美兰 Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 This book is one volume in the updated edition of Zhonghua Book Company's "Chinese Classics Collection" series, translated and annotated jointly by Hu…
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National Geographic (US Edition) January 2017, Vol. 231, No. 1 (Gender Revolution Special Issue) Susan Goldberg / Robin Marantz Henig / Eve Conant / Chip Brown / Tina Rosenberg / Alexis Okeowo / Patricia Edmonds / Anne-Marie Slaughter National Geographic Society · 2017 In more than a century of publishing, National Geographic had never devoted an entire issue to gender until January 2017. Its weight lies not in decla…
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The Origins of Things: A Concise History of Human Culture 尤里乌斯·E·利普斯 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book is the representative work of the German anthropologist Julius E. Lips. The German original appeared in 1939, the English edition in 1949, a…
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Rating 3.5
Treatise on Eunuchs Ancillon, Charles, 1659-1715 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 …
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Rating 2.8
Sioux Indian Courts Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946 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 …
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Rating 3.7
The Communistic Societies of the United States Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 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 …
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Rating 3.8
A History of Indian Civilization (Chinese-Language Global History) 常磐大定 / 陈景升 Sino-Culture Press · 2019 Tracing the development of Indian literature, religion and social institutions as its main thread, this book recounts the evolution of Indian civiliza…
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Rating 4.5
A Study of Rawls's Theory of Justice He Huaihong Peking University Press · 2026 A major scholarly work by Professor He Huaihong, A Study of Rawls's Theory of Justice offers a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the theory of …
Behind the Surface: A Brief Legal History in Literary and Artistic Works cover
Rating 3.8
Behind the Surface: A Brief Legal History in Literary and Artistic Works 夏婷婷 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 Taking the perspective of legal history, this book approaches representative paintings and literary fiction from China and abroad to uncover legally s…
Classic Foreign Literature: The Mill on the Floss (English Edition) (7 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
Classic Foreign Literature: The Mill on the Floss (English Edition) (7 Volumes) George Eliot · 2024 This book is a novel by the English author George Eliot, in English. The story takes place by the River Floss and centers on a mill. The novel chiefly…
Domination and Obedience in Organizations: The Institutional Logic of Chinese-Style Labor Relations cover
Rating 3.9
Domination and Obedience in Organizations: The Institutional Logic of Chinese-Style Labor Relations 朱妍 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019 In organizations, how do managers secure employees' loyalty and commitment? How can they ensure that employees remain diligent when the manager is not…