Chronological Period/Modern
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
$15.99 Add to cartSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an “entertaining discussion of the various ways our … [more below]
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0358108454
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cartA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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The End of History and the Last Man
$22.00 Add to cartEver since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. “Profoundly realistic and important…supremely timely… [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284550
- Language: English
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
$17.00 Add to cartStanding at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious expe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140390340
- Language: English
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
$15.00 Add to cartThe book Nietzsche called “the most personal of all my books.” It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God–to which a large part of the book is devoted–and his doctrine of the eternal recu… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394719859
- Language: English
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War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
$14.99 Add to cartUS Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery. But perhaps his bravest act of all was to declare, after his retirement in the early… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Smedley Darlington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1510704272
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the Fbi, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists
$19.00 Add to cartA highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs
“Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is re- Author: Walder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250239710
- Language: English
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Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$15.99 Add to cart“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
Setting out to answer the question “How are we to prevent war?” Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men mus- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0156901773
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$15.00 Add to cartKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826600
- Language: English
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Athens: City of Wisdom
$21.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis s- Author: Clark, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363645
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$19.99 Read moreAn “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism h- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601572
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartEngland–begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor–is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven b… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hawes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198148
- Language: English
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These Truths: A History of the United States
$39.95 Add to cartWritten in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself–a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence–at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on t
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0393635244
- Language: English
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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2: Volume 2
$34.99 Add to cartArthur Schopenhauer’s Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It i… [more below]
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217620
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling: A New Translation
$17.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093579
- Language: English
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
$35.00 Add to cartTraditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established betw
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495828
- Language: English
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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him.
$14.00 Add to cartGrounded in his famous notion that “God is dead,” a selection from Nietzsche’s most personal book, The Joyous Science
Nietzsche’s devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08, 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472849
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$21.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
$15.99 Add to cart“The finest single-volume introduction to Kant’s ethics available in English.” –PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, on the H. J. Paton translation
Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important wor
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061766313
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
$11.95 Add to cartHere is a brilliant new translation of Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806963
- Language: English
