Ultimate Questions

16 books

The Space Odyssey Quartet cover
Rating 4.7
The Space Odyssey Quartet Arthur Charles Clarke Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 This is a science-fiction classic that has been repeatedly vindicated: it has been included on lists of the hundred greatest science fiction or fantas…
Nine Tomorrows cover
Rating 4.1
Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov Fujian People's Publishing House · 1981 Nine Tomorrows is a short story collection by the American science fiction master Isaac Asimov, published in 1959 under the full title Nine Tomorrows:…
The Soul Is Not the Spirit II cover
Rating 3.2
The Soul Is Not the Spirit II 九死一生 World Joint Publishing House Pte. Ltd. · 2025 This book is a design document for a fantasy premise, presenting a complete and organically integrated ability system through the members of a special…
To Be or Not to Be: A Frank Guide to Life's Ultimate Dilemmas cover
Rating 4.2
To Be or Not to Be: A Frank Guide to Life's Ultimate Dilemmas David Benatar / Zhang Xiaochuan Beijing Daily Press · 2020 Granted, finding the right path is hard: one must avoid both grand declarations and the obscurantism of overwrought rhetoric, and the dull, laborious …
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Rating 3.0
The Gospel of the Hereafter Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson), 1852-1932 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 …
The Chief End of Man cover
Rating 3.2
The Chief End of Man Merriam, George Spring, 1843-1914 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 3.0
Notes from a Mental Hospital 傅爱毛 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 This work is the fruit of the author's ten years spent "embedded" in a psychiatric hospital. Entering the hospital as a patient with depression, the a…
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Rating 2.3
The Source of the World 赵一海 · 2024 Part One: This part sets out the basic laws universally observed by all things in the world. These laws are built on a fundamental understanding of th…
Minglun Huibian, Human Affairs Section: Life and Death cover
Rating 4.3
Minglun Huibian, Human Affairs Section: Life and Death Chen Menglei · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms have distinctive characterist…
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Rating 4.4
Heidegger's Thought and the Chinese Way of Heaven Zhang Xianglong The Commercial Press · 2023 Drawing on phenomenological and hermeneutic methods, this book discusses the relationship between Heidegger's thought and the ancient Chinese view of …
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Rating 3.0
A Glimpse of the Unknown Void 字相 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book is a selection of poems by the renowned poet Zixiang, featuring 84 poems of bursting imagination and 30 exquisite paintings, concerned with …
"A World of Feeling" Is on This Shore: Ye Lang on Dream of the Red Chamber cover
Rating 4.2
"A World of Feeling" Is on This Shore: Ye Lang on Dream of the Red Chamber Ye Lang · 2025 This book is a collection of Ye Lang's essays on Dream of the Red Chamber viewed through an aesthetic lens. It focuses on two main themes: one is the …
The New Axial Age cover
Rating 2.6
The New Axial Age 金志伟 China International Culture Press Limited · 2021 The mark of the shift from the Axial Age to a new Axial Age is that knowledge of the origins of things, once acquired only by a few elites and geniuse…
The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality cover
Rating 2.8
The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality Fleetwood, Henry 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 4.7
Jottings in the Gaps of Illness Shi Tiesheng Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Fragments Written in the Gaps of Illness, a long philosophical prose work by Shi Tiesheng, one of the preeminent writers of contemporary Chinese liter…
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Rating 4.0
The Grand Design Stephen William Hawking / 列纳德·蒙洛迪诺 / 吴忠超 Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2025 In his latest popular-science work after A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking asks the deepest questions: When and …