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Mannequin and Wife: Stories by Jen Fawkes

Mannequin and Wife: Stories

Jen Fawkes

210 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0da_bos's review
fiction short stories challenging dark reflective medium-paced
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge by V. Y. Mudimbe

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

African Systems of Thought

V. Y. Mudimbe

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0da_bos's review
nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

312 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

3.0da_bos's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker, Richard Rathbone

African History: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

John Parker, Richard Rathbone

165 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

3.0da_bos's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Impossible Missions?: German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa by Nina Berman

Impossible Missions?: German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa

Texts and Contexts

Nina Berman

274 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0da_bos's review
nonfiction business economics challenging informative medium-paced
History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa by Annie E. Coombes

History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

Annie E. Coombes

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0da_bos's review
nonfiction history race
The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa by George Steinmetz

The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa

George Steinmetz

640 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

4.0da_bos's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango

486 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction design reference informative reflective slow-paced
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1

Douglas Adams

224 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

4.0da_bos's review
fiction classics science fiction adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0da_bos's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced