History & Theory - General
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The Prince: The Classic Analysis of Statesmanship and Power
$6.95 Add to cartWitty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, The Prince is Machiavelli’s classic analysis of statesmanship and power.
“It is best to be both feared and loved, however, if one cannot be both, it is bette- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0451531000
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$21.99 Add to cartA distinguished religious leader’s ”brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.
With liberal democracy embattled, our public- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675339
- Language: English
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
$17.99 Add to cartThis is not a comforting book — it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both “merit” and historical redress as princi… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 5, 2002
- ISBN10: 0684864630
- Language: English
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The Prince
$8.00 Add to cartMachiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power
The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventio- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449159
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, from the Ancient World to Late Antiquity: A New History, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era
$45.00 Read moreA rich and immersive reinterpretation of the history of Western thought, this volume – the first in a major trilogy – explores the transmission and development of philosophical ideas from Plato and Ar… [more below]
- Author: Celenza, Christopher S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1009699172
- Language: English
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The Fall of Republics: A History from Ancient Carthage to the American Constitution
$35.00 Add to cartWhat caused the world’s great republics to fall–and what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies today
In this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the p- Author: Madden, Thomas F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 069119582X
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Global History
$34.95 Add to cartThe Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas
In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune was felt the world over. Concepts- Author: Deluermoz, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1839768185
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cartHistory teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no bounds and can attack the very fabric of society. This… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Harris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 019780067X
- Language: English
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
$24.95 Add to cartAn exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future
In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecno- Author: Mueller, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1786636778
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Add to cartCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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Civility
$17.99 Add to cartSomething horrible has happened to civility. We can no longer hold political discussions without screaming at each other, so our democracy is dying. We can no longer look at strangers without suspicio
- Author: Carter, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0060977590
- Language: English
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
$20.00 Add to cartIncludes a new Afterword
Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scient- Author: Pape, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973380
- Language: English
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Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
$45.00 Read moreDiscover the book that inspired Tom DeLonge’s new sci-fi epic Time Rider, Peter Levenda’s Sinister Forces returns in a special Twentieth Anniversary Deluxe Edition, uniting all three chilling volumes … [more below]
- Author: Levenda, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1943272522
- Language: English
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The Social Basis of the Female Question
$29.95 Add to cartThe first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women’s movement and the role
- Author: Kollontai, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888903780
- Language: English
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Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology
$19.95 Add to cartA powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at- Author: Haider, Asad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1839763957
- Language: English
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Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times
$24.95 Add to cartWhy the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.
From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times-bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars. All over the world,- Author: Sunstein, Cass R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 026205177X
- Language: English
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Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations
$45.00 Add to cartThis bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva tog… [more below]
- Author: Foglesong, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0521111056
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
$16.95 Add to cartMutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and clim- Author: Spade, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 183674255X
- Language: English
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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
$19.95 Read moreExploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a- Series: Futures
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298425
- Language: English
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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
$22.00 Add to cartThe visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our presen… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1982173742
- Language: English
