History & Theory
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
$16.95 Read moreDrawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy–as well as the author’s own experience of life on three continents–Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a p… [more below]
- Series: Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback) #0
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332933X
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
$20.00 Read moreThis incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that… [more below]
- Author: Williams, William Appleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334740
- Language: English
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The Laws
$18.00 Read moreIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449841
- Language: English
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”
Martin L
–Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 674237838
- Language: English
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The Prince
$9.00 Read moreThat 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… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
$18.95 Read more- Author: Semprun, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546175
- Language: English
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Camp David
$24.99 Read moreOriginally named Shangri-La by Franklin D. Roosevelt, today’s Camp David was a well-guarded secret until its existence was revealed after World War II. A US Naval facility set on a mountaintop, Camp D… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Savitt, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467160873
- Language: English
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The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read moreUsing the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation
The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, pra- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768312
- Language: English
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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony
$29.95 Read moreThinking beyond pandemic capitalism
The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of- Author: Lapavitsas, Costas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767847
- Language: English
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The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism
$40.00 Read moreThe Most Insightful and Profound Reflections on Tyranny.
Totalitarianism was the dominant phenomenon of the twentieth century. Deeply troubling questions endure regarding the nature of such tyrannical- Series: Religion and Contemporary Culture
- Author: Taylor, F. Flagg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 698
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1935191365
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$30.00 Read moreA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1541675312
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
$29.95 Read moreHow statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars
The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology- Author: Bevan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761873
- Language: English
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Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity
$29.95 Read moreIs there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really?
Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel’s advocates in Britain, showing h- Author: Aked, Hilary Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1786637650
- Language: English
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The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes–the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19
In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a c- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765658
- Language: English
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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
$21.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency, and how we can m… [more below]
- Author: Dickerson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854534
- 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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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0804172471
- Language: English
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Responsibility and Judgment
$20.00 Add to cartResponsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making … [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0805211624
- Language: English
