History & Culture

The Beekeeper Of Sinjar (PL)

The Beekeeper Of Sinjar (PL)

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Translated by Max Weiss Either we die here, or we escape together. A deeply moving story of courage in the face of unimaginable adversity. In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed...
We Come With this Place (PL)

We Come With this Place (PL)

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A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great...
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Ancient China

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An Illustrated Introduction to the History, People, Culture and Beyond Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, this book chronicles “ major” events which led to the rise and fall...
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To Stand with Palestine

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Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized...
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Toitū Te Whenua

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Places and People of the New Zealand Wars An accessible guide to significant places and people of the New Zealand Wars from a Maori perspective. This comprehensive guidebook journeys through...
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.On...
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Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation

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Our blood has stories to tell, and we are told stories about blood. Globally, blood is a story that is built — whose blood counts, whose blood spills and whose...
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Cave of My Ancestors

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Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora Exploring family stories reveals the rich history of a seventh-century Buddhist shrine. As a young girl in Bombay, Kirin Narayan was enthralled by her...
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The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto

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How can we make media anti-racist? The rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was...
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My Palestine: An Impossible Exile

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A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced...
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Grievance: In Fragments

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Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance. Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the...
Ngardi to English Dictionary

Ngardi to English Dictionary

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Representing the collaborative efforts of Ngardi Elders and linguists over more than 40 years, this is the most comprehensive documentation ever of Ngardi, a language of the northern Western Desert...
Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience

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An amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda...
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Between Two Rivers

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Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very...
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph cover image

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

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A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated...
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Dear Bi Men

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A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure An unapologetic guide for readers who are Black, masc, and bi—unlearning biphobia, coming out, combatting erasure, and...
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The Caribbean Race Reader

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From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates,...
All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah cover image

All She Lost

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The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad investigates the modern history of...
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For the Culture

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The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do and Who We Want to Be From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyoncé, discover how you can harness the...
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Farmers' Protest

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Why the Indian Farmers went on strike The first responders to India's climate challenges Under colonial rule in India in 1917, Mohandas K Gandhi led a satyagraha alongside local farmers...
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We Have Never Been Woke

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The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged Society...
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Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling

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Divining with Tarot, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, and More In Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling, Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele share the knowledge and personal experiences of being raised to be fortune-tellers....
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American Dark Age

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Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers Though the United States has been heralded...
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This Fiction Called Nigeria

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The Struggle for Democracy An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?

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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite...
An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included)

An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included)

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A delectable collection that serves up Chinese flavour beyond its taste 'I started stitching together my story through a different, universal language: food.' An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not...
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

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Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our...
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Slaves for Peanuts

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A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman Prize “Slaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinating...
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Land Back

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Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near complete loss...
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The Food of Bharat

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A Chef's Journey through India's Rich Culinary History A cookbook like no other, The Food of Bharat is a deep dive into India’s culinary history, exploring how Indian cuisine has...
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The Islamic Moses

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How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World A theological and historical exploration of the connection between Islam and Judaism through the single most-mentioned...
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A Theory of Everyone

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Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on...
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The Burning Earth

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An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In...
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Race and Entertainment

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Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media Can you write a Black character? Are they going to be authentic? Are you aware of the pitfalls writers often fall...
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Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity

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A groundbreaking deep dive into the history, politics and lived experiences of three often-misunderstood identities: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender. How did asexual identity form? What is aromanticism? How does agender identity...
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Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom

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The debut work of non-fiction by award-winning slam poet Vanessa Kisuule, this is a love letter to the musicians we adore and an unflinching look at the costs of hero...
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How to Lose a Country

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The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism  An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and...
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Scenes of Subjection

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Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery...
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Breakthrough: The Quest for Lifesaving Medicines

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A world-class scientist shares an expert insider view of how real medical science happens, and how teams of brilliant people tackled some of the worst diseases in the world. We...
The Politics of Sorrow: Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) cover image

The Politics of Sorrow

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Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders...
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The Fourth Invasion

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Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an Ixil Maya community's movement against the construction of...
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Where We Stand

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The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil “Part theory, part manifesto, part history. . . . [Where We Stand] has the makings of...
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Whose Language Is English?

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An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization Whose language is English? Although we often think of it...
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Undisciplined

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Reclaiming the Right to Imagine Undisciplined is an odyssey into possibility. Challenging us to break free from limiting strictures and structures, it encourages readers to envision just futures and reflect...
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The Prince Who Beat the Empire

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How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company An acclaimed history of empire and resistance: this is the moving story of the rebel prince who...
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Liberating Abortion

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Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we...
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Culture and Imperialism

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From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru 'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of...
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Poor Artists

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A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the fieldAt a moment in which working as a professional artist is...
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From Development to Democracy

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The Transformations of Modern Asia Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer―and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by...
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied...