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Why We Work, Why We Don't Work, Why We Can't Work
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
What exactly is "work," and what is it for? What worries and confusions beset young people who step into "society" groping their way forward in anxiet…
Jiazi 3: China's 60-Year Record of People's Livelihood
CITIC Press · 2013
Jiazi 3: China's 60-Year Record of People's Livelihood is the third volume in the "Jiazi" book series, compiled and adapted into book form by Chen Xia…
National Geographic Magazine, January 1961 (Vol. 119, No. 1)
National Geographic Society · 1961
This is the January 1961 issue of the American National Geographic magazine (Vol. 119, No. 1). The cover features a night photograph of the North Port…
Suffering and Glory
Huayi Publishing House · 2009
What makes this book most distinctive is that it does not recount Party history in textbook fashion. The author is a strategy researcher who places th…
National Geographic Magazine, August 1968 (Vol. 134, No. 2)
National Geographic Society · 1968
This is the August 1968 issue of the American National Geographic, Volume 134, Number 2 (two volumes were published in 1968; this issue belongs to the…
National Geographic, August 1976 (Vol. 150, No. 2)
National Geographic Society · 1976
This is the August 1976 issue of National Geographic (U.S. edition), Volume 150, Number 2. Its contents span both sides of the Atlantic, from the mona…
Bad Blood
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This is not a business legend written from imagination, but an account delivered by an investigative reporter after years of dealing with whistleblowe…
National Geographic Magazine, January 2014 (Vol. 225, No. 1)
National Geographic Society · 2014
This is Vol. 225, No. 1 of the U.S. edition of National Geographic, published in January 2014, about 158 pages, the opening issue of the magazine's 12…
In the Eye of the Storm: Iceland's Collapse and Remarkable Recovery
CITIC Press · 2023
In 2008, the global financial tsunami triggered by the U.S. subprime crisis made Iceland the first country to fall: its three systemic banks collapsed…
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2005
Around 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote a famous note in the margin of a Latin translation of Diophantus's Arithmetica: it is imp…
The War on the Eastern Front: A 1915 Journey Through the Balkans
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
In 1915, the second year of World War I, American journalist John Silas Reed and his companion Robinson set off for the Eastern Front, hoping to witne…
Better to Stay a Long While in Lingnan
Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2022
Better to Stay a Long While in Lingnan is the Guangzhou volume of the "City Chronicles of a Century" series, edited by the cultural historian Zhou Son…
The Disconnected Society
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014
Written collectively by reporters from NHK's Special Programs unit and drawn from interviews conducted for the documentary of the same name, this book…
24 Personalities
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2003
In his thirties, Cameron West was a successful businessman with a stable marriage and a beloved son. Then things began to happen that he could not exp…
Why Do We Break Up?
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2014
"We seemed to have been madly in love, yet we seemed never to have truly known each other." Almost everyone who has gone through a breakup asks: Why d…
Is Paris Burning?
Yilin Press · 2013
"Is Paris burning?" On August 25, 1944, the day Paris was liberated, Hitler demanded of his chief of staff in the Wolf's Lair bunker in East Prussia. …
National Geographic, October 1987 (Vol. 172, No. 4)
National Geographic Society · 1987
This is the October 1987 issue of National Geographic (U.S. edition), Volume 172, Number 4, featuring six major illustrated articles. The cover shows …
Rebel Youth: My Secret School History Vol. 1
Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2009
This is the first volume of the Rebel Youth: My Secret School History series, co-written by high school classmates Yi Lanshan and Hou Kongfan Yuci, an…
Middle East: Gates of Life and Death—Walking and Observing in Israel and Palestine
CITIC Press · 2017
There is never a shortage of grand analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian question; what is missing is standing on a street corner and seeing how people …
National Geographic Magazine, July 1975 (Vol. 148, No. 1)
National Geographic Society · 1975
This is the July 1975 issue of National Geographic, Vol. 148, No. 1, published by the National Geographic Society under editor Gilbert M. Grosvenor. T…