Chronological Period/Modern
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliant and visionary argument for America’s role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world–and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years h- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0525563571
- Language: English
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Metamorphosis and Identity
$24.95 Read moreIn Metamorphosis and Identity, award-winning historian Caroline Walker Bynum explores the Western obsession with the nature of change and personal identity. Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth cent
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951234
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
$18.00 Add to cart“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Someth… [more below]
- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 198488025X
- Language: English
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the … [more below]
- Author: Barrett, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031386
- Language: English
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
$19.95 Read moreA radical new history of a dangerous idea
Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world f- Author: Jeffries, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1788738233
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Secret History of the World
$55.00 Add to cartMark Booth’s The Illustrated Secret History of the World expands upon his New York Times authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief systems and secret societies, adding to its thorough and r… [more below]
- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1468315668
- Language: English
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Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45
$19.95 Read more‘A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account’ Scots Magazine
Too many historians have ignored the role of women in the ’45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn’ Rebel Bitches- Author: Craig, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1910948292
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$14.99 Read moreBeyond Good and Evil is a captivating philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional thinking and explores the depths of human nature. Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, this influential work del
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562277
- Language: English
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
$19.00 Read more“A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection.” –Heller McAlpin, NPR.org
Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub’s 15 Books You Should Read in Septemb- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234689
- Language: English
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
$18.95 Read moreBy 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origi
- Author: Makari, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050446
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Read moreIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
$19.95 Add to cartIn Hegel and the Wired Brain, Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of philosophical giant G.W.F. Hegel that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work in
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1350264040
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read moreKnown 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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Culture
$18.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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On the Suffering of the World
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence.
Edited- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 191346203X
- Language: English
