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Thick Black Theory + A Hundred Malpractices Exposed + Wild Talk and Mad Words (3-Volume Set)
New World Press · 2010
This set collects in three volumes three works that circulated widely during the Republican era and were long known together as the "Three Great Stran…
Against Empathy: How Reason Makes You Stronger
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2019
It is widely believed that empathy is the source of kindness and that most social problems stem from a lack of it. In Against Empathy, Yale cognitive …
New Song: The Crossroads
Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2005
New Song: The Crossroads is the first volume of A Yue's alternate-history trilogy New Song (The Crossroads, Power and Authority, and Yan Yun) and the …
Ruth
Yunnan People's Publishing House · 1986
Ruth (1853) is the second novel by the Victorian English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (often called Mrs. Gaskell) and her most controversial work. The h…
Inequality: What Can Be Done?
CITIC Press · 2016
Inequality: What Can Be Done? is a late-career masterwork by the British economist Anthony B. Atkinson, published in English by Harvard University Pre…
Of Boys and Men: The Real Predicament of Contemporary Men
China Science and Technology Press · 2024
This is a book that is neither "politically incorrect" nor "correct": the left dislikes it for talking about men at all, the right dislikes it for ref…
Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization
Qunyan Publishing House · 2013
Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization is the representative work of George Elton Mayo (1880–1949), an American management scholar and founding…
The Letter
Yilin Press · 2009
Naoki Takeshi and his older brother Tsuyoshi Takeshi lost their parents early and depended on each other. The older brother, unemployed because of a b…
Revealing Tricks Ancient and Modern: Jianghu Scams
Hebei University Press · 2008
This book, a popular legal education reader launched by Hebei University Press in 2008 under China’s “Eleventh Five-Year” public awareness program, br…
George Sand
This volume is one of the English Original Novels Mega-Collection (1,600 volumes in total), gathering English translations of works by the French writ…
Hard Cash
Sampson Low, Son & Marston · 1863
Hard Cash (subtitled A Matter-of-Fact Romance) is an 1863 novel by the English novelist and playwright Charles Reade. Originally serialized as Very Ha…
Damaged Goods
The John C. Winston Company · 1913
Damaged Goods (formerly translated as "Broken Goods") is a novel adapted by the American writer Upton Sinclair, with the permission of the original au…
Put Yourself in His Place
Put Yourself in His Place is a social-problem novel published in 1870 by the Victorian English writer Charles Reade (1814–1884), running to 48 chapter…
Contemporary Slavery (What Is Slavery? How Can Slavery Be Abolished?)
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2018
This book is an intellectual work that uses “slavery” as its core concept to examine conditions of servitude in modern society. Set against the backdr…
We Own This City: A Police Corruption Scandal That Shocked America
Yilin Press · 2024
After the Freddie Gray incident in 2015, Baltimore descended into chaos again and murders surged. The Baltimore Police Department pinned its hopes on …
Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Social Problems
Wuhan University Press · 2007
Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Social Problems is a textbook written by Shang Chongsheng, a professor at Wuhan University, based on lecture note…
1848: The Year of European Revolution
CITIC Press · 2025
In 1848, a storm of change swept across almost the entire European continent, save Russia: barricades rose in the streets of Paris and the July Monarc…
Undercover for Ten Years, Season 3: Countless Narrow Escapes
Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2010
This is the third season of Li Yaosha's Undercover for Ten Years: Countless Narrow Escapes, in which the author, posing as an undercover journalist, i…
Rushing to the City: In Search of the Engine of Growth
CITIC Press · 2016
Rushing to the City: In Search of the Engine of Growth is a collection of observations on China's economy and society written over several years aroun…
Urban and Rural China (Volume One)
CITIC Press · 2013
Urban and Rural China (Volume One) is a collection of notes on urban-rural issues written by economist Zhou Qiren based on years of field research, pu…