Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
By: Omid Safi
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islam…
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1. 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
"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
2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
3. The Masnavi: Book One
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Jawid Mojaddedi
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
- islam
- philosophy
- religion
- spirituality
4. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
5. Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah
By: Gershom Scholem , Moses de León
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought, the Zohar represents an attempt to unco… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- mysticism
6. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
- religion
7. Die Nigger Die!
By: None , None
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization St… read more
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8. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- poetry
9. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
10. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
11. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power
By: Carolyn Elliott
3.86
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A smart, sexy guide to embracing the repressed, tabooed, and often unwanted aspects of ourselves so… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
12. Azadi
By: Arundhati Roy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"-Arundhati Roy, Azadi
13. Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
By: Virginia Woolf
4.22
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the f… read more
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- nonfiction
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
"There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision."-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
"If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory."-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
"These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important."-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
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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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
15. Wild Mercy
By: Mirabai Starr
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more
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- poetry
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- mysticism
"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
16. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
17. Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
By: Ahmet T. Kuru
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of socio-ec… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
18. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
By: Omid Safi
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islam… read more
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- islam
- history
- love
- anthologies
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- mysticism
19. The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives
By: David B Yaden
4.35
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge guide to the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences Spiritual experie… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
20. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
21. The Alchemy of Human Happiness (Mystical Treatises of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Ara)
By: Stephen Hirtenstein
4.38
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
The quest for happiness and fulfilment lies at the very heart of all human life, and in the teachin… read more
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