Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
By: Timothy Brennan
3.96
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe first comprehensive biography of the most influenti…
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1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
By: Najla Said
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generati… read more
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6. Culture and Imperialism
By: None
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-ove… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
7. Childfree and Loving It!
By: Nicki Defago
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Recording the opinions of childless women from all over the world and letting this growing band ans… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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10. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
By: Adam Phillips
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are. A… read more
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12. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- society
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
13. Mother of Strangers
By: Suad Amiry
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more
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14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
15. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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16. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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17. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Naomi Klein
4.18
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more
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- nonfiction
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
18. You're Not a Girl in a Movie
By: Hala Alyan
4.07
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Ara… read more
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19. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
By: Timothy Brennan
3.96
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe first comprehensive biography of the most influenti… read more
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- society
20. The Happy Vagina: The ultimate guide to women’s health; de-stigmatising the vagina from feminism and sex to contraception and beyond
By: Mika Simmons
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The Happy Vagina shines a light on both the unique and sometimes awkward facts about everything gyn… read more
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21. This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story
By: Jackie Shannon Hollis
4.11
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Knowing where your scars come from doesn't make them go away. Growing up on a ranch, feeding bottl… read more
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