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Rating 4.0
Politics: A Very Short Introduction Kenneth Minogue Yilin Press · 2013 This novel, Haruki Murakami's first in seven years, was translated into Chinese by Lin Shaohua and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House …
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Advertising: A Very Short Introduction Winston Fletcher Yilin Press · 2014 Advertising: A Very Short Introduction is a short primer for general readers by Winston Fletcher, a veteran of the British advertising industry. It is…
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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction Michael Tanner Yilin Press · 2023 In 1889, Nietzsche suddenly suffered a mental breakdown. Before that, his philosophy had been almost entirely ignored by the world; afterward, he grad…
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Mathematics Timothy Gowers Yilin Press · 2014 This book is a short introduction to mathematics for general readers by Timothy Gowers, a British mathematician, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics a…
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Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Hugh Hamilton Yilin Press · 2013 Until recently, the impression persisted that India was mystical and the West rational. Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction sets out to corre…
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Rating 3.5
War and Technology Alex Roland Yilin Press · 2023 War and Technology is a volume in the Oxford Very Short Introductions series published by Yilin Press, written by Alex Roland, professor emeritus of h…
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Wharton Management Essentials: Understanding the Language of Finance Richard Lambert CITIC Press · 2013 Finance is the language of business. This book is a general finance primer for managers written by Richard Lambert, an accounting professor at Wharton…
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Rating 4.2
Artforms (11th Edition) Patrick Frank China Renmin University Press · 2016 Artforms is an introduction to the visual arts that has been in circulation abroad for more than forty years. Originally titled Prebles' Artforms: An …
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Rating 3.7
Very Short Introductions Selected Collection (Series One: 58 Volumes) Raymond Wacks Yilin Press · 2016 "Very Short Introductions" is a general-knowledge series that Oxford University Press has been rolling out since 1995, praised as "small books by grea…
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The Common Sense Roundtable: The Complete Collection of Chinese Common Sense (10-Volume Boxed Set) Wu Han / Lin Huiyin / Zheng Zhenduo / Lü Simian / Shen Congwen / Hu Shi / 曹伯韩 / 陈师曾 / 潘伯鹰 TIANDI PRESS · 2019 The Common Sense Roundtable: The Complete Collection of Chinese Common Sense is a ten-volume general reader on traditional Chinese culture, published …
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Great Ideas, Series 3 阿图尔·叔本华 / Friedrich Nietzsche / Plato / Albert Camus / Baldassare Castiglione / Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) / John Locke / Christine de Pizan China Translation & Publishing House · 2019 Great Ideas is an academic classics series created by China Translation & Publishing House and Penguin Group. The full series gathers 46 masters from …
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Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction Thomas R. Flynn Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2008 Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction is an introductory volume on existentialism in Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series. It…
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Very Short Introductions: International Migration Khalid Koser Yilin Press · 2015 International Migration is a volume in the Very Short Introductions series. Its author, Khalid Koser, has long studied international migration, refuge…
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Rating 4.0
Oxford Very Short Introductions: Postcolonialism and the World Order Robert J. C. Young Yilin Press · 2013 This book is the Chinese translation of Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction from Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series. Its…
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Rating 3.8
Philosophy of Law: Values and Facts Raymond Wacks Yilin Press · 2013 Philosophy of Law: Values and Facts is a volume in Yilin Press's "Oxford Very Short Introductions" series, the original being Philosophy of Law: A Ver…
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Rating 3.7
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Edward Craig Yilin Press · 2013 Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction is a short introductory book on philosophy written for general readers by Edward Craig, Knightbridge Professor o…
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Darwin and Evolution Jonathan Howard Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2015 This volume is part of the Very Short Introductions series (originating from Oxford University Press) published by the Foreign Language Teaching and R…
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Rating 3.7
Newton: A Very Short Introduction Rob Aliffe Yilin Press · 2015 This book is the Newton volume in the Very Short Introductions series, originally titled Newton: A Very Short Introduction, by the historian of scienc…
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Great Ideas, Series 6 Friedrich Nietzsche / 查尔斯·麦基 / John Ruskin / Thomas à Kempis / Voltaire / Jonathan Swift / 托马斯·霍布斯 / 波德莱尔 China Translation & Publishing House · 2019 Great Ideas is a curated series of classic scholarly works co-published by China Translation & Publishing House and Penguin Group UK, presenting in pa…
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Great Ideas, Series IV 塞内加 / Adam Smith / Charles Robert Darwin / 约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒 / Confucius (Kong Qiu) / Marcel Proust / 乔治·艾略特 / 雅各布·布克哈特 China Translation & Publishing House · 2019 The Great Ideas series (Penguin Great Ideas) is a joint publication of China Translation & Publishing House and Penguin Books UK. Each volume selects …