8 best-selling nonfiction books like Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination by Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

3.96

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Gurminder Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstructio…

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. 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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  • 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

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-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

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3. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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4. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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5. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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8. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

By: Erving Goffman

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigmais analyzes a person's feelings… read more

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9. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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10. Capitalism and Freedom

By: Milton Friedman

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more

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11. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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12. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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13. Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

3.96

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Gurminder Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstructio… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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14. Umutsuz Olma Cesareti

By: Slavoj Žižek

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Giderek kötüye giden bir dünyada iyimser gelecek beklentilerinin karşılığı yok. Dünya sisteminin iç… read more

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