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Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades... -
![Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber]()
Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMark Zuckerberg's ‘A Year of Books’ SelectionGeorge Orwell’s bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984... -
![Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici]()
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsCaliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction...Categorized as:
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![Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries]()
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong...Categorized as:
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![The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro]()
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the... -
![The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson]()
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn Unabridged Edition to include a Foreword by the Author and all Eighteen Chapters with Appendix: The Seat of the Trouble - How We Missed the Mark - How We Drifted Away from the Truth - Education under Outside Control - The Failure to Learn to Make a Living - The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses - Dissension and Weakness - Professional Educated Discouraged - Political Education Neglected - The... -
![The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee]()
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSpanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’...Categorized as:
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![Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro]()
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate... -
![And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts]()
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century... -
![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
![Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman]()
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity...Categorized as:
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![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
![The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs]()
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured...Categorized as:
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![The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Jennifer Wiltsie]()
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Jennifer Wiltsie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsNaomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times...Categorized as:
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![The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul-Sartre]()
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul-Sartre
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history...Categorized as:
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![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt]()
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn an age of strong-man leaders, mass populist movements and media disinformation, The Origins of Totalitarianism has soared back into the public consciousness and become essential reading for our times... -
![The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison]()
The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America... -
![Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky]()
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order...Categorized as:
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![Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, Kwame Anthony Appiah]()
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFew modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers...Categorized as:
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![The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Vol. 3, Parts 5-7 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry Willetts]()
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Vol. 3, Parts 5-7 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry Willetts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDescribes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of... -
![Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises]()
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Human Action, Mises starts from the ideas set forth in his Theory and History that all actions and decisions are based on human needs, wants, and desires and continues deeper and further to explain how studying this human action is not only a legitimate science (praxeology) but how that science is based on the foundation of free-market economics... -
![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder]()
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power...Categorized as:
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![Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche]()
Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche became one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, whose attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality and philosophy would deeply affect generations of philosophers, psychologists and authors...Categorized as:
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![The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith]()
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFor eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to...Categorized as:
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![The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene]()
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStrategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , and Mastery espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy, ensnare an unsuspecting victim, or become the greatest in your field... -
![Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher, Марк Фишер]()
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher, Марк Фишер
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system...Categorized as:
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![Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber]()
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA fascinating chronicle of little known history of Debt Must we always repay our debts? Wasnt money invented to replace ancient barter systems? Apparently not, according to Yale-bred anthropologist David Graeber. In a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, Graeber radically challenges our understanding of debt...
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