Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
4.29
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of wester…
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1. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
By: David Graeber
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- academic
- essays
"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
2. Lily and the Octopus
By: Steven Rowley
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life … read more
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"What’s wrong with Tuesdays?"-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I have to be better about living in the not knowing."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
"I always thought Peter Pan was death. An angel of death who came to collect children."-Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus
3. Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras
By: Luisa Carnés
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Corren los años treinta en Madrid y las trabajadoras de un distinguido salón de té cercano a la Pue… read more
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"Una" no tiene más que medio día cada semana, es decir, cinco horas de asueto por cada sesenta y cinco de trabajo. "Una" está aquí, "entre toda esta pringue". Fuera, el ocio, el lujo, las diversiones …"-Luisa Carnés, Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras
4. The Pure and the Impure
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Herma Briffault
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to… read more
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"Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Istnieje mniej sposobow uprawiania milosci, niz sie mowi, lecz duzo wiecej, niz sie mysli."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Niczego mi w zyciu nie braklo, ani urody, ani szczescia, ani nieszczescia; ani mezczyzn, ani kobiet...to dopiero mozna nazwac zyciem!"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
5. Sostiene Pereira
By: Antonio Tabucchi
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more
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6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Les Soleils des indépendances
By: Ahmadou Kourouma
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Quel sera le sort de Fama, authentique prince malinke, aux temps de l'independance et du parti uniq… read more
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- africa
8. In the Café of Lost Youth
By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron
3.53
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Lau… read more
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"Quand on aime vraiment quelqu'un, il faut accepter sa part de mystère... et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime..."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
9. Nobody Knows My Name
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
10. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
By: Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin
3.67
Format: None pages,
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and ant… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
- essays
12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
13. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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14. Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
By: None , None
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral, revolutionary, poet, libera… read more
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15. How to Lie with Statistics
By: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sa… read more
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16. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
"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
17. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
18. El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
By: Tatiana Țîbuleac
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Plena de emoción y crudeza, Tatiana Ţîbuleac muestra una intensísima fuerza narrativa en este bruta… read more
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"De ce nu începuse mama să moară mai devreme?"-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
"Te he querido, Aleksy, te he querido como he podido."-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
"Ni rien ni personne ne m'intéressait, et je ne pensais ni à l'avenir ni au présent. Je vivais du passé, comme les pauvres vivent de pain rassis."-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
"La imposibilidad de morir cuando tenía la necesidad absoluta de hacerlo fue la injusticia más grande que se ha cometido conmigo, y conmigo se han cometido muchas injusticias."-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
19. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more
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- africa
20. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
21. Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present (DK Secret Histories)
By: D.K. Publishing
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published. Censorship of o… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
22. Les impatientes
By: Djaïli Amadou Amal
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la j… read more
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- africa
23. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
24. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
27. Home Body
By: Rupi Kaur
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and … read more
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- nonfiction
"i am loving myself out of the dark."-Rupi Kaur, Home Body
"there are years in me that have not slept"-Rupi Kaur, Home Body
"por qué todo parece menos hermoso cuando nos pertenece"-Rupi Kaur, Home Body
"Aquello a lo que hemos sobrevivido, vive dentro de nosotros."-Rupi Kaur, Home Body
28. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home
By: Mona Hajjar Halaby
4.31
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
4.29
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of wester… read more
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- africa
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
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