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三体 (sān tǐ) by Cixin Liu (San ti xi lie -- di yi bu)

The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'Three-Body') is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The …

The Analects of Confucius (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Burton Watson

Did Jesus exist? by Bart D. Ehrman

1st HarperCollins paperback ed.

A geometry of music by Dmitri Tymoczko (Oxford studies in music theory)

Twentieth-century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti

One of the most important books on contemporary music to appear in this century. Here for the first time is …

The Classical Style by Charles Rosen

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …

The End of the Beginning by Carlos Martinez

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) - a workers' and peasants' state - lasted a mere seventy years. It …

The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin

The Dialectical Biologist is a 1985 book by the ecologist Richard Levins and the biologist Richard Lewontin, in which the …

Serendipities by Umberto Eco

Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Laozi

The Tao Te Ching (UK: , US: ; simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodé Jīng [tâʊ tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] …

The Complete works of Zhuangzi by Zhuangzi (Translations from the Asian classics)

Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger

Soviet Chess 1917-1991 by Andrew Soltis