Aleks Bhagvasur

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Aleks Bhagvasur

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The Linguistics Wars

Added to listLinguisticswith 2 books.

The Linguistics Warsby

Randy Allen Harris

The Linguistics Wars

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Early Riders

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Early Riders

Added to listLinguisticswith 2 books.

Robert Drews

Aleks Bhagvasur

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The scientific image

Added to listPhilosophy Of Sciencewith 53 books.

The scientific imageby

Bas C. Van Fraassen

The scientific image

Scientific Realism

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized

Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science

Depth

Aleks Bhagvasur

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Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

Added to listVery Short Introswith 9 books.

Rousseau: A Very Short Introductionby

Robert Wokler

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction

Hume: A Very Short Introduction

Locke: A Very Short Introduction

Descartes: A Very Short Introduction

Leibniz

Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction

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Movin' On Up

Added to listArtwith 26 books.

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Movin' On Up

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy

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Power and Imagination

Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance

Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

Added to listUrban Designwith 27 books.

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzevilleby

Michelle R. Boyd

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

Walkable City

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York

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Mapping Decline

Downtown

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ballast

Added to listPoetrywith 3 books.

Quenton Baker

ballast

Pessoa: A Biography

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A Street in Bronzeville

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Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture

Added to listArchitecturewith 4 books.

Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architectureby

Hugh Sinclair Morrison

Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture

Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Lost Chicago

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Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

Added to listChicagowith 48 books.

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzevilleby

Michelle R. Boyd

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville

The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman

Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97

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Silver, Sword, and Stone – Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

Added to listChicagowith 34 books.

Silver, Sword, and Stone – Three Crucibles in the Latin American Storyby

Marie Arana

Silver, Sword, and Stone – Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Chicago

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Chicago

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Added to listSex Ualitywith 22 books.

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurityby

José Esteban Muñoz

Cruising utopia

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture

Manliness

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The Social Animal

Added to listPsychologywith 95 books.

The Social Animalby

The Social Animal

American Psychosis

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

The Escape of the Mind

Breakdown of Will

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Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics: Part II. Fibre Bundles, Topology and Gauge Fields

Added to listMath Physwith 1 book.

Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics: Part II. Fibre Bundles, Topology and Gauge Fieldsby

Aleks Bhagvasur

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From Darwin to Derrida

Added to listBio Scienceswith 16 books.

From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Lifeby

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From Darwin to Derrida

Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature

Structural and Functional Domains of the V-myb Oncogene

The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Aleks Bhagvasur

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A Short History of Tokyo

Added to listTravelwith 1 book.

A Short History of Tokyoby

Jonathan Clements

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Pessoa: A Biography

Added to listLiterary Studieswith 10 books.

Pessoa: A Biographyby

Richard Zenith

Pessoa: A Biography

The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The Intellectuals and The Masses

Morphology of the Folktale

Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

The Invention of Prose

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Anarchy and anarchists. A history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe. Communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed. The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy...

Added to listHistory Of Citieswith 12 books.

Anarchy and anarchists. A history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe. Communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed. The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy...by

Michael J. Schaack

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Anarchy and anarchists. A history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe. Communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed. The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy...

Bourbon Street: A History

Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Whose Detroit?

Detroit

Family Properties : Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

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What is History?

Added to listHistoriographywith 22 books.

What is History?by

Edward Hallett Carr

What is History?

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Postmodern History Reader

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World-Systems Analysis

The Long Twentieth Century

Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Added to listEducation Pedagogywith 14 books.

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Upby

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

A Third University Is Possible

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The Modern School Movement

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom

Deschooling Society

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Aleks Bhagvasur

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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

Added to listNew Yorkwith 13 books.

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940by

George Chauncey

Gay New York

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York

Aleks Bhagvasur

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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Added to listHistory Of Ideas Things Peoplewith 66 books.

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Upby

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Rules

Human Extinction

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Aleks Bhagvasur

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

Added to listHistory Ancientwith 13 books.

Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern Worldby

Patricia Crone

Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

Trickster Travels

Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy: Challenging Stone Age Stories

The Bible Unearthed

Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?

Making Civilizations: The World Before 600

The Prehistory of Private Property

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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

Added to listOrganizing Activismwith 19 books.

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautifulby

Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

Seeing Like an Activist

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

Added to listHistory Microwith 10 books.

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slaveryby

Siddharth Kara

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate

Swansong 1945

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Magnetic Mountain

An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries

Montaillou

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

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The Dark Valley

Added to listHistory Culturalwith 49 books.

The Dark Valleyby

Piers Brendon

The Dark Valley

The Pursuit of the Millennium

How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

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Power and Imagination

Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance

Naming Names

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