Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump
By: Kathleen M. Millar
4.31
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, …
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1. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
By: Misha Glenny
4.09
Format: 752 pages, Paperback
This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more
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2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
4. Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair
By: Emma Tarlo
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"An engrossing investigation of hair that will engage readers who enjoyed Mary Roach's Stiffed." --… read more
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5. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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6. Havana Blue
By: Leonardo Padura , Peter Bush
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle… read more
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8. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
By: Teresa P.R. Caldeira
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses essential que… read more
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9. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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10. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
11. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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12. Planet of Slums
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more
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13. Conversation in the Cathedral
By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cath… read more
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14. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
15. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
16. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
17. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
18. Honey & Spice
By: Bolu Babalola
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passio… read more
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"There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"My heart had never been compelled into competitive sports by boys and yet here it was, acting like an Olympian, beating like its name was Serena."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"Romance was a waste of time, a form of manipulation utilised by boys who didn't wash their bed sheets regularly. It existed sure, but I wasn't surrounded by anyone I believed engaged in it properly, …"-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
19. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
By: Bolu Babalola
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more
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"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
20. Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
By: Clara Han
4.24
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and ma… read more
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21. Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump
By: Kathleen M. Millar
4.31
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, … read more
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