Soviet Visuals
By: Varia Bortsova
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bizarrely funny, nostalgic collection of images of life under the Soviet Union - from the Instagr…
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1. The Glass Teat
By: Harlan Ellison
4.17
Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Criticizes the lack of creativity in television programs and describes the author's experiences as … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
- photography
- nonfiction
4. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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6. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers
By: Phil Farrand
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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9. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
10. Tales of Times Square: Expanded Edition
By: Josh Alan Friedman
3.46
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the p… read more
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11. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
12. The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch, #1)
By: Rin Chupeco
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The beast raged; it punctured the air with its spite. But the girl was fiercer. Tea is different fr… read more
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13. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more
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14. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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15. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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- history
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
16. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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- humor
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
17. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
18. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
19. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
By: Elodie Harper
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition
The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more
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20. The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.07
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the internati… read more
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- history
21. William Morris's Flowers (V&A Museum)
By: Rowan Bain
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers… read more
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22. Soviet Metro Stations
By: Owen Hatherley
4.56
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Soviet Bus Stops , an underground trip through the Soviet Metro “For us,” said S… read more
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23. Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia
By: Fuel
4.41
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian … read more
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24. Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion
By: Charlie Porter
3.69
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing… read more
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25. Soviet Visuals
By: Varia Bortsova
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bizarrely funny, nostalgic collection of images of life under the Soviet Union - from the Instagr… read more
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