Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 - 1860
By: Richard H. Grove
3.79
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Green Imperialism is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, …
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1. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
By: Janet L. Abu-Lughod
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- politics
- history
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3. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
4. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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6. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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8. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
By: Paul M. Sweezy , John Bellamy Foster , None
2.00
Format: None pages,
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9. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
By: Carolyn Merchant
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern sci… read more
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10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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11. 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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12. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
13. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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14. The Making of the English Working Class
By: E.P. Thompson
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This account of artisan & working-class society in its formative years, 1780-1832, adds an importan… read more
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15. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
By: Alfred W. Crosby
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the wo… read more
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16. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
By: Eugene D. Genovese
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery. It covers an incredible range of topics… read more
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17. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
18. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
By: John Bellamy Foster
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventi… read more
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19. The Invention of the Jewish People
By: Yael Lotan , Shlomo Sand
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Isr… read more
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20. 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
"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
21. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
22. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
23. 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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"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
24. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
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25. The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Graphic History Series)
By: Michael G. Vann
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkl… read more
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26. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalya, Expanded Edition
By: Ramachandra Guha
3.74
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Expanded Edition This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods , Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking… read more
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27. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 - 1860
By: Richard H. Grove
3.79
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Green Imperialism is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, … read more
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