Critical Terms for Animal Studies
By: Lori Gruen
4.08
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, an…
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1. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
4. The Lives of Animals
By: J.M. Coetzee , Peter Singer , Wendy Doniger , Marjorie Garber , Amy Gutmann , None
3.70
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years tha… read more
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- philosophy
- vegan
- animals
"To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy."-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
"There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into …"-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
"Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterpris…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
5. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
6. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
7. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
By: Steven Best , Anthony J. Nocella II
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Foreword by Ward Churchill; cover design by Sue Coe The first anthology of writings on the history,… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- animals
- vegan
9. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
By: None
3.83
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, politi… read more
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10. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
11. The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
By: Jacy Reese Anthis
4.06
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- animals
- vegan
"The vast majority of people eat animal products not because of how they’re produced, but in spite of it."-Jacy Reese Anthis, The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
"A big reason for optimism about the end of animal farming is that it doesn't have to be the end of meat."-Jacy Reese Anthis, The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
"One of the most useful skills advocates can develop is a sincere satisfaction in changing their mind, putting the goal of effectiveness before the goal of having been correct."-Jacy Reese Anthis, The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
12. Critical Terms for Animal Studies
By: Lori Gruen
4.08
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, an… read more
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- biology
- animals
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- vegan
