Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
By: Noam Chomsky
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
This introduces the propaganda model of media analysis, noting that resistance is possible, necessa…
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1. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
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. Journey Into Darkness (Mindhunter #2)
By: None , Mark Olshaker , John E. Douglas
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Mindhunter," John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Invest… read more
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4. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more
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5. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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6. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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7. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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8. 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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9. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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10. From Bauhaus to Our House
By: Tom Wolfe
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and i… read more
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11. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
By: Noam Chomsky
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
This introduces the propaganda model of media analysis, noting that resistance is possible, necessa… read more
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- sociology
12. To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
By: Erich Fromm
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less … read more
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13. Operación Masacre
By: Rodolfo Walsh
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
El 9 de junio de 1956 los generales Tanco y Valle se sublevaron contra el gobierno de facto que hab… read more
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14. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
15. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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16. Liberalism: A Counter-History
By: Domenico Losurdo , Gregory Elliott
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues… read more
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17. What Is Philosophy?
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Called by many France's leading intellectual, Gilles Deleuze is one of the most important philosoph… read more
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18. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
By: Paul A. Offit
3.64
Format: 288 pages,
How did we get to a place where vaccines are viewed with horror rather than as life-saving medicine… read more
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19. Indignation
By: Philip Roth
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying … read more
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20. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat… read more
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21. The Roots of Romanticism
By: Isaiah Berlin , Henry Hardy
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
"The Roots of Romanticism" at last makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated … read more
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22. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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23. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
By: Joel Bakan
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Docum… read more
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24. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
25. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
26. The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
By: John J. Mearsheimer
4.09
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal… read more
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27. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
28. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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29. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.39
Format: 353 pages, ebook
La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more
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30. Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
4.28
Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more
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"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
31. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
By: Christopher Leonard
4.30
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private com… read more
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