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All About Love: New Visions
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Regarding the Pain of Others
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and …
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outsi…
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Coexistence: Stories
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The Cancer Journals
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave tr…
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On Photography
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When …
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet coun…
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies)
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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative.
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