The South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition, 1910-1912 Roald Amundsen Theater and Its Double Antonin Artaud Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life Theodor Adorno The Hour of Our Death Philippe Aries Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature Erich Auerbach The Poetics of Space Gaston [...]
CounterPunch’s Favorite 100 Nonfiction Books in Translation, Published in English Since 1900
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair
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The
South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition,
1910-1912
Roald Amundsen |
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Theater
and Its Double
Antonin Artaud |
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Minima
Moralia:
Reflections from a
Damaged Life
Theodor Adorno |
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The
Hour of Our Death
Philippe Aries |
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Mimesis:
The Representation of Reality
in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach |
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The
Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard |
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes |
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Eroticism:
death and sensuality
Georges Bataille |
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The
Egyptian, Syrian,
and Iraqi Revolutions :
Some Observations on
Their Underlying Causes
and Social Character
Hanna Batatu |
No Cover |
Orson
Welles: a critical view
Andre Bazin |
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Illuminations
Walter Benjamin |
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Black
Elk Speaks
Black Elk |
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Feudal
Society
Marc Bloch |
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Chinook
Texts
Franz Boas
(Compiler and Translator) |
Out of Print |
Other
Inquisitions
Jorge Luis Borges |
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The
Mediterranean
and the Mediterranean World
in the Age of Philip II
Fernand Braudel |
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The
Development of an Aesthetic
Bertolt Brecht |
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Manifestoes
of Surrealism
Andre Breton |
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The
Evolution of Rock Art in the Caves of France
Abbe Henri Breuil |
No cover |
My
Last Sigh
Luis Bunuel |
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Homo
Necans:
the Anthropology of
Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert |
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Man,
Play and Games
Roger Caillois |
Out
of Print |
Political
and Social Writings : 1961-1979 : Recommencing the Revolution
: From Socialism to the Autonomous Society
Cornelius Castoriadis |
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Theory
of Peasant Economy
Alexander V. Chayanov |
No Cover |
Towards
a New Architecture
Le Corbusier |
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Traditional
French Cooking
Curnonsky |
Out
of Print |
Rebellion
in the Backlands
Euclides da Cunha |
Out
of Print |
The
Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali |
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The
Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir |
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The
Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord |
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Of
Grammatology
Jacques Derrida |
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Gardens
of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology
Marcel Detienne |
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Stranglehold
on Africa
Rene Dumont |
No Cover |
Suicide:
A Study in Sociology
Emile Durkheim |
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Film
Form
Sergei Eisenstein |
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The
Sacred and the Profane: the nature of religion
Mircea Eliade |
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The
Civilizing Process
Norbert Elias |
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The
Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon |
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Architecture
for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt
Hassan Fathy |
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History
of Art
Elie Faure |
Out
of Print |
Discipline
and Punish:
the birth of the prison
Michel Foucault |
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The
History of Sexuality:
an introduction
Michel Foucault |
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The
Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank |
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Pedagogy
of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire |
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The
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud |
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Three
Essays in the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud |
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The
Dancing Bees:
an account of the life and senses of the honey bee
Karl von Frisch |
Out
of Print |
Reflections
of Eden:
My Years with the
Orangutans of Borneo
Birute Galdikas |
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Memories
of Fire
Eduardo Galeano |
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Gandhi:
An Autobiography : The Story of My ExperimentsWith Truth
Mohandas Gandhi |
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How
We Won the War
Vo Nguyen Giap |
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Travels
in the Congo
Andre Gide |
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Mechanization
Takes Command
Sigfried Giedion |
Out
of Print |
The
Bog People:
Iron Age Man Preserved
P.V. Glob |
Out
of Print |
Capitalism,
Socialism, Ecology
Andre Gorz |
No Cover |
How
New York Stole
the Idea of Modern Art
Serge Guilbaut |
Out
of Print |
Art
and Illusion
Ernst Hans Gombrich |
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Prison
Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci |
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Episodes
of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58
Ernesto "Che" Guevara |
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A
Theology of Liberation: history, politics and salvation
Gustavo Gutierrez |
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Seven
Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer |
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The
Social History of Art
Arnold Hauser |
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Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl |
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This
Sex Which Is Not One
Luce Irigaray |
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Being
and Time
Martin Heidegger |
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The
Dialectic of Englightenment
Max Horkheimer and
Theodor Adorno |
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Autumn
of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga |
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The
Gardens of Japan
Teiji Itoh |
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The
Gnostic Religion
Hans Jonas |
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I
Ching
(introduction by Carl Jung) |
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Memories,
Dreams, Reflections
Carl Jung |
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Kama-Sutra:
Complete and Unexpurgated Translation
Alain Danielou (translator) |
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Kamapua’a:
The Hawai’ian Pig-God
Lilikala Kame’Eleihiwa |
Out
of Print |
Shakespeare
Our Contemporary
Jan Kott |
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Psychopathia
Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing |
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The
Conquest of Bread
Petr Kropotkin |
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Montaillou:
The Promised Land of Error
Emmanuel Le Roi Ladurie |
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The
State and Revolution
Vladimir Lenin |
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The
Coming of the French Revolution
Georges Lefebvre |
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Critique
of Everyday Life
Henri Lefebvre |
Out
of Print |
The
Broken Spears:
the Aztec Account
of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel Leon-Portilla |
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Tristes
Tropiques
Claude Levi-Strauss |
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Christ
Stopped at Eboli: the story of a year
Carlo Levi |
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The
Periodic Table
Primo Levi |
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Russia:
an architecture
for world revolution
El Lissitsky |
Out
of Print |
Ornament
and Crime
Adolf Loos |
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Man
Meets Dog
Konrad Lorenz |
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History
and Class Consciousness
Georg Lukacs |
No Cover |
Lumumba
Speaks: the Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba |
No Cover |
Luxemburg
Speaks
Rosa Luxemburg |
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The
Diaries
Alma Mahler-Werfel |
No Cover |
The
Works of the People of Old : Na Hana a Ka Po’E Kahiko
Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau |
No Cover |
On
Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-Tung |
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Shadows
of Tender Fury :
The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista
Army of National Liberation
Subcomandante Marcos |
No
Cover |
The
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx |
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The
Gift: The Form and
Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Marcel Mauss |
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I,
Rigoberta Menchu : An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Rigoberta Menchu |
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Sense
and Non-Sense
Maurice Merleau Ponty |
No Cover |
A
History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900
Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky |
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The
Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi |
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Ecology,
Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy
Arne Naess |
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Behemoth:
the structure and practice of National Socialism 1933-44
Franz Neuman |
Out
of Print |
Hiroshima
Notes
Kenzaburo Oe |
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Perspective
As Symbolic Form
Erwin Panofsky |
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The
Mind and Society
Vilfredo Pareto |
Out
of Print |
My
Life and the Beautiful Game
Pelé
(Translated by Robt. Fish) |
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Morphology
of the Folktale Vladimir Aioakovlevich Propp |
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Character
Analysis
Wilhelm Reich |
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Renoir,
My Father
Jean Renoir |
Out
of Print |
For
a New Novel:
Essays on Fiction
Alain Robbe-Grillet |
No Cover |
Memoirs
from the
Women’s Prison
Nawal el Saadawi |
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Letters
from Prison
Marquis de Sade |
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War
Diaries: Notebooks from
a Phony War, 1939-40
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Course
in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure |
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Sabbatai
Sevi:
the mystical messiah
Gershom Gerhard Scholem |
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Hibakusha
: Accounts by Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Gaynor Sekimori (Translator) |
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Memoirs
of a Revolutionary
Victor Serge |
Out
of Print |
Pillow
Book of Sei Shonagon
Sei Shonagon |
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The
Philosophy of Money
Georg Simmel |
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Critique
of Cynical Reason
Peter Sloterdijk |
No Cover |
Reflections
on Violence
Georges Sorel |
No Cover |
An
Actor Prepares
Konstantin Stanislavski |
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The
Russian Revolution, 1917
N. N. Sukhanov |
Out
of Print |
Zen
Buddhism
D.T. Suzuki |
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Popol
Vuh : The Mayan Book
of the Dawn of Life
Dennis Tedlock (Translator) |
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Tibetan
Book of the Dead
Robert Thurman (translator) |
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Curious
Naturalists
Niko Tinbergen |
Out
of Print |
The
Social Teachings of the Christian Churches
Ernst Troeltsch |
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The
Films in My Life
Francois Truffaut |
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The
Complete Letters
Vincent Van Gogh |
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Worlds
in Collision
Immanuel Velikovsky |
Out
of Print |
The
Roman Empire
Paul Veyne |
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The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Franz Werfel |
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The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber |
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Oriental
Despotism :
A Comparative Study
of Total Power
Karl August Wittfogel |
Out of Print |
Philosophical
Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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On
the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in
Time: Situationist International 1957-1972
Peter Wollen |
Out
of Print |
A
World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig |
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