Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: Thomas S. Mullaney
3.94
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
By: Katharine Park , Lorraine Daston
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to en… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
4. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- academic
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
6. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
7. The Craft of Research
By: Joseph M. Williams , Gregory G. Colomb , Wayne C. Booth
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for res… read more
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- academia
- research
- academic
- nonfiction
- writing
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- science
"That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers’ lives by changing what and how they think."-Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research
8. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
By: Charles Duhigg
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing howyou th… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
10. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
By: Sönke Ahrens
3.42
Format: 320 pages,
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- nonfiction
- writing
- education
11. The Travels
By: Ronald E. Latham , Marco Polo , Ronald Latham
3.15
Format: None pages,
So much has been written on the subject of the celebrated Venetian traveller of the middle ages Mar… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Write It Up! Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles
By: Paul J. Silvia
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
How do you write good research articles -- articles that are interesting, compelling, and easy to u… read more
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13. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
14. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
15. Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
By: Joli Jensen
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to… read more
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16. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
By: Gerald Graff , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They Say / I Say"shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most impor… read more
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17. Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success
By: Wendy Laura Belcher
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This book is a wonderful addition to a graduate course on professional writing, to a writers' grou… read more
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18. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
19. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
21. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
22. The Low, Low Woods
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.95
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more
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23. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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- academic
24. Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: Annette Lareau
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
This book will help Understand the importance of talking to others, including listening to feedbac… read more
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- academia
- research
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25. Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: Thomas S. Mullaney
3.94
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
- how to
- education
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26. A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
By: Dolly Chugh
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary, evidence-based guide for developing resilience and grit to confront our whitewashe… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors
By: Laura Portwood-Stacer
4.71
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
The scholarly book proposal may be academia’s most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get p… read more
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- academia
- nonfiction
- academic
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28. On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: William Germano
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of revision. So you’ve just finis… read more
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- academia
- nonfiction
- academic
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29. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research
By: Zachary M. Schrag
4.28
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton G… read more
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30. Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
By: Zachary Shore
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What’s the hardest part of grad school? It’s not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands … read more
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31. Exploring Wicked Problems: What They Are and Why They Are Important
By: Joseph Bentley
3.72
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Former Secretary of State George Shultz once drew a distinction between “problems you can solve and… read more
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