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In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spiri...

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand. Library Journal Norton is r...

The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initial...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

From The Authors Of The International Bestseller Why Nations Fail, A Crucial New Big-picture Framework That Answers The Question Of How Liberty Flourishes I...

It's Difficult Today To Imagine How America Survived The Great Depression--only Through The Stories Of The Common People Who Struggled During That Era Can W...

A Chronicle Of The Author's Seven-month Motorcycle Journey Throughout South America Reveals The Beginning Of His Transformation Into A Dedicated Revolutiona...

In This Book, The Author (a Distinguished Political Philosopher) Argues That The Social/political Crisis Of 20th-century America Is Really An Intellectual C...

You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women ...

Ideology Is One Of The Most Controversial Terms In The Political Vocabulary, Exciting Both Revulsion And Inspiration. This Book Examines The Reasons For Tho...

Of Aristotle's works, few have had as lasting an influence on subsequent Western thought as The Nicomachean Ethics. In it, he argues that happiness consist...

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take hig...

An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rou...

The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil...

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell The New Yorker Appiah, a Princeton philosophy profe...

Among The Most Important And Influential Philosophical Works In Western Thought: Euthyphro, Exploring The Concepts And Aims Of Piety And Religion; Apology, ...

"Appiah has written a remarkably impressive book, one that makes a number of important advances on the existing literature and stands as an important cont...

Unhappiness, says bestselling author Harriet Lerner, is fueled by three key emotions: anxiety, fear, and shame. They are the uninvited guests in our lives....

A New York Times bestseller. From FOX & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of inspiring stories from fifteen of America's greatest...

John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separa...

The struggle between the urgencies of instinct and the restrictions of civilization is addressed throughout the works of Sigmund Freud, and in Civilization ...

An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.Categories: Biographies & Me...

in This Book A Distinguished Philosopher Offers A Comprehensive Interpretation Of Plato’s Most Controversial Dialogue. Treating The republic as A Unity An...

World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian...

In politics, you begin by asking theoretically interesting questions. Sometimes statistics can help answer those questions. When it comes to applied statis...

From One Of The World's Most Celebrated Moral Philosophers Comes A Thorough Examination Of The Current Political Crisis And Recommendations For How To Mend ...

What Happened To The Public Intellectuals That Used To Challenge And Inform Us? Who Is The Sartre Or De Beauvoir Of The Internet Age? General Intellects Arg...

READ THE BOOK DONALD TRUMP REFERENCED AND READ IN HIS MAJOR ANTI-HILLARY CLINTON SPEECH. In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in lega...

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the du...

Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropri...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and ...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with bu...

Revolutions Come In Waves And Cycles. We Are Again Riding The Crest Of A Revolutionary Epic, Much Like 1848 Or 1917, From The Arab Spring To Movements Again...

"Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers."--New York Times A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconci...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shar...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

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Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

A compilation of the essential works of Plato in  one paperback volume: The Republic, The  Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology,  Crito, and Phaedo. ...

An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.George Soros -- universally known for his philanthropy, progressive po...

Two Of America's Leading Experts On Violent Extremism And Terrorism Explain The Genesis, Evolution, And Implications Of Today's Most Barbaric Jihadist Army,...

Von J. Edmund Güntz.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic  for Time magazine comes the  tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive,  argument that our dev...

Are We Losing A War Few Of Us Realize We're Fighting? Poisoned Dissidents. Election Interference. Armed Invasions. International Treaties Thrown Into Chaos....

16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed a...