Humanity
10 best books like Humanity (Ai Weiwei): Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism, I.D., Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans, Hotel, The Amazing Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Vol. 2: The Face and the Brute, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, Stiletto, Polar, Vol. 1: Came from the Cold
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
| Author | Hanif Abdurraqib |
| ISBN | 1477316485 |
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially...
Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism
| Author | Rachel Aust |
| ISBN | 1465473505 |
Simplify life and amplify living with influencer Rachel Aust's visual guide to mastering the minimalist lifestyle.
Declutter and reorganize! Living with less contributes to a greater sense of fulfillment, contentment, and a more meaningful life. The minimalist lifestyle--focusing...
| Author | Emma Ríos |
| ISBN | 1632157829 |
Going into this story I had no expectations.
Graphic Novels are not what I read on regular basis, so I don't feel like an expert when it comes to reviewing them, but I still feel like I can tell what I liked and what I disliked in an acceptable way.
I.D. is a dystopian story told in a format of graphic...
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 1608190056 |
In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet’s most mysterious terrain. We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages....
During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy…hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped...
The Amazing Spider-Man: Life in the Mad Dog Ward
| Author | Ann Nocenti |
| ISBN | 0785185038 |
A chance encounter with two traumatized children leaves Peter Parker haunted by one question: "What's the matter with Mommy?" But his search for an answer finds him trapped in the Mad Dog Ward, an asylum for killers, psychopaths - and people who think they are super heroes... As the drugs kick in, Peter's...
Sandman Mystery Theatre, Vol. 2: The Face and the Brute
| Author | Matt Wagner |
| ISBN | 1401203450 |
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE: THE FACE AND THE BRUTE finds the Sandman of 1939, Wesley Dodds, and his possible paramour Dian Belmont, involved in a series of grisly murders in New York's Chinatown--murders that threaten to reignite the terrifying former days of the Tong Wars, a time when blood ran in the...
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 0822353733 |
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at a LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,...
”Stiletto” ligger i forlængelse af Palle Schmidts tidligere værker, ”Blodets konkubine” (2008) og ”Skyggen af bevis” (2005), hvoraf førstnævnte blev udsendt på amerikansk i 2012.
To strømere, der er babysittere for et vidne, skydes ned på klods hold på det hotel,...
Polar, Vol. 1: Came from the Cold
| Author | Víctor Santos |
| ISBN | 1616552328 |
Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world's most deadly spy—Black Kaiser—is on a collision course with a stab-happy torture expert and a seductive but deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him, and he's not in the habit of dying. This webcomic...
Part of My Soul Went with Him
| Author | Winnie Mandela |
| ISBN | 0393302903 |
Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible & articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a banned person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest & was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one person at a time. She endured a forced separation...
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 1932416374 |
From the bestselling author of Tenth of December comes a splendid new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with the illustrator behind The Stinky Cheese Man and James and the Giant Peach! Featuring fifty-two haunting and hilarious images, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a modern fable for...
| Author | Jasmine Dreame Wagner |
| ISBN | 1934103691 |
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. ON A CLEAR DAY, the second full-length book by Brooklyn- based musician, poet, and essayist Jasmine Dreame Wagner, looks toward horizons past and present, natural and synthetic, individual and communal. Over the course of this formidable project,...
Three Plays: Involuntary Homicide / The Green Stockings / The Ghost is Here
| Author | Kōbō Abe |
| ISBN | 0231082819 |
Kobo Abe (1924-1993) was one of Japan's most prominent contemporary writers. Born in Japan but raised in Manchuria, he is perhaps best known for his 1962 novel, The Woman in the Dunes, though he was also a prominent screenwriter, producer and director. Like the works of Beckett and Ionesco, Abe's plays...
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
| Author | Muhammad Yunus |
| ISBN | 1610397576 |
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating...
| Author | Josh Simmons |
| ISBN | 1560979135 |
The creator of "House" embarks on a life-spanning epic.
Hot on the heels of his first graphic novel, "House," Josh Simmons' "Jessica Farm" fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with his signature macabre sensibility in this atmospheric new graphic novel....
| Author | Alejandro Luque |
| ISBN | 1909961442 |
When Alejandro Luque received a book of photographs of the Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Sicily he decided to trace the writer’s journey, setting off with a group of friends on his own Sicilian odyssey.
Meticulously identifying the location of each photograph, Luque uses the photographs...
God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations
| Author | Desmond Tutu |
| ISBN | 0061874620 |
In this essential collection of Desmond Tutu’s most historic and controversial speeches and writings, we witness his unique career of provoking the powerful and confronting the world in order to protect the oppressed, the poor, and other victims of injustice.
Renowned first for his courageous...
