History & Theory
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
$19.95 Add to cartFormer Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every da… [more below]
- Author: Williams, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 31 2018
- ISBN10: 110845299X
- Language: English
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Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1935
$39.95 Add to cartIn Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition
- Author: Hyde, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0807169277
- Language: English
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Capital: Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy
$14.00 Add to cartCapital: Volume One by Karl Marx is a classic of political economics and was described by Friedrich Engels, the author’s friend and collaborator, as “the bible of the working class.” Thirty years in t… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0486832392
- Language: English
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
$25.99 Add to cartRobert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson “our greatest living modern historian.” As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where w
- Author: Conquest, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393320863
- Language: English
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Populism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPopulism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scie… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mudde, Cas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190234873
- Language: English
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On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
$34.95 Add to cartLouis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cult… [more below]
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681643
- Language: English
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Can Democracy Work?
$23.99 Add to cart“Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experim
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234670
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
$25.00 Add to cartConventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking wor… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Micah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: May 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1107518970
- Language: English
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
$30.99 Add to cart“Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion.”
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before,
-Los Angeles Times Book Review- Author: Jacoby, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 417
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077766
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
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Capital
$16.95 Read moreA classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535701
- Language: English
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
$23.99 Add to cart* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award
* National Book Award Finalist
* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year
* New York Times Notable Book
* Publishers Weekly Best Books … [more below]- Author: Fitzgerald, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1439131341
- Language: English
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print–by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous momen… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743240995
- Language: English
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The Prince: Introduction by Dominic Baker-Smith
$25.00 Add to cartThat 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
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410449
- Language: English
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
$22.99 Add to cartAnger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to … [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190907266
- Language: English
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Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
$22.99 Add to cartThis “elegant and sobering” (New York Times) history reveals how Germany’s fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the breakthrough of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler
Amid the ravages
- Author: Fritzsche, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1541697456
- Language: English
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Futures of Black Radicalism
$29.95 Read moreWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism
Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and c
- Author: Johnson, Gaye Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 1784787582
- Language: English
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy
$16.95 Add to cart“Machiavellianism” is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.
The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanist
- Author: Machiavelli, Nicolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598189360
- Language: English
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Cointelpro: The Fbi’s Secret War on Political Freedom
$15.00 Add to cartThe FBI’s spying and disruption against socialists and activists in the Black and antiwar movements.
- Author: Blackstock, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0873488776
- Language: English
