My reading recommendations (anthologies and readers not allowed here).
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Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
4 stars
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought …
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
5 stars
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology …
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Critique of Economic Reason by André Gorz
5 stars
In Critique of Economic Reason, André Gorz offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a system …
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It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and …
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Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma
Azuma’s Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, …
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Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
4 stars
A journalist's provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a manNorah Vincent became an instant media …
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I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction …
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Identity and Difference by Martin Heidegger
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Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by …
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Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang
This is a text in basic mathematics with multiple uses for either high school or college level courses. Readers will …
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Understanding Symbolic Logic by Virginia Klenk
This comprehensive introduction presents the fundamentals of symbolic logic clearly, systematically, and in a straightforward style accessible to readers. Each …
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An Introduction to Japanese by Michiel Kamermans
Starting at the very basics and working its way up to important language constructions, "An introduction to Japanese" offers beginning …
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Understanding Capital by Duncan K. Foley
Understanding Capital is a brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory. Duncan Foley builds an understanding of the theory systematically, …
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Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling
By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind …
