6 best-selling history books like Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China by He Bian

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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

By: He Bian

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in m…

If you liked the history plot in Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China by He Bian , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin, David Gerard

1. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

By: Lucien Febvre , Henri-Jean Martin , David Gerard

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Books, & the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken f… read more

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  • history
Cover of KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money by J.M.R. Higgs, John Higgs

2. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs

3.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more

Similar categories in J.M.R. Higgs's KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money book and He Bian's Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

  • history
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3. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more

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4. The Analects

By: Confucius , D.C. Lau

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more

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  • history

5. 84, Charing Cross Road

By: Helene Hanff

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more

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6. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.29

Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is… read more

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"Crivens!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"That'll do"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"Witches are naturally nosy,"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"(...) or there will be a reckoning!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

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7. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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8. The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War

By: Geoff White

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was brutally hacked, with thousands of computers wiped and the… read more

Similar categories in Geoff White's The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War book and He Bian's Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

  • history
Cover of Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China by He Bian

9. Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

By: He Bian

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in m… read more

Similar categories in He Bian's Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China book and He Bian's Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

  • history
Cover of Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim

10. Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912

By: Seonmin Kim

4.00

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Pres… read more

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  • history

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