History & Theory - General
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Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
$29.95 Add to cartWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijac… [more below]
- Series: Seeley Lectures
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1009275437
- Language: English
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GuÃa Rápida de las 48 Leyes del Poder = The 48 Laws of Power
$19.95 Read moreAmoral, inmisericorde, despiadado y, sobre todo, muy instructivo, el cl sico libro de Robert Greene Las 48 leyes del poder concentra tres mil a os de historia en un conjunto de m ximas claras y concis… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 6075278370
- Language: Spanish
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The Prince
$21.00 Add to cartA new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141395877
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$19.95 Read moreLenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text
Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the Oct- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292842
- Language: English
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The World After Gaza: A History
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global respo… [more below]
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartLenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text
Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the Oct- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292842
- Language: English
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
$20.00 Add to cartThe Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
“[A] daring new book.”–Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post “A fascinating and combative intellectual history.”–Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the m- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280122
- Language: English
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The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life
$19.95 Add to cartA leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Pari- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804295310
- Language: English
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Left Is Not Woke
$14.95 Add to cartIf you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.
The confusion arises
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564101
- Language: English
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Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos
$29.95 Add to cartHow a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of government
In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning–the d- Author: Rosenblum, Nancy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0691250529
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination
$14.95 Add to cartA horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.
What does it m- Author: Greenaway, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420888
- Language: English
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
$16.95 Read moreDrawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy–as well as the author’s own experience of life on three continents–Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a p… [more below]
- Series: Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback) #0
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332933X
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
$20.00 Read moreThis incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that… [more below]
- Author: Williams, William Appleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334740
- Language: English
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The Prince
$9.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$30.00 Read moreA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1541675312
- Language: English
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China
$14.95 Read moreChina is poised to become the world’s largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Wes… [more below]
- Series: Polity Histories
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1509541489
- Language: English
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American Political Speeches
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American history
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political- Series: Penguin Civic Classics
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121952
- Language: English
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Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
$24.95 Add to cartHow do we understand the return of fascism today?
In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we- Author: Toscano, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1839760206
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers, the Ideas That Forged the American Constitution: Deluxe Slipcase Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThis luxury, silkbound treasury brings together a selection of the most influential essays from The Federalists Papers, presented in a handsome slip-case with silver foil stamping.
The Federalist wa- Series: Arcturus Silkbound Classics
- Author: Madison, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1785991426
- Language: English
