The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
By: Annemarie Mol
4.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a…
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1. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Volume 57)
By: James Ferguson
3.92
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s … read more
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- nonfiction
- ethnography
- anthropology
"[W]e might do better here to think of culture as fashion. And in fashion, of course, the key is not wearing a particular outfit but being able to wear it ... Clothing is a mere collection of garments…"-James Ferguson, Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Volume 57)
2. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley , Zlatko Wurzberg
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original Fre… read more
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- sociology
"But, then, what is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if it is not the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself? In what does it consist, if not in the endeavor to know how an…"-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
3. Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
By: João Biehl , Torben Eskerod
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
- academic
- ethnography
- anthropology
4. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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- theory
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- nonfiction
5. Sarrasine
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more
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6. The Complete Stories
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Katrina Dodson
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new reader… read more
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7. 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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8. 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
9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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- theory
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- sociology
10. S/Z: An Essay
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Richard Miller
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story Sarrasine. read more
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11. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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- science
12. The Question of Palestine
By: None
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more
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13. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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14. 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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15. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
16. Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
By: Stanley Cavell , Veena Das
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves… read more
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17. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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18. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
By: None
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Meeting the Universe Halfwayis an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields… read more
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19. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more
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20. 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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21. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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22. The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno
By: Gillian Rose
4.40
Format: 86 pages, Unknown Binding
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23. The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
By: Ángela García
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The Pastoral Clinictakes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape--northern New… read more
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24. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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25. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
26. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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27. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
By: Tasha Suri
4.34
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more
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"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
28. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
By: Michael Taussig
3.95
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plant… read more
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- ethnography
- theory
- academic
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of …"-Michael Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
29. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
By: Annemarie Mol
4.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a… read more
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- ethnography
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- medicine
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- bodies
- sociology
- anthropology
30. The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (Henry Louis Morgan Lecture Series)
By: Nancy D. Munn
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa —originally published in 1986—makes a… read more
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- anthropology
31. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation (Psychoanalytic Political Theory)
By: Lara Sheehi
4.34
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and libera… read more
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