History & Theory - General
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (50th Anniversary Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartIn this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.
The foundations of capitalism are b- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0451147952
- Language: English
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer
$40.00 Read moreAn exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer)
This Library of America volume- Series: Library of America #147
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1931082545
- Language: English
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The Portable Hannah Arendt
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem
She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth c- Series: Penquin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437565
- Language: English
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Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
$21.95 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppr… [more below]
- Author: Koehler, John O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0813337445
- Language: English
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Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
$21.95 Add to cartWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Brown, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1935408038
- Language: English
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
$15.00 Add to cartThe United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called “perpetual war for perpetual peace.” The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incu… [more below]
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 156025405X
- Language: English
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Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
$29.95 Add to cartBlack Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete material… [more below]
- Author: Burden-Stelly, Charisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 183976497X
- Language: English
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay- Author: Chaudhary, Ajay Singh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672112
- Language: English
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Miami
$18.00 Add to cartMiami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 679781803
- Language: English
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Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
$16.95 Read moreA theoretical dissection of capitalism’s ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.
The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She
- Series: Semiotext(e) Intervention (Numbered) #12
- Author: Tiqqun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 22 2012
- ISBN10: 158435108X
- Language: English
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Who is the King in America? And Who are the Counselors to the King?: An Overview of 6,000 Years of History & Why America is Unique
$25.00 Add to cartWHO IS THE KING IN AMERICA?
Before you answer, do you know what the most common form of government in world history? From the invention of writing around 3,300 BC, the world has mostly been ruled by k
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649121
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$18.99 Add to cartA distinguished religious leader’s ”brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.
With liberal democracy embattled, our public- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675339
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman
Penguin presents a series- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #03
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121979
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others
$11.00 Add to cartThis concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world’s leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of I… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0486424650
- Language: English
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
$24.99 Add to cart“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight….A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.–New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.
The Secret Team, L. Fletcher P- Author: Prouty, L. Fletcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082844
- Language: English
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How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
$18.95 Add to cartTimeless political wisdom from ancient history’s greatest statesman
Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic’s highest office at a time when his beloved c- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156573
- Language: English
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartThe third volume of a political treatise that changed the world
Unfinished at the time of Marx’s death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Capit- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0140445706
- Language: English
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Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
$32.99 Add to cartOriginalism Is Not Enough
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that “originalism” alone is an inadequate answe- Author: Arkes, Hadley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1684513014
- Language: English
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Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThroughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communitie
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Grosby, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03, 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840983
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
$18.99 Read moreFrom the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.
No dictator can rule- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1639730680
- Language: English
