8 best-selling nonfiction books like Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Nate Holdren

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Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

By: Nate Holdren

4.53

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astro…

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1. Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

By: Brian Jacques

4.16

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the shore of the Eastern Sea, in a cold stone fortress, a stoat named Badrang holds dozens of in… read more

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"Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful."

-Brian Jacques, Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)

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2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

By: Morton J. Horwitz

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of A… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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5. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

By: Lizabeth Cohen

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The lives of Chicago workers are traced in the mid thirties to reveal how their experiences as citi… read more

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7. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

8. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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9. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health
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10. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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12. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

By: Jodi Dean

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people ac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Machiavellian Democracy

By: John P. McCormick

4.21

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democrati… read more

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  • politics
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14. Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

By: Nate Holdren

4.53

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astro… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • health
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  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • disability

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