To-Do List (Political/Non Fiction)
Explore our curated to-do list of must-read political and non-fiction books. Discover insightful titles that delve into governance, history, and societal issues to expand your knowledge and perspective.
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Fighting the Forces
by Rhonda Wilcox
Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular culture, the television series phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In …
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Red Diapers
by Judy Kaplan
Red Diapers is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by the children of American communists. These memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect the joys and …
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
by James B. South
This lively collection of essays links classical philosophy to the hit television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"--a show that explores the evil underlying everyday life, …
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Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore
Sorry excuses for the state of the nation. United States. Manifesto on malfeasance and mediocrity. Satire.
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Seven Seasons of Buffy
by Glenn Yeffeth
This collection of irreverent and surprising essays about the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer includes pieces by leading science fiction and fantasy authors. …
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Lies (and the Lying Liars who Tell Them)
by Al Franken
A New York Times Bestseller. Al Franken has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander," "bias," and …
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Reading the Vampire Slayer
by Roz Kaveney
A critical appreciation of Buffy and its spin-off series Angel, whose contributors look at the complex ways in which both shows have won the hearts …
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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
by Barbara G. Walker
Do You Know... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? how the …
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Empire
by Michael Hardt
Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the …
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Between Men
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian …
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The Bush Dyslexicon
by Mark Crispin Miller
"A particularly astute analysis of the television coverage of the campaign, the election, and the political aftermath."--Newsday
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Postmodern Fairy Tales
by Cristina Bacchilega
This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in …
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The Second Wave
by Linda J. Nicholson
This volume collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past 40 years-works which have made key contributors to feminist thought.
