Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress
By: Iain Ferguson
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the W…
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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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5. Confronting Love
By: Jerry Pinto , None , Jerry & Subramaniam Pinto
3.54
Format: 312 pages,
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Walking With The Comrades
By: Arundhati Roy
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brut… read more
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8. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
By: Vivian Gornick
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the Cityexp… read more
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9. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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11. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- psychology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
13. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
14. The Kids
By: Hannah Lowe
4.01
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of co… read more
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15. 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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- disability
16. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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17. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
18. There Are Trans People Here
By: H. Melt
4.19
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more
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19. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
By: Catherine Liu
3.81
Format: 90 pages, ebook
Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and vir… read more
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"In the United States, generations of allegedly neutral experts have hollowed out public goods, degraded the public sphere, facilitated the monetization of everything from health to aptitude, and inde…"-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
"The novel predicted the triumphs of the post-1968 PMC: the moral rectitude of the virtuous lawyer and his high-spirited daughter renders the solution to racism attractive to the establishment—work on…"-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
20. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress
By: Iain Ferguson
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the W… read more
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21. Abolition Revolution
By: Aviah Sarah Day
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An introductory guide to the roots and contemporary context of, and resistance to carceral politics… read more
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