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The Cancer Chain cover
Rating 3.3
The Cancer Chain 贾鲁生 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Drawing on cancer and cancer patients as its material, this book tells stories and reflections on illness, psychology, society, culture, and the envir…
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Rating 2.8
In the Same Cage 殇痕之歌 · 2026 A flawless, good doctor is murdered in her own home. Kind and modest, she has no financial disputes, no complicated relationships, no romantic life, a…
The Hidden Rules of a Free-Rider Society: One Book That Explains The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups cover
Rating 2.4
The Hidden Rules of a Free-Rider Society: One Book That Explains The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups 周泰友 · 2026 This book offers an in-depth interpretation of Olson's The Logic of Collective Action, sharply dismantling the common-sense illusion that "more people…
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Rating 4.0
History of the German Nation Helmut Walser Smith / 李可欣 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2026 One root of modern Germany's madness and disasters is nationalism, and there is no shortage of misunderstandings and prejudices about the German natio…
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Rating 3.2
Shared Development and Its Internal Logic Under Common Prosperity 雷明 / 袁旋宇 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This is an accessible theoretical work that observes, examines, and assesses China's concept of shared development. Centered on the theme of "common p…
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Rating 3.2
Notes on Reading Law: Legal Wisdom in 81 Real Cases 李建耀 · 2026 This is a collection of legal essays and an accessible introduction to legal knowledge. In plain language, it recounts true cases from China and abroa…
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Rating 3.6
The Lonely Fortress 梅芙·帕克 / 傅婧瑛 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2026 When screen myths collide with real-world dilemmas and "traditional masculinity" meets its era of collapse, a neglected undercurrent in young minds is…
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Rating 4.0
A Global History of the Potato 贝托尔德·劳费尔 / 郭炎华 / Zeng Ruiyun Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 The potato began as a wild plant in the Andes of South America, domesticated and cultivated over centuries by Indigenous peoples as a food crop. Intro…
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Rating 3.5
Yearbook of Chinese Management Thought and Business Ethics (2024) 中国管理思想与商业伦理年鉴编委会 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2026 To promptly reflect important research achievements in the fields of management thought and business ethics and to share representative findings natio…
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Rating 3.7
The Land Where the Sea Is Seen 贝客邦 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Late at night, a drunken father heads home with his five-year-old daughter. The designated driver falls ill and leaves midway; the girl stays alone by…
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Rating 2.8
Let the Heart's Horse Fly to the Far South 幸运之星 Tuanjie Publishing House (Unity Press) · 2026 This book selects more than 500 poems and over 10 essays and short stories from the author's poetic and prose writing of recent years to form a select…
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Rating 3.4
Research on the Change and Transformation of China's Cotton Textile Industry (1949 to Present) 潘春苗 / 曹剑飞 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2026 This book first traces the development of China's cotton textile industry in stages. The first stage is "standing up": the establishment of China's co…
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Rating 2.0
An Era with a Mission 潍诘 · 2026 In his novel The Plague, Camus poses a proposition: to transfer the heat of the plague into an earthquake. The novel's protagonist, Yilin, is an earth…
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Rating 2.7
Slow Reflections on the Sound of Tides Mulberry超人 / 桑榆非晚 Thread-Binding Books Publishing House · 2026 This is a social science e-book centered on deep thinking. The work is built around the construction of three worlds—past, present, and future—drawing…
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Rating 3.0
Claiming Compensation 吕嘉欢 · 2026 Summer 2023, Shanghai. Thirty-two-year-old Chen Yin is caught up in her company's internal power struggle and laid off as collateral damage, her ten-y…
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Rating 2.2
A Pig Raised on Milk Tea 土包进城 · 2026 Lin Xi, a freshly graduated career rookie who has just been unlucky in love, unexpectedly receives an interview invitation for the position of general…
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Rating 3.0
The Man with a Loose Screw 阿轴 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Li Jiaxin, a woman struggling to survive under the relentless pace of society, feels as though she is a handful of loosened screws. The first person t…
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Rating 2.7
The Hacker Era 吕运斌 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The story is set in a small northern village called Canghai, said to have once been the capital of an ancient civilization. Yet after the passage of t…
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Rating 3.2
China Green Development: Green Development-Led Social Responsibility Management 《中国绿发:绿色发展引领型社会责任管理》编写组 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2026 China Green Development Investment Group (CGDG) is a central state-owned enterprise with diversified shareholding. It has set the strategic goal of pu…
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Rating 3.2
Smart Emergency Scenario Management 王长峰 / 张晓航 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2026 Smart Emergency Scenario Management is a textbook in the 14th Five-Year Plan textbook series (third batch) of Beijing University of Posts and Telecomm…