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On Revolution
$18.00 Add to cartA unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hann- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039903
- Language: English
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
$23.95 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to the wide-ranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bibl
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847032
- Language: English
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Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do about It
$19.95 Add to cartA trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite–and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize Capital i- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292583
- Language: English
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartCovid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take in
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1642592633
- Language: English
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
$16.00 Add to cartA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil serv- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447601
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
$23.00 Add to cartThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535620
- Language: English
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Ti- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533229
- Language: English
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The Ordeal of Change
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 6, 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435100
- Language: English
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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless t- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105868
- Language: English
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher’s final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture- Author: Fisher, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 191346248X
- Language: English
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
$27.50 Read moreThe Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
“[A] daring new book.”–Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity ha- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266219
- Language: English
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The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and Ais
$30.00 Add to cartCountless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but so
- Author: Runciman, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1631496948
- Language: English
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How the World Works
$21.95 Add to cartAn eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really work from the man The New York Times called “arg… [more below]
- Series: Real Story (Soft Skull Press)
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1593764278
- Language: English
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Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs
$29.99 Add to cartNationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that the character of men and the male virtue that goes along with it… [more below]
- Author: Hawley, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 168451357X
- Language: English
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
$21.95 Read more“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”–John Gray, New York Times Book Review
“A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explana- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246757
- Language: English
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
$14.99 Add to cart‘The stoic, detached, empirical, hard-boiled, penetrating, realist mind of James Burnham is something to behold, to admire, to emulate’ – National Review
A class
- Author: Burnham, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: December 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1839013958
- Language: English
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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
$32.50 Add to cartThe visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unre… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1982173734
- Language: English
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The 48 Laws of Power
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Greene, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0670881465
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Society
$26.99 Add to cartThe influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly infl
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465025226
- Language: English
