Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
By: Penny Harvey
2.97
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in t…
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1. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
By: Philippe Bourgois
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critica… read more
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2. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
3. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
4. The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
By: Dayo Olopade
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding… read more
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"After years studying informality in Nigeria, Dutch architect and planner Rem Koolhaas reach the same conclusion. In the West, he writes, “there’s a sense of infinite choice, but a very conventional s…"-Dayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
5. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
6. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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7. 'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
By: Shahram Khosravi
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, Illegal Travelleroffers a narr… read more
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8. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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9. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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10. White Nation
By: Ghassan Hage
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of mod… read more
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11. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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12. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
By: Don Kulick
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group o… read more
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15. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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16. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
By: Lila Abu-Lughod
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Wester… read more
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17. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
18. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
19. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
By: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation state… read more
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"The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we liv…"-Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
20. Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
By: Penny Harvey
2.97
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in t… read more
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21. Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry (Information Series)
By: Xiang Biao
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the… read more
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