Anthropology

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Plasma Wu Wuliuliu The book grafts interstellar science fiction onto ancient soul-transmigration: a seven-member squad, each carrying their past-life identities, returns…
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Path of the Immortal Temptress April Jinse 起点女生网 · 2012 Chen Yu, a "twenty-something" master's student, is suffocated by friends' social media posts of babies and wedding photos. In Lovers' Grove she encoun…
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The Door to Another Possibility A Chain Smoker Qidian Overnight, a giant crop circle appears near Capital Airport in Shunyi, Beijing, drawing media, scholars, and officials. Yang Zi, a newcomer to online …
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The Husky Way Gaokao Fudusheng Xiaoxiang Academy The protagonist, Brother Ha, wakes up one day to find he has become a husky and is taken in as a pet by a girl named Zhang Panpan. He gradually discov…
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Demon Mentor of All Planes Qu Dongbian The demon scholar Yichaint Sinkades is obsessed with studying the power domains and energy channeling of the nine great planes. He has no quarrel with…
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National Geographic Magazine, January 2014 (Vol. 225, No. 1) Chris Johns / National Geographic Society 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…
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Rating 3.9
The Companion Species Manifesto 唐娜·哈拉维 Luminaire Books · 2025 This is the Chinese translation of The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, an English-language work published in 200…
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Rating 4.2
The Left Hand of Darkness 厄休拉·勒古恩 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017 The Left Hand of Darkness is one of the most celebrated novels in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle (Ekumen series). Published in 1969, it won both th…
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The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us About Our Future Robert L. Kelly CITIC Press · 2018 A book that pulls archaeology out of the dusty archives and points it directly at the future. Kelly does not write like a textbook: he begins with his…
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Rating 4.3
Patriarchy: The Origins and End of Male Dominance 安吉拉·萨伊尼 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025 Patriarchy seems an age-old, self-evident order of human society — but where did it come from, and why does it recur across such different cultures an…
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This Man, This Land: The Life of Fei Xiaotong 张冠生 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book is Zhang Guansheng's biography of Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005). Fei Xiaotong was one of the founders of Chinese sociology, anthropology, and eth…
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National Geographic Magazine, March 1971 (Vol. 139, No. 3) National Geographic Society National Geographic Society · 1971 This is the March 1971 issue of the U.S. edition of National Geographic, Vol. 139, No. 3, published by the National Geographic Society in Washington. …
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 贾雷德·戴蒙德 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012 Our genome differs from that of chimpanzees by less than 2%. If a zoologist from outer space were to classify life on Earth, he would have no hesitati…
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National Geographic Magazine, August 1908 (Vol. XIX, No. 8) National Geographic Society / Thomas Barbour / Leopold G. Blackman / Mrs. George C. Bosson, Jr. National Geographic Society · 1908 This is the original August 1908 issue of the American National Geographic magazine, i.e., Volume XIX, No. 8, published by the National Geographic Soc…
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Rating 3.8
The Human Zoo 德斯蒙德·莫利斯 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 The Human Zoo is the second volume of the Naked Ape trilogy by the British zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris; the English original The Human Zoo…
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The National Geographic Magazine, October 1919 (Vol. 36, No. 4) John W. Church / Frederick Simpich / Joseph Dixon / E. Torday National Geographic Society · 1919 This issue is Vol. 36, No. 4 of The National Geographic Magazine, published in October 1919 by the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., at…
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Rating 4.1
Ancient Society Lewis Henry Morgan The Commercial Press · 1997 Ancient Society is the representative work of the American ethnologist and anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, originally published in 1877; its full t…
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New Knowledge Library: Psychological Analysis Boxed Set (5 Volumes) Philip George Zimbardo / Kate Fox / Catherine Orenstein SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014 The New Knowledge Library is a general-knowledge series published by SDX Joint Publishing Company, running from the 1980s to the present day. It speci…
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Creatures and Transcendence: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sacrifice 王铭铭 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2024 Creatures and Transcendence: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sacrifice is a specialized study by Wang Mingming, an anthropologist at Peking Unive…
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A Study of Laughter: Its Forms, Causes, Development, and Value James Sully China Social Sciences Press · 2011 Laughter is one of humanity's most familiar expressions, yet also one of the hardest phenomena to explain. Why do we laugh? What stimuli set it off? H…