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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A... -
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Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time...Categorized as:
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![Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz]()
Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide--with unforeseen circumstances... -
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![1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia]()
1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMoravia's political fable about an Italian anti-Fascist and the frightened, suicide-seeking German girl he encounters on a boat to Capri--the setting of Moravia's Il disprezzo from 1954--was welcomed as one of his finest novels...Categorized as:
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Genetrix by François Mauriac
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMathilde Cazenave morte, sa belle-mère jubile : elle va pouvoir reconquérir totalement son fils bien-aimé. Félicité a tort de se réjouir trop vite, car, sur le visage apaisé de la jeune morte, Fernand entrevoit ce qu'aurait pu être le bonheur avec Mathilde... -
![Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks]()
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."-The Village Voice "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."-Sojourner "[Ain't I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change...Categorized as:
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![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![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... -
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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives...Categorized as:
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![Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks]()
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s...Categorized as:
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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... -
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![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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![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 Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam]()
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain... -
![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... -
![A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell]()
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern...Categorized as:
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![Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault]()
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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![A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]()
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings‘A rare and remarkable book.' Times Literary SupplementGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Félix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist...Categorized as:
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past...Categorized as:
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![On Lies, Secrets And Silence: Selected Prose 1966 1978 by Adrienne Rich]()
On Lies, Secrets And Silence: Selected Prose 1966 1978 by Adrienne Rich
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity...Categorized as:
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![Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin]()
Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does the Right offer to women? How does the Right mobilize women? Why is the Right succeeding in opposing women's rights? With the stark precision and forceful passion that characterize all of her work, Andrea Dworkin answers these timely questions...Categorized as:
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![A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran]()
A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual you are left... with a foolish grin" -E.M. CioranE.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science... -
![The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten]()
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this book, the world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions... -
![Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno]()
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
![Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman]()
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index... -
![The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Wiley]()
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Wiley
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable...Categorized as:
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Working by Studs Terkel
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStuds Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives...Categorized as:
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