China: A Macro History
6 best books like China: A Macro History (Ray Huang): On Liberty, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, Homeland, Jin Ping Mei, Social Psychology, General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077
Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
| Author | H.G. Bissinger |
| ISBN | 0306814250 |
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially...
| Author | R.A. Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0786939532 |
Drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre's standout characters. But Homeland first reveals the startling tale of how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark, leaving behind a society of evil and a...
| Author | Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng |
| ISBN | 1596544643 |
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
| Author | David G. Myers |
| ISBN | 0073531898 |
I wish this kind of intelligent, wide-ranging (800pp) and eye-opening textbook had been around when I was studying business some 35 years ago. I would have devoted more time since then to following the developments of psychology, instead of just deducting from the ineptitude of what was taught to us...
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
| Author | Ludwig Von Bertalanffy |
| ISBN | 0807604534 |
I'm usually a binary guy: there are books I like and can't get enough of, there are books I hate and reading through them is a chore. General System Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy was something in-between.
General System Theory is an attempt to formulate a new kind of branch of science. One that...
