Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work
By: Laura Robson
4.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark…
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1. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
By: C.L.R. James , Christian Høgsbjerg
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, … read more
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- politics
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6. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
7. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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8. Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
By: Marilynne K. Roach
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Six Women of Salemis the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as … read more
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9. Tender Is the Night
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.78
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more
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"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
10. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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11. This Thing Between Us
By: Gus Moreno
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more
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"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us
12. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
13. Black Sheep
By: Rachel Harrison
3.60
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more
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"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
14. 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
15. 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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16. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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17. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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18. 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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19. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
20. Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
By: Elsa Dorlin
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"En 1685, le Code noir défendait « aux esclaves de porter aucunes armes offensives ni de gros bâton… read more
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"La non-violence doit être comprise et circonscrite à un principe éthico-politique interne aux groupes mobilisés ; elle est donc une modalité de subjectivation politique qui n’a de sens que pour prend…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Passer à la violence' -celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission- est ainsi lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut être adressée pacifiq…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Passer à la violence' - celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission - est ainsi inextricablement lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut êt…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Cette [menace terroriste] ultime, qui traduit un attisement généralisé de la peur érigée en virtù, est désormais sous contrôle via la production de politiques qui insécurisent en permanence la sociét…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
21. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)
By: T.L. Huchu
3.92
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more
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22. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger
By: Bhaskar Sunkara
4.02
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more
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23. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth
4.15
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more
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24. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
By: Maya Wind
4.69
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universi… read more
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25. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
By: Patricia Hill Collins
4.39
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical too… read more
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26. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine
By: Sai Englert
4.54
Format: 366 pages, ebook
In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. I… read more
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27. Architect, Verb: The New Language of Building
By: Reinier de Graaf
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Hidden Rules of how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, li… read more
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28. Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work
By: Laura Robson
4.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark… read more
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29. A History of the Barricade
By: Eric Hazan
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout histo… read more
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