The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
By: Donald Preziosi
3.97
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation o…
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1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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. 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. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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5. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
- art history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
By: Ingo F. Walther , Rainer Metzger
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more
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7. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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8. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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9. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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- philosophy
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
10. Visual Culture: The Reader
By: Stuart Hall , None
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disci… read more
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11. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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12. The Story of Art
By: E.H. Gombrich
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art his… read more
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13. 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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- art
- art history
- history
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- nonfiction
"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
14. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
By: Stuart Hall
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse… read more
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15. Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Ye… read more
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"We're on a mission from Glod."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"It's . . . it's like a legend! It has to happen!"-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
"Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?"-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
16. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- reference
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
17. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
18. Witch King
By: Martha Wells
3.71
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more
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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."-Martha Wells, Witch King
19. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
By: Martha Wells
4.10
Format: 19 pages, ebook
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more
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"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
20. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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21. Eversion
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more
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22. Keeping Two
By: Jordan Crane
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more
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23. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
24. The Sandman: Act III
By: Dirk Maggs
4.51
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In Act III, we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with h… read more
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25. How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
By: Mary Beard
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western i… read more
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- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
"One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be uncivilised, with those who do not -o…"-Mary Beard, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
26. The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
By: Roland Ennos
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—in… read more
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- history
27. Methods and Theories of Art History
By: Anne D'Alleva
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Art historical theory is a forum of intense, often passionate debate. This book provides the art hi… read more
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- art history
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
28. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
By: Donald Preziosi
3.97
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation o… read more
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- history
- historical
- anthologies
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
- textbooks
29. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
By: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
4.45
Format: 657 pages, Kindle Edition
A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we sha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. Critical Terms for Art History
By: Robert S. Nelson
3.92
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or D… read more
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- art history
- history
- nonfiction
31. Thinking Contemporary Curating
By: Terry Smith
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new co… read more
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- art
- art history
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