Asad أسد 🗽🍎 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Asad أسد 🗽🍎 on X
Local NYC historian, urban enthusiast, aspiring creative, perennial nerd, & community organizer. I once sued the NYPD for spying on me & my people.🗽🍎
Common Sense: Annotated
Thomas PaineAsad أسد 🗽🍎It's remarkable how a neighborhood that can be covered in a 20-minute walk has had such an enormous impact on American culture. This is where Malcolm X was interviewed for his autobiography; where John Lennon wrote some of his best hits; where Thomas Paine wrote 'Common Sense.' https://t.co/i0PjgfRCuR
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God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Jon ButlerAsad أسد 🗽🍎"To most people, Gotham is more associated with sin than with morality, more with prostitution than with sermons, more with sports venues than with churches. 'God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan' may begin to change that perception." https://t.co/HPP1CMiMZU
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Common Sense
Paine ThomasAsad أسد 🗽🍎It's remarkable how a neighborhood that can be covered in a 20-minute walk has had such an enormous impact on American culture. This is where Malcolm X was interviewed for his autobiography; where John Lennon wrote some of his best hits; where Thomas Paine wrote 'Common Sense.' https://t.co/i0PjgfRCuR
Paperback, 2017
$8.00$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
Shahan MuftiAsad أسد 🗽🍎American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. by @shahanmufti (congrats Shahan, can’t wait to read) https://t.co/6quXXNtNMc
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Construction: Worker Safety Series
Occupational Safety and AdministrationAsad أسد 🗽🍎Awesome: “The Labor Department on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would make it more likely for millions of janitors, home-care and construction workers and gig drivers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors.” https://t.co/EU6p8avVDe
Paperback, 2014
$12.39$6.20 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eurocentrism
Samir AminAsad أسد 🗽🍎“Samir Amin, the Egyptian economist who coined the term ‘Eurocentrism,’ criticised Said’s view of empire from the Left & offered an alternative view, one based not on culture or discourse, but on a materialist understanding of capitalism & imperialism.” https://t.co/6WhBS2FnLy
Paperback, 2010
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisAsad أسد 🗽🍎"Doing for Palo Alto — population 70,000 — what Mike Davis’s classic 'City of Quartz' did for Los Angeles, Harris reconsiders 200 years of history that many in the town would rather forget." https://t.co/YqtMMxdEbo
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prophet
Gibran KhalilAsad أسد 🗽🍎Fun fact: 2023 marks 100 years since Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet,” one of the most popular books of all time. He wrote it in this NYC art studio on 51 W 10 St, his home from 1911–1931. In 1951, it was demolished for a luxury apt building. In 2010, it was home to Julia Roberts! https://t.co/Q39A3MGT5d
Hardcover, 2019
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Road: (Penguin Orange Collection)
Jack KerouacAsad أسد 🗽🍎"The list of well-known writers he represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel 'On the Road.'"— Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 https://t.co/PSqCrdHXhL
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide
Dick WeissmanAsad أسد 🗽🍎"Dick Weissman’s new book, Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide, published by the State University of New York Press, helps fans and students of Dylan walk the streets where his career took off." (who wants to go on these walks?) https://t.co/4xCZvSXPZt
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book