The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity
8 best books like The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity (Ashley Montagu): My Life as a Rat, The Souls of Black Folk, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Meg, Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0062899902 |
“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?” --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
| Author | Douglas A. Blackmon |
| ISBN | 0385506252 |
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
| Author | Andrew Solomon |
| ISBN | 0684854678 |
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...
| Author | Steve Alten |
| ISBN | 0976165910 |
Revised and Expanded. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't...
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846972531 |
As a comic novelist myself, I really ought to hate Alexander McCall Smith. Not because of his extraordinary success, though that's undeniably enviable; nor even because of his ability to churn out fine novels with a regularity that would shame a sausage machine; but because of the sheer facility with...
The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex...
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 1852427027 |
In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot...
