The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
By: Gerald N. Rosenberg
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Liberals have acclaimed, and conservatives decried, reliance on courts as tools for changes. But wh…
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1. Sophie’s World
By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller
3.96
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more
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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more
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- politics
"Drop dead-but first get permit"-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
4. Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.92
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
5. Ecotopia
By: Ernest Callenbach
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the enviro… read more
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- politics
6. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
By: Jenny Lawson
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up th… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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- school
8. The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
By: Ellery Adams
3.77
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams comes the first in an intriguing new series set… read more
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"Is that from a book?"-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
"… Becoming a reader is a change for the better. Trust me. No one has ever lost by becoming addicted to stories – to the lessons learned by those who possess enough courage to put pen to paper."-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
"The books in her shop weren’t merely things. They were gifts wrapped in imagination, inspiration, excite ment, pain, and heartache. Gifts given by thousands of writers. Gifts just waiting to be opene…"-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
9. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- school
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
11. Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)
By: Emma Chase
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When you're a defense attorney in Washington, DC, yo… read more
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12. Sweetbitter
By: Stephanie Danler
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more
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13. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- law
14. The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1)
By: Django Wexler
4.80
Format: None pages,
Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel--but whe… read more
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15. Overruled (The Legal Briefs, #1)
By: Emma Chase
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the Tangled Series, returns with the first install… read more
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16. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- political science
- sociology
17. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more
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18. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
By: Jenny Lawson
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris--Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her lit… read more
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19. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
20. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more
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21. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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22. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
23. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
24. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
25. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
26. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
27. Free Food for Millionaires
By: Min Jin Lee
3.85
Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition
Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." … read more
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"This was her first time in such a place, and she decided she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Yet in her head, Casey envisioned a meter, like a taxi meter—clicking, clicking, clicking speedily ahe…"-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires
"Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying …"-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires
"Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each ski…"-Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires
28. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
By: Gerald N. Rosenberg
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Liberals have acclaimed, and conservatives decried, reliance on courts as tools for changes. But wh… read more
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- history
- school
- politics
- law
- college
- nonfiction
- political science
- sociology
29. The Myth of the Litigious Society: Why We Don't Sue (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: David M. Engel
3.54
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise we don’t! For e… read more
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- law
30. Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
By: Josh Chafetz
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress’s surprisingly potent set of t… read more
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- law
- nonfiction
31. The Making of Lawyers' Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: Robert L. Nelson
3.00
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US legal profession. How do race, clas… read more
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