Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
By: Donaldo Macedo
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose o…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Complete Maus
By: Art Spiegelman
4.57
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more
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- nonfiction
"Ingen är normal."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"He’s more attached to things than people."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
5. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- philosophy
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
6. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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7. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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8. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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- social justice
10. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
By: Paulo Freire , Patrick Clarke
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
This volume looks at the territory of learning and activism, the essence of human life. This book s… read more
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- education
11. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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12. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
14. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
By: Jack C. Richards , None
4.31
Format: 256 pages,
This new edition surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching. This new edition is… read more
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15. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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16. A Arte de Escrever
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Nesta antologia de ensaios recolhidos de 'Parerga e Paralipomena', o leitor vai encontrar textos qu… read more
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17. 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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18. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
19. Quincas Borba
By: Machado de Assis , Gregory Rabassa , None , None
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wea… read more
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20. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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21. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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22. A Importância do Ato de Ler: em três artigos que se completam
By: Paulo Freire
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Em sociedade que exclui dois tercos de sua populacao e que impoe ainda profundas injusticas a grand… read more
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23. O Avesso da Pele
By: Jeferson Tenório
4.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Um romance sobre identidade e as complexas relações raciais, sobre violência e negritude, O avesso … read more
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"É inventando que consigo ser honesto."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"Compreender as ações dos pais leva anos, às vezes a vida inteira."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"A vida simplesmente acontecia e você simplesmente passava por ela."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"Lembre-se que é ao lado de outra pessoa que aprendemos a nos conhecer."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
24. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
25. A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
By: Ana Suy
4.10
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Amor, solidão e psicanálise para os dias atuais. Podemos ler que o amor contém a solidão em seu… read more
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"Ao encontrar um amor, a gente não encontra a parte que nos faltava até então. A gente encontra a metade que fará falta a partir dali."-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Com frequência, pensamos que, no amor, encontraríamos a parte que supostamente nos falta, a parte que nos livraria da nossa própria falta, a parte que nos preencheria. No entanto, no amor, o que se e…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Vivemos um tempo em que queremos tudo para antes de ontem, em que vivemos o período de espera como crise de ansiedade. [...] sem fazer nascer intervalos, tudo que encontramos corre o risco de ser pur…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
26. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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27. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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28. O Que é Racismo Estrutural?
By: Silvio Almeida
4.61
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
"O que é racismo estrutural? traz reflexões inovadoras acerca da construção das noções de raça e ra… read more
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"Em resumo: o racismo é uma decorrência da própria estrutura social, ou seja, do modo “normal"-Silvio Almeida, O Que é Racismo Estrutural?
"Nos momentos de crise, em que há aumento do desemprego e rebaixamento dos salários, o racismo desempenha um papel diversionista bastante importante, pois os trabalhadores atingidos pelo desemprego ir…"-Silvio Almeida, O Que é Racismo Estrutural?
"Do ponto de vista ideológico, a produção de um discurso justificador da destruição de um sistema histórico de proteção social revela a associação entre parte dos proprietários dos meios de comunicaçã…"-Silvio Almeida, O Que é Racismo Estrutural?
29. Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
By: Donaldo Macedo
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose o… read more
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- social justice
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30. O Que é Lugar de Fala?
By: Djamila Ribeiro
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil … read more
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31. Educação Contra a Barbárie: Por Escolas Democráticas e Pela Liberdade de Ensinar
By: Fernando Cássio
4.39
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Contrapondo-se ao discurso sobre educação pautado apenas por indicadores, rankings e eficiência, a … read more
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