20 best-selling nonfiction books like The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea by Lorenzo Veracini

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The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

By: Lorenzo Veracini

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in “empty land…

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1. Batman: The Killing Joke

By: Tim Sale , Alan Moore , Brian Bolland

4.37

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. … read more

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"How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?"

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice."

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?"

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

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2. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"

-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race

By: Patrick Wolfe

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Traces of Historypresents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a hi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. 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
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7. On Ideology

By: Louis Althusser

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. The p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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10. 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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11. Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care suffic… read more

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12. The Punishment of Gaza

By: Gideon Levy

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians an… read more

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13. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more

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14. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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15. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

By: Timothy Mitchell

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined … read more

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16. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800

By: Robin Blackburn

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disa… read more

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17. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

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18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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19. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • education
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20. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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22. Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

By: Mahmood Mamdani

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to re… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. La Disparition de Josef Mengele

By: Olivier Guez

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine. Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tor… read more

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24. They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

By: Alva Gotby

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family memb… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

By: Maya Wind

4.69

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

By: Sai Englert

4.54

Format: 366 pages, ebook

In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. I… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

By: Lorenzo Veracini

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in “empty land… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • education
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28. Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America

By: Nadia Abu El-Haj

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. W… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States

By: Carola Dietze

3.69

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

The Invention of Terrorism examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

By: Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

4.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination

By: Adam Shatz

4.57

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent time… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

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4.32

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3.88

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4.40

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4.36

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