Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (Ethnographic)
By: Sherine Hamdy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultur…
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1. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.85
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the the… read more
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- college
- anthropology
- school
- ethnography
"Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea."-E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
2. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
By: Kimberly Kay Hoang
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and … read more
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- anthropology
- ethnography
- read for school
"But while women were able to capitalize on Vietnam's rapid development, it is important to situate their mobility as constrained within structures of patriarchy."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"In fact, this is not a book about sex or sexual relations; rather, men's and women's participation in HCMC's sex industry involves much more than the purchase of sex."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"The multiple niche markets in Vietnam's global sex industry offer insight into some of the larger macroeconomic shifts that reframe our understanding of the coproduction of gender and global capital."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"Within their distinct niche markets, sex workers employ competing technologies of embodiment that in turn reveal how desire reflects and constructs different national formations in the global imagina…"-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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4. Baddawi
By: Leila Abdelrazaq
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised i… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
5. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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6. Pashmina
By: Nidhi Chanani
3.70
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years a… read more
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7. Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
By: Stuart Hall , None
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordin… read more
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8. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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9. Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
By: None
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopte… read more
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10. Footnotes in Gaza
By: Joe Sacco
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more
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11. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
By: Erving Goffman , Sven Bergström
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has emp… read more
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12. Setting Free the Kites
By: Alex George
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on h… read more
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13. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
By: Katherine J. Cramer
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the ap… read more
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14. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
15. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
16. It's Not About the Burqa
By: Mariam Khan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more
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"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
17. Beyond the Clouds (Beyond the Clouds, #1)
By: Nicke
4.11
Format: 195 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dans la Ville jaune, les usines crachent leur fumée jour et nuit, cachant le ciel et ses astres. Le… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
"Since I was small, I've loved fantastical stories. I've yearned for a world I could never see in yellow town. One like the worlds in books. You can travel in those worlds for as long as you want- all…"-Nicke, Beyond the Clouds (Beyond the Clouds, #1)
18. Beyond the Clouds, Tome 2 (Beyond the Clouds, #2)
By: Nicke
4.10
Format: 190 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Percez les nuages gris du quotidien et retrouvez vos rêves d'enfant! Dans la Ville jaune, les us… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
19. De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1)
By: Fabien Toulmé
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
L’histoire vraie d’un homme qui a dû tout quitter : sa famille, ses amis, sa propre entreprise... p… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
20. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
21. Bubble
By: Jordan Morris
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satiric… read more
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22. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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23. It Won't Always Be Like This
By: Malaka Gharib
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more
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- graphic novels
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- egypt
24. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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- contemporary
25. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
26. Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (Ethnographic)
By: Sherine Hamdy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultur… read more
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- school
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- sequential art
- egypt
- read for school
- college
- comics
- contemporary
- anthropology
27. Theories and Practices of Development (Routledge Perspectives on Development)
By: Katie Willis
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Throughout the twentieth century, governments sought to achieve 'development' not only in their own… read more
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- anthropology
28. The Hundred Wells of Salaga
By: Ayesha Harruna Attah
3.72
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey … read more
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29. Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village
By: David Crawford
3.31
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a vill… read more
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30. Someone To Talk To
By: Mario Luis Small
4.15
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent to o… read more
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31. The Unseen Things: Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria
By: Kathryn A. Rhine
3.79
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
What do HIV-positive women in Nigeria face as they seek meaningful lives with a deeply discrediting… read more
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