History & Theory - General
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The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our poli… [more below]
- Author: Hayes, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593653114
- Language: English
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School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them
$29.00 Read moreFrom one of America’s most relentless critics of Critical Race Theory comes this far-reaching, on-the-ground investigation of how CRT infiltrated our public schools and transformed them into activism … [more below]
- Author: Xu, Kenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1546003657
- Language: English
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The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties
$29.99 Add to cartYou shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book.
—Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terror… [more below]
- Author: Dershowitz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774401
- Language: English
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Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse
$30.00 Add to cartAn incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freed… [more below]
- Author: Chatterton Williams, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593534409
- Language: English
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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
$16.99 Add to cartWhat went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.”–Thomas E. Ricks
The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Cullen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0547052103
- Language: English
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
$30.99 Add to cart“This book mounts perhaps the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to the continued reliance on war.” –The New York Times
At times of global crisis- Author: Schell, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: July 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0805044574
- Language: English
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Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAuthoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military, s… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Loxton, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0192872699
- Language: English
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The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
$18.00 Add to cartFear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up.
In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a mor
- Author: Daub, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1503640841
- Language: English
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Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1984854682
- Language: English
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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa.”
A previously unpublished collec
-Professor Winston McGowan- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1839764112
- Language: English
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Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
$47.42 Add to cartWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijac… [more below]
- Series: Seeley Lectures
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1009275437
- Language: English
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GuÃa Rápida de las 48 Leyes del Poder = The 48 Laws of Power
$19.95 Add to cartAmoral, inmisericorde, despiadado y, sobre todo, muy instructivo, el cl sico libro de Robert Greene Las 48 leyes del poder concentra tres mil a os de historia en un conjunto de m ximas claras y concis… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 6075278370
- Language: Spanish
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The Prince
$21.00 Add to cartA new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141395877
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$19.95 Read moreLenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text
Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the Oct- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292842
- Language: English
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The World After Gaza: A History
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global respo… [more below]
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartLenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text
Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the Oct- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292842
- Language: English
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
$20.00 Read moreThe Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
“[A] daring new book.”–Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post “A fascinating and combative intellectual history.”–Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the m- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280122
- Language: English
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The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life
$19.95 Read moreA leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Pari- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804295310
- Language: English
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Left Is Not Woke
$14.95 Add to cartIf you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.
The confusion arises
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564101
- Language: English
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Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos
$29.95 Add to cartHow a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of government
In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning–the d- Author: Rosenblum, Nancy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0691250529
- Language: English
