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The Woman in White (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 170,405 ratings — published 1859
Lady Audley's Secret (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 27,208 ratings — published 1862
The Moonstone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 100,806 ratings — published 1868
East Lynne (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 5,426 ratings — published 1861
Armadale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,455 ratings — published 1866
Aurora Floyd (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,814 ratings — published 1863
Uncle Silas (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 7,359 ratings — published 1864
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 890,720 ratings — published 1861
The Law and the Lady (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,496 ratings — published 1875
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 79,685 ratings — published 1884
No Name (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 10,205 ratings — published 1862
Drowning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 60,011 ratings — published 2021
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,867 ratings — published 1757
Falling (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 100,944 ratings — published 2021
The Holdout (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 35,996 ratings — published 2020
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,188 ratings — published 2000
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 445 ratings — published 2015
香 (沙发图书馆) (Chinese Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 70,825 ratings — published 1913
Yesterday's Burdens (Lost American Fiction)
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avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 1933
Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2010
Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.15 — 13 ratings — published
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 377 ratings — published 2013
The Heir of Ravenswick (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published
Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
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avg rating 3.38 — 24 ratings — published 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Lines)
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avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published
Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2024
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
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avg rating 3.67 — 85,112 ratings — published 2014
Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 43 ratings — published 1996
Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 327,210 ratings — published 2014
The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 795 ratings — published 1977
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,269 ratings — published 2005
Ecotopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 6,336 ratings — published 1975
The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
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avg rating 4.03 — 97 ratings — published 2012
Eating in Theory (Experimental Futures)
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avg rating 4.09 — 64 ratings — published
Eating Is an English Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 831 ratings — published 2012
Le temps, le désir et l'horreur. Essais sur le XIXe siècle (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published 1991
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 228 ratings — published 1982
Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 1998
Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,720 ratings — published 1985
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,088 ratings — published 2024
Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress (Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 113 ratings — published 1999
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 896 ratings — published 1987
“Suppose now one of your hands hot, and the other cold, and that they are both at once put into the same vessel of water, in an intermediate state, will not the water seem cold to one hand, and warm to the other?”
― Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
― Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
“Things as they are clash with things as our top-down invariant processes expect them to be. We shove sensation through the filter of the past to make the future predictable. In the process, we lose the present. But because the present is all that exists, we have lost everything in the bargain.”
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being












