Sean Gleeson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Editing South Asia news from 🇮🇳🇧🇩🇳🇵🇱🇰🇧🇹🇲🇻 for Agence France-Presse @AFP | previously Hong Kong, Yangon, Phnom Penh and Melbourne
Nothing Personal
James BaldwinSean Gleeson"I think I know how many times one has to start again, and how often one feels that one cannot start again. And yet, on pain of death, one can never remain where one is." -- James Baldwin, Nothing Personal See ya Hong Kong. https://t.co/NQq0XKUuOB
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
James C. ScottSean Gleeson"Reasonable people can disagree about the levels of inequality that a democracy can tolerate without becoming an utter charade. My judgement is that we have been in the 'charade zone' for quite some time." James C. Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism: https://t.co/xJmNRwc3i9
Paperback, 2014
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burma Chronicles
Guy DelisleSean GleesonThe Australia Club, and the ruthlessly enforced gender divide of the Kokkine Swimming Pool, from Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles: https://t.co/tJs57mn7c9
Paperback, 2010
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Red Plenty
Francis SpuffordSean Gleeson"Q: What do you call Khrushchev's hairdo? A: Harvest of 1963." Francis Spufford, Red Plenty https://t.co/lUHibU8h0h
Paperback, 2012
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike DavisSean Gleeson"If the history of British rule in India were to be condensed into a single fact, it is this: there was no increase in India's per capita income from 1757 to 1947." — Mike Davis (RIP), Late Victorian Holocausts https://t.co/HMYlo7T48x
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana AlexievichSean Gleeson"Pathos raged, but the knowledge that utopia should not be attempted in real life was already ingrained in us." -- Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time https://t.co/l76aXQebXJ
Paperback, 2017
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book