Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
3.93
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space—and a bold …
Want to Read $ 16.13"I'll stand by my usual tactics here and say that it doesn't matter whether this sort of pantheism, or any sort of pantheism, is "true." What matters is the way any given mythology prompts us to interact with the world we're part of—the world each of our actions helps to make and unmake. And frankly, some mythologies prompt us to act better than others."-Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
"You may have noticed that in the midst of all this quantitative thinking, the qualitative disappears completely. Our minds become so dazzled at the thought of a scadzillion descendants on a million planets in a high-tech mulitiversal simulation that we forget to ask, not so much what kinds of lives the rich guys' progeny will lead but what kinds of lives the rest of us will continue to live in order to sustain this overgrown gamer fantasy."-Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
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1. Things from the Flood (Tales from the Loop, #2)
By: Simon Stålenhag
4.35
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
The Loop is closed. Life is returning to normal when the pastoral countryside is suddenly flooded b… read more
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2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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4. Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
By: Christopher Hitchens , Joe Sacco
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Contentand Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazdeis the long-a… read more
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5. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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6. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin
5.00
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The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more
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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. Tales from the Loop
By: Simon Stålenhag
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world's largest particle accelerato… read more
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9. Depois a louca sou eu
By: Tati Bernardi
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Em Depois a louca sou eu, Tati Bernardi escreve sobre a ansiedade com um estilo escrachado, agil, i… read more
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10. The Road to Roswell
By: Connie Willis
3.74
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more
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11. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
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12. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
By: Talia Lavin
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more
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"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
13. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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14. Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
By: Leïla Slimani
3.92
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
Comme un écrivain qui pense que « toute audace véritable vient de l’intérieur », Leïla Slimani n’ai… read more
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"Escribir no es expresar una cultura sino desprenderse de ella, si esta se encierra en prohibiciones e imperativos."-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"En mi opinión, ni el discurso que glorifica el mestizaje ni el que se siente amenazado por este han entendido la complejidad de una identidad doble. Es simultáneamente incomodidad y libertad, disgust…"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"La dominación colonial —he acabado entendiéndolo— moldea no solo las mentes sino también los cuerpos, los constriñe y encierra. El dominado no se atreve a moverse, a rebelarse, a cruzar sus límites… …"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
"Jamás pude descansar en el confort frío de la indiferencia. El transeúnte que pasa por la calle, la panadera que habla en un tono muy alto, el viejecito que camina lentamente, la niñera que sueña sen…"-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit
15. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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16. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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17. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
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To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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18. Paying the Land
By: Joe Sacco
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To … read more
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19. Memory's Legion
By: James S.A. Corey
4.37
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more
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20. Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
By: John Gray
3.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The author of Straw Dogs , famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusi… read more
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"Morality has many charms. What could be more captivating than a vision of everlasting justice? Yet visions of justice are as immutable as styles in shoes."-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"All these philosophies(Stoicism,Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism)have a common failing. They imagine life can be ordered by human reason. Either the Mind can devise a way of life that is secure from loss ,or…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Cats have no need of philosophy. Obeying their nature, they are content with the life it gives them. In humans, on the other hand, discontent with their nature seems to be natural. With predictably t…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Instead of being a sign of their inferiority, the lack of abstract thinking among cats is a mark of their freedom of mind. Thinking in generalities slides easily into a superstitious faith in languag…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
21. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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22. Moonbound
By: Robin Sloan
4.09
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more
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23. Falar Piano e Tocar Francês - Arte, cultura e humanismo na era dos memes
By: Martim Sousa Tavares
4.35
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Partindo da sua experiência pessoal como artista e divulgador cultural, Martim Sousa Tavares convoc… read more
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24. Picture in the Sand
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3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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25. Essa gente
By: Chico Buarque
3.63
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Um escritor decadente enfrenta uma crise financeira e afetiva enquanto o Rio de Janeiro colapsa à s… read more
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26. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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27. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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28. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
29. Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
By: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
3.93
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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"I'll stand by my usual tactics here and say that it doesn't matter whether this sort of pantheism, or any sort of pantheism, is "true." What matters is the way any given mythology prompts us to inter…"-Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
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30. O que é que eu estou aqui a fazer? - João Francisco Gomes conversa com Ricardo Araújo Pereira sobre Deus, a fé, o humor e a morte
By: João Francisco Gomes
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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31. Lugares Escondidos da Mente: Do mais sombrio ao mais luminoso da natureza humana
By: João Carlos Melo
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Todas as coisas, todos os comportamentos, todas as pessoas têm um outro lado. A outra face da moeda… read more
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