Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers
By: Jenny Chan
4.09
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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2. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
By: Dean Koontz
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Once presided over by a Roaring '20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Ro… read more
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4. The Beautiful and Damned
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more
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5. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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6. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
By: Greg Grandin
3.73
Format: None pages,
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the… read more
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7. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
By: Richard E. Kim
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in… read more
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8. The Suitcase
By: Antonina W. Bouis , Sergei Dovlatov
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Nella "Valigia" Dovlatov raccoglie tutti gli oggetti che, esule, porta via da Leningrado: a ogni og… read more
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9. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
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- technology
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
10. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)
By: Mur Lafferty
3.94
Format: 369 pages, Paperback
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more
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11. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
12. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- social justice
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
13. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- economics
- history
- anthropology
14. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
By: Hadas Thier
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the s… read more
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- economics
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"Is this rotten system the best we can do?"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"Marxism is not a simple blueprint, with obvious rights and wrongs. Instead, it is a living, breathing theory, applied to social relations, which themselves are always in motion."-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"We live in a society in which decades of budget cuts have made a run on overwhelmed hospitals inevitable and which has set countries and states bidding against one another for ventilators on the “fre…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
"The first traces of modern humans date back to more than two hundred thousands years ago. But it was only in the last five thousand years (i.e. during less than three percent of human history) that t…"-Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
16. 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
- social justice
17. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- economics
- history
- technology
18. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
By: Mao Zedong
3.45
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zed… read more
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- history
- china
"An army of the people is invincible!"-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
"A crítica deve fazer-se a tempo; não há que se deixar levar pelo mau costume de criticar só depois de consumados os fatos."-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version
19. War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
By: Norman Solomon
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed veteran political analyst, a searing new exposé of how the American military, wi… read more
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- history
20. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
By: Xiaowei Wang
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corner… read more
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- nonfiction
- china
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"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how…"-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
"Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as hum…"-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
21. Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers
By: Jenny Chan
4.09
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Suicides, excessive overtime, hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivi… read more
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