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Book Cover for: Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil, Caetano Veloso

Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil

Caetano Veloso
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@rasmus_kleis Gods of the Upper Air and The Invention of Science if you can stomach doing work-proximate stuff on the histories of academic disciplines in your off time Caetano Veloso's Tropical Truth is also on my nightstand & I'm not reading it enough

Paperback, 2003

$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber
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I've only dipped into it, but David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs is probably worth a read right now. https://t.co/IBiUqQNRPU

Paperback, 2019

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (20th Anniversary Edition), Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (20th Anniversary Edition)

Barbara Ehrenreich
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In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich went to work in hotels and other minimum-wage jobs to make real for the reader how impossible it is to live on minimum wage. https://t.co/vlOQfeMz5a

Paperback, 2021

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do, Studs Terkel

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel's Working has also been recommended by a friend, and ooh look Harvey Pekar did a comic of it! https://t.co/5Vnf4Sn8jZ

Paperback, 1997

$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Bruno LaTour

Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society

Bruno LaTour
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I continue to stan Bruno Latour despite even his own arguments to the contrary Science In Action is the perfect book fight me

Paperback, 1988

$37.00Member price:$37.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich
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Heartbroken that we've lost Barbara Ehrenreich, though she said she was ready to go. She always did the kind of journalism I wanted to. If you don't understand how angry working-class Americans are, it's time to read Nickel and Dimed.

Hardcover, 2021

$38.80Member price:$19.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation, Harvey Pekar

Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation

Harvey Pekar
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Studs Terkel's Working has also been recommended by a friend, and ooh look Harvey Pekar did a comic of it! https://t.co/5Vnf4Sn8jZ

Paperback, 2009

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