The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
By: Dipesh Chakrabarty
3.69
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
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1. Die Hauptstadt
By: Robert Menasse
3.59
Format: 460 pages, Hardcover
In Brüssel laufen die Fäden zusammen – und ein Schwein durch die Straßen. Fenia Xenopoulou, Beam… read more
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"Das Problem mit Fremdsprachen [...], wenn man sie nicht zumindest stiefmuttersprachlich beherrschte, war, dass man immer nur sagt, was man sagen kann, und nicht, was man sagen will. Die Differenz ist…"-Robert Menasse, Die Hauptstadt
"[I] vilket fall som helst sa han plötsligt: 'The past forms the future, without regard to life.' Meningen dröjde kvar i huvudet, hon fortsatte fundera på den en stund efter att telefonsamtalet hade t…"-Robert Menasse, Die Hauptstadt
2. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
3. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"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
5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
6. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- ecology
- history
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
7. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
By: Chalmers Johnson
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry… read more
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8. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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9. The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
By: None
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching i… read more
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10. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
11. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
12. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
13. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
By: Louis Menand
4.23
Format: 880 pages, Hardcover
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new int… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. 1000 Serpentinen Angst
By: Olivia Wenzel
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
»Ich habe mehr Privilegien, als je eine Person in meiner Familie hatte. Und trotzdem bin ich am Ars… read more
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16. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
By: Kathryn Yusoff
4.04
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff.… read more
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- nonfiction
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17. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
By: Dipesh Chakrabarty
3.69
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars add… read more
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- academic
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- sociology
- environment
- science
18. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
By: Jennifer L. Derr
4.00
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nil… read more
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19. La vida emocional del populismo. Cómo el miedo, el asco, el resentimiento y el amor socavan la democracia
By: Eva Illouz
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
No es fácil destruir una democracia, pero sí parece bastante sencillo dañarla. En todo el mundo, ya… read more
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20. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
By: Ursula K. Heise
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biolo… read more
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- ecology
- environment
- science
21. Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
By: Adrian Howkins
3.18
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towar… read more
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