Tristes Tropiques
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude…
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1. Raízes do Brasil
By: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
4.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Publicada em 1936, Raizes do Brasil aborda aspectos centrais da historia da cultura brasileira. O t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"Nossos colonizadores eram, antes de tudo, homens que sabiam repetir o que estava feito ou o que lhes ensinara a rotina. Bem assentes no solo, não tinham exigências mentais muito grandes e o Céu parec…"-Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raízes do Brasil
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
- sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
3. Argonauts of the Western Pacific
By: Bronisław Malinowski
3.75
Format: 527 pages, Paperback
The founding document of economic anthropology! Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the all-time great ant… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- anthropology
4. Auto-da-Fé
By: Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna bet… read more
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"Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
5. Tristes Tropiques
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude… read more
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- history
- travel
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
- sociology
- anthropology
6. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
4.39
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- anthropology
7. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
8. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
By: Neil Postman
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
10. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
11. America
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism take… read more
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- travel
- philosophy
- france
- nonfiction
- sociology
12. W, or the Memory of Childhood
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more
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- france
13. Macunaima
By: Mário de Andrade , None
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precurs… read more
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14. Reveries of the Solitary Walker
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Peter France
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme… read more
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15. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
16. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more
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17. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
By: Jonathan Crary
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expandi… read more
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18. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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19. 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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20. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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21. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
By: Bruce Fink
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more
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