The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity
By: Michael D. Jackson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt argued that the "political" is best understood as a power relation between private an…
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- academic
- anthropology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more
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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
3. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabet… read more
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"Drink up your wine,' ordered Poirot."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
4. Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
By: Kirin Narayan
4.15
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer—but he wrote more… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
- academic
- writing
5. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
6. The Round House
By: Louise Erdrich
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more
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7. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- nonfiction
- academic
8. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
9. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
By: Mary Douglas
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Purity and DangerMary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of e… read more
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10. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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11. 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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12. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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13. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
By: Agatha Christie
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile th… read more
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"Put that in your mustache and smoke it."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
14. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Audio CD
A dentist's suspicious death leads Poirot to drill the good doctor's patients, partners, lovers, an… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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18. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
By: Ruth Behar
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a ne… read more
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19. The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
By: Renato Rosaldo
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle… read more
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20. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more
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21. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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22. All My Rage
By: Sabaa Tahir
4.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arrange… read more
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"Songs help me process life. They help me feel."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your fait in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"Oh God, Toufiq," I whispered. "So much money we put in. What will we do now? I am a fool!" "Kindness is not foolish, my heart." He put his arm around me. "Anyway. At least they didn't steal the pictu…"-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
23. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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24. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.87
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more
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"Two people rarely see the same thing."-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
25. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
26. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
27. 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
28. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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- politics
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
29. A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times
By: Anand Pandian
4.11
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envi… read more
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- nonfiction
- academic
- anthropology
30. The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity
By: Michael D. Jackson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt argued that the "political" is best understood as a power relation between private an… read more
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- academic
- nonfiction
- writing
- anthropology
31. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
3.91
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normat… read more
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- nonfiction
- academic
- anthropology
