Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

7 best books like Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (Susan Buck-Morss): Magic for Liars, Infidel, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, This: Becoming Free, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, Naturally Tan

Magic for Liars

Author

Sarah Gailey

Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magic. She is perfectly happy with her life—she has an almost-sustainable career as a private investigator, and an empty apartment, and a slight drinking problem. It's a great life and she doesn't wish she was like her estranged sister, the magically gifted professor...

Infidel

Author	Ayaan Hirsi Ali
ISBN	0743289684

One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	0385496095

Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Author	Wilfred Owen
ISBN	0811201325

Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...

This: Becoming Free

Author

Michael Gungor

Doubt-filled spiritual leader and reluctant Grammy-nominated Christian musician Michael Gungor finally let go of his belief in God as he tried to whittle together a god that he could love. Letting go of the stories that defined his identity and value in the world led Gungor and his family on a wild and...

Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence

Author	G.A. Cohen
ISBN	0691070687

First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has...

Naturally Tan

Author	Tan France
ISBN	1250211077

In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit QUEER EYE, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in...