Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
By: Priya Satia
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations,…
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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- british literature
"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. The Dunwich Horror and Others
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Robert Bloch , S.T. Joshi , August Derleth
4.19
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Contents: ix · H.P. Lovecraft and His Work · August Derleth · in 10 · In the Vault · ss The Tr… read more
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3. 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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- history
- world history
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- academic
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- nonfiction
"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
4. Birthday Letters
By: Ted Hughes
3.90
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"What happened casually remains -"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"What happens in the heart simply happens."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
5. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands
By: Charles Moore
4.18
Format: 859 pages, Hardcover
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biogra… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
6. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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7. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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8. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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9. Bluebeard's Egg
By: Margaret Atwood
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard'S Eggglows with childhood memories, th… read more
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10. H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies: The Classic Stories That Inspired the Classic Horror Films
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
With more than 100 movies based on his writing, H.P. Lovecraft ranks among the most adapted authors… read more
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11. The Rest of Us Just Live Here
By: Patrick Ness
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating … read more
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12. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
By: Max Hastings
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more
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13. Incest
By: Marquis de Sade , Janet Street-Porter
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice
By: Bonnie G. Smith
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bonnie Smith shows how the practices of history, and indeed its very definition, were shaped by gen… read more
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15. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
16. Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City
By: Anna Minton
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
When the figures say crime is falling, why are we more frightened than ever? Could our towns and ci… read more
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17. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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18. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Girls They Write Songs About
By: Carlene Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel a… read more
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"The last thing I remember: nestling up close to him, as close as I could get, the front of my knees locked into the back of his, burying my face in his shoulder blades, thinking that his skin smelled…"-Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About
21. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
By: Sue Prideaux
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more
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22. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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23. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
24. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
By: Bruno Latour
3.77
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty yea… read more
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"Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist."-Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
25. 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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26. Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop … read more
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27. Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
By: Priya Satia
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations,… read more
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28. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 3: Herself Alone
By: Charles Moore
4.41
Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover
Charles Moore's masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches… read more
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29. The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
By: Alice Procter
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to g… read more
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- nonfiction
"I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and w…"-Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
30. Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
By: Thomas A. Guglielmo
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance t… read more
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31. Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world – and how you can change it
By: Dave Rich
4.44
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
Fully updated to address the events of 7 October and all that followed On 7 October 2023, Hamas ki… read more
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