The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes
By: Alec Leach
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
We know fashion is bad for the planet, so why are we still shopping? As a former fashion editor f…
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1. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
By: Michael W. Twitty
3.86
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is … read more
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- nonfiction
"I picked cotton so you could pick up a book."-Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. Art Sex Music
By: Cosey Fanni Tutti
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Art Sex Musicis the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group … read more
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- nonfiction
4. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable
By: Tim S. Grover
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats--Michael Jordan, Kobe … read more
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- nonfiction
5. Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
By: Dana Thomas
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when t… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
6. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power (Mentor Series)
By: Gary Provost
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
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7. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
By: Peter A. Levine , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more
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8. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a… read more
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9. The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication
By: Ruben Pater
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Design shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating across borders an… read more
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10. I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
By: Rebecca Paley , Betty Halbreich
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straig… read more
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11. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed
By: Allison Bornstein
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
12. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
13. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
14. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
15. OK dan niet: Over mijlpalen, maakbaarheid en de millennial mindfuck
By: Katrin Swartenbroux
3.74
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
Het is vandaag de dag niet alleen moeilijker om volwassen te worden; het is vooral minder aantrekke… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change
By: Aja Barber
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more
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- politics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- fashion
- environment
17. A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
By: Shoukei Matsumoto
3.59
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the trad… read more
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- nonfiction
"What people see in a garden is a reflection of what is in their heart."-Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
"When ironing, visualize yourself ironing out the wrinkles in your heart."-Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
"CUTTING YOUR HAIR AT REGULAR INTERVALS IS A WAY TO HONE YOUR SELF-DISCIPLINE."-Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
"Cleanliness is close to enlightenment, and so is a clean mouth with a fresh breath."-Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
18. Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
By: Yoshifumi Miyazaki
3.32
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home...' - Yoshifumi Miyazaki'Forest bat… read more
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- environment
19. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
20. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
21. Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum
By: Fatma Aydemir
4.52
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
»Das sind die Stimmen, die wir hören müssen. Damit es in diesem Land nicht noch finsterer wird.« Ma… read more
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22. De mens is een plofkip
By: Teun van de Keuken
3.75
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
Echt voedsel met herkenbare ingrediënten heeft de afgelopen decennia grotendeels plaatsgemaakt voor… read more
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- society
23. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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24. What Artists Wear
By: Charlie Porter
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more
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25. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
26. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
By: Patrick Grant
4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more
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27. The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes
By: Alec Leach
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
We know fashion is bad for the planet, so why are we still shopping? As a former fashion editor f… read more
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- society
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- sociology
28. This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear
By: Bobby Hundreds
4.21
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundred… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
29. Ochtenden
By: Donald Niedekker
3.93
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In Ochtenden laat Donald Niedekker de vroege morgen spreken, ruim een jaar omspannend, van herfst t… read more
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30. How to Be Online and Also Be Happy (Survive the Modern World)
By: Issy Beech
3.47
Format: 144 pages, Flexibound
How to Be Online and Also Be Happy is your playful guide to using the internet in a rewarding, prod… read more
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31. Fashion: A Manifesto
By: Anouchka Grose
3.83
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
With a critical eye trained on the capitalistic allure and environmental impact of the fashion indu… read more
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