Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
By: Nicholas Thomas
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be …
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1. 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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- history
- nonfiction
2. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Encounters in the South Seas
By: Anne Salmond
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on th… read more
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3. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
By: Marcel Mauss
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliant example of the comparative method,The Gift presents the first systematic study of the c… read more
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4. The Craftsman
By: Richard Sennett
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sak… read more
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5. The Vegetarian
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more
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6. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
7. The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.70
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more
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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
8. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
9. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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- nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
10. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
11. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- world history
12. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
By: David A. Chang
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
13. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba (Tracking Globalization)
By: Katerina Martina Teaiwa
4.20
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
14. Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
By: Sujit Sivasundaram
3.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history and major reassessment of how Britain came to rule the waves – told from the for… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
By: Nicholas Thomas
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- world history
- anthropology
16. Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty
By: Greg Dening
4.08
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the ex… read more
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17. We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
By: Epeli Hauʻofa
4.31
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing ove… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming."-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are …"-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism.…"-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
18. Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific
By: Elena Govor
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to… read more
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19. Islands and Beaches. Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas, 1774-1880
By: Greg Dening
4.48
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
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20. Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures
By: Matt K. Matsuda
3.91
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This es… read more
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