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stale cooper rated The spook who sat by the door: 3 stars
The spook who sat by the door by Sam Greenlee (African American life)
A political thriller set in 1970s' Chicago, about the first African American recruited to a deskjob by the CIA as …
stale cooper rated Black reconstruction in America: 5 stars
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black reconstruction in America (1998, The Free Press)
Black reconstruction in America by W. E. B. Du Bois
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual …
stale cooper rated History and Class Consciousness: 5 stars
History and Class Consciousness by György Lukács
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, …
stale cooper rated From counterculture to cyberculture: 4 stars
From counterculture to cyberculture by Fred Turner
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid …
stale cooper rated Outsider Theory: 3 stars
stale cooper rated Elegy for Literature: 3 stars
stale cooper rated Playing in the Dark: 3 stars
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;)
stale cooper rated The cultural logic of computation: 4 stars
stale cooper rated Surveillance Valley: 4 stars
Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine
The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.
In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine …
stale cooper rated Marxism and Literature: 5 stars
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams (Marxist Introductions)
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to …
stale cooper rated Slow Learner: 3 stars
Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published …
stale cooper rated Bleeding Edge: 3 stars
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet
It is 2001 in New York …
stale cooper rated Training for Catastrophe: 3 stars
stale cooper rated Against the Day: 5 stars
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 2006. The narrative takes place between the …