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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 446 ratings — published 1999
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,470 ratings — published 2007
One of a Kind: A Story About Sorting and Classifying (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 84 ratings — published
Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 254 ratings — published 2017
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,116 ratings — published 1987
The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17 ratings — published
Aryan Ancestors, Pariahs and the Lunatic Fringe (ebook)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,946 ratings — published 2024
Far-Right Politics and the Study of Esotericism (ebook)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6,990 ratings — published 2021
We Have Always Fought: Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 46,238 ratings — published 2025
Accusation in a Mirror (ebook)
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avg rating 2.50 — 4 ratings — published
Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death
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avg rating 3.69 — 16 ratings — published 2019
KLB Biology: SHS; Form 1 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 138 ratings — published
Don't Trust Fish (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 2,905 ratings — published 2025
Like and unlike: a first look at classification (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1973
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 382 ratings — published 2014
Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 53 ratings — published 1971
The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 43 ratings — published 2002
Elements of Library Classification (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Integration is a Bitch! An Assessment by a Black, White-Collar Worker (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 16 ratings — published
On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 67 ratings — published 2024
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 335 ratings — published 2013
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 239 ratings — published 2012
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 343,691 ratings — published 2015
The Ethos Effect (Parafaith, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,039 ratings — published 2003
Some of These Are Snails (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 316 ratings — published 2023
Information Access Through The Subject : An Annotated Bibliography (ebook)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 164,875 ratings — published 2020
Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control (Library Reprint)
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avg rating 3.81 — 21 ratings — published 1978
“A Prison of Our Own Sins”: The Unacknowledged Legacy of 19th Century Slave Narratives in HBO’s Westworld and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (ebook)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Fifth Kingdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 53 ratings — published 1992
Biostatistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 25 ratings — published
Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 94 ratings — published 2017
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies)
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avg rating 4.32 — 872 ratings — published 1970
Amara's Farm (Where in the Garden #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 444 ratings — published 2021
Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 616 ratings — published 2019
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published 2009
Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness (Chandos Knowledge Management)
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avg rating 3.95 — 64 ratings — published 2007
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (Publications on the Near East)
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avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 2007
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's "Orientalism" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 132 ratings — published 2007
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 137,077 ratings — published 1845
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.46 — 13 ratings — published
Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East' (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 101 ratings — published 1999
Pluralism at the Twilight of Franco’s Spain: Antifascist and Intersectional Practice (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research (ebook)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2015
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 60,435 ratings — published 2010
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book)
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avg rating 4.35 — 552,449 ratings — published 1969
“We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.”
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
