Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Refiguring American Music)
By: Karl Hagstrom Miller
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In Segregating Sound , Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to th…
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By: Stephen Richard Witt
4.24
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?How Music Got Free is a riveting stor… read more
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2. 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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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
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"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
3. 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
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4. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
5. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more
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6. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tra… read more
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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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8. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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9. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
10. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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11. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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12. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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13. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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14. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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15. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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16. Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Refiguring American Music)
By: Karl Hagstrom Miller
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In Segregating Sound , Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to th… read more
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