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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,248 ratings — published 2004
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 115 ratings — published 2013
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The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 5,592 ratings — published 1903
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Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 375 ratings — published 2012
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The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
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avg rating 3.43 — 54 ratings — published 1999
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Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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avg rating 3.67 — 46 ratings — published 2006
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books) Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books)
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avg rating 3.81 — 464 ratings — published 2006
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Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise) Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
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avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published
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The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 65 ratings — published
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,684 ratings — published 2016
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Precarious Japan Precarious Japan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 186 ratings — published 2013
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Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
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avg rating 4.13 — 39 ratings — published 2013
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The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 2013
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The Queer Art of Failure The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,833 ratings — published 2011
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Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 86 ratings — published 2009
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Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Túpac Amaru (Latin America in Translation) Revolution in the Andes: The Age of Túpac Amaru (Latin America in Translation)
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avg rating 3.82 — 71 ratings — published 2010
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Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí (Latin America Otherwise) Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí (Latin America Otherwise)
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avg rating 3.58 — 53 ratings — published 2005
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,430 ratings — published 2007
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Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 255 ratings — published 2006
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Pollution Is Colonialism Pollution Is Colonialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 728 ratings — published 2021
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Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 241 ratings — published 2019
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The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 201 ratings — published 2019
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 385 ratings — published 2014
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 393 ratings — published 2007
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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 112 ratings — published 1940
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Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 1997
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7,472 ratings — published 1991
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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 53 ratings — published 1988
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 97 ratings — published 1990
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No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
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Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains (Thought in the Act) Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains (Thought in the Act)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
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Roadrunner: A Song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (Singles) Roadrunner: A Song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (Singles)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57 ratings — published
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On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 699 ratings — published 1984
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Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published
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The Inheritance The Inheritance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 24 ratings — published
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Gestures of Concern (a Cultural Politics book) Gestures of Concern (a Cultural Politics book)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published
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Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2009
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Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Radical Perspectives) Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Radical Perspectives)
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avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2008
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Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2008
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The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Post-Contemporary Interventions) The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1996
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Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 2003
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Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 22 ratings — published 2006
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Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 16 ratings — published
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Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 101 ratings — published
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The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published
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How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 29 ratings — published
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Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 17 ratings — published
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