Classics Revisited

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How to Read Machiavelli cover
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How to Read Machiavelli 毛里齐奥‧维罗利 / 刘国栋 Chongqing University Press · 2026 This book focuses on Machiavelli's classic texts, bringing his legacy in classical theory back into the contemporary public eye. Niccolò Machiavelli i…
Tireless in Depicting Things: Object Images and the Unfolding of Everyday Narrative in Ming and Qing Fiction cover
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Tireless in Depicting Things: Object Images and the Unfolding of Everyday Narrative in Ming and Qing Fiction 刘紫云 Peking University Press · 2025 This book attempts to trace the historical process by which everyday objects surfaced onto the literary landscape, and through classic texts uncovers …
The Long River of History: Collected Essays on Nienhauser's Shiji Studies cover
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The Long River of History: Collected Essays on Nienhauser's Shiji Studies 倪豪士 / 邝彦陶 Peking University Press · 2025 This volume is a collection of research essays on the Shiji by the renowned American sinologist and translator William H. Nienhauser, Jr., comprising …
Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Master Teacher's Guided Reading cover
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Master Teacher's Guided Reading 关也 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 This book is a guide to reading the long historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Taking the novel's major characters and key plot points as it…
A Brief History of Three Thousand Years of Western Warfare cover
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A Brief History of Three Thousand Years of Western Warfare 李德·哈特 / 柳宗秀 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 A milestone in the history of military theory. A classic military history that reveals the true nature of war over three thousand years. The Western W…
Heaven and Earth Are Not Benevolent: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy cover
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Heaven and Earth Are Not Benevolent: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy 方岚生 / 林捷 / 汪日宣 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 The problem of good and evil is one of the most fundamental and challenging questions in philosophy. Through readings of a rich array of early Chinese…
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The Public and Its Problems John Dewey / 魏晓慧 Xinhua Publishing House · 2024 This book is one of Dewey's representative works and a classic in political science. In 1927, Dewey published in book form his lectures rebutting Lipp…
Harvard Business Review Leadership Handbook: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead an Organization Forward cover
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Harvard Business Review Leadership Handbook: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead an Organization Forward 罗恩·阿什肯纳斯 / 布鲁克·曼维尔 / 陈媛 / Zhang Xiang Publishing House of Electronics Industry · 2024 This book reviews three decades of leadership insights and selects those that are essential to leadership development in the 21st century and that are…
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Jane Austen's Strategy 崔硕庸 / 游嘉 / 王苇霖 Truth & Wisdom Press · 2023 Game theory studies how people make decisions in interactive situations and is one of the most popular analytical approaches in the social sciences to…
Interpretation and Gleanings of Ji Kang's On Nourishing Life cover
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Interpretation and Gleanings of Ji Kang's On Nourishing Life 邓一齐 China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine · 2022 Ji Kang's "On Nourishing Life" is a work from the Three Kingdoms period, and its theory and practice of nourishing life stand out as exceptional at th…
The Great Adventure of Rereading the Classics cover
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The Great Adventure of Rereading the Classics 大卫·丹比 / 冯莉 Beijing Daily Press · 2022 In his midlife, the writer Denby, harboring a hidden hope of "resolving a crisis," chose to return to his alma mater Columbia University's classroom 3…
On War cover
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On War 卡尔·冯·克劳塞维茨 / 綦甲福 / 阮慧山 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2022 On War is a classic of modern Western military theory, written by Carl von Clausewitz on the basis of summing up past wars, especially the Napoleonic …
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Illustrated Das Kapital Karl Marx / 谢洪波 Sino-Culture Press · 2024 The economy shapes and changes our lives at every moment. Today, economics is no longer the preserve of specialists: for ordinary people too, making s…
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Rating 4.3
The Art of the Novel Henry James / 崔洁莹 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Henry James was not only a great novelist and critic but also an insatiable reader of fiction. In this book he becomes an enthusiastic guide, sharing …
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Rating 4.2
An Introduction to American Literature Jorge Luis Borges / 艾斯特尔·森博莱茵·德托雷斯·都甘 / 于施洋 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 An Introduction to American Literature is a collaborative work by Jorge Luis Borges and Esther Zemborain de Torres Duggan. It begins with the morning …
Tirso de Molina cover
Rating 3.4
Tirso de Molina Molina, Tirso de, 1571?-1648 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 …
Law and Literature: From Her to Eternity cover
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Law and Literature: From Her to Eternity 玛丽亚·阿里斯托戴默 · 2025 Starting from a murder mystery in practice, this book explores the relationship between law and culture in literary works including “The Myth of Origi…
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Molière et Shakespeare Stapfer, Paul, 1840-1917 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 …
Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist cover
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Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist Moulton, Richard G. (Richard Green), 1849-1924 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 …
An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients cover
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An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Ogilvie, John, 1732-1813 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 …