Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create
By: Dirk Vis
3.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From writing style and the use of visuals to formulating your topic and methodology, Dirk Vis shows…
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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. Confabulations
By: John Berger
3.97
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as … read more
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"Preachers love only their own voices."-John Berger, Confabulations
"The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue."-John Berger, Confabulations
"A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate."-John Berger, Confabulations
"Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the feeling of the story can transform a nameless …"-John Berger, Confabulations
3. Design as Art
By: Patrick Creagh , Bruno Munari
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an il… read more
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5. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Alphabet
By: Inger Christensen , Susanna Nied
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's transl… read more
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7. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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8. Zeik niet zo
By: None , None , None
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
Over millennials wordt van alles gezegd. We zouden maar verwend zijn. Niet kunnen omgaan met ook ma… read more
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9. The Red Parts
By: Maggie Nelson
4.31
Format: 66 pages,
One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more
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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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11. The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication
By: Ruben Pater
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Design shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating across borders an… read more
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12. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
By: Riad Sattouf
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more
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13. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
14. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
15. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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16. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
17. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
18. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
19. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
20. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
By: Kat Holmes
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. Sometimes designed obje… read more
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- art design
- nonfiction
- design
22. The Beauty of Everyday Things
By: Soetsu Yanagi
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace sett… read more
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- art design
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"Disreputable and heinous acts are often carried out in the name of the nation. Nations do not always abide by the truth; instead truth is manipulated and distorted."-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colours have become garish, forms flimsy, and designs hideous. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dul…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and d…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are inf…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
23. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
24. Linghun
By: Ai Jiang
3.96
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more
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"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."-Ai Jiang, Linghun
"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"-Ai Jiang, Linghun
25. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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26. Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: John Berger
3.93
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces f… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
"Resmin ilk konusu hayvanlardı. Ve en baştan başlayıp Sümer, Asur, Mısır ve ilk dönem Yunan resminde devam eden bir çizgide, bu hayvanların tasvirleri olağanüstü derecede hakikidir. İnsan gövdesinin t…"-John Berger, Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (Penguin Great Ideas)
27. Walking. One Step at a Time
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the… read more
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"Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing."-Erling Kagge, Walking. One Step at a Time
28. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better… read more
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29. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
4.19
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequal… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
30. Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create
By: Dirk Vis
3.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From writing style and the use of visuals to formulating your topic and methodology, Dirk Vis shows… read more
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31. Feminist fataal: Alles wat je lekker zelf mag weten over gender, seks en je lichaam
By: Dorien van Linge
4.02
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Had ik dit maar geweten toen ik jonger was! dacht Dorien van Linge toen ze sociologie en genderstud… read more
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"Racisme is niet een individuele instelling, het is een systeem, dat individuen blijven uitvoeren"-Dorien van Linge, Feminist fataal: Alles wat je lekker zelf mag weten over gender, seks en je lichaam
"Misschien moeten we eerst kritisch nadenken over het systeem voordat we ambieren zelf aan de top van de piramide te komen. (over een vrouwelijk CEO willen zijn in een patriarchaat}"-Dorien van Linge, Feminist fataal: Alles wat je lekker zelf mag weten over gender, seks en je lichaam
