The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
By: Emily Thompson
3.90
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. …
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1. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
By: Edwin Hutchins
4.13
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and nav… read more
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2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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4. History and Memory
By: None
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In recent years, "memory" has become a central and controversial concept in historical studies. It … read more
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5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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6. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
7. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
By: Ali Smith
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more
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"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
10. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
By: Pascal Boyer
3.92
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psycholo… read more
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"Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work."-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surround…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Deliberation is made possible by our evolved reasoning capacities, and this explains why, as historians and political scientists have along observed, free and open deliberation generally leads to cho…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, f…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
11. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
By: David T. Courtwright
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisti… read more
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- history
12. Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Volume 42)
By: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
4.13
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh ce… read more
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- history
13. The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
By: Andrew Kettler
4.00
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic,… read more
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14. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
By: Mark M. Smith
3.63
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnes… read more
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15. The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
By: Niall Atkinson
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Fl… read more
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16. City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History)
By: Aimee Boutin
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the … read more
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17. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
By: Emily Thompson
3.90
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. … read more
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