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Charity Shop World: An investigation into community, consumption and waste
Tansy E. Hoskins
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Sophia Smith Galer
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
Maya Goodfellow
Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)
Amrit Wilson
Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements
Anandi Ramamurthy
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Carole Boyce Davies
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Thor Hanson
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
Lara Maiklem
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson
Peasants: Makers of the Modern World
Maryam Aslany
Decolonize Museums (Decolonize That!)
Shimrit Lee
Decolonize Multiculturalism (Decolonize That!)
Anthony C. Alessandrini
Decolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)
Kareem Khubchandani
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Gaiutra Bahadur
Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
Omar ZahZah
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Sunaura Taylor
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Sacha Coward
Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion
Eleanor Medhurst
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Virginia Postrel
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of Americaâs Shining Women
Kate Moore
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Christopher de Hamel
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Max Podemski
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff
American Bulk: Essays on Excess
Emily Mester
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