China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History
By: Rebecca E. Karl
3.62
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. How to Read Literature
By: Terry Eagleton
3.69
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nurser… read more
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"Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Capital look like Mary Poppins ."-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature
"That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature."-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature
"It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word ‘professor’ on his applicat…"-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature
"The most uninspired form of criticism simply tells the story of a work in different words. Some students imagine they are writing criticism when for the most part they are simply paraphrasing a text,…"-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more
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3. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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4. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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5. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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6. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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7. How I Stopped Being a Jew
By: Shlomo Sand , David Fernbach
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the famil… read more
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8. Les Liaisons dangereuses
By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée
4.06
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more
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"J'ai vécu"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
9. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
10. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
11. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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12. 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)
13. The Twilight Zone
By: Nona Fernández
4.20
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invad… read more
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"No importa lo que ves, importa lo que crees que ves."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"Ser estúpido es una elección personal y no necesariamente hay que llevar uniforme para ejercer ese maligno talento."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"La empatía y la compasión son rasgos de lucidez, la posibilidad de ponerse en los zapatos del otro, de transmutar la piel y enmascararse con un rostro ajeno es un ejercicio de pura inteligencia."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn’t true that criminals are masterminds. It …"-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
14. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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15. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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16. How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
By: Isabella M. Weber
4.33
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitat… read more
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17. Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
By: Todd McGowan
4.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentie… read more
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18. Désobéir
By: Frédéric Gros
3.96
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Ce monde va de travers, à tel point que lui désobéir devrait être une urgence partagée et brulante.… read more
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19. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis)
By: Mike Davis
4.38
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analyt… read more
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20. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism
By: Justin Joque
3.82
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The rise of AI and algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism Our finances, politics, media, op… read more
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21. China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History
By: Rebecca E. Karl
3.62
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern worldChina’s eme… read more
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