10 Top nonfiction books like Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (Volume 30) (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Salmaan Keshavjee

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Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (Volume 30) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

By: Salmaan Keshavjee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentiet…

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1. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

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"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

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3. Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more

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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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4. The Namesake

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more

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5. 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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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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7. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

8. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

By: Amartya Sen , Paul Farmer

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Pathologies of Poweruses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate… read more

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9. The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one… read more

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10. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more

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11. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more

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12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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13. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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14. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

15. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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17. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more

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"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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18. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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19. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

By: Eugene T. Richardson

4.39

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to o… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • anthropology
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20. Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (Volume 30) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

By: Salmaan Keshavjee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentiet… read more

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  • social science
  • health care
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • anthropology
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21. Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (Volume 23)

By: Paul Farmer

4.35

Format: 680 pages, Paperback

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most … read more

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  • medicine
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  • anthropology
  • health

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3.37

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3.61

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4.14

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