Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
By: Dhanveer Singh Brar
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How Black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.…
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1. 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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"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
2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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4. Salvation: Black People and Love
By: bell hooks
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in Ame… read more
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5. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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6. J Dilla's Donuts
By: Jordan Ferguson
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, Ja… read more
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7. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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8. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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9. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Greg Tate
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Village Voice columnist Greg Tate offers essays and tales of American music and culture, from Be-Bo… read more
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10. Dictee
By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more
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11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
12. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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13. 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
14. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
15. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
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16. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
17. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
18. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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19. The Bloater
By: Rosemary Tonks
3.47
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more
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20. Time's Up
By: Kimberly Mack
4.36
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up , released in 1990, was recorded in the afterm… read more
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21. Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
By: Dhanveer Singh Brar
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How Black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.… read more
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