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This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from the author's introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th...
An intimate look inside a mathematician's mind as he wrestles with the theorem that will make his reputation Cedric Villani is a rock-star mathematician. An intellect of unusual depth and breadth, he is the director of France's greatest...
"Brett Christophers practices an apparently dying art: SOCIAL SCIENCE. Buried, along with the art of writing history, under the tidal wave of gibberish known as "Theory" emanating from Paris in the 1980s, social science, as the author illustrates r..."
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"A brilliant book. Structurally it is like a fine jigsaw puzzle. The pieces of the plot completely embrace one another so tightly and finely that you can't see the borders between them, it hangs together as a seamless totality. It's like a roller c..."
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