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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Umoja Noble

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction computer science feminism gender race sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Minority Education in China: Balancing Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Pluralism by

Minority Education in China: Balancing Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Pluralism

Education in China: Reform and Diversity

425 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

3.5tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction education history medium-paced
Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development by Emily T. Yeh

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

Emily T. Yeh

344 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

2.75tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction informative medium-paced
Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger

Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

Manduhai Buyandelger

336 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

3.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Not Quite Shamans by Morten Axel Pedersen
Not Quite Shamans
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Morten Axel Pedersen

Not Quite Shamans

Morten Axel Pedersen

264 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

3.5tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India by Nayanika Mathur
Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India
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Nayanika Mathur

Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India

Nayanika Mathur

203 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction politics reference sociology informative slow-paced
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

177 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

4.5tortoisemonster's review
fiction classics literary dark reflective sad medium-paced
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

242 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

3.0tortoisemonster's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran by Nima Naghibi

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran

Nima Naghibi

187 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

3.5tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
Thinking Through the Skin by Sara Ahmed

Thinking Through the Skin

Sara Ahmed

256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced