26 books
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11 voters
Destruction Books
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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,690 ratings — published 2005
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 52,424 ratings — published 2009
The Darkest Path (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,174 ratings — published 2013
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 61,333 ratings — published 1993
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 783 ratings — published 2003
Last Full Measure (Star Trek: Enterprise #10)
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avg rating 3.67 — 547 ratings — published 2006
Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,336 ratings — published 2001
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 90,716 ratings — published 2010
The Fire-Eaters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 1,316 ratings — published 2003
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2005
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published
The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.70 — 105 ratings — published
Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2013
The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1973
Death Activism: Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman (Posthumanism in Practice)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Book of Dead Philosophers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,177 ratings — published 2008
Queer Necropolitics (Social Justice)
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avg rating 4.25 — 60 ratings — published 2012
Law in Crisis: The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster (The Cultural Lives of Law)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1998
Notes on Suicide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,507 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,013 ratings — published 2017
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 15 ratings — published
E. N. D.: Exploring Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
The Dominion of the Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 197 ratings — published 2003
Desiring the Dead (Legenda)
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avg rating 4.20 — 15 ratings — published 2003
The Idea of Decline in Western History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 240 ratings — published 1997
Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 31 ratings — published
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 40 ratings — published
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 70 ratings — published 2022
The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published
The Unburied: The Social Lives of Corpses in Qing China (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Ruins of Modernity (Politics, History, and Culture)
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avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2009
Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1994
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
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avg rating 3.88 — 85 ratings — published 2000
American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 1985
Mengele's Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 69 ratings — published 2012
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 87 ratings — published 2004
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,467 ratings — published 1998
Convicting the Innocent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 90 ratings — published
Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 116 ratings — published
Death: An Essay on Finitude (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 29 ratings — published 1994
Abortion: Three Perspectives (Point/Counterpoint)
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avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 2009
The Metamorphosis of Finitude: An Essay on Birth and Resurrection (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2012
Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Volume 4)
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avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 1994
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 445 ratings — published
Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published 1999
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 2011
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstrm (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 79 ratings — published 2010
Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2012
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
{Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}”
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{Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}”
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“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief












