Anthropology: Why It Matters
By: Tim Ingold
4.02
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fu…
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1. Chicken with Plums
By: Marjane Satrapi
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
3. The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
- science
5. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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6. Bestiario
By: Julio Cortázar
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more
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7. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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8. How Should One Read a Book?
By: Virginia Woolf
3.27
Format: None pages,
In 1926 Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled, "How Should One Read a Book?" to deliver as a lectu… read more
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9. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
By: Timothy Morton
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catas… read more
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10. Storia di una lumaca che scoprì l'importanza della lentezza
By: Luis Sepúlveda , Ilide Carmignani
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Le lumache che vivono nel prato chiamato Paese del Dente di Leone, sotto la frondosa pianta del cal… read more
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11. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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12. 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
13. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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14. Manifesto Cyborg
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more
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15. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
By: None , Peter Just
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of S… read more
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16. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
17. Abel. Un western metafisico
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.47
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Dopo La sposa giovane, Alessandro Baricco torna al romanzo con una storia spirituale, sapienziale, … read more
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"Di tutta la vita che si è vissuta e si vivrà - a saper aspettare, e prima che tutto si dissolva - si incontra il racconto, in attimi speciali, sulla propria strada"-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico
"Quella volta, Joshua mi rivelò un segreto che poi, come un seme, sarebbe germogliato in me, nel tempo di molti anni e molti dolorosi pensieri. Disse che dovevo stare molto attento perché sebbene la v…"-Alessandro Baricco, Abel. Un western metafisico
18. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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19. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
- science
"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
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
20. La felicità del lupo
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.68
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arrivato alla fine di una lunga relazione, Fausto cerca rifugio tra i sentieri dove camminava da ba… read more
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21. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
22. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
24. All Art is Ecological
By: Timothy Morton
3.39
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative an… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religion
By: Bruno Latour
3.82
Format: 144 pages, ebook
Delivered in 2013 in Edinburgh as part of the Gifford Lectures, these lectures attempt to decipher … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
- science
26. Suave es vivir solo (Flash Poesía) (Spanish Edition)
By: Fernando Pessoa
4.04
Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition
La colección «Poesía Portátil» reúne en Suave es vivir solo una muestra de los versos más rompedore… read more
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27. Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
By: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
3.70
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
We live in a time of global crisis—or, more appropriately, overlapping, interlocking global proble… read more
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- anthropology
28. The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
By: Megan Walsh
3.97
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the rela… read more
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29. Anthropology: Why It Matters
By: Tim Ingold
4.02
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fu… read more
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- social science
- science
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- anthropology
30. Antropologia Cultural
By: Franz Boas
4.00
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
Antropologia cultural é o primeiro livro publicado no Brasil com textos de Franz Boas, um dos mais … read more
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