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

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forc...

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon...

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years — from Nix...

Presents A New Approach To Capitalism, Revealing How It's Fully Consistent With Jesus's Teachings And The Christian Tradition, While Also Showing Why This S...

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 ...

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

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

Hrough a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life...

A founding work of political philosophy with expanded introduction and added explanatory matter. Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &...

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...

After 1989, Capitalism Has Successfully Presented Itself As The Only Realistic Political-economic System - A Situation That The Bank Crisis Of 2008, Far Fro...

The Retractations -- The City Of God, Books I-xxii -- The Compatibility Of Christianity And Politics -- Law And Self-defense -- War -- The Use Of Persecutio...

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...

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here,...

“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the book will support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk witho...

Collected here in a single volume for the first time are John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and T...

Discourse On The Sciences And Arts -- Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality -- Discourse On Political Economy -- On The Social Contract. Jean-jacques Rousse...

"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...

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. ...

"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...

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...

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...

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 Reflection On Everyday Existence In The ‘sphere Of Consumption Of Late Capitalism’, This Work Is Adorno’s Literary And Philosophical Masterpiece. Th...

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...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

This is the true story of a young American missionary woman courage and triump of faith in the jungles of New Guinea and her four years in a notorious Japa...

In The Years He Served On And Eventually Chaired The House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Chaffetz Gained Crucial Insight Into The Inner Work...

No Other English-language Translation Comes Close To The Standard Of Accuracy And Readability Set Here By Reeve. This Volume Provides The Reader With More O...

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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more...

Roberto Esposito Is One Of The Most Prolific And Important Exponents Of Contemporary Italian Political Theory. Bíos-his First Book To Be Translated Into En...

a Touchstone In Western Debates About Society And Government, The politics Is Aristotle's Classic Work On The Nature Of Political Community. Here, He Argue...

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Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 Geor...

This 2007 volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volum...

This Title Brings Together The Vital Contributions Of Distinguished Past And Contemporary Philosophers To The Important Topic Of Personal Identity. The Essa...

Presents The Classic Study Of Power And Politics Written In 1513 By A Florentine Diplomat That Recommends Guile And Ruthlessness To Achieve And Maintain Pol...

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

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...

“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...

Product Description New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment med...

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

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

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

Calls Upon Intellectuals On The Left To Once Again Engage American Public Life And Resist The Trappings Of Knee-jerk Negativism, Intellectual Fads, And Poli...