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History26

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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
4.21 average rating, · 43k ratings
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Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.43 average rating, · 19k ratings
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes
4.08 average rating, · 17.5k ratings
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Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Mona Chollet
4.03 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
4.21 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
4.02 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Eduardo Galeano
4.39 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
4.14 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
4.22 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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This Is What Inequality Looks Like
Teo You Yenn
4.45 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
4.10 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
4.00 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Les ingénieurs du chaos
Giuliano da Empoli
4.22 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Beauté fatale : Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine
Mona Chollet
4.12 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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A vida não é útil
Ailton Krenak
4.31 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
Byung-Chul Han
4.08 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
Malcolm Gladwell
4.27 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Michel Foucault
4.14 average rating, · 3k ratings
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La revuelta de las putas
Amelia Tiganus
4.50 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said
4.00 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Laurie Penny
4.01 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks
4.36 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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