The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been …
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1. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
By: Paul Greenberg , Paul Greenberg
4.06
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary jou… read more
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"Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures."-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the “individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, wh…"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"It was one of those rare moments where one has a vision of the scope of the wild ocean. Not just small cylinders firing to keep a tiny engine running, but rather the giant, massive gears of nature, e…"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
2. The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates , Toni Morrison
4.20
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominat… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Harriet Beecher Stowe did not write Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Tom, Aunt Chloe, or any black people to read. Her contemporary readership was white people, those who needed, wanted, or could relish the rom…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"One purpose of scientific racism is to identify an outsider in order to define one’s self. Another possibility is to maintain (even enjoy) one’s own difference without contempt for the categorized di…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"It took some time for me to understand my unreasonable claims on that fisherwoman. To understand that I was longing for and missing some aspect of myself, and that there are no strangers. There are o…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the p…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
3. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
By: Matthew Frye Jacobson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Vir… read more
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
5. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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6. Antoni: Let's Do Dinner
By: Antoni Porowski
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Antoni Porowski shares 80 of his favorite weeknight recipes to help fans make it from Monday to Fri… read more
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7. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
8. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
9. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
10. 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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"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)
11. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
By: Simon Garfield
3.65
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars a… read more
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12. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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13. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
14. The World Cannot Give
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How far would you go after finding something–or someone–worthy of devotion?... Don't miss the no… read more
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15. The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
By: Barbie Latza Nadeau
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“ The Godmother [is a] crisply written, dutifully researched book exploring the role of women in th… read more
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16. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- australia
- china
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17. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more
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- china
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18. Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
By: Jackie Wang
4.39
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, … read more
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19. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
By: Michelle T. King
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more
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20. Trouble in Queenstown
By: Delia Pitts
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With Trouble in Queenstown , Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful… read more
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21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
