The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
By: Jonathan Sterne
4.19
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive so…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Public Opinion
By: Walter Lippmann
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late jo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
By: R. Murray Schafer
4.19
Format: 294 pages,
The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of no… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
5. Listening
By: Jean-Luc Nancy , Charlotte Mandell
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human bod… read more
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- music
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6. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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- nonfiction
"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
7. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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10. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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11. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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12. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
By: David Hume
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more
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13. Middlesex
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
4.03
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more
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14. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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15. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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16. Foundation (Foundation, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more
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"Past glories are poor feeding."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
17. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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18. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- history
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
19. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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- academic
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
20. Une écologie décoloniale - Penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen
By: Malcom Ferdinand
4.55
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
Une colère rouge recouvre le ciel. Les vagues s'agitent, l'eau monte, les forêts tombent et les cor… read more
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21. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
By: Jonathan Sterne
4.19
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive so… read more
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