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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,883 ratings — published 1983
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,956 ratings — published 2004
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,078 ratings — published 1918
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,590 ratings — published 1992
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,044 ratings — published 1992
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,876 ratings — published 1867
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,214 ratings — published
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.09 — 35 ratings — published 2017
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,945 ratings — published 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,497 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,647 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,748,926 ratings — published 1945
The Limits of Critique (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 375 ratings — published 2015
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,161 ratings — published 1980
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,618 ratings — published 1951
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.96 — 574,802 ratings — published 2001
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 725 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,959,736 ratings — published 1813
Teaching Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.78 — 238 ratings — published 2002
Who Wrote the Bible? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,503 ratings — published 1987
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,477 ratings — published 2006
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.93 — 67 ratings — published 2009
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,185 ratings — published 1979
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.12 — 785 ratings — published 2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,835 ratings — published 1962
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,287 ratings — published 2002
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,036 ratings — published 1949
The Varieties of Religious Experience (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 13,300 ratings — published 1902
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,315 ratings — published 1989
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,287,103 ratings — published 1954
The Axeman's Carnival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,180 ratings — published 2022
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 162 ratings — published 2000
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 801,977 ratings — published 1817
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,053,666 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,017 ratings — published 1978
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.96 — 191 ratings — published 1988
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,470 ratings — published 2011
The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,379 ratings — published 2004
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,053 ratings — published 1958
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.78 — 233,294 ratings — published 1611
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.32 — 399 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,062 ratings — published 1971
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,128 ratings — published 2007
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,850 ratings — published 2021
Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 2019
Polygamy: An Early American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.79 — 39 ratings — published 2019
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,731 ratings — published 2007
RELIGION OF A DIFFERENT COLOR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.45 — 258 ratings — published 2014
The Scholarship System: 6 Simple Steps on How to Win Scholarships and Financial Aid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.84 — 77 ratings — published 2014
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 70 ratings — published 1986
“What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past.
They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.
I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
― Words of Radiance
They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by a single conversation. No matter how broad that role is, it will be--by-nature--a reduction from the infinite variety that is womanhood.
I say that there is no role for women--there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself. For some, it will be the role of scholar; for others, it will be the role of wife. For others, it will be both. For yet others, it will be neither.
Do not mistake me in assuming I value one woman's role above another. My point is not to stratify our society--we have done that far to well already--my point is to diversify our discourse.
A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.”
― Words of Radiance
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.
Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.”
― The Dream of Scipio
Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.”
― The Dream of Scipio
