The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

5 best books like The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Davi Kopenawa): Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, King Kong Théorie, The Gambler, Regarding the Pain of Others

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
AuthorAngela Saini
ISBN0807071706
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.

Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143039881
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
King Kong Théorie
AuthorVirginie Despentes
ISBN2253122114
J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes les exclues du grand marché à la bonne meuf, aussi bien que pour les hommes qui n’ont pas envie d’être protecteurs, ceux qui voudraient l’être mais ne savent pas s’y prendre, ceux qui...
The Gambler
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral...
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0141012374
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by...
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