10 Best nonfiction books like Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

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Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore

By: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global i…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Rawa: Tragedi Pulau Batu Puteh

By: Isa Kamari

3.75

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Rawa. Nama itu adalah tanah. Nama itu adalah air. Anak jati ini memaut sejarah dan kebudayaan antar… read more

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2. Ministry of Moral Panic

By: Amanda Lee Koe

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women hold… read more

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"A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth."

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you thi…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, a…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

3. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

By: Sonny Liew

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a biography showcasing the life and work of Chan Hock Chye, a … read more

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4. The Magician's Apprentice (Black Magician, #0.5)

By: Trudi Canavan

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

Taking place hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians' Guild, The Magician's Apprentice… read more

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5. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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6. Sugarbread

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more

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7. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

By: William MacAskill

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem … read more

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8. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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9. Now You See Us

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more

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10. How We Disappeared

By: Jing-Jing Lee

4.20

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more

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11. The Great Reclamation

By: Rachel Heng

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more

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"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

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12. Brown Is Redacted

By: Kristian-Marc James Paul

4.17

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we th… read more

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Cover of Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore by Esther Vincent

13. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

By: Esther Vincent

4.11

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Making Kin aspires to be ecofeminist in nature, in terms of acknowledging the intersectional mode o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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"The girl comes to a profound realisation — that life goes on in spite of her."

-Esther Vincent, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

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14. Feminist City: A Field Guide

By: Leslie Kern

3.92

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more

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"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

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15. This Is What Inequality Looks Like

By: You Yenn Teo

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."

-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like

"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"

-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like

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16. Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore

By: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global i… read more

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  • nature
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
Cover of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope by Kirsten Han

17. The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

By: Kirsten Han

4.59

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. O… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. Loss Adjustment

By: Linda Collins

4.20

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

“I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and… read more

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"My dad—Victoria’s grandfather, “Poppa Jim"

-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment

"Amid this constant physical presence of fellow human beings, we gaze inward, trying to absorb what has happened with our lives and why the person we love the most is not here."

-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment

"I imagine them being so upset they sucked the tar as a comfort, with shaking hands, and when the comfort didn’t come, hurled them away, one after the other, where the paper and tobacco fizzled and di…"

-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment

"I try to be the rock that I see they hope I can be. People can take only so much distress and hair-tearing. They need to be given to, as well as to give. What they want from me is hope, that I can ca…"

-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment

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19. Homeless

By: Liyana Dhamirah

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and h… read more

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20. A Place For Us

By: Cassandra Chiu

3.99

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate … read more

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Cover of Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore by Kuansong Victor Zhuang

21. Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

By: Kuansong Victor Zhuang

4.17

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Un… read more

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6 must-read asia books like Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

Transform Your Habits

Ministry of Moral Panic

Amanda Lee Koe

4.08

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Now You See Us

Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Transform Your Habits

How We Disappeared

Jing-Jing Lee

4.20

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The Great Reclamation

Rachel Heng

4.02

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

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The House of Doors

Tan Twan Eng

4.14

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Absolution

Alice McDermott

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Soy toda oídos

Hye-Jin Kim

3.79

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