Zi: 78 books

Table of Contents The Analects of Confucius The Analects of Confucius II The Sayings of Mencius The Shi-King The Travels of Fâ-Hien The Sorrows of Han Confucius (aka K'ung Fu-Zi) (c. 551 BC – c. 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher whose book, The Analects of Confucius guided...

Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational...

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor...

Herbert A. Giles’s Works  contained 4 works written by Zhuang Zi  (365 BCE–290 BCE) and Herbert Allen Giles (/dʒaɪlz/; Chinese: 翟理斯; pinyin: Zhái Lǐsī; Wade–Giles: Chai2 Li3 Ssu1; 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat, sinologist, and professor...

Edition Complète de " Le Vrai Classique Du Vide Parfait - L’oeuvre de Lie-Tzeu ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. « Le vrai classique du vide parfait » de Lie Tseu, fait partie des textes essentiels...

La Diplomatie occulte de Louis XV par l'historien de la littérature, journaliste et homme politique français Alfred Mézières (1826 – 1915). Extrait : Le premier sentiment qu’on éprouve, à mesure qu’on étudie davantage et qu’on...

Auteur : Alfred Jean François Mézières, né le 19 novembre 1826 et mort le 10 octobre 1915, est un historien de la littérature, journaliste et homme politique français.     Le procès de Galilée d'après les manuscrits du...

Tch1.A. S’il faut en croire d’anciennes légendes, dans l’océan septentrional vit un poisson immense, qui peut prendre la forme d’un oiseau. Quand cet oiseau s’enlève, ses ailes s’étendent dans le ciel comme des nuages. Rasant les flots, dans la direction du...

In this book you will find volumes 3 to 5: The Land Without Stars, Welcome to Alflolol and Birds of the Master – three stories that introduce the societal criticism aspect of the series. Battle of the sexes, totalitarianism and extreme productivism are lambasted, but never at the expense of fantasy...

On an interstellar cruise ships, a mysterious individual in full environmental suit is working hard to get to Earth. On Earth, meanwhile, another person in a spacesuit is exploring a nuclear reactor on behalf of its owners. That second man is Valerian, and since the disappearance of Galaxity, he’s...

Broke, without a job, their ship almost a scrap heap, Valerian and Laureline are stuck on Rubanis, unable to pay for repairs. So when a trio of old acquaintances introduces them to the head of the local police, who is looking for independent agents for a risky – but well-paid – mission, they accept...

The expedition into the heart of the Great Void is launched, and Valerian and Laureline are on it. But in no time they’re already facing the mysterious force that threatens the entire galaxy: the Wolochs, gigantic sentient monoliths dead set on destroying any civilisation that might stand in the...

Running away with the unhappy heir to the galaxy’s biggest fortune, even if it’s because he wants it, is bound to cause some problems. On the lam with the Caliphette of Iksaladam, Valerian and Laureline are relentlessly pursued by the Quatuor Mortis, who are still after the enormous reward offered...

Somewhere at the edge of known space is the Great Void. That inscrutable, shapeless, ever-changing place is where the expanding universe springs forth, where new planets and new life forms are created. It’s also, according to the gods of Hypsis, the place where Galaxity’s Earth was sent and is...