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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 17,106 ratings — published 1983
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 30,042 ratings — published 2004
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,528 ratings — published 1918
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,986 ratings — published 1951
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,138,794 ratings — published 1992
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,137 ratings — published 1992
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.31 — 15,213 ratings — published 1867
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,268 ratings — published
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.09 — 35 ratings — published 2017
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,502 ratings — published 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.24 — 46,082 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 169,309 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,840,768 ratings — published 1945
The Limits of Critique (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 381 ratings — published 2015
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 275,368 ratings — published 1980
Atonement (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 580,550 ratings — published 2001
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 742 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,034,436 ratings — published 1813
Teaching Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 239 ratings — published 2002
Who Wrote the Bible? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,551 ratings — published 1987
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,525 ratings — published 2006
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.91 — 68 ratings — published 2009
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,214 ratings — published 1979
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.11 — 798 ratings — published 2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 31,262 ratings — published 1962
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,318 ratings — published 2002
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 46,446 ratings — published 1949
The Varieties of Religious Experience (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 13,388 ratings — published 1902
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,648 ratings — published 1989
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,329,656 ratings — published 1954
The Axeman's Carnival (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,546 ratings — published 2022
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.16 — 164 ratings — published 2000
Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 814,210 ratings — published 1817
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,081,824 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,645 ratings — published 1978
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.96 — 194 ratings — published 1988
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,502 ratings — published 2011
The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,407 ratings — published 2004
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,182 ratings — published 1958
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 235,558 ratings — published 1611
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.32 — 402 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 9,374 ratings — published 1971
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,221 ratings — published 2007
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,853 ratings — published 2009
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 9,004 ratings — published 2021
Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.25 — 40 ratings — published 2019
Polygamy: An Early American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 3.79 — 43 ratings — published 2019
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,779 ratings — published 2007
RELIGION OF A DIFFERENT COLOR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scholarship)
avg rating 4.45 — 259 ratings — published 2014
The Scholarship System: 6 Simple Steps on How to Win Scholarships and Financial Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 78 ratings — published 2014
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
― Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all.”
― The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity
― The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity
