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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,353 ratings — published 2019
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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2,743 ratings — published 2021
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 20,454 ratings — published 2014
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 3,602 ratings — published 2020
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Undocumented: A Worker's Fight Undocumented: A Worker's Fight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 613 ratings — published 2018
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The Strange The Strange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 445 ratings — published 2018
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Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 3.98 — 534 ratings — published 2019
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YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 3.75 — 494 ratings — published 2001
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Check Your Privilege: Live Into The Work Check Your Privilege: Live Into The Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 309 ratings — published
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Anarchy Explained To My Father Anarchy Explained To My Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,179 ratings — published 1887
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The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Historical Materialism) The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Historical Materialism)
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avg rating 4.31 — 61 ratings — published 2009
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Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 40 ratings — published 2017
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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,856 ratings — published 2019
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Blink Blink (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,372 ratings — published 2002
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Babel Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 467,095 ratings — published 2022
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Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1) Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 47,833 ratings — published 2018
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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 108,462 ratings — published 2017
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Dune (Dune, #1) Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,624,156 ratings — published 1965
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Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2) Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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avg rating 4.50 — 470,141 ratings — published 2015
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 766,109 ratings — published 2014
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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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avg rating 4.59 — 194,421 ratings — published 2023
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The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3) The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,390 ratings — published 2024
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The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2) The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,664 ratings — published 2023
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The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15,651 ratings — published 2022
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Chomsky On Anarchism Chomsky On Anarchism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,575 ratings — published 2005
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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 422 ratings — published 2010
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
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avg rating 4.25 — 9,953 ratings — published 2017
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 11,105 ratings — published 2021
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,267 ratings — published 1987
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 5,619 ratings — published 2005
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,435 ratings — published 2020
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Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1) Immortal Longings (Flesh and False Gods, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 28,074 ratings — published 2023
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Vow of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #2) Vow of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #2)
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avg rating 4.30 — 112,449 ratings — published 2019
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A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4) A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 82,392 ratings — published 2020
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 15,709 ratings — published 2018
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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as poltical)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,287 ratings — published 2016
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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,460 ratings — published 2013
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 62,827 ratings — published 2012
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The Art of War The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 570,238 ratings — published -500
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Two Treatises of Government Two Treatises of Government (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 19,617 ratings — published 1689
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The Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 197,704 ratings — published 1848
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1) The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 12,371 ratings — published 2003
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The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics) The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,101 ratings — published 1952
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The Federalist Papers The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 42,059 ratings — published 1788
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 6,027 ratings — published 1974
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Democracy in America Democracy in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,020 ratings — published 1835
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The Origins of Totalitarianism The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,726 ratings — published 1951
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator How to Stand Up to a Dictator (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 6,840 ratings — published 2022
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Robert Michels
“The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority.”
Robert Michels

Terry Eagleton
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations which can be abstracted from this concrete whole. It must be a question of political and not only of ‘moral’ argument: that is to say, it must be genuine moral argument, which sees the relations between individual qualities and values and our whole material conditions of existence. Political argument is not an alternative to moral preoccupations: it is those preoccupations taken seriously in their full implications.”
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction

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