Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
By: Alex M. Nading
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that peop…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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3. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
4. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
5. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.85
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the the… read more
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"Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea."-E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
6. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.04
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes no… read more
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- anthropology
7. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages,
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more
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9. Žižek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wi… read more
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10. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
By: Agatha Christie
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile th… read more
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"Put that in your mustache and smoke it."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
11. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
12. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
13. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
By: Annemarie Mol
4.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a… read more
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14. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthumanities Book 41)
By: María Puig de la Bellacasa
4.03
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A mora… read more
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15. Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
By: Alex M. Nading
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that peop… read more
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