History & Theory
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The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us about Conflict Resolution
$21.99 Add to cartThe conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic ide… [more below]
- Series: de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences #9
- Author: Petro, Nicolai N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3111356051
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- 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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Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence
$18.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victi
- Author: Ramaswamy, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1546002979
- Language: English
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How to Read the Constitution–And Why
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-read for this era.”–Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United S
- Series: Legal Expert
- Author: Wehle, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 006289630X
- Language: English
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Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
$26.95 Add to cartA brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher
Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, the- Author: Dorlin, Elsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761059
- Language: English
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The Essential Chomsky
$42.50 Add to cartThe seminal one-volume collection of Noam Chomsky’s thought, encompassing his best writings on politics, philosophy, and media theory
“Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust
- Series: New Press Essential
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1595581898
- Language: English
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
$24.95 Add to cartWhy our belief in government by the people is unrealistic–and what we can do about it
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic po- Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior #4
- Author: Achen, Christopher H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178240
- Language: English
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Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world’s most dominant economic paradigm. It has bee- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Steger, Manfred B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198849672
- Language: English
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The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition Volume 17
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and con
- Series: Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (Paperback) #17
- Author: Hayek, F. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0226315398
- Language: English
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Why Liberalism Failed
$20.00 Add to cartHas liberalism failed because it has succeeded?
“Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore- Series: Politics and Culture
- Author: Deneen, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0300240023
- 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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Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More
$10.99 Add to cartA brief and balanced introduction and response to the culture of “woke” for busy people.
“I know of no other book that explains so clearly, with so lively a pen, and with such economy the various inte
- Author: Stackhouse, John G., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1738098303
- 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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On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- 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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Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age
$19.99 Add to cart“An entertaining history of great oratory” (New Yorker) and a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques
Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us,- Author: Leith, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603737
- 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
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Reclaiming Freedom
$19.95 Read more“A curious thing has happened within American culture,” Aziz Rana writes. “The language of freedom has been claimed almost entirely by the political right.” Can it be reclaimed?
Freedom has a dual leg- Author: Rana, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 194651179X
- Language: English
