Psychogeography
8 best books like Psychogeography (Merlin Coverley): Reticence, The Parisian, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Shah of Shahs, The Shadow-Line, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, Where I Was From, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
| Author | Gail Carriger |
| ISBN | 0316433918 |
Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her...
| Author | Isabella Hammad |
| ISBN | 1473547679 |
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous...
Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led...
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| ISBN | 0679738010 |
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801708 |
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first...
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
| Author | Molly Smith |
| ISBN | 1786633604 |
You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against it!" Or, perhaps just against the buyers. What do sex workers want? That's not something you hear asked very...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0679752862 |
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship...
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
| Author | Marc Augé |
| ISBN | 1859840515 |
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls ‘non-space’ results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only...
