The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s (Real World)
By: John L. Potash
4.24
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
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1. Live from Death Row
By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , John Edgar Wideman
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries f… read more
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2. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more
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"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
3. Undisputed Truth
By: Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world--an… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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5. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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7. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
209 PAGES. read more
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8. Revolutionary Suicide
By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
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9. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
By: Sanyika Shakur
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-… read more
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10. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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11. My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
By: Reymundo Sánchez
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball t… read more
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12. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
By: Anita Loos
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more
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13. Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
By: Stanley Tookie Williams
3.44
Format: 384 pages,
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14. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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15. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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16. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- history
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
18. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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19. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
20. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
By: Sidik Fofana
3.79
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with th… read more
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21. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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22. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
By: Staci Robinson
4.44
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more
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23. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
24. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
25. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
26. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
By: Hugh Ryan
4.45
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window int… read more
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27. Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
By: Beth Kempton
3.91
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessi… read more
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"We have to stop telling ourselves that everyone is watching, waiting for us to fail. They really aren’t."-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"Wabi sabi teaches us to be content with less in a way that feels like more. Less stuff, more soul. Less hustle, more ease. Less chaos, more calm. Less mass consumption and more unique creation. Less …"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as we extend our days with strong artificial light, interrupt our se…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"A wabi sabi inspired world view opens up a space for love. Just as we're not perfect, neither is anyone else. What difference would it make if you saw others with your heart instead of seeing and jud…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
28. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
By: Orisanmi Burton
4.81
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more
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29. The Shame
By: Makenna Goodman
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down… read more
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30. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
By: Santi Elijah Holley
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as se… read more
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31. The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s (Real World)
By: John L. Potash
4.24
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap an… read more
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