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The history of White people by Nell Irvin Painter

Historian Painter centers her momentous study of racial classification on the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the …

Simians, Cyborgs and Women by Donna J. Haraway

The Bug by Ellen Ullman

Diaspora by Greg Egan

Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before …

One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Modern critical interpretations)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be …

Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Judith Butler

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as …

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

The "S" word by Nichols, John

A short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting. A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist …

Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

Hiding from humanity by Martha Nussbaum

Against Method by Paul Feyerabend, Ian Hacking

What you are getting wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

An insider's perspective on Appalachia, and a frank, ferocious assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and the problems …