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Records of a Family of Engineers
Cambridge University Press · 2011
Records of a Family of Engineers is an unfinished family chronicle by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), published posthumously. Stevenson came from …
Homeland Records: Essays by Gao Ertai, Jin Yan, Liu Liangcheng, Zhang Yihe, and Yan Lianke
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2014
Homeland Records is the winners' volume of the Five-Year Series of the Presenceist Essay Award, collecting representative essays by the five winners o…
Reading the City Series (Berlin + Istanbul)
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018
This is a combined edition of two volumes from Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House's "Reading the City" series: Berlin: Portrait of a City an…
The Corner of Altay
New Star Press · 2013
The Corner of Altay is the breakthrough work of the writer Li Juan, a collection of short essays she published between 1998 and 2003 in newspapers and…
The Corner of Altay
New Star Press · 2023
The Corner of Altay is Li Juan's breakout work and the opening volume of her Altay series. It collects short essays she wrote between 1998 and 2003, s…
Edo-period Edo City
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
In 1839, Tsuneno, aged thirty-five, left her home in Echigo Province and walked to Edo, then the capital. She had already been divorced three times, a…
China in Details (Chinese Stories)
CITIC Publishing Co., Ltd.
China in Details is a work of nonfiction in CITIC Press's "Chinese Stories" series of e-books, collecting essays by Anton, Muniren, and other foreign …
The Soong Dynasty
CITIC Press · 2017
This is the representative work of the American biographer Sterling Seagrave, originally published in English as The Soong Dynasty. Drawing on years o…
The Big Short
CITIC Press · 2015
The Big Short is another representative work by Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis that swept the globe i…
All That Remains: What Death Teaches Us
CITIC Press · 2020
This is not a crime book that draws readers in with sensationalism. What makes Sue Black unusual is that she has worked both at murder scenes and in m…
Rupture and Rebirth: An Indian Everyman Through the Eyes of a Chinese Journalist
Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2023
From September 2017 to January 2021, Xinhua News Agency correspondent Zhāng Xīngjūn served as chief correspondent of the Xinhua Mumbai bureau. Over fo…
No Factory Dreams in the Factory: Twenty Years of Working Like This
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
In 2003, Zhang Sai left his hometown in Henan after finishing middle school and headed south to find work. Over the next two decades he drifted throug…
One Man Under Heaven: A Biography of Emperor Huizong of Song
· 2024
This book offers the most comprehensive and systematic account available of Emperor Huizong of Song's remarkable life. Drawing on existing works about…
Ayu
山东广东出版社 · 2024
A work of nonfiction by Chen Danyan, documenting the real life of a female ancestor and exploring the hard-won balance between love and independence. …
Private Lectures by Literary Masters (3 Volumes)
Post Wave Publishing · 2024
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Nonfiction is the first nonfiction collection by Neil Gaiman, a modern master of fantasy literature—a book that appre…
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
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 Unfinished Germ Warfare
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This work of narrative nonfiction, in five parts and 22 chapters totaling more than 600,000 Chinese characters, presents the unhealed historical wound…
Seeing China's Villages and Towns
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
This is a work of social reportage on observing China's villages and towns. Over the past five years, the author has traveled across north and south C…
A Study of Modal Logic
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
Modal logic is a mainstream branch of contemporary logic, exhibiting distinctive theoretical value and application potential across numerous academic …
Statistical Analysis of Financial Data (2nd Edition)
China Financial Publishing House · 2026
Financial Data Statistical Analysis (2nd Edition) is application-oriented, starting from basic financial data and using statistical concepts and metho…