Books on Theory

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Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Series Q)
Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Series Q) 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat
The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America 3.87 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body 4.12 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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The Nation, 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
The Nation, 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 4.17 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
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Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series)
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series) 3.92 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Comics & Media: A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry" (A Critical Inquiry Book)
Comics & Media: A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry" (A Critical Inquiry Book) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds 3.66 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (Brown Thrasher Books)
Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (Brown Thrasher Books) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor 3.46 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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Lyrical and Critical Essays
Lyrical and Critical Essays 4.30 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study
Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Purity and Danger
Purity and Danger really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs 4.05 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,284 ratings
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Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form
Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form 3.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Idea of Culture
The Idea of Culture 3.59 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays
Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ideology: An Introduction
Ideology: An Introduction 4.05 avg rating — 694 ratings
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David Bottoms: Critical Essays and Interviews
David Bottoms: Critical Essays and Interviews 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Literary into Cultural Studies
Literary into Cultural Studies 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,277 ratings
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Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture 3.67 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Race Matters: With a New Introduction
Race Matters: With a New Introduction 4.15 avg rating — 11,892 ratings
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Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object 4.13 avg rating — 197 ratings
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What Is "Your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
What Is "Your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,205 ratings
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Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 3.98 avg rating — 254 ratings
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity 3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins 3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language 4.11 avg rating — 7,327 ratings
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Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels 4.23 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 4.28 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion
In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 3.95 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History 3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
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Welfare Racism
Welfare Racism 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82 4.23 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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Labor Versus Empire
Labor Versus Empire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,961 ratings
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Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 4.14 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 4.28 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family 4.30 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 4.29 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America 3.63 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Beyond the Pleasure Principle 3.82 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds
Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria 3.37 avg rating — 3,752 ratings
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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 3.64 avg rating — 7,780 ratings
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Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America 4.01 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Uncanny
The Uncanny 3.87 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence 4.33 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 3.81 avg rating — 6,724 ratings
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cultural Studies in Question
Cultural Studies in Question it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South 4.14 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness 4.03 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul 4.10 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation 4.10 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome 3.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Disturbing Pleasures
Disturbing Pleasures 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies
Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series)
Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 4.05 avg rating — 6,388 ratings
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race
Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 4.02 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism 4.09 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina
Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society 3.87 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Female Masculinity
Female Masculinity 4.01 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Trump and a Post-Truth World
Trump and a Post-Truth World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide to Cutting-Edge Thinking
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide to Cutting-Edge Thinking 3.50 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Empire and Beyond
Empire and Beyond 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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