Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
By: Adriana Petryna
3.98
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. 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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"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
3. Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
By: João Biehl , Torben Eskerod
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
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4. Righteous Dopefiend
By: Philippe Bourgois , Jeffrey Schonberg
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the cont… read more
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5. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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7. The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok
3.89
Format: 384 pages,
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more
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8. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.80
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
With casual hookups and campus rape relentlessly in the news, parents can be forgiven for feeling a… read more
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9. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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10. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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11. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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12. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
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13. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
14. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
15. How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.37
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
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"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
16. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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17. Tastes Like War
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3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
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18. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
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19. While We Were Dating (The Wedding Date, #6)
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3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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"I love you so much," he said, she said, they said."-Jasmine Guillory, While We Were Dating (The Wedding Date, #6)
20. Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)
By: Jasmine Guillory
3.76
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking.… read more
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21. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students … read more
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22. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
By: Adriana Petryna
3.98
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More… read more
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23. The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
By: Arthur Kleinman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family … read more
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"The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence"-Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
24. Motherhood on Ice: Egg Freezing and the American Mating Gap
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4.05
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
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25. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
By: Annemarie Mol
4.28
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26. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
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4.36
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27. Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima
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4.03
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28. ¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground
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3.00
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29. Geographies of Campus Inequality: Mapping the Diverse Experiences of First-Generation Students
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3.83
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30. Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
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4.22
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31. Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power
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4.55
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An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain peopl… read more
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