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Beyond the Gender Binary
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Alok Vaid-Menon (Goodreads Author)
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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The Drum Major Instinct: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theory of Political Service (The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights)
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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The Great Political Theories, Volume 1
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Michael Curtis (Editor, Introduction, Commentary)
3.94 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Eros the Bittersweet
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Theories of Primitive Religion
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Stigmata: Escaping Texts
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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition
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Innovations in Educational Ethnography
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Roland Barthes
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The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
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Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses
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Frederick W. Foulds (Editor)
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Archaeological Theory: An Introduction
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
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Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 236 ratings
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A General Theory of Magic
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
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Guerrilla Warfare
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The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
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Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
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Pacifism As Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
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The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
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Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
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Rob Wesson (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
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Michael Schmidt (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide to Science's Most Puzzling Discovery
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3.78 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
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Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity: Words That Changed the World
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Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You
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4.20 avg rating — 103 ratings
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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John Brockman (Editor)
3.66 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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Ejeris Dixon (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
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John Brockman (Editor)
3.51 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s
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Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life
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History of the Russian Revolution
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Music Theory in One Lesson: Discover How Easy Music Theory Can Be!
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Ross Trottier (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
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Melissa Dahl (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3
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Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
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Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
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Mel Bay Hokum: Theory & Scales for Fiddle Tunes & Fiddle Improvisation
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck
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Wage Slaves
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A Folksinger's Guide to Note Reading and Music Theory: A Manual for the Folk Guitarist
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Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
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Literary Theory For Beginners
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Out of Africa
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Music Theory For Beginners
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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Conspiracy Theory in America
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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Grand Theory in Folkloristics
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Lee Haring (Editor)
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Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
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Erika Lee (Goodreads Author)
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Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism
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Jonathan Kahana (Editor)
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Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
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WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design
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Mara Grunbaum (Goodreads Author)
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Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, and Why
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Stephen Martin (Goodreads Author)
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Garage Band Theory: Tools the Pros Use to Play by Ear
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Duke Sharp (Goodreads Author)
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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author)
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics
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Thick: And Other Essays
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Tressie McMillan Cottom (Goodreads Author)
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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
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Music Theory for Dummies
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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
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Assata: An Autobiography
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The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
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The Complete Persepolis
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Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory A Comprehensive and Convenient Guide for All Musicians | Learn Harmony, Scales, Chords, and Key Signatures | Essential Reference for Beginners and Advanced Players
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
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Gerald Mast (Editor)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
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To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
